MEDIUM Flashcards
(165 cards)
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To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
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FOIST
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A small vessel for liquids.
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VIAL
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Free from the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea.
Direct or not roundabout in expression.
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STRAIGHTFORWARD
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An anteroom or lobby especially of a theater, library, or other public building.
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FOYER
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A developmental disorder that typically appears by age 3 and that is variable in expression by recognized by impairment of the ability to form social relationships.
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AUTISM
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In a brief and concise manner.
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TERSELY
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To cry with a sharp shrill prolonged sound.
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SQUEAL
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At an indefinite time in the future - used chiefly in the Southwest.
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MANANA
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Betrayal of trust.
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TREACHERY
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Easily combustible material of a convenient
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KINDLING
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Company, band, group.
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COHORT
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The action of transporting.
Transportation.
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CONVEYANCE
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A deep purplish red.
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MAGENTA
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Legal expulsion from a country.
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BANISHMENT
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Something deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy.
Something irregular or abnormal.
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ANOMALY
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A great sea wave produced by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption.
A tidal wave.
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TSUNAMI
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Inspiring horror or repulsion.
Fearful, grisly, hideous.
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GRUESOME
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A person who is very knowledgeable about the science of the application of knowledge to practical purposes.
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TECHIE
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Imitating the form of without understanding the sense or meaning involved.
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PARROTING
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A succession of syllables, words, or sentences in one unvaried key or pitch.
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MONOTONE
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Confusion, turmoil, uproar.
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HURLY-BURLY
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Situated away from the wind.
Downwind.
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LEEWARD
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A slight fit of anger.
An outburst of temper or spite.
A petty quarrel.
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TIFF
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In a manner characterized by exuberance, impulsiveness, or thoughtlessness.
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GIDDILY
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To be enough.
To met or satisfy a need.
SUFFICE
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In a manner characterized by profusion or excess.
LAVISHLY
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Deficient in producing vegetation.
Bare or desolate.
BARREN
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The application of measures to makes environmental conditions favorable to health.
SANITATION
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Tubular portions of the digestive tract that in the vertebrate lie posterior to the stomach from which they are separated by the pyloric valve.
INTESTINES
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To be guilty of (a crime, an offense, etc.).
To commit.
PERPETRATE
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Of or relating to breathing.
RESPIRATORY
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Those that are sorrowful over a death.
MOURNERS
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Becomes twisted, contorted, or wested about in or as if in pain or struggling.
WRITHES
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To get rid of.
ELIMINATE
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Any of various birds of prey such as a turkey vulture or a condor.
BUZZARD
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A large disastrous burning.
A conflagration.
INFERNO
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An animal, plant, or other object serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often regarded as a reminder of its ancestry.
TOTEM
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A light rowboat.
SKIFF
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One qualified and duly authorized to treat diseases of animals.
VETERINARIAN
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Testimony taken down in writing under oath or affirmation.
DEPOSITION
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Used as a temporary or permanent dwelling place, abode, or habitation to which one intends to return.
RESIDENTIAL
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A bluish silver-white metallic element that is the most plentiful metal in Earth's crust.
ALUMINUM
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Held motionless by or as if by piercing especially with an absorbing emotion or interest.
TRANSFIXED
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Having or showing a lively aggressiveness.
Spunky.
FEISTY
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The aura or glory, veneration, prestige, or sentiment surrounding an idealized person or thing.
HALO
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A mineral consisting of soft black, lustrous carbon that conducts electricity and is used in pencils, crucibles, electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in atomic-energy plants - called also "Black lead."
GRAPHITE
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A lover of books especially for beautiful or rare qualities of format.
A book collector.
BIBLIOPHILE
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An inconsiderable number or amount especially of similar but distinct individuals or parts.
Piecemeal collection.
SMATTERING
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Saturated thoroughly.
Imbued.
STEEPED
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An unrestrained and usually excessive indulgence in or outburst of any activity.
Splurge, rampage.
SPREE
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Trips made in order to deliver a message or purchase or attend to something.
ERRANDS
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Moved, swung, or beat as though wielding an instrument for threshing grain from the ear by hand.
FLAILED
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Of or relating to mode of expression especially in the use of language.
STYLISTIC
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A tablelike construction used in the Christian church in celebrating the Eucharist.
Communion table.
ALTAR
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A pale blue to light greenish blue.
AQUAMARINE
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A large piece for orchestra usually in three or four contrasting movements.
SYMPHONY
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A condition of suffering, destitution, of affliction often implying previous prosperity or well-being.
ADVERSITY
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To criticize sharply.
To reprimand.
REBUKE
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An inscribed metal tablet that identifies a site or commemorates an individual or event.
PLAQUE
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One of a building's vertical supporting structures.
COLUMN
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The art or skill of a person practiced at hitting a target especially with firearms.
MARKSMANSHIP
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A price demanded for a thing or service in excess of the usual or normal amount.
SURCHARGE
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Recently made or of the most up-to-date style.
NEWFANGLED
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An optical phenomenon observed on still days over deserts or hot pavements that has the mirrorlike appearance of a quiet pool of water.
MIRAGE
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A group of people delegated to consider, investigate, or act on and usually to report on some matter or business.
COMMITTEE
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Of or relating to the past.
BYGONE
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Completion, fulfillment
FRUITION
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Loss of memory sometimes including the memory of personal identity.
AMNESIA
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A dishonest unprincipled person.
ROGUE
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Coins or currency notes representing any of the basic monetary units of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexica and Uruguay.
PESOS
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A floor covering made by laying on a burlap or canvas backing a mixture of solidified linseed oil and various solid particles and usually pigments.
LINOLEUM
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Marked by strikingly elaborate, colorful, or showy display or behavior.
FLAMBOYANT
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A period of extreme scarcity of food.
FAMINE
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A place or point of entering or beginning.
Outset.
THRESHOLD
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Departing markedly from the natural, the expected or the typical (as by distortion, exaggeration).
Atypical.
GROTESQUE
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A small trim pointed or tufted beard on a man's chin.
GOATEE
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Hideous giants represented in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on human beings.
Monsters.
OGRES
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A particular range, quality, or use of color.
PALETTE
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Characterized by an attitude of doubt or disposition in regard to something particular (such as a supposed fact).
SKEPTICAL
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Light sometimes ornamental structures in gardens, parks, or places of recreation that are used for entertainment or shelter.
PAVILIONS
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Spouts often having the form of a grotesque figure or animal and projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building.
GARGOYLES
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Legendary peoples of the sea having human head, trunk, and arms and the tail of a fish.
MERFOLK
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Depressed in spirits.
Mournful.
MELANCHOLY
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An artic cetacean that has no dorsal fin, is marbled black and white in color, reaches a length of about 16 feet, and possesses in the male one or rarely two long, spirally twisted pointed tusks.
NARWHAL
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Something that confuses, misleads, or is difficult to comprehend.
HOCUS-POCUS
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To add (as knowledge or effort) to a common interest or activity.
CONTRIBUTE
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A dish of Japanese origin consisting of meat or fish that is grilled or broiled after being marinated in a seasoned soy sauce.
TERIYAKI
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A trip or movement especially when involving difficulties or complex organization.
TREK
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A mythological divine or semidivine being (as the offspring of a deity and a mortal).
DEMIGOD
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Of the color jet black.
ONYX
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A medium-sized American wildcat ranging from Texas to Patagonia and having a tawny yellow or grayish coat that is dotted and striped with black.
OCELOT
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The peak of a gradual increase (as in physical or emotional force or intensity).
CRESCENDO
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The globular yellow fruit of a small shrubby tropical American tree.
GUAVA
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A donkey.
BURRO
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Involved especially in conflict or with a problem, adversaries, or the law.
EMBROILED
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Ancient military devises used for hurling heavy missiles (as stones) or for hurling other missiles (as spears, arrows) with extreme force.
CATAPULTS
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Ornamental work of fine wire of gold, silver, or copper that is used chiefly to decorate gold and silver surfaces.
FILIGREE
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A dealer in men's furnishings, such a shirts, ties, and hats.
HABERDASHER
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Usually short narratives of interesting, amusing, or curious incidents often biographical and generally characterized by human interest.
ANECDOTES
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A body of patrons or customers.
CLIENTELE
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Sprayed, squirted.
SPRITZED
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To rise or float in the air, especially in seeming defiance of gravitation.
LEVITATE
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A state of being turbulently active, wildly agitated, or destructive.
RAMPAGE
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Throwing weapons used in hunting large fish and sea animals.
HARPOONS
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A document that records that a person has completed a course or graduated from a school.
DIPLOMA
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Tissues that function to produce motion and are made up of variously modified elongated cells capable of contracting when stimulated.
MUSCLES
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One or more recordings produced as a single unit.
ALBUMS
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A outer garment extending from the waist to the ankle or sometimes only to or just below the knee.
TROUSERS
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A person engaged in military service.
SOLDIER
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A resilient pad for the use as a resting place alone or supported on a bedstead.
MATTRESS
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A medium of communication whereby images and sounds are transmitted.
TELEVISION
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The external openings of the nose or nasal cavity of a vertebrate.
NOSTRILS
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Approval publicly expressed (as by clapping hands).
APPLAUSE
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A more favorable or improved position or condition.
ADVANTAGE
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A journey by water.
Cruise.
VOYAGE
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A muscle having two heads, such as the large flexor muscle of the front of the upper arm.
BICEPS
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A separate or attached sealer used in making and closing airtight or liquid containers to ensure tightness.
GASKET
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Of or relating to soldiers, arms, or war.
MILITARY
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Marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell, living free on the bottom of stones or other objects, feeding on minute plants and animals carried to them by the current.
OYSTERS
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A passage providing an alternative deflected route (such as a road to carry traffic around a congested district or a channel to deflect flood water).
BYPASS
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A person who without apparent fear faces, accepts, or carries out anything unusually dangerous or foolhardy.
DAREDEVIL
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A state of excited interest or feeling.
SENSATION
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A tree or shrub that has evergreen or deciduous leaves and usually showy white, yellow, rose, or purple flowers appearing in early spring.
MAGNOLIA
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A thin soft pliable sheet or layer especially of animal or vegetable origin.
MEMBRANE
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Unfamiliar or uncharacteristic style of dress worn to conceal one's identity.
DISGUISE
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To look out for oneself.
To manage.
FEND
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Of or relating to a prepared chocolate containing little sugar.
BITTERSWEET
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Having no end.
Extending indefinitely.
INFINITE
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Any of various small marine toothed whales that have the snout more or less elongated into a beak and the neck vertebrae partially fused.
DOLPHIN
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The remains of the destruction, disorganization, or serious injury of something especially by violence.
WRECKAGE
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The act or process of contending or disagreeing in words.
A disputation.
ARGUMENT
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Small common harmful animals (such as bedbugs and mice) that tend to occur in great numbers and are difficult to control.
VERMIN
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To fool around.
To loiter, dawdle.
LOLLYGAG
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A recognition of superior achievement.
A mark of public esteem.
An honor.
LAUREL
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A tropical cyclone with winds of 73 mph or greater.
HURRICANE
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Any point or region in the air not immediately adjacent to the ground or other solid or liquid surface beneath it.
MIDAIR
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Of, or having the characteristics of European style of architecture with slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses, and with pointed arches and vaulting.
GOTHIC (capital G)
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A salve for application to the skin.
OINTMENT
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A somewhat permanent group elected or appointed to constitute an advisory body or a body with a degree of legislative power.
COUNCIL
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A grasshopper that frequently travels in swarms.
LOCUST
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Unembodied, elusive.
PHANTOM
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A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown and a rather narrow somewhat rolled brim - called also a "Derby."
BOWLER
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A Japanese art of self-defense in which kicks and openhanded blows are delivered especially to vulnerable parts of the body.
KARATE
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A dance step in which the dancer rotates on one foot and complete the step by shifting the weight to the other foot.
PIVOT
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On fire.
ABLAZE
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An extremely and malignantly wicked person.
A human fiend.
DIABLO
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Meat (as beef) that has been cut into long slices or strips and dried.
JERKY
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To have an effect on one another.
INTERACT
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The arbitrary arrangement of contours and fragments on a picture surface without necessary reference to natural objects or their structure.
CUBISM
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A female dance in a form of artistic dancing.
BALLERINA
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Evasive, tricky.
DODGY
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Violating accepted standards of morality, good taste, or polite behavior.
NAUGHTY
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Lacking order, coherence, sequence, or plan.
JUMBLED
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A child's game
HOPSCOTCH
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Covered or marked with small marks or splotches.
Spotted.
SPECKLED
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Narrow free-floating strips (as of cloth or crepe paper).
STREAMERS
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Kept within bounds.
Confined.
CAPTIVE
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The science of life.
BIOLOGY
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To get someone to agree or believe by arguing a point.
CONVINCE
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Of or relating to a mark or visible sign left by something dead, lost, or no longer present.
GHOSTLY
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Smaller groups of trees than forests often without underwood and planted or growing naturally as if arranged by art.
GROVES
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To color with a slight shade or stain.
To tint.
TINGE
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Something that follows from an activity or process.
Consequence, result.
OUTCOME
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Of the highest quality.
SUPERB
