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1
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Burrowing

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Denoting an animal that make holes to live in

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Benthos

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Flora and fauna of the sea floor

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Locus / loci

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A particular position or place where something is located.

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Dredging

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To clear a sea bed or river bed by scooping out mud.

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Debilitating

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Making someone or something very weak or unfirm

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To wax and wane

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The movement of the moon between new and full is waxing, waning is the full moon getting progressively smaller.

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Dearth

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A scarcity or lack of something

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Putative

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Generally considered or reputed to be

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Annals

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A record of events year by year

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Short shrift

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Rapid and unsympathetic dismissal

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Vestigial

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Forming a very small remnant of something that was once greater or more noticeable

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Tantalising

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Torment or tease someone with the sight or promise of something that is unobtainable

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13
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Subvert

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Undermine the authority of

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14
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Plethora

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An abundance of something, an excessive amount

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Luddite

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A person opposed to new technologies or ways of working.

Originally band of English workers who destroyed machinery in cotton and wollen mills.

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Insatiable

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An appetite impossible to satisfy

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Quandary

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A set of perplexity or uncertainty what to do in a difficult situation

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18
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Primordial

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Existing since the beginning of time

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19
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Feline

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Relating to or affecting members of the cat family

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Murine

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Related to or affecting mice

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Kibble

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Ground meal shaped into pellets for food (particulalry for animals)

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Concoction

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A mixture of various ingredients or elements

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Devour

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Read quickly and eagerly

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Fleeting

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Lasting for a very short time

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Lest

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With the intention of preventing something undesirable

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Dust-up

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Fight or quarrel

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Brandish

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Wave an object as a threat

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28
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Indolence

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Avoidance of activity or laziness

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29
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To grouse

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To complain about something trivial

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30
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Irate

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Feeling characterised by great anger

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Proclamation

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Public or official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance

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32
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Despair

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To lose hope or to be without hope

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33
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Inadvertent

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Not a result of direct planning

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34
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Histrionic

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Excessively dramatic or thatrical in style

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35
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Discern

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Find out or recognize

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36
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Falter

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Lost strength or momentum

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37
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Fend

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Look after and provide for onself, without help from others

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38
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Furore

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Outbreak of public anger

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39
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Nascent

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Just coming into existence and showing and showing signs of future potential

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40
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Bungling

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The action of carrying out a task clumsily

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41
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Botched

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Carried out badly or carelessly

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42
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Dwell

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Live in or at a specified place

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43
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Bode

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Be a sign of a particular outcome

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44
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Anthropogenic

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Originating in human activity

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45
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Edifice

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A large imposing building

46
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Galleo

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A ship in use in the 15th and 18th centuries

47
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Loaded to the gunwales

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So as to be almost overflowing

Gunwale is the wooden upper plank of the edge of a ship

48
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Wherewithal

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The money or other means needed for a particular purpose

49
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Viscous

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Having a thick sticky consistency

50
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Contrived

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Deliberately created

51
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Confounding

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To cause surprise or confusion in someone

52
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Rousing

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Exciting, stirring

53
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Cavernous

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Cave-like

54
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Gnat

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A small two-winged fly resembling a mosquito

55
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Gregarious

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Sociable, fond of company

56
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Flint

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A piece of hard rock that with metal can ignite a spark.

57
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High handed

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Using power of authority without consideration for others.

58
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Hobble

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To restrict activity or development of something
OR
Walk in an awkward way because of injury

59
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Rear its head

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An unpleasant matter to present itself

60
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Encroach

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Intrude into private territory

61
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Contempt

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Disregard for something that should be considered

62
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Scant

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Barely sufficient or adequate

63
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Prodigious

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Remarkably or impressively great in extent

64
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To wallow

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To indulge in an unrestrained way

65
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Falter

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Lose strength or momentum

66
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Rekindle

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Relight a fire

67
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Dearth

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Scarcity or a lack of something

68
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Abound

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Exist in large numbers or amounts

69
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Fraught with

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Filled with (something undesirable)

70
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To don

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To put on

71
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Ailment

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An illness, typically a minor one

72
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Unpremeditated

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Not thought out before

73
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Unbidden

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Without having been commanded

74
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Sliver

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A small thin piece of something

75
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Hubbib

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A chaotic noise caused by a crowd of people

76
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Inopportune

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Inconvenient or inappropriate time

77
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Ply

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To travel regularly over a route

78
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Profusion

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An abundance or large quantity of something

79
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To abandon onself to

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To indulge in something

80
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Adept

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Skilled or proficient

81
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Blinkered

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Having or showing a narrow outlook (original word is the leather thing on horses eyes)

82
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Epoch

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A particular time in history

83
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Hearth

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Front part of a fireplace

84
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Insulat

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Ignorant or uninterested in other cultures

85
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Anguish

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Mental pain

86
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Jingoistic

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Extreme patriotism

87
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Lacerating

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Severely critical

88
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Polemic

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Strong written attck

89
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Wrangle

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Long and complicated argument

90
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Myopic

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Short sighted

91
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Plinth

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A heavy base supporting a statue

92
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Baffling

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Impossible to understand

93
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Gangrene

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Localised death of body tissue

94
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Antipodean

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Relating to Australians or New Zealanders

95
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Peddling

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Act of selling an illegal or stolen item

96
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Smart alec

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A person who is irritating because they behave like they know everything

97
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Innocuous

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Not harmful or offensive

98
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Raucous

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Making a disturbingly loud noise (usually kids)

99
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Mawkish

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Sentimental in an exaggareted way

100
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Bromide

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A chemical
Or
A tired statement that is intended to soothe

101
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Eviscerate

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Remove guts and prepare animal
Or
Deprive something of its essential content

102
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Snout

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An animals nose, usually a mammal’s

103
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Albedo

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Light transmitted by other planets

104
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Burnish

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Polish a piece of metal

105
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Sheathe

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Put a weapon (like a sword) into a leather case

106
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Sinuous

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Having many curves and turns

107
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Bipedal

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Using only two legs to walk

108
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Saurian

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A large reptile, especially from dinosaurs

109
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Swashbuckling

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Engaging in daring an d romantic adventures

110
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Embellishment

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A decorative detail added to something to make it attractive

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