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| 1 | audible | (adjective) heard or perceptible by the ear; "he spoke in an audible whisper"
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| 2 | palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
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| 3 | digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" (verb) wander from a direct or straight course
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| 4 | dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" (verb) move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"; (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds" (verb) live a life or pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption
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| 5 | subsequent | (adjective) following in time or order; "subsequent developments"
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| 6 | Quixotic | (adjective satellite) not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"
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| 7 | Antichrist | (noun) (Christianity) the adversary of Christ (or Christianity) mentioned in the New Testament; the Antichrist will rule the world until overthrown by the Second Coming of Christ
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| 8 | tapestry | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs (noun) a heavy textile with a woven design; used for curtains and upholstery (noun) something that is felt to resemble a tapestry in its complexity; "the tapestry of European history"
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| 9 | apothecary | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
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| 10 | apposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors" (noun) (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material (noun) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows; "`Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer' is an example of apposition"
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| 11 | neural | (adjective) of or relating to neurons; "neural network" (adjective) of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder"
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| 12 | discriminate | (verb) recognize or perceive the difference (verb) distinguish; "I could not discriminate the different tastes in this complicated dish" (verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; "discriminate judgments"; "discriminate people" (adjective satellite) noting distinctions with nicety; "a discriminating interior designer"; "a nice sense of color"; "a nice point in the argument"
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| 13 | militarism | (noun) a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests
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| 14 | benignant | (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air" (adjective satellite) characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; "our benignant king"
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| 15 | descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race (adjective satellite) going or coming down
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| 16 | aperture | (noun) an man-made opening; usually small (noun) a device that controls amount of light admitted (noun) a natural opening in something
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| 17 | immerse | (verb) engross (oneself) fully; "He immersed himself into his studies" (verb) cause to be immersed; "The professor plunged his students into the study of the Italian text" (verb) thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water" (verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter"
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| 18 | tutelage | (noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
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| 19 | derivative | (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'" (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security (adjective satellite) resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"
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| 20 | grandeur | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand (noun) the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct
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| 21 | chameleon | (noun) lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue (noun) a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Apus and Mensa (noun) a changeable or inconstant person
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| 22 | altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These tewo fellows are always scrapping over something"
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| 23 | dolorous | (adjective satellite) showing sorrow
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| 24 | simile | (noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
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| 25 | eligible | (adjective) qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen; "eligible to run for office"; "eligible for retirement benefits"; "an eligible bachelor" (adjective satellite) prohibited by official rules; "an eligible pass receiver"
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| 26 | aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying
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| 27 | illicit | (adjective satellite) contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" (adjective) contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention; "an illicit association with his secretary"
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| 28 | facetious | (adjective satellite) cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice"
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| 29 | imperceptible | (adjective) impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses; "an imperceptible drop in temperature"; "an imperceptible nod"; "color is unperceivable to the touch"
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| 30 | toilsome | (adjective satellite) characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a
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| 31 | transience | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
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| 32 | subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence" (noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance (noun) a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
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| 33 | arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement"
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| 34 | duplex | (noun) an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase (noun) a house with two units sharing a common wall (adjective satellite) allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously; "duplex system"; "duplex telephony" (adjective satellite) (used technically of a device or process) having two parts; "a duplex transaction"
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| 35 | shrinkage | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store; "shrinkage is the retail trade's euphemism for shoplifting" (noun) the amount by which something shrinks (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller; "the material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage"
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| 36 | deject | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
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| 37 | uncommon | (adjective) not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind; "uncommon birds"; "frost and floods are uncommon during these months"; "doing an uncommon amount of business"; "an uncommon liking for money"; "he owed his (adjective satellite) marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree"
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| 38 | altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
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| 39 | protrusion | (noun) the act of projecting out from something (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
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| 40 | generally | (adverb) without distinction of one from others; "he is interested in snakes in general" (adverb) usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here" (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly"
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| 41 | frowzy | (adjective satellite) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"
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| 42 | truthful | (adjective) expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person" (adjective satellite) conforming to truth; "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement"
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| 43 | metonymy | (noun) substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')
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| 44 | transplant | (noun) the act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location; "the transplant was successful"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for plants" (noun) an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant" (noun) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient (verb) transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" (verb) place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" (verb) be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily"
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| 45 | mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed (noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic"
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| 46 | denude | (verb) lay bare; "denude a forest"
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| 47 | inhuman | (adjective satellite) belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises" (adjective satellite) without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
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| 48 | preoccupy | (verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively; "His work preoccupies him"; "The matter preoccupies her completley--she cannot think of anything else" (verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance; "the army preoccupied the hills"
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| 49 | solicitude | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern
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| 50 | plutocracy | (noun) a political system governed by the wealthy people
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| 51 | vegetarian | (noun) eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products
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