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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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