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| wag (n.) |
wit, joker: Groucho Marx was a well-known wag. |
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| waffle (v.) |
to equivocate; to change one's position: His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind. |
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| tender (v.) |
to proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation. |
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| table (v.) |
to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later. |
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| strut (n.) |
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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| steep (v.) |
to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep: She was steeped in esoteric knowledge. |
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| stand (n.) |
a group of trees |
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| singular (adj.) |
exceptional, unusual, odd: He was singularly well-suited for the job. |
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| scurvy (adj.) |
contemptible, despicable: He was a scurvy old reprobate. |
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| sap (n.) |
a fool or nitwit: Don't be a sap! |
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| sap (v.) |
to enervate or weaken the vitality of: That race sapped my strength. |
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| qualify (v.) |
to limit: Let me qualify that statement |
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| quail (v.) |
to lose courage, turn frightened |
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| rent (v./n.) |
torn, past of rend: He rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such: a large rent in the fabric. |
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| rail (v.) |
to complain about bitterly: Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons. |
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| prize (v.) |
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him. |
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| pluck (n.) |
courage, spunk, fortitude: Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war. |
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| plastic (adj.) |
moldable, pliable, not rigid |
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| pine (v.) |
to lose vigor (as though grief); to earn |
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| pied (adj.) |
multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat. |
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| pedestrian (adj.) |
commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
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| occult (adj.) |
hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
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| obtain (adj.) |
to be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards no longer obtain. |
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| nice (adj.) |
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between the two cases. |
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| mince (v.) |
pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don't mince words. Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe |
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| milk (v.) |
to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of: I milked the position for all it was worth. |
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| meet (adj.) |
fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jacking Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame. |
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| lumber (v.) |
to move heavily and clumsily: Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers. |
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| list (v.) |
a tilt or lean to one side: The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind |
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| intimate (v.) |
to imply, suggest, or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted? |
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| guy (n./v.) |
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide. |
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| grouse (v.) |
to complain or grumble |
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| ford (v.) |
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| flip (adj.) |
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark |
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| flag (v.) |
to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits |
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| fell |
v. to cause to fall by striking: The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees. |
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| exact (v.) |
to demand, call for, require, take: Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price. |
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| essay (v.) |
to test or try; attempt, experiment: The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps |
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| die |
n. a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
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| damp |
v. to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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| consequential |
adj. pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important) |
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| color (v.) |
to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth. |
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| chauvinist |
n. a blindly devoted patriot |
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| cardinal |
adj. major, as in cardinal sin |
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| brook |
v. to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| broach |
v. bring up, announce, begin to talk about |
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| bent |
n. leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: He had a naturally artistic bent |
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| august |
adj. majestic, venerable |
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| arrest, arresting |
v./adj. to suspend; to engage; holding one's attentions: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait |
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| appropriate (v.) |
to take for one's own use, confiscate |
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| alloy |
v. to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure |
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