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To our parents
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Preface After years of painstaking
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Distinctive Features of the Book 1.
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How to Use This Book Following are
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Legends: Synonym = Synonym variant
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Mnemonics - Word Memorization Trick
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Remember, the goal of expanding you
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turned jubilant, and one of them ru
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feeling the person's clothing, ( );
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1.2 Sorrow affliction, crestfallen,
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excesses and neglect. — Civics an
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negro in Watteau's drawing--patheti
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hair, brunette, darker than I remem
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• (deplore)- to regret deeply or
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exhaustion—Miss Ludington's Siste
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Speeches of Kossuth; • (indemnity
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• (declivity)- a downward slope,
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community or group, ( ); Reigning o
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); While I did not commit any kind
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• (egregious)- extraordinary in s
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( ; ); And on all the men of Vaiau
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1.6 Fear 1.6.1 Fright fawn, coward,
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of Sentiment; ); He is no slave to
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son-in-law, M. de Conde. — The Li
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• (exorcise)- to seek to expel (a
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); He held up his umbrella in mock
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to speedy success; • (propitious)
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• (callophobia)- fear of beauty;
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hypnophobia • (hypnophobia)- an a
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women; megalomania : grandeur : ma
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• (tipsiness)- (tipsy) slightly i
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); He was flustered, wanting and no
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would wreak the greatest havoc, so
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and discontent which are often seen
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answering it or discovering its mea
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• (nexus)- a means of connection;
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• (churn)- a container or machine
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add that it only served to embitter
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• ( , ); • (chevy)- to chase; r
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petulant, pesterer, aggravate, pert
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Architecture: From Incite comes Ins
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Stories Ever Told; • (disquietude
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; ); God is no more than a name for
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Composers; • (emend)- to edit or
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); It has the tiniest little hands
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• (wane)- to decrease in strength
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• empty pomp or show; self-love {
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odacious : audacious = brave = intr
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comprehensive, and drawn from image
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emphasize the connections between i
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threatened. — The Life of Francis
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1.12 Perception visual perception,
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; ; ); "Don't look at the Fairy Aur
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gustatory perception, taste, savory
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quinine, wormwood, or aloes; After
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1.14 Body Types thin, fat cadaverou
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living body directly upon the osseo
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Luke and the Princess. — Splinter
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wrongly; astray, ( ; ; ); He greete
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dilapidation > dilapidated = ramsha
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( / / ; ); Where other people writh
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genetically altered mice to have on
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the same place. — The New South A
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1.16 Sex voluptuous, coquette, riba
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something of a connoisseur of femin
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her austere mode of life has been c
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fanaticism, he managed it. ' — Bo
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( ; ); Moving to a new security inf
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merchants and the men of learning.
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• (cumshaw)- a present; gratuity;
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execution was effective and brillia
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a state of hostilities between two
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• prohibiting violation; secure f
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); One saw the expropriator and the
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and seditious articles, but were re
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settlements. — The Life and Adven
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terrible patience of the wilderness
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1.19 Religion religion, doctrine, e
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King Alfred of England; • (impiet
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aberrant, and thoroughly eccentric
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• a small hook; • a curved surg
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authority, and function; depose, (
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Written by Himself; • (chicanery)
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at an archaeological excavation, (
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scream out of her. — Garwood, Jul
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propriety : protocol • (propriety
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they lead. — My Lady of the Chine
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expected to do the thousand indispe
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provided an extended field for thes
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consulted, to see if there is any d
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seminary--there was only one in all
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interest to systems biologists, has
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condensation, as for purification o
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the clientele was almost exclusivel
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public liberties and of public mora
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sun through the agency of chlorophy
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importance to Luther in this treati
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occasional, ( ; ); Their attention
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inspire them; • (rambling)- stray
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lushes came often to his cheeks.
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leg below the knee; ); The surgeon
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expression of it. — The Sea-Hawk;
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