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02/22/2011
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importune
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urge or beg without end
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importunate
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extremely demanding
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rapport
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positive relationship
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insufferable
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impossible to bear; intolerable
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preferential
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giving or showing an advantage to one over another
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conferment
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the act of bestowing; formal offer
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periphery
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outermost part or boundary
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euphoria
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feeling of a great happiness or well- being
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congested
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overcrowded; too tightly packed
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gestate
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to concieve and develop in the mind and body
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gesticulate
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to make gestures for emphasis
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predestination
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belief that one's fate has been determined by a higher power
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propitiate
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to soothe or satisfy
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soporific
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causing sleep or fatigue
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languish
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to waste away
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jocose
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cheerful; merry
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plaintive
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sorrowful; expressing mourning or sadness
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pejorative
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negative and critical; insulting
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malinger
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to pretend to be sick in order to avoid something
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verdure
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greenery; fresh ripe vegetation
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candid
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open and sincere
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stanch
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to stop the flow of
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stasis
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condition in which there is no change
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discomfit
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to embarrass and confuse
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modus operandi
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manner of working
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