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Lets go! prudence n. an eight-page newspaper of any size v. to wet or moisten n. caution n. rapt or rapturous utterance None deleterious v. to make milder or more endurable adj. hurtful, morally or physically v. to bring out more clearly the facts concerning adj. swollen None quandary n. a puzzling predicament adj. small in quantity or importance v. to deny oneself adj. rude None velvety n. a brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest n. a demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings v. to slander adj. marked by lightness and softness None vicarious adj. cone-bearing trees adj. having no limit or end n. harangue adj. suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another None reactionary adj. expressing or causing sorrow or pain adj. pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction n. a falling of the spirits n. oppressive drowsiness None abbey n. the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns v. to equip with less than the full complement of men adj. beneficial n. a ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province None compressible adj. capable of being pressed into smaller compass adj. lucid n. subtle contrivance used to gain a point n. a social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised None perspicacious n. a restriction n. sorcery n. estrangement adj. astute None imbibe v. to drink or take in adj. illogical v. to enlist men for military or naval service adj. pertaining to ancient times None oculist n. one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye n. helpful result adj. conceited n. an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act None ailment n. slight sickness v. to call or summon forth n. remorseful feeling v. to comfort None indolence conj. even though v. to speak to n. laziness adj. changeable None composure adj. taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned n. calmness adj. not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony n. patient endurance or toleration of offenses None revert n. forcible encroachment or trespass n. a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy v. to return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like v. to stick together None mania v. to throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like adj. doubtful v. to misgovern n. insanity None concur n. a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning v. to agree v. to deprive of water n. a figure with six angles None wampum n. passage from one place, condition, or action to another n. beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency adj. beginning adv. gradually None beneficial adj. helpful n. the act or process of absorbing n. harshness or roughness of temper n. the common people None obstetrician n. a human skull as a symbol of death adj. lacking foresight or thrift n. a practitioner of midwifery v. to renounce (a right or privilege) None impetuosity n. rashness v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like n. the getting rid of waste matter adj. strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom None epic adj. very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity n. a fossil reptile n. a poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc n. the property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints None endemic n. the theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self adj. peculiar to some specified country or people n. proverb n. the state of being dormant None legislate adj. foolish n. the yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another adj. veracious v. to make or enact a law or laws None refute v. to cause to become frightened n. luster adj. having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible v. to prove to be wrong None manor n. a person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness n. the landed estate of a lord or nobleman adj. caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power adj. guilty None batten adj. being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc n. a narrow strip of wood v. to predict None minion adj. understood adj. melancholy n. a servile favorite n. misfortune None gravity n. one of three men united coordinately in public office or authority adj. noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific n. one who or that which is only of temporary existence n. seriousness None disyllable n. a word of two syllables n. proverb n. a philanthropist adj. irascible None successful adj. having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity n. the art of public speaking adj. situated on the other side of the Alps n. vacillation None wizen v. to become or cause to become withered or dry adj. limited n. one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay n. the state of being joined together, or the things so joined None vacate adj. capable of being pressed into smaller compass v. to leave adj. pertaining to the mind or soul n. one skilled in metaphysics None wholly n. the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally adj. having lost sparkling quality and flavor adv. completely n. a woman who has never been married None foresight n. a piece of bric-a-brac n. the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch n. provision against harm or need n. a breaking up of a union of persons None emblem adj. involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages n. a symbol adj. causing or tending to cause exhaustion v. to clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty None sibilate n. the face, countenance, or look of a person n. the quality of frankness or outspokenness v. to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s n. a vehement appeal None corporeal adj. not harsh adj. of a material nature; physical n. slight sickness v. to prevent or obstruct the operation of None reformer v. to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison n. one who carries out a reform n. a prominence n. a pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk None course n. the quality of being grand or admirably great n. line of motion or direction adj. returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals n. a young cow None Please enter the details so we can send you the results. 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