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Sat word list #1 Flashcards

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Acquiesce

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To agree

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Acclimatization

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Becoming used to something

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Adjunct

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Something attached to a main body

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Aesthetic

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Having to do with art or beauty

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Allegory

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Symbolic story

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Altruism

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Goodness

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Abound

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To be present in great quantity

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Adhere

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To stick firmly

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Adversary

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Enemy

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Allegiance

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Loyalty

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Amity

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Friendship

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Arbiter

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Someone who settles a dispute

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Barbaric

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Uncivilized

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Breadth

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How broad something is

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Buoyant

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  1. Happy

2. Able to float

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Cadet

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Military student

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Chronic

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Constant

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Complacent

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Self-satisfied

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Confectioner

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Maker of candy

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Connoisseur

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Expert

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Conspiracy

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A plot to do something unlawful

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Contour

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Curve; shape

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Cordial

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Polite

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Criterion

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Factor used to judge something

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Cumulative

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Including everything from the beginning

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Dabble

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Mild interest in something

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Decode

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To translate a code

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Directory

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A book of names and addresses

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Discourse

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Conversation

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Dismay

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Sadness

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Disrepute

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Having a bad reputation

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Distress

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Worry

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Eccentric

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Strange

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Egoist

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One who pays too much attention to them self

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Emotive

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Emotional

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Endow

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  1. To give a talent to someone

2. To give money to

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Entity

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Object; thing

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Exhibitionist

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One who enjoys showing off

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Expertise

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Skill

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Extravagance

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Wasteful spending

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Fabricate

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  1. To create

2. To lie

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Fraudulent

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Fake

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Ghastly

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Horrible

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Glutton

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One who eats too much

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Grandiose

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  1. Magnificent

2. Showy

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Gregarious

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Friendly

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Grove

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Small forest of trees

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Guzzle

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To drink quickly

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Habitable

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Fit to be lived in

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Hangar

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Shelter for airplanes

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Heir

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A person who inherits

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Hurl

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To throw forcefully

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Illustrious

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Famous

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Impair

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To make worse

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Imperceptible

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Not able to be seen or heard

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Incapacitated

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Lacking physical or legal powers

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Incompetence

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Inability to function properly

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Indifferent

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Lack of interest or feeling

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Inert

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Lacking the power to move; inactive

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Innovate

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To be creative; to do something new

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Insight

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A sudden understanding

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Integral

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Important

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Intervention

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Interference

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Intuition

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A feeling about something

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Judicious

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Wise

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Kernel

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The central or important part

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Labored

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Done with great effort

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Lethargic

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Tired; lazy

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Lofty

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  1. Very tall or high in the air
  2. Noble in thoughts or aims
  3. Acting with a superior attitude
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Lull

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  1. A quiet pause
  2. To soothe
  3. To gain someone’s trust
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Malice

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Hatred

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Matriculate

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To enter of to enroll (usually to a college)

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Medley

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Group of songs strung together

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Meritorious

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Having value; deserving praise

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Miser

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A person who hates to spend money

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Negligence

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Carelessness

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Notorious

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Famous for being bad

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Obstinate

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Stubborn

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Optician

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Eye doctor

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Oscillate

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To move back and forth

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Painstaking

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Very careful

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Perpetual

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Every lasting; continuing forever

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Petty

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Of little importance

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Preconceived

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Planned in advance

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Prescience

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Foresight; ability to predict the future

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Presume

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To take for granted; to believe without reason

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Principled

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Moral

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Prophet

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  1. One who predicts future events

2. Messenger from god

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Prudent

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Careful

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Rash

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Hurried; without thinking

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Reclusive

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Living alone

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Refuge

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A shelter from danger

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Reinstate

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To restore; go put back into a former position

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Remission

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Temporary weakening of force

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Renovate

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To repair

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Reputability

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Being well thought of; respectability

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Rural

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From the country

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Saccharine

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Overly sweet

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Scrutinize

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To examine carefully

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Sentiment

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Feeling or emotion

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Sever

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To separate; to cut

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Solidarity

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Togetherness

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Static

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Not moving; not changing

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Subtle

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Not easily seen; difficult to understand

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Tact

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Ability to do or say the right thing at the right time

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Tangent

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Sudden change of topic

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Temperament

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Mood, character

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Terrestrial

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Of the earth

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Trawler

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Fishing boat

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Troupe

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A group of performers

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Unbounded

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Without limits

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Unethical

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Immoral

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Uphold

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To enforce, to support

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Utterance

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Something spoken

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Vacant

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  1. Empty

2. Without expression

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Verbose

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Using more words than are necessary

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Vulgar

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Crude; lacking culture

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Weary

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Tired

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Witticism

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Clever remark

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Zany

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Crazy

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