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to adjust or change to suit conditions
adapt
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to bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine
attest
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to fit together exactly; to connect so as to form a whole
a carpentry figure resembling a dove's tail
dovetail
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the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly eveil act; huge size, immensity
enormity
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to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline
falter
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a warning or feeling that something bad will happen; marked by fear, ominous
foreboding
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totally abandoned and helplessly sad and lonely; wretched or pitful; almost hopeless
forlorn
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chillingly proud and scornful
haughty
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a physical defect; a hindrance, obstacle
impediment
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necessary, urgent; a form of a verb expressing a command; that is necessary or required
imperative
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to linger in an aimless way, hang around, dawdle, tarry
loiter
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to pretend illness to avoid duty or work, lie down on the job
malinger
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short but full of meaning and point
pithy
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property stolen by force; to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully
plunder
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a silly, forced smile; to smile or speak in a silly, forced way
simper
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firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing
steadfast
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much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way
vaunted
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to abuse or belittle unjustly oir maliciously
villify
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a person (usually a child) without a home or a friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit
waif
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twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly numberous
wry
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