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| 1 | specimen | (noun) a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis" (noun) an example regarded as typical of its class
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| 2 | foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
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| 3 | espy | (verb) catch sight of
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| 4 | exempt | (verb) grant exemption or release to; "Please excuse me from this class" (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" (adjective) (of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject; "a beauty somehow exempt from the aging process"; "exempt from jury duty"; "only the very poorest citizens should be exempt f (adjective) (of goods or funds) not subject to taxation; "the funds of nonprofit organizations are nontaxable"; "income exempt from taxation"
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| 5 | knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
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| 6 | provincial | (noun) a country person (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials" (adjective) characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes" (adjective) of or associated with a province; "provincial government"
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| 7 | arbitrary | (adjective) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of t
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| 8 | unbelief | (noun) a rejection of belief
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| 9 | coagulant | (noun) an agent that produces coagulation
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| 10 | beset | (verb) assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards" (verb) decorate or cover lavishly with gems (verb) annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"
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| 11 | plagiarism | (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own (noun) a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
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| 12 | inapt | (adjective satellite) not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
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| 13 | subjection | (noun) the act of conquering (noun) forced submission to control by others
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| 14 | reaction | (noun) doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism" (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age" (noun) an idea evoked by some experience; "his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do" (noun) extreme conservatism in political or social matters; "the forces of reaction carried the election" (noun) a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude; "he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance"; "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp" (noun) (mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body; "every action has an equal and opposite reaction" (noun) (chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others; "there was a chemical reaction of the lime with the ground water"
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| 15 | atrocious | (adjective satellite) provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" (adjective satellite) exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" (adjective satellite) shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
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| 16 | bauble | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing (noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester
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| 17 | unbearable | (adjective satellite) impossible to bear; "unbearable pain"; "unendurable agony"
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| 18 | perforate | (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation; "perforate the sheets of paper" (adjective satellite) having a hole cut through; "pierced ears"; "a perforated eardrum"; "a punctured balloon"
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| 19 | singe | (noun) a surface burn (verb) burn superficially or lightly; "I singed my eyebrows" (verb) become superficially burned; "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
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| 20 | canon | (noun) a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired (noun) a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church (noun) a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society" (noun) a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts (noun) a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall (noun) a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
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| 21 | darkling | (adjective satellite) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey" (adjective satellite) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish
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| 22 | component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" (noun) an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a s (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"
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| 23 | inaccurate | (adjective) not accurate; "an inaccurate translation"; "the thermometer is inaccurate" (adjective satellite) containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate" (adjective satellite) not precisely accurate; "an inexact quotation"
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| 24 | queue | (noun) a braid of hair at the back of the head (noun) (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted (noun) a line of people or vehicles waiting for something (verb) form a queue, form a line, stand in line; "Customers lined up in front of the store"
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| 25 | garrulous | (adjective satellite) full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"
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| 26 | ado | (noun) a rapid bustling commotion
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| 27 | ligature | (noun) the act of tying or binding things together (noun) something used to tie or bind (noun) thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood) (noun) a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone (noun) character consisting of two or more letters combined into one (noun) (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
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| 28 | exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of (verb) be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue"
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| 29 | evidential | (adjective satellite) serving as or based on evidence; "evidential signs of a forced entry"; "its evidentiary value"
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| 30 | durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time)
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| 31 | monitory | (adjective satellite) serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence"
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| 32 | locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb
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| 33 | prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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| 34 | monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea
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| 35 | finality | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled; "the finality of death"
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| 36 | insecure | (adjective) lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability" (adjective) lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future" (adjective) not firm or firmly fixed; likely to fail or give way; "the hinge is insecure" (adjective satellite) not financially safe or secure; "a bad investment"; "high risk investments"; "anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky"; "speculative business enterprises" (adjective satellite) not safe from attack
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| 37 | flamboyant | (noun) showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana (adjective satellite) richly and brilliantly colorful (adjective satellite) elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"
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| 38 | cull | (noun) the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality (verb) look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" (verb) remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd"
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| 39 | satire | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Johathan Swift
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| 40 | presentiment | (noun) a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
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| 41 | pestilence | (noun) a pernicious evil influence (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate
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| 42 | emigrant | (noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another
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| 43 | obliterate | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" (verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace (verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" (adjective satellite) reduced to nothingness
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| 44 | abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
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| 45 | calculable | (adjective) capable of being calculated or estimated; "a calculable risk"; "calculable odds"
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| 46 | defensive | (noun) an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive') (adjective) intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack; "defensive weapons"; "a defensive stance" (adjective satellite) attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing (adjective satellite) serving as or appropriate for defending or protecting; "defensive fortifications"; "defensive dikes to protect against floods"
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| 47 | gradation | (noun) the act of arranging in grades (noun) a degree of ablaut (noun) relative position in a graded series; "always a step behind"; "subtle gradations in color"; "keep in step with the fashions"
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| 48 | squabble | (noun) a quarrel about petty points (verb) argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
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| 49 | befriend | (verb) become friends with; "John and Eric soon became friends"; "Have you made friends yet in your new environment?"
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| 50 | witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
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| 51 | neophyte | (noun) a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist (noun) any new participant in some activity (noun) a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously
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| 52 | copious | (adjective satellite) affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" (adjective satellite) large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "extensive press coverage"; "a subject of voluminous legislation"
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| 53 | demulcent | (noun) a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin (adjective satellite) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
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| 54 | insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties
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