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alloy
to commigle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
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appropriate
to take for one's own use, confiscate
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arrest, arresting
to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
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august
majestic, venerable
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bent
leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
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broach
bring up, announce, begin to talk about
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brook
to tolerate, endure, countenance
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cardinal
major, as in cardinal sin
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chauvinist
a blindly devouted patriot
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color
to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect
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consequential
pompous, self-inportant
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damp
to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound
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die
a tool used for shaping, as a tool-and-die shop
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essay
to test or try; attemp, experiment
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exact
to demand, call for, require, take
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fell
- to cause to fall by striking
- inhumanly cruel
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flag
to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline
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flip
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant
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ford
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
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grouse
to complain or grumble
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guy
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy
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intimate
to imply, suggest, or insinutate
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list
to tilt or lean to one side
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lumber
to move heavily and clumsily
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milk
to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of
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mince
pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully. Also to take tiny steps, tiptoe
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nice
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
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obtain
to established, accepted, or customary
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occult
hidden, conceled, beyond comprehension
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pedestrian
commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
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pied
multicolored, usually in blotches
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pine
to lose vigor; to yearn
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pluck
courage, spunk, fortitude
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plastic
moldable, pliable, not rigid
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prize
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils
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rail
to complain about bitterly
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rent
torn, past of rend; an opening or tear
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quail
to lose courage, turn frightened
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sap
- to enervate or weaken the vitality of
- a fool or nitwit
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scurvy
contemptible, despicable
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singular
exceptional, unusual, odd
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steep
to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
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strut
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
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table
to remove from consideration
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tender
to proffer or offer
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waffle
to equivocate; to change one's position
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