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revert |
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n. a subordinate member of a
diplomatic embassy |
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v. to stick together |
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n. forcible encroachment or
trespass |
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v. to return, or turn or look
back, as toward a former position or the like |
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manor |
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adj. guilty |
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adj. caused miraculously or by the
immediate exercise of divine power |
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n. a person or thing connected
with another, usually in some relation of
helpfulness |
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n. the landed estate of a lord or
nobleman |
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emblem |
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v. to clear away or provide for,
as an objection or difficulty |
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adj. involving or equivalent to
prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic
beverages |
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n. a symbol |
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adj. causing or tending to cause
exhaustion |
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minion |
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adj. understood |
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adj. melancholy |
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n. misfortune |
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n. a servile favorite |
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disyllable |
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n. a philanthropist |
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n. a word of two syllables |
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n. proverb |
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adj. irascible |
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legislate |
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adj. foolish |
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adj. veracious |
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n. the yielding to inclination,
passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or
another |
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v. to make or enact a law or
laws |
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batten |
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adj. being in an initial, early,
or incomplete stage of development |
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n. a narrow strip of wood |
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n. a single-colored napped woolen
fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc |
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v. to predict |
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reformer |
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n. a pavement or floor or any
supporting surface on which one may walk |
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n. a prominence |
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n. one who carries out a
reform |
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v. to cast into the shade or
render insignificant by comparison |
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velvety |
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adj. marked by lightness and
softness |
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v. to slander |
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n. a demon or monster that was
supposed to devour human beings |
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n. a brief treatise or essay,
usually on a subject of current interest |
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foresight |
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n. provision against harm or
need |
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n. a piece of bric-a-brac |
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n. the intellectual and moral
tendencies that characterize any age or epoch |
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n. a breaking up of a union of
persons |
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quandary |
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v. to deny oneself |
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n. a puzzling predicament |
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adj. small in quantity or
importance |
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adj. rude |
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oculist |
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n. an acknowledgment entered into
before a court with condition to do some
particular act |
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n. one versed or skilled in
treating diseases of the eye |
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n. helpful result |
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adj. conceited |
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mania |
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v. to throw down, push off, or
otherwise remove from a horse or the like |
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adj. doubtful |
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n. insanity |
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v. to misgovern |
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refute |
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adj. having the sails set for
sailing as close to the wind as possible |
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v. to prove to be wrong |
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v. to cause to become
frightened |
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n. luster |
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vicarious |
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adj. having no limit or end |
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adj. cone-bearing trees |
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adj. suffered or done in place of
or for the sake of another |
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n. harangue |
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ailment |
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v. to call or summon forth |
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v. to comfort |
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n. slight sickness |
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n. remorseful feeling |
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successful |
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n. the art of public speaking |
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adj. situated on the other side of
the Alps |
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adj. having reached a high degree
of worldly prosperity |
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n. vacillation |
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deleterious |
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adj. swollen |
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v. to make milder or more
endurable |
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adj. hurtful, morally or
physically |
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v. to bring out more clearly the
facts concerning |
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wholly |
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adj. having lost sparkling quality
and flavor |
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adv. completely |
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n. the act of turning or directing
inward, physically or mentally |
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n. a woman who has never been
married |
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concur |
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n. a scholar who makes needless
and inopportune display of his learning |
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v. to agree |
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v. to deprive of water |
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n. a figure with six angles |
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endemic |
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n. the theory that places man's
chief good in the completeness of self |
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adj. peculiar to some specified
country or people |
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n. proverb |
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n. the state of being dormant |
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impetuosity |
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adj. strictly observant of the
rules or forms prescribed by law or custom |
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n. the getting rid of waste
matter |
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n. rashness |
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v. to arouse, as emotion,
interest, or the like |
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gravity |
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n. one who or that which is only
of temporary existence |
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n. seriousness |
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n. one of three men united
coordinately in public office or authority |
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adj. noting a genus or kind;
opposed to specific |
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course |
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n. line of motion or
direction |
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n. the quality of being grand or
admirably great |
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n. a young cow |
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adj. returning from time to time,
especially at regular or stated intervals |
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wizen |
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v. to become or cause to become
withered or dry |
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adj. limited |
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n. the state of being joined
together, or the things so joined |
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n. one who uses or engages the
services of other persons for pay |
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vacate |
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n. one skilled in metaphysics |
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v. to leave |
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adj. capable of being pressed into
smaller compass |
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adj. pertaining to the mind or
soul |
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perspicacious |
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n. estrangement |
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n. sorcery |
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adj. astute |
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n. a restriction |
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obstetrician |
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n. a human skull as a symbol of
death |
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adj. lacking foresight or
thrift |
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v. to renounce (a right or
privilege) |
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n. a practitioner of
midwifery |
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wampum |
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adj. beginning |
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n. passage from one place,
condition, or action to another |
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adv. gradually |
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n. beads strung on threads,
formerly used among the American Indians as
currency |
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composure |
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n. patient endurance or toleration
of offenses |
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adj. not to be approved,
considered, or allowed, as testimony |
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n. calmness |
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adj. taking unlawful or exorbitant
interest on money loaned |
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reactionary |
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adj. expressing or causing sorrow
or pain |
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adj. pertaining to, of the nature
of, causing, or favoring reaction |
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n. a falling of the spirits |
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n. oppressive drowsiness |
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epic |
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adj. very great in degree, extent,
size, or quantity |
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n. a poem celebrating in formal
verse the mythical achievements of great
personages, heroes, etc |
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n. the property of combined
refraction and reflection of light, resulting in
smoky tints |
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n. a fossil reptile |
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beneficial |
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n. the common people |
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n. the act or process of
absorbing |
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adj. helpful |
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n. harshness or roughness of
temper |
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prudence |
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n. an eight-page newspaper of any
size |
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v. to wet or moisten |
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n. rapt or rapturous
utterance |
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n. caution |
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indolence |
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conj. even though |
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n. laziness |
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adj. changeable |
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v. to speak to |
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abbey |
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adj. beneficial |
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n. a ruler acting with royal
authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or
province |
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v. to equip with less than the
full complement of men |
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n. the group of buildings which
collectively form the dwelling-place of a society
of monks or nuns |
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compressible |
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n. a social party composed of
persons masked and costumed so as to be
disguised |
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n. subtle contrivance used to gain
a point |
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adj. capable of being pressed into
smaller compass |
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adj. lucid |
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sibilate |
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v. to give a hissing sound to, as
in pronouncing the letter s |
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n. a vehement appeal |
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n. the quality of frankness or
outspokenness |
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n. the face, countenance, or look
of a person |
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imbibe |
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adj. illogical |
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v. to drink or take in |
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adj. pertaining to ancient
times |
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v. to enlist men for military or
naval service |
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corporeal |
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adj. not harsh |
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n. slight sickness |
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v. to prevent or obstruct the
operation of |
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adj. of a material nature;
physical |
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