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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Very cautiously and carefully | gingerly |
| Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true | incredulous |
| To take into the mind or memory; especially: to assimilate mentally | digested |
| Not capable of being understood | unfathomable |
| The property of a deceased person subject by law to the payment of his or her debts and legacies | asset |
| A mischievous person | roguishly |
| Having an air of easy unconcern or indifference | nonchalantly |
| Wise through reflection and experience | sagely |
| The act of rivaling: the state of being a rival | rivalry |
| obeying | abiding |
| state of being uninterested | aloofness |
| anxious or fearful; uneasy | apprehensive |
| manifesting, feeling, or expressing contempt | contemptuous |
| disposition to resist : willingness to contend or fight | defiance |
| the choice part | elite |
| a feeling that something will occur | premonition |
| relegate, consign; especially : to give (oneself) over without resistance | resignedly |
| resembling a sheep in meekness, stupidity, or timidity | sheepishly |
| deprived of native or original simplicity | sophisticated |
| a strong belief | CONVICTION |
| standing by itself | DETACHED |
| marked by stubborn determination | DOGGEDLY |
| to avoid adroitly | ELUDE |
| to call upon in supplication | IMPLORINGLY |
| extremely trying on the nerves | RACKING |
| to sink or fall to the bottom | SUBSIDE |
| gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed | SULLENLY |
| full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy | WISTFULLY |
| source of strength | brawn |
| repeating decimal | recurring |
| deed, act; especially : a notable or heroic act | exploit |
| the unlawful killing of a human being without express or implied malice | manslaughter |
| a delinquent person | delinquents |
| to proceed in a direct line from or toward a center | radiate |
| : deviate <studied law but diverted to diplomacy> | divert |
| : deviate <studied law but diverted to diplomacy> | divert |
| to walk unsteadily | faltered |
| an intense black | jet |
| struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked | aghast |
| past and past participle of clothe | CLAD |
| correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement | CONFORMITY |
| to bring on oneself especially inadvertently : incur | CONTRACT (verb form) |
| an acute mental disturbance characterized by confused thinking and disrupted attention usually accompanied by disordered speech and hallucinations | DELIRIOUS (DELIRIUM) |
| suspicious, wary —often used with of | LEERY |
| exciting pity or sympathy : pitiable <rueful squalid poverty…by every wayside | RUEFULLY |
| afflicted or overwhelmed by or as if by disease, misfortune, or sorrow | STRICKEN |
| a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility | STUPOR |
| having no give or slack : tightly drawn | TAUT |
| deprived through social or economic condition of some of the fundamental rights of all members of a civilized society | UNDERPRIVILEGED |
| to pay off (as a claim or debt) | ACQUITTED |
| to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain | FLINCHING |
| one that guards | GUARDIAN |
| opportunity to be heard, to present one's side of a case, or to be generally known or appreciated | HEARING (legal term) |
| to worship as a god | IDOLIZED |
| obligated according to law or equity | LIABLE |
| emptiness of space | VACUUM |
| very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially in extent or range | VAST |
| to let out | VEER |
| to rise to the surface and usually flow forth | WELL (verb) |
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