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| 1 | heterogeneous | (adjective) originating outside the body (adjective) consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous"
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| 2 | needlework | (noun) work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle (noun) a creation created or assembled by needle and thread
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| 3 | folio | (noun) a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages; "the first folio of Shakespeare's plays" (noun) a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book) (noun) the system of numbering pages
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| 4 | ensnare | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes" (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap; "I was set up!"; "The innocent man was framed by the police"
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| 5 | bacterium | (noun) (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants
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| 6 | Arthurian | (adjective) of or relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
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| 7 | indispensable | (adjective satellite) unavoidable; "the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state" (adjective) not to be dispensed with; essential; "foods indispensable to good nutrition" (adjective satellite) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
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| 8 | brine | (noun) a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling (noun) water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater" (verb) soak in brine
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| 9 | blaze | (noun) noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" (noun) a light-colored marking; "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes" (noun) great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color" (noun) a cause of difficulty and suffering; "war is hell"; "go to blazes" (noun) a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly" (verb) indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail" (verb) shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men" (verb) move rapidly and as if blazing; "The spaceship blazed out into space" (verb) burn brightly and intensely; "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze" (verb) shine brightly and intensively; "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"
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| 10 | inchoative | (adjective satellite) beginning to develop; "inchoative stages"
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| 11 | mischievous | (adjective satellite) badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy" (adjective satellite) deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods" (adjective satellite) naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"
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| 12 | impute | (verb) attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" (verb) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
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| 13 | efficiency | (noun) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did the work with great efficiency" (noun) the ratio of the output to the input of any system
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| 14 | persiflage | (noun) light teasing
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| 15 | ill-natured | (adjective) having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; "an ill-natured disagreeable old man"
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| 16 | precursor | (noun) an indication of the approach of something or someone (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another (noun) a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction)
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| 17 | pedagogue | (noun) someone who educates young people
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| 18 | gentile | (noun) in this sense `Gentile' denotes a Christian as contrasted with a Jew; `goy' is a derogatory word for Christians used by Jews (noun) a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your God (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples
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| 19 | nutriment | (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body
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| 20 | idiom | (noun) the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom" (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language (noun) an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up (noun) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"
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| 21 | raucous | (adjective satellite) unpleasantly loud and harsh (adjective satellite) disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"
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| 22 | recapture | (noun) the act of taking something back (noun) a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount (verb) capture again; "recapture the escaped prisoner" (verb) take up anew; "The author recaptures an old idea here" (verb) experience anew; "She could not recapture that feeling of happiness" (verb) take back by force, as after a battle; "The military forces managed to recapture the fort"
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| 23 | nocturnal | (adjective) belonging to or active during the night; "nocturnal animals are active at night"; "nocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day" (adjective satellite) of or during or relating to the night; "a nocturnal journey"; "nocturnal stillness"; "nocturnal predators" (adjective) of or relating to or occurring in the night; "nocturnal darkness"
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| 24 | undermine | (verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks" (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war"
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| 25 | enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion (verb) make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal"
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| 26 | terminal | (noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods (noun) a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display (adjective satellite) causing or ending in or approaching death; "a terminal patient"; "terminal cancer" (adjective satellite) occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave" (adjective satellite) being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable" (adjective) relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time; "terminal examinations"; "terminal payments" (adjective) of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route; "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal charges"
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| 27 | annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel"
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| 28 | exhaustive | (adjective satellite) very thorough; exhaustively complete; "an exhaustive study"; "made a thorough search"; "thoroughgoing research"
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| 29 | reprehensible | (adjective satellite) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
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| 30 | viola | (noun) a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower (noun) large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions (noun) any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
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| 31 | subservience | (noun) abject or cringing submissiveness (noun) in a subservient state (noun) the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan"
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| 32 | collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes (noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) (noun) a person who collects things
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| 33 | abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
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| 34 | incisor | (noun) a tooth for cutting or gnawing; located in the front of the mouth in both jaws
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| 35 | rebellious | (adjective satellite) discontented as toward authority (adjective satellite) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; "the rebelling confederacy" (adjective satellite) resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"
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| 36 | demagnetize | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of); "demagnetize the iron shavings"; "they degaussed the ship" (verb) erase (a magnetic storage device)
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| 37 | opaque | (adjective) not clear; not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays" (adjective satellite) not clearly understood or expressed
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| 38 | enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude; "Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century"
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| 39 | competitive | (adjective satellite) showing a fighting disposition without self-seeking; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy" (adjective satellite) subscribing to capitalistic competition (adjective) involving competition or competitiveness; "competitive games"; "to improve one's competitive position"
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| 40 | dauntless | (adjective satellite) invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
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| 41 | gastric | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach; "gastric ulcer"
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| 42 | preternatural | (adjective satellite) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley (adjective satellite) surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"- George Will
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| 43 | interlude | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) performed between the sections of another performance (noun) an intervening period or episode (verb) perform an interlude; "The guitar player interluded with a beautiful improvisation"
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| 44 | mechanics | (noun) the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" (noun) the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference
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| 45 | retrace | (verb) reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" (verb) to go back over again; "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
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| 46 | calumny | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name (noun) a malicious attack
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| 47 | surrogate | (noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others (noun) someone who takes the place of another person (adjective satellite) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"
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| 48 | transfusion | (noun) the action of pouring a liquid from one vessel to another (noun) the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
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| 49 | bodice | (noun) part of a dress above the waist
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| 50 | insular | (adjective satellite) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners" (adjective satellite) suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"
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| 51 | antique | (noun) any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity (noun) an elderly man (verb) give an antique appearance to; "antique furniture" (verb) shop for antiques; "We went antiquing on Saturday" (adjective satellite) out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" (adjective satellite) belonging to or lasting from times long ago; "age-old customs"; "the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness" (adjective satellite) made in or typical of earlier times and valued for its age; "the beautiful antique French furniture"
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| 52 | diurnal | (adjective satellite) having a daily cycle or occurring every day; "diurnal rhythms"; "diurnal rotation of the heavens"; "the diurnal slumber of bats" (adjective) belonging to or active during the day; "diurnal animals are active during the day"; "diurnal flowers are open during the day and closed at night"
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| 53 | placate | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
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