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