 | Term | Definition |
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venturesome |
adventurous, risky, daring |
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abate |
to lessen in amount, intensity or strength |
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cultivate |
to promote growth, to nurture |
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emissary |
a person sent on a mission to represent another |
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juxtapose |
to put side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast |
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frolic |
to behave playfully and without inhibition |
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gargantuan |
of huge size or capacity |
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bawdy |
indecent or humorously coarse; lawd |
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hapless |
unfortunate; unlucky |
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vacuous |
lacking substance or intelligence |
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tumult |
a great commotion or uproar |
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dogma |
a specific set of ideas or beliefs, esp. religious or asserted to be absollutely true |
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quiver |
to shake; to tremble from fear or cold |
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benediction |
blessing |
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prototype |
the original model; someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class |
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waver |
to be uncertain of something; to sway |
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conjure |
to summon or inlfuence, by or as if by magic |
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calamity |
an event causing extreme trouble and misery |
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surrogate |
a substitute |
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revel |
to delight, to enjoy |
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conceity |
a fanciful idea of image |
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vertiginous |
causing dizziness, as from spinnig or height |
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unfledged |
not yet grown; immature; |
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contentious |
always ready to argue; quarrelsome |
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accost |
to approach and speak to |
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laity |
all the people not belonging to a given profession |
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cotorie |
a small. often excusive group of people who associate with one another frequently |
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wizened |
wrinkled from againg |
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altercation |
a heated or noisy argument |
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transcend |
to exceed; to go beyond some people |
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imposing |
impressive as power the number 25 |
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allure |
the power to attract with something desirable |
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allure |
the power to attract about what one says or does |
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deude |
to make some believe something that we cannot get |
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trenchant |
keen and forceful; caustic |
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regress |
to return to a previous state |
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adamant |
stubbronly unyiedling |
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agenda |
a list of things to be done |
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corps |
a group of working people |
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defunct |
having ceased to exist or live |
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finite |
measurable; having an end |
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underwine |
to weaken |
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boisterous |
noisy and wild; unrully |
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ameliorate |
to improve; to become better |
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anesthesia |
drugs that cause this state |
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encomium |
high praise |
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dogged |
refusing to give up despite this state |
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abase |
to lower in rank |
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rationalize |
to come up with self-satisfying but incorrect excuses |
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posit |
to assume as a fact or peinxipL |
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