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Ape   act of trying to imitate something and ending up with a negative/ humorous result  
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Dun   to insist on the payment of debt  
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Fop   a man who is too concerned about his looks/ clothes  
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Gad   move about or travel aimlessly  
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Hex   an evil spell  
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Ken   your understanding  
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Pox   bad luck  
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Sow   to plant a seed or a female pig  
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Vex   to annoy/ confuse  
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Vie   compete/contend  
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Pantheon   general term for a group of people regarded as most important in a certain field or era  
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Sacrilegious   behavior that is disrespectful toward things many consider sacred either literally or figuratively  
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Laity   people who are not members of the clergy  
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Credo   a formal statement of beliefs  
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Messianic   used to refer to zealous or overzealous belief in a cause or a leader  
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Incarnation   used for giving bodily form to something abstract  
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Venial   used by Roman Catholic church to describe a sin that is easily forgivable or minor  
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Conclave   any highly secret meeting  
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Sussurus   a soft rustling noise , a whisper , a murmur  
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Epitome   a typical representative example of something  
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holistic   an approach that emphasizes the overall quality of something  
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Striation   fancy word for a stripe ridge groove or furrow  
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stipulate   to express demand as part of an agreement; you specify exactly what's required  
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extant   a one word way to say still in existence  
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surfeit   idea of over muchness  
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superfluous   overflowing  
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plethora   excess  
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myriad   indefinite but huge amount  
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sate   the idea of being overly satisfied  
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exorbitant   something that exceeds all fair bounds  
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gratuitous   unwanted or unjustified  
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supernumerary   a person who is in excess of a required number  
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lagniappe   unexpected extra gift  
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dearth   not enough of something or there’s simply none of it  
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paucity   few  
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exigous   just barely enough for the purpose  
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eke   managing but with difficulty  
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stint   expresses the concept of restricting or limiting. OR a length of time spent on a particular task  
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scant   barely sufficient or in short supply  
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nominal   something that exists in name only: its minimal  
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meager   scanty in quantity or quality  
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titular   not possessing any real substance or referring to the title  
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Raconteur   a person who inspires laughter through verbal talents  
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Harlequin   clown recognizable by clothing of bright colored diamond shapes and a mask  
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Stooge   a person who helps a comedian tell jokes by giving them lines  
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Card   a person who isn't a clown but is just naturally amusing  
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Wag   an amateur clown  
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Wit   denotes the quality of being verbally clever  
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Mountebank   a clown who attracts a crowd so they can sell the crowd ineffective medicine  
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Droll   facial expressions or acts that are amusing in an odd way  
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Prankster   a clown who plays pranks  
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