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Piqued
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n.resentment at being ignored or treated impolitel; ruffled pride.
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Hypochondriac
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n. having anxiety over one's health so great that one many become very depressed. 2. Imagine oneself to have an illnes
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Congenial
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adj. similar;compatible. 2 haveing the same tasts and temperment; sympathetic; agreeable
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Industrious
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adj. characterized by industries. 2. hardworking
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Coquettish
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adj. a girl or woman who tries to get men to notice or admire her; a flirt.
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Lenient
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adj. not harsh or severe in discipling, punishing, judging. 2. mild, merciful
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Fatuous
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adj. stupid or foolish in a smug or complacent way
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Hypercritical
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adj. Too critical; hard to please
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Incoherent
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adj. lacking cohesion; not sticking together. 2. not logically connectel disjointed. 3. using speech or though in a non understandable way
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Fatalistic
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adj. the belief that all events are determined by fate and cannot be prevented from happening. 2. acceptance of every even as something that cannot be avoided.
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Superfluous
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adj. being more then is needed or wanted; excessive. 2. not needed; unnessary
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Oppresive
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adj. hard to put up with; burdensome. 2. cruel and unjust; harsh. 3. weighing heavily on the mind.
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Vile
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adj. morally base or evil; wicked. 2. repulsive; disgusting. 3. degrading; low. 4. extremely disagreeable or inferior; very bad.
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Clandestine
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adj. charactrerized by, done in, or exceuted with secrecy or concealment; sureptitious
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Tedious
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adj. markeed by tedium; long and tiresome. 2. wordy as to cause weariness or boredom.
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Indignation
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n. strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger
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Blithely
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adj. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful. 2. without thought or regard; carefree; heedless.
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Livid
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adj. having a discolored, bluish apperance casued by bruise, congestion of blood vessels. 2. enraged, furiously angry.
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Meditative
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adj. given to, characterized by, or indictive of medication, contemplative. 2, deep in thought
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Unadulterated
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adj. not diluted or made impure by adulterating.;pure.
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Conspicuous
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adj. easy to see or percieve; obvious. 2. attracting attention by being outstanding; striking.
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Mercurial
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adj. of Mercury (the god or the planet). 2. of or containg mercury. 3. caused by the use of mercury.
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Unabashed
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adj. opposite of to make ill at ease or make ashamed
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Insufferable
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adj. not sufferable, hard to put up with; unbearable
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Meticulous
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adj. very careful or too careful about detail; scrupulous or finiky.
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Fatalist
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n. the belieft that all events are determined by fate and cannoth be prevented from happenining.
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Ostentatiously
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adv. showing off, as of wealth, knowlege, etc. pretentiousness.
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Rucksack
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n. a kind of knapsack
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Capitulation
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n. a statement of the main parts of a subject. 2. a capitulating; surrender on certain conditions. 3. a document containing terms of surrender
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Portly
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adj. large and heavy in a dignified or statley way. 2. stout; fate
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Carillon
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n. a set of stationary bells, each produsing a different tone, used in playing melodies by means of a key board.2 a melody played on such bells. 3. an organ producing a sound like that of such bells.
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Black market
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n. a place or system for selling illegally, esp. in violation of rationing.
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Interval
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n. a space between two things;distance. 2. a period of time between two evens. 3. the extent of difference between two qualities, conditions.etc.
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Peculiar
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adj. of only one person, thing, group. 2. uncommon;unusual. 3. distinctive in nature or character from others.
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Dignified
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adj. characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner.
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Occupations
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n. a person's usual or principal work or business. 2. the act of occupying. 3. the seixure and control of an area by military forces.
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Deliberately
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adj. carefully wieghed or considered. 2. characterized by deliberation. 3. leisurely and steady in movement or action.
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Intolerable
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adj. not tolerable;unendurable; insufferable
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Subjunctive
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adj. noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjunctive.
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Mimics
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tr.v. to copy or imitate closely. 2. to copy or imitate so as to ridicule. 3. to resmble closelly. 4. to take on the appearance of.
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