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absolute

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adj. perfect or complete or pure; not capable of being violated or infringed; complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; without conditions or limitations; not limited by law; expressing finality with no implication of possible change; noun something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control

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abstract

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adj. existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; noun a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory; verb consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically; consider apart from a particular case or instance; give an abstract (of); make off with belongings of others

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affability

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noun a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

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affectation

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noun a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

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aficionado

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noun a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer; a fan of bull fighting

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allure

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noun the power to entice or attract through personal charm;verb dispose or incline or entice to

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altruistic

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adj. showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others

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ambrosial

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adj. worthy of the gods; extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant

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amiable

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adj. disposed to please; diffusing warmth and friendliness

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amorous

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adj. inclined toward or displaying love; expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

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auspicious

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adj. auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

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autodidact

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noun a person who has taught himself

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avarice

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noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); extreme greed for material wealth

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benevolent

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adj. generous in providing aid to others; intending or showing kindness; generous in assistance to the poor; showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

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benign

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adj. pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence;kindness of disposition or manner; not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

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candid

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adj. openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared; characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion

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candor

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noun the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech; ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty

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capricious

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adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

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captivating

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adj. capturing interest as if by a spell

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clairvoyant

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adj. foreseeing the future; perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses; noun someone who has the power of clairvoyance

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convivial

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adj. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company

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copious

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adj. large in number or quantity (especially of discourse);affording an abundant supply

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court

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noun respectful deference; an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings; a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played; a room in which a lawcourt sits; the residence of a sovereign or nobleman; the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state; the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince; an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business; Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947); a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area; verbengage in social activities leading to marriage; make amorous advances towards; seek someone’s favor

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courteous

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adj. characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners; exhibiting courtesy and politeness

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coy
adj. modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures;showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
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cunning
adj. attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; showing inventiveness and skill; marked by skill in deception; noun crafty artfulness (especially in deception);shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
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daft
adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
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dazzling
adj. amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; shining intensely
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debonair
adj. having a sophisticated charm; having a cheerful, lively, and self
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demure
adj. affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
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dilettante
adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish;noun an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
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discernable
adj. perceptible by the senses or intellect
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eclectic
adj. selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas;noun someone who selects according to the eclectic method
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ecstatic
adj. feeling great rapture or delight
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effervescent
adj. (of a liquid) giving off bubbles; marked by high spirits or excitement; used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide
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effulgent
adj. radiating or as if radiating light
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elated
adj. exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; full of high
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elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
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elemental
adj. relating to or being an element; relating to severe atmospheric conditions; of or being the essential or basic part
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eloquent
adj. expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively
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embellish
verb make more beautiful; add details to; make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; be beautiful to look at
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enamor
verb attract; cause to be enamored
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endear
verb make attractive or lovable
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enigma
noun something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; a difficult problem
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enlightening
adj. tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement
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enraptured
adj. feeling great rapture or delight
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epicurean
adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; of Epicurus or epicureanism; devoted to pleasure; noun a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
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erudite
adj. having or showing profound knowledge
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euphonious
adj. having a pleasant sound; (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident
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euphoric
adj. exaggerated feeling of well
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existential
adj. relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence); of or as conceived by existentialism; derived from experience or the experience of existence
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exquisite
adj. of extreme beauty; lavishly elegant and refined;intense or sharp; delicately beautiful
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exult
verb feel extreme happiness or elation; to express great joy
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fallacy
noun a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
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fanciful
adj. indulging in or influenced by fancy; having a curiously intricate quality; not based on fact; dubious
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fickle
adj. marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; liable to sudden unpredictable change
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fitting
adj. being precisely fitting and right; in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; noun putting clothes on to see whether they fit; a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system; (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel); making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
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florid
adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; elaborately or excessively ornamented
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fruition
noun enjoyment derived from use or possession; the condition of bearing fruit; something that is made real or concrete
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gallant
adj. unflinching in battle or action; having or displaying great dignity or nobility; being attentive to women like an ideal knight; lively and spirited; noun a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance; a man who attends or escorts a woman
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gentility
noun elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
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grandeur
noun the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct
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gratify
verb yield (to); give satisfaction to; make happy or satisfied
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hasten
verb act or move at high speed; cause to occur rapidly;step on it; speed up the progress of; facilitate
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illuminate
verb add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts); make lighter or brighter; make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
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impeccable
adj. not capable of sin; without fault or error
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inexorable
adj. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason;not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
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infallible
adj. incapable of failure or error
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insatiable
adj. impossible to satisfy
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intelligible
adj. well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly; capable of being apprehended or understood
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intrinsic
adj. situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts; belonging to a thing by its very nature
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languorous
adj. lacking spirit or liveliness
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lucid
adj. having a clear mind; (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
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luminary
noun a celebrity who is an inspiration to others
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lurid
adj. shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; ghastly pale; glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; horrible in fierceness or savagery
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mellifluous
adj. pleasing to the ear
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melodious
adj. containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
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nectarous
adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
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nostalgic
adj. unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
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novelty
noun originality by virtue of being new and surprising;cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing; a small inexpensive mass
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perceptive
adj. having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment; of or relating to perception
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precocious
adj. appearing or developing early; characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)
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prodigal
adj. marked by rash extravagance; very generous;recklessly wasteful; noun a recklessly extravagant consumer
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profuse
adj. produced or growing in extreme abundance
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proliferation
noun growth by the rapid multiplication of parts; a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
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quintessential
adj. representing the perfect example of a class or quality
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quizzically
adv. in a quizzical and questioning manner
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radial
adj. arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center; issuing in rays from a common center; relating to rays of light; relating to or moving along or having the direction of a radius;relating to or near the radius; noun pneumatic tire that has radial
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radiant
adj. radiating or as if radiating light
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rapture
noun a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; a state of elated bliss
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regatta
noun a meeting for boat races
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repertoire
noun a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule; the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation
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resonate
verb be received or understood; sound with resonance
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retrospective
adj. concerned with or related to the past; noun an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work
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revel
noun unrestrained merrymaking; verb celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; take delight in
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reverence
noun a reverent mental attitude; a profound emotion inspired by a deity; verb regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
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rudimentary
adj. being in the earliest stages of development; not fully developed in mature animals; being or involving basic facts or principles
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sanctity
noun the quality of being holy
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sentient
adj. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; consciously perceiving
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slight
adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; being of delicate or slender build; having little substance or significance;noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval); verb pay no attention to, disrespect
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sparse
adj. not dense
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spectacle
noun a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself; an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale; something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight)
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subsist
verb support oneself
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sway
noun controlling influence; pitching dangerously to one side;verb move back and forth or sideways; cause to move back and forth; move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner; win approval or support for
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symphonious
adj. harmonious in sound
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tact
noun consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offence
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tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste; free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
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tenacious
adj. sticking together; good at remembering; stubbornly unyielding
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transcend
verb go beyond; go beyond
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trivial
adj. obvious and dull; concerned with trivialities; not large enough to consider or notice; (informal) small and of little importance; of little substance or significance
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ubiquitous
adj. being present everywhere at once
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utmost
adj. (comparatives of `far') most remote in space or time or order; highest in extent or degree; of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; noun the greatest possible degree
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valour
noun the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)
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vantage
noun place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective); the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
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verity
noun an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth; conformity to reality or actuality
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vicarious
adj. suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; experienced at secondhand
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vivacity
noun characterized by high spirits and animation
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voracious
adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities;excessively greedy and grasping

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