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approbation
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approval; commendation.
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gall
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impudence; effrontery.
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copulation
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sexual intercourse.
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consonance
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accord or agreement.
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bile
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ill temper; peevishness.
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groused
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to grumble; complain:
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dross
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waste matter; refuse.
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reconnaissance
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the act of reconnoitering.
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evanescent
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vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
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perturbation
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the act of perturbing.
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mulling
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to study or ruminate; ponder.
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demented
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to make mad or insane.
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lascivious
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inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd:
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decorous
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characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
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sanction
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authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
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maudlin
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tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental:
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irked
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to irritate, annoy, or exasperate:
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homely
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lacking in physical attractiveness; not beautiful; unattractive:
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sidle
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to move sideways or obliquely.
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plutocrat
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a member of a plutocracy.
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deranged
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to throw into disorder; disarrange.
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amiable
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having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; friendly, sociable
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circumspect
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watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent:
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adroit
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cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious:
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taut
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tightly drawn; tense; not slack.
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abomination
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anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred.
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blasphemy
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impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
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bellicose
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inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
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bicameral
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having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body.
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perspicacious
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having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning:
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jurisprudence
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the science or philosophy of law.
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objurgate
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to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply.
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ostentatious
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characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others:
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ramshackle
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loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky:
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contrite
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caused by or showing sincere remorse.
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emblem
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an object or its representation, symbolizing a quality, state, class of persons, etc.; symbol:
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aphorism
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a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord Acton).
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xenophobe
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a person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs, etc.
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obsess
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To dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of a person; beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally:
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sonnet
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a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of
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visage
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the face, usually with reference to shape, features, expression, etc.; countenance.
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perjury
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the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
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perturb
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to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
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predilection
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a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference:
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resonance
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the state or quality of being resonant.
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pantomime
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the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
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utopia
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An imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More039;s Utopia 1516 as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
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imbue
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to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc.:
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abdicate
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to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, esp. in a formal manner:
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copiously
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large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful:
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convalesce
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to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health.
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betroth
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To arrange for the marriage of; affiance usually used in passive constructions:
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heathen
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an unconverted individual of a people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim; pagan.
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fretted
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to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like:
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concise
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expressing or covering much in few words; brief in form but comprehensive in scope; succinct; terse:
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circumlocution
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a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
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impotence
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the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
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lacerations
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the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
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emphatic
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uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
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lyric poetry
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individual speaker expresses what he or she feels, perceives, and thinks; although usual point of view is first
person, it is important to distinguish the “I” of the speaker from that of the actual poet; however close the speaker may seem
to be to the poe
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magnanimous
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generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness:
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innate
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existing in one from birth; inborn; native:
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antebellum
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before or existing before the war, esp. the American Civil War.
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denotation
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the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a languag
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stanza
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an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
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couplet
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a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
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apostrophe
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The sign 039;, as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o039;er for over, or pronounced, as in gov039;t for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in man039;s; or to indicate plurals of abbre
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usurped
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To seize and hold a position, office, power, etc. by force or without legal right:
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aberration
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the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course.
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acquiescence
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The act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance usually fol. by to or in:
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understatement
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to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms:
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caesura
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A break, esp. a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself acirc;euro;ndash; presume not God to scan.
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ramparts
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a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet.
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braggart
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a person who does a lot of bragging.
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festoon
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a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
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obtrude
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To thrust something forward or upon a person, esp. without warrant or invitation:
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excise
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an internal tax or duty on certain commodities, as liquor or tobacco, levied on their manufacture, sale, or consumption within the country.
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precede
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to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
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marauded
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to roam or go around in quest of plunder; make a raid for booty:
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obliterate
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to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
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bedlam
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a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
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emulate
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to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass:
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ecclesiastical
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of or pertaining to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
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ebb
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The flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea
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enjambment
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the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break.
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dais
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a raised platform, as at the front of a room, for a lectern, throne, seats of honor, etc.
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perforate
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to make a hole or holes through by boring, punching, piercing, or the like.
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
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internal rhyme
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a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse.
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