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| 1 | alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" (verb) make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" (verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby (verb) make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered"
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| 2 | entangle | (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" (verb) entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
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| 3 | beneficiary | (noun) the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause (noun) the recipient of funds or other benefits (adjective) having or arising from a benefice; "a beneficiary baron"
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| 4 | repine | (verb) express discontent
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| 5 | compulsory | (adjective satellite) required by rule; "in most schools physical education are compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"
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| 6 | originate | (verb) bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" (verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta"
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| 7 | eulogy | (noun) a formal expression of praise
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| 8 | indefensible | (adjective satellite) incapable of being justified or explained (adjective satellite) (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified
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| 9 | coincidence | (noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" (noun) the quality of occupying the same position or area in space; "he waited for the coincidence of the target and the cross hairs" (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental
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| 10 | objector | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy
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| 11 | trinity | (noun) three people considered as a unit (noun) the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
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| 12 | dolor | (noun) (poetry) painful grief
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| 13 | adumbrate | (verb) give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas"
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| 14 | taxation | (noun) the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state (noun) government income due to taxation (noun) charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
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| 15 | didactic | (adjective satellite) instructive (especially excessively)
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| 16 | athwart | (adverb) at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face" (adverb) at right angles to the center line of a ship
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| 17 | treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal (noun) betrayal of a trust
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| 18 | jaundice | (noun) a sharp and bitter manner (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice (verb) distort adversely; "Jealousy had jaundiced his judgment"
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| 19 | mien | (noun) dignified manner or conduct
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| 20 | hoarse | (adjective satellite) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson
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| 21 | heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion (noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position
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| 22 | hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
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| 23 | errant | (adjective satellite) uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze" (adjective satellite) straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"
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| 24 | birthright | (noun) personal characteristics that are inherited at birth (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth; "free public education is the birthright of every American child" (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
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| 25 | dilate | (verb) become wider; "His pupils were dilated" (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
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| 26 | peninsular | (adjective) of or forming or resembling a peninsula; "peninsular isolation"
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| 27 | anecdote | (noun) short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
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| 28 | exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink (exhilarate is obsolete in this usage); "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success"
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| 29 | misplace | (verb) place or position wrongly; put in the wrong position; "misplaced modifiers" (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
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| 30 | operetta | (noun) a short amusing opera
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| 31 | refractory | (noun) lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace (adjective satellite) resistant to authority or control; "as refractory as a mule" (adjective satellite) stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" (adjective satellite) marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius" (adjective satellite) not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"
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| 32 | sentient | (adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence (adjective satellite) consciously perceiving; "sentient of the intolerable load"; "a boy so sentient of his surroundings"- W.A.White
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| 33 | affix | (noun) a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form (verb) attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes afix to the stem" (verb) add to the very end; "He appended a glossary to his novel where he used an invented language" (verb) attach to; "affix the seal here"
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| 34 | deposition | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office (noun) the act of putting something somewhere (noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually done in a lawyer's office (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
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| 35 | telescope | (noun) a magnifier of images of distant objects (verb) make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play" (verb) crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"
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| 36 | dishonest | (adjective satellite) capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" (adjective) deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive (adjective satellite) lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer" (adjective satellite) lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable
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| 37 | forgery | (noun) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud (noun) a copy that is represented as the original
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| 38 | invariable | (adjective) not liable to or capable of change; "an invariable temperature"; "an invariable rule"; "his invariable courtesy"
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| 39 | acumen | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight (noun) a tapering point
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| 40 | incandescence | (noun) light from heat (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
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| 41 | debut | (noun) the act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line" (noun) the presentation of a debutante in society (verb) appear for the first time in public; "The new ballet that debuts next months at Covent Garden, is already sold out" (verb) make one's debut; "This young soprano debuts next months at the Metropolitan Opera" (verb) present for the first time to the public; "The and debuts a new song or two each month"
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| 42 | prurient | (adjective satellite) characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"
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| 43 | diabolic | (adjective satellite) extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "in (adjective satellite) showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye"
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| 44 | Renaissance | (noun) the revival of learning and culture (noun) the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries
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| 45 | belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues" (verb) express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" (verb) belittle; "Don't belittle his influence"
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| 46 | donor | (noun) person who makes a gift of property (noun) (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
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| 47 | arrogant | (adjective satellite) having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"
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| 48 | excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses; "he looked forward to the excitements of the day" (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation"
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| 49 | transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) (noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech; "he read a transcript of the interrogation"; "you can obtain a transcript of this radio program by sending a self-addressed envelope to the station
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| 50 | flimsy | (noun) a thin strong light-weight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies (adjective satellite) having little substance or significance; "a flimsy excuse"; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot" (adjective satellite) lacking solidity or strength; "a flimsy table"; "flimsy construction"; "a fragile link with the past" (adjective satellite) resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls" (adjective satellite) very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"
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