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adj. Having no fame or reputation.
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n. A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
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n. The son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection.
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v. To tell a story.
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n. The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
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n. An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
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n. One who narrates anything.
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adj. Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments.
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adj. Pertaining to the nose.
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n. A connection with a particular nation.
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adv. According to the usual order of things.
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n. An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
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v. To cause to loathe.
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adj. Loathsome.
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adj. Pertaining to ships, seamen, or navigation.
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adj. Pertaining to ships.
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n. The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
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adj. Capable of commercial navigation.
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v. To traverse by ship.
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n. A gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance
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adj. Indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
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v. To render indispensable.
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n. That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired.
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n. A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time.
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n. One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead.
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n. A city of the dead.
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n. the death of part of the body.
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n. Any especially sweet and delicious drink.
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n. A variety of the peach.
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n. Embroidery.
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adj. Being in need, want, or poverty.
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adj. Wicked in the extreme.
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v. To deny.
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n. The act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition.
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adj. Exhibiting or indicating omission.
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n. A loose gown worn by women.
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n. Omission of that which ought to be done.
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adj. Apt to omit what ought to be done.
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adj. Transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery.
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v. To bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property.
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n. A goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance.
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n. Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students.
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n. Modernized Latin.
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n. Government administered by new or untried persons.
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adj. Pertaining to the later stone age.
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n. The coining or using of new words or new meanings of words.
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n. A new or revived paganism.
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adj. Having the character of a beginner.
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v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
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adj. Recently hatched.
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v. To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
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n. Anything that presents a system of cross- lines.
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adj. Pertaining to the nerves or nervous system.
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n. The science of the nervous system.
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adj. Neither masculine nor feminine.
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adj. Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
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conj. Notwithstanding.
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adj. Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher.
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adj. Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
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n. An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
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n. Nothing
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adj. Light and quick in motion or action.
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n. The egg of a louse or some other insect.
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adj. Of or pertaining to the night.
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adj. Silent.
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adj. Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
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adj. Clamorous.
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adj. Having no fixed abode.
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adj. Usual or customary.
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adj. Trivial.
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v. To designate as a candidate for any office.
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n. The act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office.
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n. One who receives a nomination.
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n. One attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting.
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n. That which does not exist.
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adj. Not residing within a given jurisdiction.
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n. A state of mind indicating lack of interest.
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adj. Indescribable.
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n. A person or thing of little or no account.
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n. One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
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n. A model.
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n. The state of being normal.
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adj. Of or peculiar to dy, in northern France.
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n. Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
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adj. Perceptible.
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adj. Unfavorably known to the general public.
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n. A short novel.
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n. A beginner in any business or occupation.
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adv. In the present time or age.
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adv. In no place or state.
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adj. Hurtful.
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n. A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
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n. A central point or part about which matter is aggregated.
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adj. Naked.
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adj. Having no power or force.
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n. That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
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n. The act or art of reading or naming numbers.
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adj. Of or pertaining to number.
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n. A convent for nuns.
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adj. Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.
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n. The process of fostering or promoting growth.
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n. That which nourishes.
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adj. Having nutritious properties.