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hospitality
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n. The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
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corporal
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adj. Belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind.
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unnatural
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adj. Artificial.
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athwart
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adv. From side to side.
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gourmand
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n. A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
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append
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v. To add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate, or supplementary.
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perpendicular
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adj. Straight up and down.
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concur
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v. To agree.
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indiscernible
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adj. Not perceptible.
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armory
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n. An arsenal.
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irrelevant
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adj. Inapplicable.
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erudite
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adj. Very-learned.
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cameo
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n. Any small engraved or carved work in relief.
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consign
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v. To entrust.
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vindicatory
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adj. Punitive.
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abrade
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v. To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
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contribution
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n. The act of giving for a common purpose.
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reprehensible
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adj. Censurable.
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intermission
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n. A recess.
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prescient
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adj. Foreknowing.
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harass
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v. To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
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risible
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adj. capable of exciting laughter.
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fragile
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adj. Easily broken.
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benevolence
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n. Any act of kindness or well-doing.
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adumbrate
v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
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capitulate
v. To surrender or stipulate terms.
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engrave
v. To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
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stratum
n. A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
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hesitation
n. Vacillation.
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imminence
n. Impending evil or danger.
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undulate
v. To move like a wave or in waves.
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airy
adj. Delicate, ethereal.
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peddle
v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
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nomic
adj. Usual or customary.
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incompressible
adj. Resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure.
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bumptious
adj. Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
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Stoicism
n. The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
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uproarious
adj. Noisy.
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poise
n. Equilibrium.
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agitate
v. To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
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constellation
n. An arbitrary assemblage or group of stars.
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overseer
n. A supervisor.
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foible
n. A personal weakness or failing.
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metallurgy
n. The art or science of extracting a metal from ores, as by smelting.
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precursor
n. A forerunner or herald.
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triumvir
n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
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monition
n. Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
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amalgamate
v. To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body.
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affirmative
adj. Answering yes; to a question at issue.
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disputation
n. Verbal controversy.
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immutable
adj. Unchangeable.
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morose
adj. Gloomy.
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precedential
adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
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puerile
adj. Childish.
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belay
v. To make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat.
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violator
n. One who transgresses.
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apathy
n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.
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inchoative
n. That which begins, or expresses beginning.
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peerless
adj. Of unequaled excellence or worth.
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acoustic
adj. Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
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curt
adj. Concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression.
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obituary
adj. A published notice of a death.
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precision
n. Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
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dispossess
v. To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
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ravage
v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
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automaton
n. Any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical.
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peremptory
adj. Precluding question or appeal.
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expend
v. To spend.
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doubly
adv. In twofold degree or extent.
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liniment
n. A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
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omission
n. Exclusion.
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neurology
n. The science of the nervous system.
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analyze
v. To examine minutely or critically.
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dolesome
adj. Melancholy.
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neology
n. The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
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ambush
n. The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
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infidel
n. One who denies the existence of God.
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renunciation
n. An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
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violation
n. Infringement.
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repress
v. To keep under restraint or control.
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deprave
v. To render bad, especially morally bad.
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repellent
adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
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hussar
n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
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tact
n. Fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing.
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insurgent
n. One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
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infrequent
adj. Uncommon.
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demonstrable
adj. Capable of positive proof.
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shuffle
n. A mixing or changing the order of things.
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minute
adj. Exceedingly small in extent or quantity.
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refute
v. To prove to be wrong.
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genital
adj. Of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs.
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aristocracy
n. A hereditary nobility
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conquer
v. To overcome by force.
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ingredient
n. Component.
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pervious
adj. Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
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laddie
n. A lad.
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norm
n. A model.
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exigency
n. A critical period or condition.
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discontinuance
n. Interruption or intermission.
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abduction
n. A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally.
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nestle
v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
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corrode
v. To ruin or destroy little by little.
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refractory
adj. Not amenable to control.
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noisome
adj. Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
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isochronous
adj. Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
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undersized
adj. Of less than the customary size.
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succulent
adj. Juicy.
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militate
v. To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
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inflammation
n. A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain.
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satirize
v. To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
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mordant
adj. Biting.
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prohibition
n. A decree or an order forbidding something.
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conflagration
n. A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like.
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armful
n. As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
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hesitancy
n. A pausing to consider.
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pauper
n. One without means of support.
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garnish
v. In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
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pervade
v. To pass or spread through every part.
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indiscriminate
adj. Promiscuous.
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jeopardize
v. To imperil.
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magnificent
adj. Grand or majestic in appearance, quality, or action.
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exclamation
n. An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
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collegian
n. A college student.
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service
n. Any work done for the benefit of another.
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avarice
n. Passion for getting and keeping riches.
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incite
v. To rouse to a particular action.
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referable
adj. Ascribable.
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sophism
n. A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
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sonnet
n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
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gradation
n. A step, degree, rank, or relative position in an order or series.
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untimely
adj. Unseasonable.
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decency
n. Moral fitness.
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thesis
n. An essay or treatise on a particular subject.
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fundamental
adj. Basal.
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loath
adj. Averse.
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census
n. An official numbering of the people of a country or district.
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brooch
n. An article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside.
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intromit
v. To insert.
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prickle
v. To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points.
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undercharge
v. To make an inadequate charge for.
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linguist
n. One who is acquainted with several languages.
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adhere
v. To stick fast or together.
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animadversion
n. The utterance of criticism or censure.
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retrospective
adj. Looking back on the past.
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defensible
adj. Capable of being maintained or justified.
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definite
adj. Having an exact signification or positive meaning.
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element
n. A component or essential part.
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ire
n. Wrath.
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negation
n. The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
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cursory
adj. Rapid and superficial.
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translate
v. To give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect.
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instant
n. A very brief portion of time.
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drought
n. Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither.
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bowler
n. In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
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poetaster
n. An inferior poet.
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quarter
n. One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided.
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ordinal
n. That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
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declension
n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender.
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presage
v. To foretell.
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flatulence
n. Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
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populous
adj. Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory.
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immovable
adj. Steadfast.
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probate
adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will.
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inoffensive
adj. Causing nothing displeasing or disturbing.
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irony
n. Censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment.
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dissonance
n. Discord.
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lethargy
n. Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind.
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functionary
n. An official.
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geniality
n. Warmth and kindliness of disposition.
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opaque
adj. Impervious to light.
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occurrence
n. A happening.
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bethink
v. To remind oneself.
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variation
n. Modification.
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rearrange
v. To arrange again or in a different order.
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reluctance
n. Unwillingness.
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glimpse
n. A momentary look.
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moralist
n. A writer on ethics.
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relapse
v. To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
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encumber
v. To impede with obstacles.
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mania
n. Insanity.
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conscientious
adj. Governed by moral standard.
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convergent
adj. Tending to one point.
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frequency
n. The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space.
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accessory
n. A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
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allotment
n. Portion.
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concordance
n. Harmony.
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harmonious
adj. Concordant in sound.
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inactive
adj. Inert.
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forfeit
v. To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation.
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maritime
adj. Situated on or near the sea.
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necessitate
v. To render indispensable.
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exhale
v. To breathe forth.
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tiresome
adj. Wearisome.
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submission
n. A yielding to the power or authority of another.
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forejudge
v. To judge of before hearing evidence.
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parallelism
n. Essential likeness.
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hypotenuse
n. The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
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intrude
v. To come in without leave or license.
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displace
v. To put out of the proper or accustomed place.
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dissent
n. Disagreement.
