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751-875 Flashcards

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Beleaguered

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Harassed

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Contingent

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Dependent on conditions or circumstances

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Regal

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Kingly

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Radical

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Favoring fundamental or extreme change

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Errant

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Wandering outside of established limits

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Chagrin

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Feeling of Embarassment

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Contentious

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Always ready to argue

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Patriarch

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A man who rules a family clan

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Umbrage

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Offense it resentment

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Paradigm

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an example

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Lethargic

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Dull and sluggish

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Dissent

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Disagree

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Inherit

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Included as an essential part

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frail

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Easily broken

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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

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Laughingstock

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A person or thing that is the object of laughter

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Fulminate

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To issue a strong verbal attack

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Juncture

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A point of time

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Recruit

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To restore

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Ravage

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To cause great destruction to

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Hectic

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Characterized by intense activity

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Appraise

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To officially estimate the worth of

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Deride

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To redicule

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Exuberant

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Lively and happy

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Guise

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External appearance

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Juxtapose

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To put side by side

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Throng

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A crowd, a number of people gathering together

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Wake

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Track of turbulence left by something moving through water

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Ramification

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A develop it consequence resulting from a course of action.

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Articulate

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Able to express oneself clearly and effectively

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Destitution

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The lack of any jeans of subsistence, poor

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Propriety

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Good manners, proper behavior

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Implausible

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Difficult to believe

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Conjecture

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An inference or conclusion based on incomplete evidence

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Sublime

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Of high spiritual or moral worth

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Composure

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A calm state of mind

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Sediment

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A residue that settles in the bottom of something

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Felon

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One who had committed a serious crime

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Incipient

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Beginning to appear or to be noticed

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Excavate

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To expose to view by digging out

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Endemic

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Native to a particular county

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Exalt

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To raise in status

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Imperative

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Urgently necessary

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Incognito

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In disguise

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Maintain

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To provide support

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Adjudicate

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To judge to preside

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Perjury

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Lying under oath

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Flora

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Plants as a group

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Lout

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An awkward, stupid person

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Abate

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To lessen in amount, intensity or strength

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Hue

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A shade of color

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Relinquish

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To surrender or release

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Tributary

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A stream flowing into a larger river

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Mystical

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Having a spiritual sense or importance

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Staple

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A basic or principal item

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Maneuver

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To direct through a series of movements

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Ramshackle

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About to fall apart

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Internecine

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Pertaining to conflict within a group

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Hearten

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Encourage

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Sluggish

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Lazy, lacking energy

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Orchestrate

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To arrange so as to achieve a desired effect

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Verbiage

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Excessive wordiness

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Pristine

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Remaining in a pure state

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Scoff

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To make fun of

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Inoculate

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To inject something

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Defame

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To attack a persons reputation

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Opaque

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Not letting in light

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Vigorous

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Energetic, forceful

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Partisan

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A strong, often militant

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Mausoleum

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A huge tomb

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Monarch

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One who rules a state

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Nadir

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The lowest point

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Bequeath

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To pass down to

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Resuscitate

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To revive, from apparent death

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Fallacy

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A false notion

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Polemic

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A controversial argument

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Hearsay

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Rumor, gossip

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Bellow

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To tell very loudly

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Vagrant

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A person who wanders from place to place

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Indigenous

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Native

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Inert

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Unable to move or respond

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Pandemic

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General, widespread

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Nascent

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Coming into being

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Brazen

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Showing shamelessness, boldness

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Harbinger

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Someone or something that indicates what is to come

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Stalwart

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Firm and resolute

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Ledger

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A book for keeping financial records

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Assiduous

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Diligent, hard working

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Quarantine

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Enforced isolation to prevent the spread of a disease

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Harrowing

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Very stressful

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Abet

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To encourage, assist

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Obscure

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Lacking light

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Immaculate

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Perfectly clean

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Office

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A duty or function

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Repository

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A place where things are kept for safekeeping

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Verdant

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Green

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Incite

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To provoke, to urge on

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Indisposed

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Slightly Ill

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Inveterate

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Established for a long time

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Husband

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To conserve

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Admonish

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To warn so a fault can be corrected

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Commute

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To change a punishment to one less severe

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Meager

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Lacking in quantity or vigor

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Disparage

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To speak in a disapproving or slighting manner

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Neutral

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Pertaining to a nerve

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Refusal

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Garbage

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Prosperity

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Wealth, good fortune

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Engulf

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To swallow up

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Saturate

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To soak or fill to capacity

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Invalidate

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To cancel

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Wreak

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To inflict, to cause

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Auditory

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Relating to the sense of hearing

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Muse

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To meditate, to consider thoughtfully

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Disdain

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A feeling of contempt

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Grovel

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To beg; to lower oneself to please another

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Delegate

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To entrust another person

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Retrospect

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The consideration of past events

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Utopia

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An ideally perfect place

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Ponder

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To think over with great care

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Intervene

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To come between two things

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Ineffable

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Incapable of being expressed

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Imposing

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Impressive by virtue of size, power

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Vanguard

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The leading position in an army or fleet

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Calamity

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An event causing trouble

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Irony

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Use of words in which the intending meaning is different from the literal sense

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