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dark and dull, as color, or as things in respect to color; dusk; lightless |
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secretive, surreptitious, or covert movement or procedure; sneakiness; furtiveness; surreptitiously; secretly |
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artificially or stiffly formal; pompous; affected; euphuistic; declamatory; bombastic |
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to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often fol. by on, upon, or a clause); reason; think |
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being, traveling, or living without others; alone; unaccompanied; misanthropic; reclusive; standoffish |
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(used with a sing. verb) the mathematical study of numerical information, esp. representative information about a limited portion of a population that is used to make generalized conclusions about the whole. |
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firm in purpose, resolution, faith, attachment, etc., as a person; immotive; immobile; unmovable |
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serious or grave in appearance, sound, or the like; ceremonious; formal |
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measuring time in relation to the sun. |
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a person's condition as determined by law; place; footing; capacity |
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formal, solemn, and reserved in character; no-nonsense; sober; sedate |
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a fourteen-line poem that usu. rhymes, often in accordance with one or another of certain traditional patterns. |
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(in ancient Egypt)a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion.(usually cap.) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza. |
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coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned; impulsive; instinctive; unmeditated |
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a piece of music for a single performer; solitary; only; unexampled |
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Med. a mental or physical mark that is characteristic of a defect or disease; blot; onus; odium |
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a monarch or other royal ruler; free; separate; autarkic |
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majestic; imposing in magnificence, elegance, etc; ceremonious; conventional |
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to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash; squidge |
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a periodic payment, esp. a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student; hire; emolument |
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dirty or foul, as from neglect; soily; grubby; black |
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not genuine, authentic, or valid; false; bastard; illegitimate |
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something that rouses or accelerates action, feeling, or thought; goad; propellant; impetus |
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a plate made by this process. |
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occurring irregularly or in a thinly scattered manner in time or space; spasmodic; fitful |