deck3400 Flashcards
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navigable
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adj. Capable of commercial navigation.
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remodel
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v. Reconstruct.
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anhydrous
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adj. Withered.
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sylph
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n. A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
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seance
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n. A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
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ill-natured
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adj. Surly.
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adverse
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adj. Opposing or opposed.
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iciness
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n. The state of being icy.
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qualification
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n. A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
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script
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n. Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
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ocular
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adj. Of or pertaining to the eye.
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listless
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adj. Inattentive.
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embarrass
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v. To render flustered or agitated.
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phosphorescence
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n. The property of emitting light.
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doleful
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adj. Melancholy.
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annihilate
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v. To destroy absolutely.
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supramundane
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adj. Supernatural.
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involution
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n. Complication.
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inaccurate
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adj. Not exactly according to the facts.
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accumulate
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v. To become greater in quantity or number.
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obviate
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v. To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
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noxious
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adj. Hurtful.
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fervor
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n. Ardor or intensity of feeling.
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instance
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n. A single occurrence or happening of a given kind.
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comparative
adj. Relative.
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prominent
adj. Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
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insuperable
adj. Invincible.
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corpse
n. A dead body.
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insomnia
n. Sleeplessness.
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outlandish
adj. Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
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extensive
adj. Extended widely in space, time, or scope.
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humiliate
v. To put to shame.
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theism
n. Belief in God.
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afire
adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively.
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inverse
adj. Contrary in tendency or direction.
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tangency
n. The state of touching.
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remonstrate
v. To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
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suppress
v. To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
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remiss
adj. Negligent.
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conducive
adj. Contributing to an end.
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seminary
n. A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
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secede
v. To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
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promissory
adj. Expressing an engagement to pay.
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integrity
n. Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
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ado
n. unnecessary activity or ceremony.
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irritable
adj. Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
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prodigious
adj. Immense.
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acrimonious
adj. Full of bitterness.
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Iliad
n. A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
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triplicate
adj. Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
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acid
n. A sour substance.
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virile
adj. Masculine.
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liner
n. A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
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naphtha
n. A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
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sheer
adj. Absolute.
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logical
adj. Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning.
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potential
n. Anything that may be possible.
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decasyllable
n. A line of ten syllables.
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resemblance
n. Similarity in quality or form.
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signification
n. The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
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suppressible
adj. Capable of being suppressed.
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vacuous
adj. Empty.
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vaudeville
n. A variety show.
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rue
v. To regret extremely.
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duplex
adj. Having two parts.
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miscount
v. To make a mistake in counting.
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modification
n. A change.
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recapitulate
v. To repeat again the principal points of.
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asperity
n. Harshness or roughness of temper.
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bosom
n. The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
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adduce
v. To bring forward or name for consideration.
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accursed
adj. Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
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baize
n. A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
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tenor
n. A settled course or manner of progress.
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lovable
adj. Amiable.
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proverb
n. A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
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persevere
v. To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
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immersion
n. The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid.
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omniscience
n. Unlimited or infinite knowledge.
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biography
n. A written account of one’s life, actions, and character.
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whet
v. To make more keen or eager.
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deprecate
v. To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
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ulterior
adj. Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
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qualify
v. To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
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despondent
adj. Disheartened.
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passible
adj. Capable of feeling of suffering.
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intensive
adj. Adding emphasis or force.
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valid
adj. Founded on truth.
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misogamy
n. Hatred of marriage.
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inexpressible
adj. Unutterable.
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muddle
v. To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
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brevity
n. Shortness of duration.
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inapt
adj. Awkward or slow.
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predatory
adj. Prone to pillaging.
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bilateral
adj. Two-sided.
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incompetence
n. General lack of capacity or fitness.
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beck
v. To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
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sarcophagus
n. A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
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anathema
n. Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
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peccant
adj. Guilty.
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secrecy
n. Concealment.
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foreshore
n. That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
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theoretical
adj. Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
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lever
n. That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
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ampere
n. The practical unit of electric-current strength.
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lithe
adj. Supple.
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extinct
adj. Being no longer in existence.
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noisy
adj. Clamorous.
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trenchant
adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
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dendrology
n. The natural history of trees.
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colloquy
n. Conversation.
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misogyny
n. Hatred of women.
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anesthetic
adj. Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
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conformity
n. Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
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adieu
inter. Good-by; farewell.
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predicate
v. To state as belonging to something.
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contrivance
n. The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
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stature
n. The natural height of an animal body.
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autonomous
adj. Self-governing.
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bric-a-brac
n. Objects of curiosity or for decoration.
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frolicsome
adj. Prankish.
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indispensable
adj. Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
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excretion
n. The getting rid of waste matter.
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fabricate
v. To invent fancifully or falsely.
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salient
adj. Standing out prominently.
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collision
n. Violent contact.
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electrotype
n. A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin.
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technicality
n. Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
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galore
adj. Abundant.
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drowsy
adj. Heavy with sleepiness.
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vigilance
n. Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
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acquittal
n. A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
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anode
n. The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
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connubial
adj. Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
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refinery
n. A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
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antiquate
v. To make old or out of date.
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coalescence
n. The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
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happy-go-lucky
adj. Improvident.
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transcontinental
adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
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potency
n. Power.
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estimable
adj. Worthy of respect.
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animosity
n. Hatred.
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tarnish
v. To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
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explode
v. To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
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Anglophobia
n. Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
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mileage
n. A distance in miles.
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flagrant
adj. Openly scandalous.
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reck
v. To have a care or thought for.
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retort
n. A retaliatory speech.
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nimble
adj. Light and quick in motion or action.
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emaciate
v. To waste away in flesh.
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giddy
adj. Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
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submersible
adj. Capable of being put underwater.
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absolve
v. To free from sin or its penalties.
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accede
v. To agree.
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ligature
n. Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
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grotto
n. A small cavern.
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treatise
n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
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maintenance
n. That which supports or sustains.
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muster
n. An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
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furbish
v. To restore brightness or beauty to.
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duteous
adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
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demagnetize
v. To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
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leaven
v. To make light by fermentation, as dough.
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possess
v. To own.
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acquaint
v. To make familiar or conversant.
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allusion
n. An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
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captivate
v. To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
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diplomatist
n. One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
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inchoate
adj. Incipient.
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sergeant-major
n. The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
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vacillate
v. To waver.
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diffusion
n. Dispersion.
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aboriginal
adj. Primitive; unsophisticated.
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contusion
n. A bruise.
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parsimonious
adj. Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
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derisible
adj. Open to ridicule.
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gentile
adj. Belonging to a people not Jewish.
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decent
adj. Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
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maneuver
v. To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
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inconsiderable
adj. Small in quantity or importance.
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commission
v. To empower.
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intracellular
adj. Occurring or situated within a cell.
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differential
adj. Distinctive.
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quandary
n. A puzzling predicament.
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tricolor
adj. Of three colors.
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anthropology
n. The science of man in general.
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dissection
n. The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
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glacial
adj. Icy, or icily cold.
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putrescent
adj. Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
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oral
adj. Uttered through the mouth.
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evade
v. To avoid by artifice.
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accusation
n. A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
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epicycle
n. A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.
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complaisant
adj. Agreeable.
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misnomer
n. A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
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inexpedient
adj. Unadvisable.
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extradite
v. To surrender the custody of.
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defalcate
v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
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illegible
adj. Undecipherable.
