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Embroil

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To engage in trouble, to complicate

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Tangible

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Able to be touched or treated as real

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Homely

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Unattractive, plainlooking

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Stamina

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Resistance to fatigue or hardship, endurance

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Primp

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To dress or groom with careful attention to detail

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Posterity

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Future generations

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Kindling

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Dry sticks of wood used to start a fire

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Rift

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A break in friendly relations

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Rancid

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Spoiled or rotten esp. Oils or fats

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Shard

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A fragment of a brittle substance, glass or pottery, a small piece of something

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Sarcasm

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Harsh, often ironic ridicule, intended to hurt

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Deluge

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A great flood

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Extortion

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Taking by force or threat of force

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Comely

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Attractive or pleasing in appearance, pretty handsome

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Vogue

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Prevailing fashion

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Obsequious

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Showing too great a willingness to serve or obey

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Scion

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Ab heir, a descendent

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Bowdlerize

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To censor esp. Prudishly

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Defer

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To delay, to put off

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Become

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To be appropriate or suitable to, look good with

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Milestone

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An important event

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Fleet

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Moving swiftly

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Buoy

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To keep afloat, to raise the spirits of

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Euphony

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Pleasing sound, esp. Of words

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Hierarchy

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A ranking according to status or ability, a group having authority

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Bar

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To keep out exclude

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Desultory

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Lacking in plan or purpose, unmethodical

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Opportunist

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One who takes advantage of every opportunity

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Visceral

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Instinctive, relating to the internal organs

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Permeate

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To spread or flow throughout

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Stagnant

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Inactive, not moving

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Indiscriminate

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Unselective, random, unrestrained

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Stark

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Not ornamented, plain, absolute

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Rancorous

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Bitter and resentful

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Prodigal

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Exceedingly recklessly wasteful

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Disconcert

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To make confused or uneasy

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Patron

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Sponsor a supporter, a regular customer

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Margin

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A border or edge. A limit in condition or ability, an amount or degree of difference

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Fervent

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Passionate, eager, earnest

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Penchant

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A strong liking

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Climax

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The point of greatest intensity, which marks the end of an ascending process

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Requisite

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Needed, necessary

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Cognizant

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Aware of

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Amorphous

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Without definite shape, shapeless, unorgnized

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Demeanor

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Outward behavior, esp that reveals personality and character

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Artifact

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An object produced by human work, historical, archeology

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Placebo

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Something presented as a drug but having no real effect

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Prosaic

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Straight forward, lacking in imagination

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Tantamount

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Equivalent in effect or value

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Caste

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A rigid and hereditary social class