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obscure
hidden by darkness, not readily understood
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sufficient
enough to meet the needs of a situation
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entreated
- asked sincerely, begged
- "whereupon I earnestly entreated the Lord"
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melancholy
- sad, sorrowful
- "in that melancholy time"
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appease
- calm, satisfy
- "they have done nothing in the least to appease"
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incensed
- angered, enraged
- "of an inceased God"
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constitution
- physical condition
- "the good state of your bodily constitution"
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abhors
- scorns, hates
- "some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you"
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ascribed
- regarded as coming from a certain cause
- "It is to be ascribed to nothing else"
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consternation
- confusion resulting from fear of shock
- "...threw me into the greatest consternation"
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improvident
- careless, not providing for the future
- "thus falling victims to the improvident avarice"
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avarice
- greed
- "thus falling victims to the improvident avarice"
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prodigious
- great/expansive
- "there is prodigious danger"
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conjure
- to call forth with a spell
- "We'd only be whipped for conjuring the boys"
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pretense
a mask, pretend, false
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