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Vocabulary: Words Flashcards

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Infirm

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Sick, weak and ailing

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Nascent

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Having recently come into existence

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Steadfast

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Marked by firm determination or resolution

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Askew

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Not in a straight or level position

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Bellicose

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Demonstrating aggression or a willingness to fight

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Languorous

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Listless or lacking energy
1: producing or tending to produce languor
a languorous climate
those hot and languorous southern days
2: full of or characterized by languor
a languorous soak in the tub may be a rare respite for most women

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Insidious

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Working in a hidden and usually harmful way

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Wretched

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Full of misery or of very poor quality

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Warble

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To sing with a succession of changing notes

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Riposte

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Quick or clever reply to criticism

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Quandary

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State of doubt or perplexity

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Shun

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Ostracize

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Perpend

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Reflect on carefully

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Elegy

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Reflective poem

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Eulogy

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Speech about someone who has recently died

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Garner

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To earn or collect

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Garnish

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To decorate or embellish

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Barren

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Producing little or no vegetation

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Cavil

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To quibble or make unnecessary objections

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Chicanery

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Use of trickery or deception

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Fret

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To worry or feel anxious

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Mild

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Gentle and easygoing

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Tamper

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To interfere with something

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Upbeat

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Cheerful and positive

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Tarnish

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To dull or destroy the luster of something

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Sprout

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To grow and develop

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Luster

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Gloss, polish, sheen, glaze, brilliance.

Enhancement, highlight, embossing, embossment, lustre

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Old wives’ tale

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Common belief that’s not based on fact

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Pique my interest

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Something incites curiosity

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Wreak havoc

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To inflict devastation

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Upmost

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Highest

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Utmost

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To the greatest extent or degree

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Flaunt

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To show off

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Flout

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To ignore or disobey the rules

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Drivel

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To talk nonsense

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Floe

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A sheet of floating ice

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Pamper

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To spoil or indulge

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Pander

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To give in to or gratify

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Prima donna

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The lead or main female singer in an opera company. Prima donna is commonly used as a negative term for a person who’s extremely self-centered and temperamental.

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Bona fide

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Genuine, real.

Without intention to deceive.

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Mannerism

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A habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving.

Excessive use of a distinctive style in art, literature, or music.

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Muditâ

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Joy, specially sympathetic or vicarious joy.

Also, the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well-being.

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Qualm

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An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about one’s own conduct.
A misgiving.
A momentary faint or sick feeling.

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Curtailment

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Reducción

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Default

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Loss resulting from failure to pay a debt

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Modicum

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Moderate or small amount of a thing

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Chagrin

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Strong feeling of embarrasment

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Suave

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Charming, confident, and elegant (typically used of a man).

“All the waiters were suave and deferential”

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Fling

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Un “pelito”, un arroz en bajo. Una relación que no es seria.

a short period of doing enjoyable things that you usually do not do

to throw or move something suddenly and with force:
to say something angrily

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Rambunctious

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Full of energy and difficult to control:

rambunctious children
a lively and rambunctious puppy

Sinónimos
boisterous
unruly

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Banter

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1: to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner

She laughed and bantered him a little, remembering too late that she should have been dignified and reserved.

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Penchant

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Strong liking: She had a penchant for horror movies and made all of her friends watch them with her.

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Bereft

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1a: deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something —usually used with of
both players are instantly bereft of their poise
— A. E. Wier
b: lacking something needed, wanted, or expected —used with of
the book is … completely bereft of an index
— The Times Literary Supplement (London)

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Gossamer

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1: a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
2: something light, delicate, or insubstantial
the gossamer of youth’s dreams
— Andrea Parke

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Panache

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1: an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet
The palace guard had a panache on his helmet.
2: dash or flamboyance in style and action : VERVE
flashed his … smile and waved with the panache of a big-city mayor
— Joe Morgenstern

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Tuft

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1a: a small cluster of elongated flexible outgrowths attached or close together at the base and free at the opposite ends
especially : a growing bunch of grasses or close-set plants
b: a bunch of soft fluffy threads cut off short and used as ornament
2: CLUMP, CLUSTER
3: MOUND
4: any of the projections of yarns drawn through a fabric or making up a fabric so as to produce a surface of raised loops or cut pile

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Chicanery

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1: deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : TRICKERY
He wasn’t above using chicanery to win votes.
2: a piece of sharp practice (as at law) : TRICK
resorted to political chicaneries
financial chicaneries

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Resplendent

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Lat. Resplendentem: brilliant

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Abashed

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Feeling ill at ease, self-concious, or ashamed.

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Abridge

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To shorten by condesing or rewriting

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Confound

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To cause surprise or confusion

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Enthralling

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Cpturing interest as if by a spell

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Jocular

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Characterized by jokes and good humor

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Overwrought

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Deeply agitated, especially from emotion

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Scurrilous

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Expressing offensive reproach

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Verbatim

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Using exactly the same words

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Amendment

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constitution) by parliamentary or constitutional procedure
rights that were granted by amendment of the Constitution
b: an alteration proposed or effected by this process
a constitutional amendment
2: the act of amending something : CORRECTION
3: a material (such as compost or sand) that aids plant growth indirectly by improving the condition of the soil
soil amendments

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Bereavement

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The state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone

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Boisterous

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1a: noisily turbulent : ROWDY
b: marked by or expressive of exuberance and high spirits
2: STORMY, TUMULTUOUS

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Oneiric

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Lat. Oneiros. Dreamy

of, relating to, or suggestive of dreams

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Verbiage

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Definition of verbiage
1: a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
such a tangled maze of evasive verbiage as a typical party platform
— Marcia Davenport
2: manner of expressing oneself in words : DICTION
sportswriters guarded their verbiage so jealously
— R. A. Sokolov

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Doleful

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1: full of grief : CHEERLESS
a doleful face
2: expressing grief : SAD
a doleful melody
3: causing grief or affliction
a doleful loss
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Inchoate

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Being only partly in existence or operation

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Expedient

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Something done or used to achieve a particular end usually quickly or temporarily : an expedient action or solution

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Sycophant

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a servile self-seeking flatterer

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Tableau

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1: a graphic description or representation : PICTURE
winsome tableaux of old-fashioned literary days
— J. D. Hart
2: a striking or artistic grouping : ARRANGEMENT, SCENE
3[short for tableau vivant (from French, literally, living picture)] : a depiction of a scene usually presented on a stage by silent and motionless costumed participants

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Appreciable

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A considerable amount

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Appreciative

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To feel or show gratitude

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Bouillon

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Broth

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Bullion

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A mass of gold and silver

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Denounce

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Proclaim something or someone as bad

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Renounce

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Formally reject or give up something

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Envelop

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Wrap up or surround

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Hallow

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Honor as holy or be holy

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Historic

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Something monumental or of great importance

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Historical

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Related to history

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Revue

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Theatrical act

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Raucous

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Unpleasantly loud and rough

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Unflappable

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Undisturbed. Not easily perturbed, excited or upset.

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Thwart

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To hinder or prevent

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Fortuitous

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Lucky

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Cantakerous

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Stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate

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Admonition

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⚠️ Warning.

Cautionary advice about something imminent

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Eponymous

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Having a person’s name in the title

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Broach

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Open up for discussion

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Hew

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Chop or cut

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Liable

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To be responsible or accountable

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Libel

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False and incendiary statements written about a person

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Spar

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Friendly argument

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Spur

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Something that causes a reaction

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Ought to be

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Should be (British)

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