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| 1 | handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand; "handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis" (noun) something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible"
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| 2 | ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
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| 3 | intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy (noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience (noun) new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome" (noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" (noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
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| 4 | bier | (noun) a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial (noun) a coffin along with its stand; "we followed the bier to the graveyard"
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| 5 | animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval
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| 6 | imperil | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
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| 7 | unnatural | (adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression (adjective satellite) distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" (adjective) not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death"
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| 8 | embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" (verb) represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" (verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
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| 9 | advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service (verb) make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" (verb) give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said"
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| 10 | disconnect | (noun) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy" (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten (verb) of electrical appliances
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| 11 | acquaint | (verb) inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move" (verb) make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings" (verb) cause to come to know personally; "permit me to acquaint you with my son"; "introduce the new neighbors to the community"
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| 12 | overture | (noun) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances" (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner"
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| 13 | palate | (noun) the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
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| 14 | counterfeit | (noun) a copy that is represented as the original (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"
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| 15 | stringent | (adjective satellite) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures"
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| 16 | conveyance | (noun) the act of transporting something from one location to another (noun) act of transferring property title from one person to another (noun) something that serves as a means of transportation (noun) the transmission of information (noun) document effecting a property transfer
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| 17 | dispel | (verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings; "Drive away potential burglars"; "drive away bad thoughts"; "dispel doubts"; "The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers" (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
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| 18 | philanthropy | (noun) voluntary promotion of human welfare
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| 19 | decagon | (noun) a polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles
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| 20 | shiftless | (adjective satellite) lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a shiftless way"
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| 21 | reconcilable | (adjective) capable of being reconciled; "her way of thinking is reconcilable with mine"
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| 22 | comparable | (adjective) able to be compared or worthy of comparison (adjective satellite) conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year"
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| 23 | callosity | (noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)
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| 24 | veracious | (adjective satellite) precisely accurate; "a veracious account" (adjective satellite) habitually speaking the truth; "an honest man"; "a veracious witness"
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| 25 | stallion | (noun) uncastrated adult male horse
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| 26 | obsolete | (adjective satellite) no longer in use; "obsolete words" (adjective satellite) old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"
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| 27 | interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others; "He should interact more with his colleagues"
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| 28 | statute | (noun) an act passed by a legislative body
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| 29 | oaken | (adjective satellite) consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; "a solid oak table"; "the old oaken bucket"
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| 30 | jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do (noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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| 31 | negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances (noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
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| 32 | possess | (verb) have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" (verb) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill; "he possesses great knowledge about the Middle East" (verb) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas; "What possessed you to buy this house?"; "A terrible rage possessed her"
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| 33 | correlative | (noun) either of two correlated variables (adjective satellite) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation; "correlative conjunctions" (adjective satellite) mutually related
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| 34 | difference | (noun) the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; "there are many differences between jazz and rock" (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" (noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" (noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend (noun) a significant change; "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference"
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| 35 | defalcate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
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| 36 | fledgling | (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying (noun) any new participant in some activity (adjective satellite) young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"
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| 37 | futurist | (noun) someone who predicts the future (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) will be fulfilled in the future (adjective) of or relating to futurism; "futurist art"
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| 38 | paralysis | (noun) loss of the ability to move a body part
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| 39 | disagree | (verb) be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions" (verb) be different from one another
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| 40 | caustic | (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue (adjective satellite) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action (adjective satellite) harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts
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| 41 | egregious | (adjective satellite) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
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| 42 | mendicant | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging (noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms (adjective satellite) practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"
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| 43 | volition | (noun) the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" (noun) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith
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| 44 | dragnet | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths (noun) a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet"
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| 45 | disfigure | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
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| 46 | repugnant | (adjective satellite) offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
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| 47 | arboretum | (noun) a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition
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| 48 | neuter | (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) (verb) remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" (adjective) of grammatical gender; "`it' is the third-person singular neuter pronoun" (adjective satellite) having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs
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| 49 | crevasse | (noun) a deep fissure
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| 50 | conquer | (verb) to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" (verb) overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country" (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle"
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| 51 | magistracy | (noun) the position of magistrate
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| 52 | sanctimonious | (adjective satellite) excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
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| 53 | exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency" (noun) a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency"
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| 54 | diplomatist | (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations
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| 55 | prefix | (noun) an affix that added in front of the word (verb) attach a prefix to; "prefixed words"
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