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8 Concoct

1. To mix ingredients, as in cooking. 2. To invent or devise

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8 Cuisine

1. A characteristic style of cooking

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8 Precocious

1. Showing unusually early development, especially mentally.

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8 Carnivorous

1. Meat-eating

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8 Herbivorous

1. Plant-eating

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8 Voracious

1. Extremely hungry; greedy 2. Eager for some activity or interest

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8 Mellifluous

1. Sweet as honey (referring to voice or words)

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8 Saline

1. Having to do with salt

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8 Imbibe

1. To drink 2. To absorb; to take in.

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8 Potable

1. Fit to drink

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8 Potion

A liquid for drinking, especially a medicinal, magic, or poisonous drink

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8 Allude

1. To make an indirect reference to

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8 Collusion

1. A secret agreement for a deceitful purpose; conspiracy.

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8 Delusion

1. A false belief or opinion, especially one held in spite of contradictory evidence

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8 Elude

1. To avoid or escape from by cunning; to evade 2. To escape detection; to baffle

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7 Domicile

1. A home; residence.

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7 Domestic

1. Related to the family or household

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7 Domain

1. Range of one's control; territory

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7 Domineer

1. To dominate; to be bossy

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7 Dominion

1. Control; rule; area of influence.

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7 Dormant

1. Asleep; not in an active state

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7 Somnambulate

1. To walk while sleeping

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7 Somnolent

1. Drowsy; Sleepy 2. Causing Sleep

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7 Ablution

1. Washing of the body, especially as a ritual purification

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7 Deluge

1. A downpour; a great flood

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7 Divest

1. To take away something belonging to someone, especially a right, title, or property; to dispossess 2. To strip away especially clothes

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7 Investiture

1. A ceremony in which a person formally receives the authority and symbols of an office

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7 Travesty

1. An absurd or inferior imitation

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7 Vestment

1. A garment that indicates position or authority, especially the robes worn by clergy

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7 Vested

1. A concern for something from which a person expects to get personal benefit (used with interest) 2. Dressed, especially in vestments 3. Absolute; without question.

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6 Antipathy

1. A hatred or dislike

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6 Apathy

1. Lack of feeling, energy, or interest. 2. Indifference.

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6 Empathy

1. The ability to identify with someone else and understand that person's situation of feelings

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6 Pathological

1. Referring to pathology, the study of disease. 2. Caused by disease. 3. Abnormal in behavior.

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6 Pathos

1. Feeling of sympathy; a quality that arouses pity or tenderness.

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6 Misogamy

1. Hatred of marriage.

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6 Misogyny

1. Hatred of women.

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6 Dysentery

1. Severe diarrhea

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6 Dyslexia

1. A serious difficulty learning to read in the usual way

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6 Covet

1. To crave or desire, especially something belonging to someone else

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6 Cupidity

1. Greed; avarice

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6 Complacent

1. Self-satisfied; Smug

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6 Implacable

1. Impossible to calm or appease

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6 Placate

1. To Calm; to pacify; to appease

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6 Placid

1. Showing calmness, peacefulness or composure

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5 Amicable

1. Friendly; peaceable

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5 Amity

1. Friendship; friendly relations

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5 Enamored

1. In love with; charmed by

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5 Inimical

1. Harmful 2. Hostile; unfriendly

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5 Odious

1. Hateful; distasteful

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5 Bibliophile

1. A lover of books

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5 Philanthropy

1. Goodwill to fellow human beings 2. A charitable gift, act, or organization

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5 Phobia

1. Strong, irrational fear

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5 Acrophobia

1. At the farthest point (usually referring to height)

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5 Hydrophobia

1. Fear of water

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5 Xenophobia

1. Fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign, or of foreigners.

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5 Appease

1. To calm; to satisfy or relieve

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5 Pacific

1. Peaceful; serene

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5 Pacify

1. To calm; to make quiet 2. To end war or violence

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4 Puerile

1. Childish; immature

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4 Orthopedics

1. Branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement

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4 Pedagogue

1. A teacher

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4 Pedant

1. A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding 2. A scholarly show-off

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4 Entity

1. Something that has a real or independent existence

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4 Nonentity

1. A person or thing of no importance 2. Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination

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4 Essence

1. The basic element; the identifying characteristic 2. A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug 3. A perfume

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4 Moribund

1. About to die or end

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4 Mortify

1. To shame 2. To discipline oneself by denial

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4 Postmortem

1. An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy

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4 Euthanasia

1. The act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy

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4 Innate

1. Possessed at birth; inborn

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4 Naive

1. Childlike; unsophisticated 2. Gullible

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4 Nascent

1. Emerging; coming into existence

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4 Renaissance

1. A rebirth; a renewal 2. (Capitalize) A revival of humanism in fourteenth (14th) century to sixteenth (16th) century Europe

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3 Matrix

1. The surroundings within which something begins or develops

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3 Matriarchy

1. A society ruled or controlled by women

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3 Matriculate

1. To register as a student at a college or university

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3 Patriarch

1. The male head of a family or tribe 2. An Old Testament ancestor 3. A founding father or wise man

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3 Patrimony

1. A family inheritance

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3 Patronage

1. Support; encouragement 2. business clientele; customers

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3 Patronize

1. To go to regularly 2. To treat someone as an inferior

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3 Patronymic

1. Name derived from a paternal ancestor

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3 Fraternal

1. Pertaining to brothers; brotherly

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3 Fraternize

1. To be friendly with 2. To socialize with an enemy population

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3 Avuncular

1. Like an uncle

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3 Familia

1. Having to do with the family

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3 Uxorious

1. Dominated by one's wife

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3 Bigamy

1. Marriage to two mates

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3 Monogamy

1. Marriage to a single mate

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2 Genealogy

1. A record of descent from one's ancestors; the study of family records

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2 Genocide

1.The planned annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group

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2 Genre

1. A type, class, or category, especially of fine art or literature

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2 Genteel

1. Well-mannered; refined; polite.

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2 Gentile

1. Anyone not of the Jewish faith

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2 Gentry

1. Aristocratic or well-bred people. 2. In Britain, the class under the aristocracy.

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2 Heterogeneous

1. Having parts that are unrelated or completely different Antonym/Opposite: homogeneous

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2 Homogeneous

1. Of the same kind or sort Antonym/Opposite: heterogeneous

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2 Congenital

1. Existing at birth but not hereditary

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2 Engender

1. To give rise to; to bring into existence

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2 Genesis

1. A beginning or origin 2. Genesis - The first book of the Old Testament

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2 Indigenous

1. Occurring in or characterizing an area; native

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2 Ingenious

1. Cleverly inventive and resourceful

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2 Progenitor

1. A direct ancestor: an originator of a line of descent

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2 Progeny

1. Children or descendants; offspring. The results of artistic creativity

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1 Humane

1. Having the worthy qualities of human beings, such as kindness or compassion Antonym: inhumane

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1 Humanism

1. A philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance

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1 Humanities

1. Branches of knowledge concerned with human beings and their culture: philosophy, literature, and the fine arts, as distinguished from the sciences

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1 Anthropology

1. The scientific study of the origins, cultural development, and customs of human beings

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1 Misanthrope

1. A person who hates all people

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1 Homicide

1. The killing of one person by another; a person who kills another.

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1 Virile

1. Having certain characteristics traditionally associated with masculinity, especially physical strength, vitality, and assertiveness.

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1 Gynecology

1. The branch of medicine dealing with disorders and treatment of the reproductive system in women.

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1 Feminism

1. The belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men.

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1 Feminist

1. A supporter of women's claims to the same rights and treatment as men.

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1 Autocrat

1. A ruler who has absolute or unlimited power; a despot.

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1 Automaton

1. A person who behaves in a mechanical, routine manner; a robot.

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1 Autonomy

1. The condition of being self-governing; independence

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1 Autopsy

1. The examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death.

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1 Egoism

1. Conceit; valuing everything according to one's personal interest; excessive confidence in the rightness of one' own opinion.

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9 Capitalist

1. A person who has invested personal wealth in business. 2. A very wealthy person

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9 Capitulation

1. Surrender; ending resistance

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9 Decapitate

1. To cut off the head of; to behead

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9 Precipice

1. A very steep or vertical face of a cliff or rock

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9 Precipitate

1. To throw down from a great height 2. To make happen suddenly or quickly

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9 Recapitulation

1. The restatement of a main idea 2. A summary or concise review

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9 Cerebral

1. Pertaining to the brain 2. Intellectual

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9 Cerebration

1. The action of thinking thought

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9 Deface

1.To mar or spoil the appearance or surface of (something)

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9 Efface

1. To wipe out; to obliterate. Also, to make less clear, as if rubbing out 2. To make oneself inconspicuous

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9 Facade

1. A face of a building 2. The face or front of anything, especially an artificial or false front

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9 Facet

1. One of the many sides of a cut stone or jewel 2. One aspect of a situation, or of a tooth

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9 Affront

1. To insult intentionally; to offend or embarrass 2. An insult or offensive act

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9 Confront

1. To stand or come directly in front of 2. To face with defiance or hostility

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9 Effrontery

1. Flippant or insulting boldness, audacity

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10 Supercilious

1. Disdainful; haughty and aloof. (A lifted eyebrow conveys and impression of haughtiness)

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10 Inexorable

1. Relentless; unyielding

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10 Oracle

1. A shrine where the ancient Greeks consulted one of their gods for advice or prophecy 2. A prophecy made at such a shrine 3. A person who transmits prophecy from a deity 4. A person or thing regarded as able to give wise guidance

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10 Oration

1. An address or formal speech given on a special occasion

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10 Orifice

1. A mouth or vent / an opening

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10 Osculate

1. To Kiss (usually used playfully)

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10 Indentation

1. A cut or notch

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10 Indenture

1. A written contract between two parties 2. An agreement binding an apprentice to work for a master

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10 Trident

1. A long three-pronged fork or weapon

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10 Orthodontist

1. A specialist who corrects irregularly positioned teeth

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10 Gorge

1. A deep, narrow passage with rocky sides, enclosed between mountains 2. Gluttonous eating 3. A feeling of nausea (used with rise) * To eat greedily * To fill full; to stuff

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10 Disgorge

1. To expel from the throat or stomach; to vomit 2. To discharge violently

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10 Gargantuan

1. Of immense size; gigantic

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10 Gargoyle

1. A Grotesque carved human or animal figure, especially one used as a rainspout carrying water clear of a wall

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10 Regurgitate

1. To cause to pour back or cast up partially digested food; to vomit 2. To rush or surge back

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11 Carnage

1. The killing of many people; massacre

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11 Carrion

1. Dead amd decaying flesh 2. Pertaining to dead flesh

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11 Incarnate

1. Embodied in human form

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11 Accolade

1. Any honor, award, or expression of approval 2. A ceremonial tap on the shoulder with the flat side of a sword

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11 Decolletage

1. A low neckline on a garment or a garment with a low neck line

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11 Corporal

1. Relating to or having an effect on the human bod

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11 Corporeal

1. Characteristic of or resembling the physical body 2. Having material substance; able to be seen

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11 Corps

1. A military organization of officers or of officers and enlistees 2. An army unit 3. a group of people having purpose and direction in common

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11 Corpulent

1. Excessively bulky; fat

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11 Corpus

1. A body or collection of Writings 2. A structure of special character in an animal body

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11 Accord

1. Harmony, agreement 2, To grant or bestow upon 3. To agree

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11 Cordial

1. Hearty; warm; sincere 2. Stimulating

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11 Concordance

1. A state of agreement; harmony 2 An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of tests, showing every occurrence of a work

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11 Ossify

1. To turn into bone; to become bony 2. To become rigid (in behavior, habits, or beliefs)

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12 Dermatology

1. The scientific study of the skin and its diseases

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12 Epidermis

1. The outer protective layer of the skin or outer layer of various organisms (In plants, the outer layer of cells)

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12 Dorsal

1. Pertaining to the back, especially of animals

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12 Dossier

1. A set of documents containing information about a person or event: A file

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12 Endorse

1. To write one's signature on the back of a check or other document 2. To sign a contract 3. To acknowledge receipt of payment 4. To support actively; to sanction

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12 Gastric

1. Pertaining to the stomach

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12 Gastronome

1. A person who is knowledgeable about good food and drink; A gourmet

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12 Enervate

1. To deprive of strength: to weaken

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12 Sanguine

1. Cheerful; hopeful 2. Reddish or ruddy

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12 Consanguinity

1. Blood relationship 2. Any close relationship

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12 Assiduous

1. Unceasingly attentive; devoted 2. Persistent; diligent

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12 Dissident

1. Differing; disagreeing; dissenting

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12 Seance

1. A meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the dead

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12 Sedentary

1. Characterized by much sitting 2. Remaining in one area; not migratory

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12 Supersede

1. To take the place of; to replace

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13 Emancipate

1. To free from restraint or influence 2. To free (a slave) from bondage

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13 Manacle

1. A device for confining the hands; handcuffs 2. Anything that contains

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13 Mandate

1. A formal order from higher court; an authoritative command

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13 Manifest

1. Clearly apparent to sight or understanding; obvious 2. To show plainly; to reveal 3. To prove

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13 Manipulate

1. To use or handle skillfully 2. To manage with devious skill, or to adjust to suit one's purpose

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13 Dexterity

1. Skill in use of the hands or body; adroitness 2. Mental skill or adroitness; cleverness

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13 Ambidextrous

1. Able to use either hand equally well

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13 Digital

1. Relating to a finger or a unit of measure (3/4") the breadth of a finger 2. Refering to a nemerical system for encoding

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13 Deflect

1. To turn aside 2. To swerve or turn aside

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13 Genuflect

1. To bend the knee in a kneeling or half-kneeling position to express or respect

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13 Inflection

1. An alteration of pitch or tone of the voice 2. in grammar, an alteration of the form of a word to show different grammatical or syntactical relationships

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13 Reflection

1. The act or condition of being thrown back 2. Something thrown back, as light, heat, sound, or an image 3. Discredit; inderect reproach 4. Deep thought

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13 Rapacious

1. Excessively grasping or greedy 2. Given to seizing for plunder or as prey

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13 Rapt

1. Giving one's compklete attention 2. Overcome with emotion; completely filled with joy

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13 Surreptitious

1. Done secretly, without approval

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14 Complicity

1. Participation with another in an act that is or seems to be deceitful

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14 Duplicty

1. Deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing 2. Being physical or numerically double or two-fold; doubleness

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14 Explicate

1. To make clear; to explain throughly, often in a literary context

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14 Explict

1. Definite; stated in detail, leaving nothing to be guessed at; outspoken

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14 Exploit

1. A notable or heroic deed 2. To make use of selfishly or unethical 3. To publicize

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14 Imply

1. To indicate inderectly; to hint 2. To require as a necessary condition

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14 Ploy

1. A tactic intended to frustrate, embarrass or gain an advantage over an opponent

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14 Ply

1. To use a tool or weapon vigorously; to work at trade 2. To offer something persistently 3. The thickness of cloth, yarn,or rope 4. Wood layered with crosswise grain

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14 Supplicate

1. To ask humbly or earnestly for, as in praying; to beseech

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14 Apprehend

1. To arrest 2. To grasp mentally; to understand 3. To anticipate with anxiety

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14 Comprise

1.To consist of; to contain

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14 Entreperneur

1. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for business ventures

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14 Impregnable

1. Strong enough to resist attack of capture, as a fortress 2.Not to be outweighed or overcome in argument

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14 Reprehend

1. To reprimand, reprove, or express disapproval

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14 Reprisal

1. An action or act of retaliation against someone for injuries received

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