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| brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage |
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| excessively ornate or elaborate |
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excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please:
a fastidious eater. |
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of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
fixed, settled, or permanent.
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| to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock. |
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incapable of being passed over, overcome, or surmounted:
an insuperable barrier. |
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to be adjacent; touch or join at the edge or border
(often fol. by on, upon, or against ):
This piece of land abuts on a street. |
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| an act of subjoining/adding at the end |
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to add at the end, as of something said or written; append.
to place in sequence or juxtaposition to something else.
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to free from faults or errors; correct.
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a personally offensive act or word;
deliberate act or displayof disrespect; intentional slight; insult:
an affront to the king |
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to see (something unclear or distant) by looking carefully
;discern; espy:
The lookout descried land. |
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| to laugh in a restrained, self-conscious, or affected way, as　from nervousness or in ill-suppressed amusement. |
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| a creation of the imagination or fancy; fantasy. |
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frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness;
characterized by levity:
The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism. |
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not essential or inherent; not a basic part or quality;extraneous:
facts that are extrinsic to the matter underdiscussion. |
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bulging out beyond the surrounding surface; protruding; projecting:
protuberant eyes. |
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rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue:
the rectitudeof her motives. |
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| the act of paying honor, as to a divine being; worship. |
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a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly
precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety
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| given to or characterized by lechery; lustful. |
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a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation
of someone or something:
The speech was considered a calumny of the administration |
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gruesome; horrible; revolting:
the lurid details of an accident. |
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censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person orthing,
esp. by numerous persons or by the general public. |
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| having a pleasant odor; fragrant. |
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to repay; remunerate; reward, as for service, aid, etc.
to pay or give compensation for; make restitution or requital for
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| sincere penitence or remorse. |
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to deduct (a certain amount), as from a total.
to blunt (an edged or pointed weapon). |
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to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
to learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly. |
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anything that relieves distress or pain:
The music was ananodyne to his grief. |
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going rapidly over something, without noticing details;
hasty;superficial:
a cursory glance at a newspaper article. |
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a crude representation of someone disliked,
used for purposes of ridicule. |
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| A false argument; fallacy |
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| a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation |
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of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious:
an astuteanalysis.
clever; cunning; ingenious; shrewd:
an astute merchandisingprogram; an astute manipulation of facts.
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