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1 gibe (noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker"

(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

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2 successful (adjective) having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome; "a successful architect"; "a successful business venture"

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3 propel (verb) cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship"

(verb) give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"

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4 liquefy (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied"

(verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver"

(verb) become liquid; "The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew"

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5 deprave (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

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6 geniality (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to)

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7 happy-go-lucky (adjective satellite) cheerfully irresponsible; "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"

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8 engrave (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup"

(verb) carve, cut, or etch a design or letters into; "engrave the pen with the owner's name"

(verb) carve, cut, or etch into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter"

(verb) impress or affect deeply; "The event engraved itself into her memory"

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9 reproduce (verb) have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be"

(verb) repeat after memorization; "For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information"

(verb) make a copy or equivalent of; "reproduce the painting"

(verb) recreate an idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. as by artistic means; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"

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10 intoxicate (verb) have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug

(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)

(verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"

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11 consonant (noun) a speech sound that is not a vowel

(noun) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant

(adjective satellite) in keeping; "salaries agreeable with current trends"; "plans conformable with your wishes"; "expressed views concordant with his background"

(adjective satellite) involving or characterized by harmony

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12 immense (adjective satellite) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base

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13 misanthropy (noun) a disposition to dislike and mistrust other people

(noun) hatred of mankind

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14 disburden (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from; "unburden the donkey"

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15 magnet (noun) (physics) a device that attracts iron and produces a magnetic field

(noun) a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees"

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16 potentate (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law

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17 thermoelectricity (noun) electricity produced by heat (as in a thermocouple)

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18 crucible (noun) a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

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19 estuary (noun) the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix

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20 viol (noun) any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family

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21 somnolence (noun) a very sleepy state; "sleepiness causes many driving accidents"

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22 agile (adjective satellite) moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"

(adjective satellite) mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits"

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23 irradiate (verb) expose to radiation; "irradiate food"

(verb) cast rays of light upon

(verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion

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24 wizen (adjective satellite) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered

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25 recognizance (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited

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26 outstrip (verb) be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"

(verb) go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners"

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27 disquiet (noun) the trait of seeming ill at ease

(noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments

(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"

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28 emergent (adjective satellite) coming into existence; "a nascent republic"

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29 submersion (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it

(noun) sinking until covered completely with water

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30 pauper (noun) a person who is very poor

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31 centiliter (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter

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32 narrow-minded (adjective) lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"

(adjective satellite) rigidly adhering to a particular sect or its doctrines

(adjective) capable of being shocked

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33 terminate (verb) bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI"

(verb) terminate the employment of; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony end

(verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"

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34 freethinker (noun) a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it

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35 promiscuous (adjective satellite) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women"; "wanton behavior"

(adjective satellite) not selective of a single class or person; "Clinton was criticized for his promiscuous solicitation of campaign money"

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36 incongruous (adjective) lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"

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37 induct (verb) introduce or initiate; "The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession"

(verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes

(verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"

(verb) admit as a member; "We were inducted into the honor society"

(verb) accept young people into society, usually with some rite; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty"

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38 differential (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves

(noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things

(noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx

(adjective) relating to or showing a difference; "differential treatment"

(adjective) involving or containing one or more derivatives; "differential equation"

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39 ambrosial (adjective satellite) worthy of the gods

(adjective satellite) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food"

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40 exposure (noun) the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience; "she denounced the exposure of children to pornography"

(noun) abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)

(noun) presentation to view in an open or public manner; "the exposure of his anger was shocking"

(noun) the act of exposing film to light

(noun) a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

(noun) vulnerability to the elements; to the action of heat or cold or wind or rain; "exposure to the weather" or "they died from exposure";

(noun) aspect re light or wind; "the studio had a northern exposure"

(noun) the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"

(noun) the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; "he used the wrong exposure"

(noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed; "his vulnerability to litigation"; "his exposure to ridicule"

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41 enigma (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

(noun) a difficult problem

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42 rescind (verb) annul by recalling or rescinding; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence"

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43 sympathize (verb) be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!"

(verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion

(verb) share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of

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44 intellect (noun) knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"

(noun) the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

(noun) a person who uses the mind creatively

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45 skiff (noun) any of various small boats propelled by oars or by sails or by a motor

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46 conjunction (noun) something that joins or connects

(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable"

(noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

(noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

(noun) the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction

(noun) the state of being joined together

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47 mettlesome (adjective satellite) willing to face danger

(adjective satellite) having a proud and unbroken spirit

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48 effervescent (adjective satellite) marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "sparkling conversation"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"

(adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles

(adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide; "sparkling wines"; "sparkling water"

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49 ingraft (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

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50 forgo (verb) refrain from consuming; "You will have to forgo alcohol"

(verb) lose or lose the right to by some error, offense, or crime

(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"

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