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One who looks on or observes, a person present but does not take part

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Bystander

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To speed up, cause to move faster, to bring about more quickly.

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Accelerate

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To go through an area in order to procure votes, sales, or opinions; to go over in detail to discuss

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Canvass

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Happening by chancery an irregular basis; showing little concern; informal.

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Casual

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Treated unfairly and cruelly, oppressed

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Downtrodden

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To attract, attempt

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Entice

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To wear away gradually, eat away

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Erode

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To thrash about In a clumsy or ineffective way

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Flounder

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Lifelike, vivid, relating, to the pictorial arts.

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Graphic

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Horrible revolting, ghastly

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Gruesome

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(Adj.)Sad, gloomy unhappy

(N.)Sadness gloominess

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Melancholy

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A difficult pain experience, a trial

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Ordeal

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To make dry and thirsty;to shrivel with heat

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Parch

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To continue steadily in a course of action, refuse to stop or be changed;to last, remain

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Persist

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A less thank normal strength or size: of no importance

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Puny

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To evade or belittle a point by twisting words or raising minor objections

A pretty objection

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Quibble

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To approve give formal approval to, confirm

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Ratify

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Royal, king like ,fit for a king

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Regal

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To smother prevent from breathing,

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Stifle

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Having life;necessary to life, essential; key crucial

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Vital