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Misogamy (n)
hatred of marriage
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Moratorium (n)
legal delay of payment
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Mordant (adj)
biting; sarcastic; stinging
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Morose (adj)
ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
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Mortify (v)
to humiliate; punish the flesh
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Motility (n)
ability to move spontaneously
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Mottled (adj)
blotched in coloring; spotted
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Mountebank (n)
charlatan; boastful pretender
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Muddle (v)
to confuse; mix up
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Mulct (v)
to defraud a person of something
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Munificent (adj)
very generous
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Mutability (adj)
ability to change in form; fickleness
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Natty (adj)
neatly or smartly dressed
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Nefarious (adj)
very wicked
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Nepotism (n)
favoritism (to a relative)
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Nicety (n)
precision; minute distinction
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Niggle (v)
to spend too much time on minor points; carp
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Nondescript (adj)
indistinctive; ordinary
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Nonentity (n)
person of no importance; nonexistence
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Nonplus (v)
to bring to a halt by confusion; perplex
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Nostrum (n)
questionable medicine
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Nubile (adj)
marriageable
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Nugatory (adj)
futile; worthless
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Obeisance (n)
a movement of the body expressing respect (a bow)
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Obelisk (n)
tall column with a pyramid top
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Obloquy (n)
funeral ceremony
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Obstreperous (adj)
boisterous; noisy
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Obtrude (v)
to push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude; butt in; stick out or extrude
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Odium (n)
detestation; hatefulness; disrepute
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Onus (n)
burden; responsibility
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Opalescent (adj)
iridescent; lustrous
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Opportune (adj)
timely; well-chosen
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Oracular (adj)
prophetic; uttered as if with divine authority; mysterious or ambiguous
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Oratorio (n)
dramatic poem set to music
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Ordination (n)
ceremony conferring holy orders
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Orthodox (adj)
traditional; conservative in belief
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Orthography (n)
correct spelling
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Osseous (adj)
made of bone; bony
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Outstrip (v)
to surpass; outdo
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Overweening (adj)
presumptuous; arrogant
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