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Appropriate

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(v.) to take for one’s own use; to confisticate

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Alloy

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(v.) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

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Arrest, arresting

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(v., adj.) to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention

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August

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(adj.) majestic, venerable

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Bent

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(n.) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Broach

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(v.) to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

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Brook

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(v.) to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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Cardinal

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(adj.) major, as in cardinal sin

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Chauvinist

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(n.) a blindly devoted patriot

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Color

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(v.) to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect

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Consequential

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(adj.) logically following, important; pompous, self-important

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Damp

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(v.) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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Die

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(n.) a tool used for shaping

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Essay

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(v.) to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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Exact

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(v.) to demand; to call for; to require; to take

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Fell

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(v.) to cause to fall by striking; (adj.) inhumanly cruel

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Flag

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(v.) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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Flip

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(adj.) sarcastic, impertinent

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Ford

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(v.) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grouse

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(v.) to complain or grumble

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Guy

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(n.) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy

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Intimate

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(v.) to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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List

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(v.) to tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber

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(v.) to move heavily and clumsily

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Meet

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(adj.) fitting, proper

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Milk

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(v.) to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince

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v. to pronounce or speak affectedly;to euphemize to speak too carefully.Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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Nice

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adj. exacting,fastidious, extremely precise

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Obtain

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adj. to be established, accepted, or customary

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Occult

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adj. hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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Pedestrian

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adj. commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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Pied

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adj. multicolored, usually in blotches

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Pine

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v. to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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Plastic

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adj. moldable, pliable, not rigid

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Pluck

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n. courage, spunk, fortitude

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Prize

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v. to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

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Rail

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v. to complain about bitterly

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Rent

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v. torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

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Quail

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v. to lose courage; to turn fightened

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Qualify

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v. to limit

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Sap

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v. to enervate or weaken the vitality of

n. a fool or nitwit

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Scurvy

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adj. contemptible, despicable

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Singular

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adj. exceptional, unusual, odd

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Stand

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n. a group of trees

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Steep

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v. to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

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Strut

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n. the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Table

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v. to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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Tender

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v. to proffer or offer

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Waffle

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v. to equivocate; to change one’s position

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Wag

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n. wit, joker