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n. A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
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v. To release from bondage.
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n. A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.
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n. A species of lyric poems.
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adj. Characterized by fairness.
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adj. Equal in value, force, meaning, or the like.
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v. To use words of double meaning.
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adj. Irregular.
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cera Latin. And so forth.
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adj. Relating to the development and improvement of race.
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n. A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted.
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adj. Characterized by agreeableness of sound.
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n. Agreeableness of sound.
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Greek. I have found it.
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v. To avoid by artifice.
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v. To vanish gradually.
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adj. Fleeting.
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n. Escape.
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v. To turn inside out.
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v. To dispossess pursuant to judicial decree.
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adj. Indicative.
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v. To make manifest or evident.
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v. To call or summon forth.
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n. Development or growth.
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v. To make more sharp, severe, or virulent.
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v. To overstate.
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v. To excite great anger in.
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v. To remove by digging or scooping out.
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v. To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc.
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v. To be superior or distinguished.
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n. Possession of eminently or unusually good qualities.
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n. A title of honor bestowed upon various high officials.
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adj. Possessing distinguished merit.
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n. An extract or selection from written or printed matter.
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n. That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience.
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n. An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
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n. The getting rid of waste matter.
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adj. Justifiable.
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adj. Fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation.
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v. To show by example.
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adj. Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
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v. To make an effort.
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v. To breathe forth.
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v. To empty by draining off the contents.
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adj. Causing or tending to cause exhaustion.
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n. Deprivation of strength or energy.
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adj. Thorough and complete in execution.
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v. To fill with high or cheerful spirits.
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n. Possession or continuance of being.
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v. To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame.
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n. Extravagance or enormity.
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v. To cast or drive out by religious or magical means.
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adj. Foreign.
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v. To increase in range or scope.
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n. Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case.
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adj. Contributing to personal advantage.
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v. To hasten the movement or progress of.
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v. To spend.
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n. The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength.
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v. To make satisfaction or amends for.
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v. To clear from involvement.
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adj. Definite.
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v. To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
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n. A sudden and violent outbreak.
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adj. Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak.
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n. Formal presentation.
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adj. Pertaining to a formal presentation.
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v. To discuss.
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n. An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass.
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adj. Full of meaning.
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n. Forcible ejection.
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adj. Still existing and known.
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adj. Done or made without much or any preparation.
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adv. Without studied or special preparation.
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adj. Capable of being thrust out.
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n. A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope.
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n. A muscle that causes extension.
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v. To diminish the gravity or importance of.
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n. That which is outside.
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n. Anything relating or belonging to the outside.
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adj. Being no longer in existence.
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v. To render extinct.
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v. To praise in the highest terms.
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v. To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity.
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n. The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
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v. To surrender the custody of.
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n. The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government.
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adj. Happening out of court.
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adj. Having no essential relation to a subject.
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adj. Unusual.
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n. Undue expenditure of money.
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adj. Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure.
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n. One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views.
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n. The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position.
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v. Disentangle.
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v. To drive out or away.
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n. Rich supply.
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adj. Marked by great plentifulness.