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• a temporary stay
• stay, visit, stop, stopover; vacation

• great embarrassment and shame.
• they mistook my mortification for an admission of guilt

• a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from a past insult or injury
• grievance, resentment, bitterness, rancor, pique, umbrage

• the speech act of making something evident
• disclosure, announcement, report

• force or oblige (someone) to do something
• force, pressure, press, push, urge

• (of cloth or clothes) old and torn
• tattered, in tatters, torn, ripped

of a rich deep red color

(chiefly of a person's hair) of a reddish-brown color

To trot is move faster than walking, but not quite at a full-out run

• suppress or crush completely
• quell, quench

• firm and dependable especially in loyalty
• stop the flow of a liquid

plunder, pillage, despoil, ransack, sack, raid, rifle, rob, burgle

• departing from usual or accepted standards
• aberrant, abnormal, atypical

• a person's orders or command.
• instruction, requirement, demand, insistence

strike (someone) with a whip or stick.

• Something premeditated is planned in advanced and has a purpose behind it
• A premeditated crime involves careful planning and research before it happens.

• an act of attacking and robbing someone in a public place
• he was the victim of a brutal mugging

• 1. gradually weaken or destroy 
• 2. viscous fluid

• oppressed or treated badly by people in power; oppressed, subjugated
• a downtrodden proletarian struggling for social justice

• 1. force to make a strenuous or unusually great effort.
• 2. pour through a porous or perforated device or material in order to separate out any solid matter.

• a violent or sudden change or disruption to something
• disruption, disturbance

cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers

• 1. a large fire that is dangerously out of control.
• 2. hell

observer, spectator

A parable is a short and simple story that teaches a religious or moral lesson; fable, allegory

dying because of lack of oxygen

• a rough or noisy fight or quarrel
• fight, skirmish, scuffle, tussle, fray

• A sentence can be a group of words that communicate a complete thought, or it can be the punishment in a criminal case
• her husband is serving a three-year sentence for fraud

• a person who idles time away.
• idler, layabout,lounger, shirker,
• sluggard, laggard

• distant and cold in manner; unfriendly
• aloof, distant, detached, withdrawn, reserved

breathe with short, quick breaths, typically from exertion or excitement

a chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery.

• to give, provide with a quality, ability, or asset
• empower, endue, gift, indue, invest

A limerick is a humorous form of poetry that rhymes and has five lines. Many limericks are dirty.

The verb stymie means to obstruct or hinder.

overcome (a difficulty or obstacle)

an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.

• Rein is both a noun and a verb for guiding and restraining
• You can use the long strap, or rein, on a horse to control its speed and direction, and you can rein in your own tongue by closing your mouth.

• be in or move into a sloping position.
• he leaned back in his chair

• layer, thickness, strand, sheet, leaf
• a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material

• pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).
• simulate, fake, sham, affect

• fixed and absolute and without contingency
• not conditional

unwind is exactly what it sounds like — the opposite of "wind," or twist. But when someone says they need to unwind, they mean that they need to relax.

• 1. rabbit
• 2. run with great speed.

• control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
• inhibit, suppress

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• violent, uncontrollable anger.
• fury, anger, wrath, outrage, indignation, temper, spleen

To flunk is to do poorly on a test or in a class. One way to avoid flunking is to start studying several nights before a test.

• irritating inconvenience.
• inconvenience, bother, nuisance, struggle, difficulty

• provide or serve as clear evidence of
• his status is attested by his recent promotion