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Adapt
to adjust or change to suit conditions
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Attest
to bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine
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Dovetail
to fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole
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Enormity
the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity
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Falter
to hesitate,stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline
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Forboding
a warning or feeling that something bad will happen
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Forlon
totally abandoned and helpless, sad and lonely, wretched or pitiful, almost hopeless
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Haughty
chillingly proud and scornful
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Impediment
a physical defect; a hindrance, obstable
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Imperative
necessary, urgent
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Loiter
to linger in an aimless way, hang around, dawdle, tarry
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Malinger
to pretend illness to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job
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Pithy
short but full of meaning and point
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Plunder
to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully
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Simper
to smile or speak in a silly, forced way
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Steadfast
firmly fixed, constant, not moving or changing
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Vaunted
much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way
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Vilify
to abuse or beliitle unjustly or maliciously
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Waif
a person (usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray, person, or animal; something that comes along by a chance, a stray bit
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Wry
twiated, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous
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