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alloy
to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
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appropriate
tot ake for one's own use; to confiscate
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arrest, arresting
to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
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august
majestic, venerable
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bent
leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
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broach
to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
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brook
to tolerate; to endure; to countenance
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cardinal
marjor, as in cardinal sin
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chauvinist
a blindly devoted patriot
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color
to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, to gloss, or affect (usually the first)
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consequential
pompous, self important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)
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damp
to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
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die
a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
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essay
to test or try; to attempt; to experiment
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exact
to demand; to call for; to require; to take
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fell (verb)
to cause to fall by striking
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fell (adj)
inhumanely cruel
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flag
to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
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flip
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
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ford
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
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grouse
to complain or grumble
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guy
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide
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intimate
to imply, suggest, or insinuate
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list
to tilt or lean to one side
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lumber
to move heavily and clumsily
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milk
to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of
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mince
to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. Also to take tiny steps, to tiptoe
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nice
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
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obtain
to be established, acctped, or customary
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occult
hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
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pedestrian
commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
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pied
multicolored, usually in blotches
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pine
to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
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plastic
moldable, pliable, not rigid
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pluck
courage, spunk, fortitude
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prize
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils
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rail
to complain about bitterly
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rent
torn (past tense or rend); an opening or tear caused by such
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quail
to lose courage; to turn frightened
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scurvy
contemptible, despicable
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singular
exceptional, unusual, odd
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steep
to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
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strut
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
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table
to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
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tender
to proffer or offer
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waffle
to equivocate; to change one's position
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