anorexia
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carafe
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Badinage
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badinage - frivolous banter
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Buoy sb up
INDIA WILL BUOY UP WORLD ECONOMY
China and India — the only sizeable economies likely to record growth rates of over 5% — will prevent the world from recording negative growth in 2009, the International Monetary Fund has said.
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Coalesce
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Party leaders coalesce around Obama
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Alienate sb
Websites alienate Firefox users
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Cantankerous
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1983 – In one of the more elaborate attacks, a cantankerous Dallas Green hijacks a Shea Stadium lawn mower and mows "fuck you" into the outfield to a stunned John McSherry.
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Cloister
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Ancillary
Ancillary Products
Online Catalogue | Ancillary Products
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Appellation
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Averse to sth
Justice minister reportedly wouldn't be averse to staying on
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Affiliate
Affiliate Marketing Illustration
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Aggravate sb
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Concave
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Irritate
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Chafe at
Democrats chafe at Obama's Iraq troop pullout
In a speech Friday at at Goettge Memorial Field House in Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, N.C., President Barack Obama announced that he intends to fully withdraw all troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.
Photograph by: Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images
NEW YORK — U.S. President Barack Obama announced America's military withdrawal from Iraq Friday — but faced criticism from members of his own party as he pledged to keep up to 50,000 troops there beyond a deadline next year for pulling out more than 90,000 "combat" soldiers.
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Antithesis
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In fiction, an antithesis can be used to describe a character who presents the exact opposite as to personality type, moral outlook, etc. to another character in a particular piece of literature. This does not mean however, that they are necessarily in conflict with each other. Some examples of an antithesis in fiction include the characters of Locke and Jack in Lost (TV series), Dumbledore and Voldemort in Harry Potter, the doctor and Kino in The Pearl, and Théoden and Denethor in The Lord of the Rings.
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Assiduous
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Assiduous bee
Amalgamate into/with
Water industry federation to amalgamate with environmentally concerned sewer association
The Society of British Water Industries (SBWI) has announced that it is to amalgamate with a sewer association which focuses on low environmental impact sewer renovation.
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Advocate sth
McCain believes Russia should be excluded from the G-8. In a Foreign Affairs article published late last year, McCain advocated kicking Russia out of the G-8: "Today, we see in Russia diminishing political freedoms, a leadership dominated by a clique of former intelligence officers, efforts to bully democratic neighbors, such as Georgia, and attempts to manipulate Europe's dependence on Russian oil and gas.
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Amity
Amity
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Amity, a word which means "friendship", can refer to:
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Cataclysm
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Affliction
'I've had hiccups for 22 months': The singer whose affliction has ruined his career
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Auxiliary
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Archetype
William Shakespeare is known for creating many archetypal characters that hold great social importance in his native land, such as Hamlet, the self-doubting hero and the initiation archetype with the three stages of separation, transformation, and return; Falstaff, the bawdy, rotund comic knight; Romeo and Juliet, the ill-fated ("star-crossed") lovers
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Convex
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Choleric
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Abhor
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Cogitate
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Analgesic
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Calamity
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Compendium
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A compendium is a concise, yet comprehensive compilation of a body of knowledge. A compendium may summarize a larger work.
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The astronomical compendium at right was made by Johann Anton Linden in 1596. It consists of an astrolabe with a rete for 34 stars, a table with the exact location of 29 stars, a lunar aspectarium, a table with the longitude and latitude of 70 towns, and a calendar fo the years 1596-1625. (British Museum MLA 57,11-67,1)
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Amateurish
Very Amateurish Hangul Calligraphy
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Caricature
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Abhorrent
To most American Indians it is absolutely abhorrent for a professional football team to use the color of their skin as their team mascot.
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Abrogate
Legal Expert: Congress Can't Rubber Stamp Military Commissions Without Endangering U.S. Troops
Shortly after the Supreme Court issued its decision in the Hamdan case, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) went on television and said that all Congress needed to do was provide its "blessing" to Bush's procedures. Many others, especially critics of the decision, have echoed Graham's position.
Today, Georgetown Law Professor Carlos Vazquez explained that things aren't as simple as Graham and others would have you believe.
Vazquez said that Congress could pass a law authorizing the procedures ruled illegal by the court. But according to the court's decision, doing so would abrogate Common Article 3 of Geneva Conventions. This would have serious consequences because the Geneva Conventions provide essential protections to U.S. troops abroad.
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Absenteeism
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absorb
Categorized |
Cable
China absorbs SpongeBob
SpongeBob absorbs China
Posted on 16 February 2009 by Robert Seidman
"SpongeBob SquarePants" has swept to the top of the ratings on Chinese state broadcaster CCTV's Kids Channel. The quirky toon has become the most popular children's show in 15 key cities, drawing viewership of 20.5 million to Bikini Bottom.
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Abstinence from
Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that emphasizes abstinence from sex to the exclusion of all other types of sexual and reproductive health education, particularly regarding birth control and safe sex. This type of sex education promotes sexual abstinence until marriage and either completely avoids any discussion about the use of contraceptives, or only reveals failure rates associated with such use.
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Acclimatize
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UNESCO's goodwill ambassador acclimatizes herself by taking a conventional 'bhan gari' ride around the countryside.
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Accommodate sb
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Harvard University student Kareem Shuman, 21, was turned away from the gym during women-only hours that recently were instituted at the center. Shuman, a Muslim, said he was sympathetic to the policy instituted at the request of some Muslim women who, for religious and cultural reasons, cannot exercise comfortably in the presence of men. |
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BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week, a move to accomodate Muslim women who, for religious and cultural reasons, cannot exercise comfortably in their presence.
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Acquiesce
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They went crazy when i acquiesced to getting a picture with them
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Addicted
Addicted to computer
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Addendum
Books
In a book, an addendum (sometimes referred to as an "appendix") is a supplemental addition to a given main work. It may correct errors, explain inconsistencies or otherwise detail or update the information found in the main work, especially if any such problems were detected too late to correct the main work. For example, the main work could have had already been printed and the cost of destroying the batch and reprinting is deemed too high. As such, addenda may come in many forms — a separate letter included with the work, text files on a digital medium, or any similar carrier.
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Aegis
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Affluent
Seth Semilof and Kamal Hotchandani, publishers of Haute Living — a luxury real estate magazine with distribution in affluent residences, hotels and offices in South Florida — are set to launch a New York version, Haute New York, in October.
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Aggrieved at
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Aloof from
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Cool is different to popular. Sometimes the two coincide but more often than not a man is cool in spite of his popularity not because of it. Cool denotes an impregnable sense of self, aloof from the crowd even as the crowd rushes to embrace
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Ambidextrous
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Amenity
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Anchor sth
Smith to anchor defense as middle linebacker
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Anesthetic
Local anesthetics - An anasthetic
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Anomalous
Anomalous Japanese toy
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Anomaly
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Antiseptic
Antiseptic Surgery photograph
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Apotheosis
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Appall sb
Lawrence King's murder continues to shock and appall the world, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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Ascendancy
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Ascetic
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Aspersions
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In the past two years, two prominent Australian religious leaders have seemed to cast aspersions on sexual assault victims and their families — former Mufti Sheik Hilaly and Catholic Bishop Anthony Fisher
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Aspire after/to
McCain: "I Always Aspire To Be A Dictator"
Presidential nominee decries congressional rejection of bailout bill
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Assail
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Assimilate
How to Assimilate the American Culture
By
expertelement, eHow Member
(8 Ratings)
President Bush himself said it "You must assimilate". An illegal immigrant may not know what that means. Here are the steps for assimilating the American Culture. You may want to take notes.
Step1
Learn English. There are many churches that offer free English courses for speakers of other languages. Try to watch American shows and listen to American radio. Listening to the language will make it easier for you to learn it quicker. If you hear a word that you do not know try to write it down. Write it the way it sounds to you, then try to get help from someone who speaks the language. Read the dictionary.
Step2
Learn who the President is, the Vice President and the First lady.
Step3
Learn about all the popular sitcoms such as Sienfield, Friends and Sex in the City. You must understand what "No more soup for you" means.
Step4
Become familiar with Days of Our Lives or any of the other 30 year old Soap Operas that American people have been watching for years.
Step5
Learn to identify music from the different eras.
Step6
If you have children join the PTA .
Step7
Go to a bar once a week to play trivia night.
Step8
Learn to enjoy eating Hot Dogs and Hamburgers, mash potatoes and gravy, steaks.
Step9
Visit a church on Easter Sunday.
Step10
Learn to hold a drink on your hand at a party and drink lots of beer.
Step11
Cook on the grill for your friends and family.
Step12
Celebrate the 4th of July.
Step13
Go to the Theater. Learn about Cats and Rent.
Step14
Watch sports with your friends, specially Football games, Baseball and Basketball.
Step15
Learn the fashion. Jeans, t-Shirts and shorts is a must or khaki pants with shoes with no socks.
Step16
Stop going to the gas station for coffee. Spend a big portion of your salary on very expensive lattes.
Step17
Go green. Recycle. Eat Organic.
Step18
Learn about Madonna, Cher, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Oprah, Brad Pitt and others.
Step19
Embrace and respect the culture, apply the good, learn about the bad, do not compare to your culture.
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Astringent
An astringent (also spelled adstringent) substance is a chemical that tends to shrink or constrict body tissues, usually locally after topical medicinal application. The word "astringent" derives from Latin
adstringere, meaning "to bind fast". Two common examples are calamine lotion and witch hazel.
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HARD OR SEVERE.
(Eg) Bush administration came under astringent criticism for not doing enough to reduce pollution.
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Attuned to
Natural Childbirth Moms More Attuned to Babies' Cry
Finding may help shed light on postpartum depression in those choosing Caesareans
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Badger sb for sth
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Autocrat
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Bedlam
The Bethlem Royal Hospital of London is a psychiatric hospital in Beckenham, Kent. Although no longer in its original location and buildings, it is recognised as the world's first and oldest institution to provide care for the mentally ill. It has been variously known as St. Mary Bethlehem, Bethlem Hospital, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam. The word bedlam, meaning uproar and confusion, is derived from its name.
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Beleaguer
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Chronic Diseases Beleaguer Developing Countries
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Belligerent
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Bequest
Let it bequest - Jackson wants to leave Paul McCartney Beatles back catalogue
EXCLUSIVE by Zoe Griffin
3/01/2009
'Dying' Jacko to leave Macca £350million Beatles rights in will.
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Berate
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Blandishments
Beware the Blandishments of the Tescopolist
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Blithe
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Blotch
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Blockage
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Blurb
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Bluster
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Behind the Bluster, Russia Is Collapsing
Men sleep after drinking on a bench in downtown Moscow. (Alexei Sazonov - AP Photo/Alexei Sazonov)
The bear is back. That's what all too many Russia-watchers have been saying since Russian troops steamrolled Georgia in August, warning that the country's strongman, Vladimir Putin, was clawing his way back toward superpower status. The new Russia's resurgence has been fueled -- quite literally -- by windfall profits from gas and oil, a big jump in defense spending and the cocky attitude on such display during the mauling of Georgia, its U.S.-backed neighbor to the south. Many now believe that the powerful Russian bear of the Cold War years is coming out of hibernation
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Bombast
Stanley Kubrick should have lived to see this day. Only the director of the nuclear war satire "Dr. Strangelove" could do full justice to the fact that, long after the demise of the Soviet Union, a Russian leader would return to the bombast and bluster of the Cold War.
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Botany
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Field study in botany
Boulder
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Bridle
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Browbeat sb into doing sth
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Brusque
AP
"He's the guy who founded the culture, but the culture now thrives on its own," Tandy Trower said of his departing boss. "I can remember from the very early days at Microsoft how inspiring Bill was ... ." Others say there were some downsides to Gates' brusque style of doing business.
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Bruit around/abroad
My first impressions are that the original "Commando" nickname that was bruited around the web is not entirely inappropriate; the watch has the pragmatic bluntness of design of an instrument design for a purpose although in this case the brutality of a firearm's unapologetically lethal lines is tempered and transformed. The purity of form we admire in some weapons, be they jet fighters, automatic rifles, or the katana of the Samurai is the purity not of an instrument designed for destruction per se, but rather of an instrument whose form is the result of a purity of utility and intent.
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Buoyant
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Bungle sth
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Kerry Bungled a Joke, Bush Bungled a War.
Death toll from Kerry's bungled joke - 0
Death toll from Bush's bungled war-- 600,000 and climbing daily
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Calumny
The McCain campaign shows no shame in engaging in a tired guilt-by-association tactic as Sarah Palin accuses Obama of "palling around with terrorists." This desperate calumny derives from Obama once serving on the same non-profit board as former 60's radical Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground.
But what about McCain's own associations with former 60's radicals. Indeed, until just a few years ago, McCain openly boasted not only about his passing friendship but also his deep collaboration with one of the most prominent of Vietnam-era student radicals, David Ifshin. The same David Ifshin who denounced America on Radio Hanoi as McCain sat locked up as a POW.
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Cameo
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Coincide with
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Protest in front of Japanese embassy in Brazil to coincide with the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki have been awaiting trials 172 days for exposing corruption in the whaling industry.
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Collude
Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty of Switzerland gestures at a news conference in Paris June 7, 2006. The investigator said on Wednesday that more than a dozen European countries colluded in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA prisons and transfers of terrorism suspects.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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Canyan
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Commit oneself to sth
I will commit myself to a running diary of what is going on.
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Captious
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The rooms of this hotel are equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable stay of the most captious guest.
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Carnivorous
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Carnivorous plant
Carp at
So I was just hypnotized by the November mystery sock, over at Sock Knitters Anonymous. I hungrily knitted each clue as it was posted. I read the threads where people carped at the designer, amazed at what can be misunderstood in directions.
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Certitude
But these men that I have listed below are the best of the best. The best at delivering a fist pump with conviction, vigor, certitude, overwhelming enthusiasm, and a small amount of cartoonish, exaggerated goofiness.
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Choked up with sth
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Circuitous
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Cling on to sth
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Clairvoyance
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Cloudburst
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Coda
Here is an example of a coda
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Coddle sb
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Cohesion
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Cohesive
Building cohesive communities: The crucial role of the new local performance framework
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Commodious
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Commotion
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Communal
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Communal cooking
Complaisance
Samuel G. Toole . . . Not all the world looks with favor and complaisance upon the man who attempts to make the most possible out of his life.
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Complaisant
For it is becoming increasingly clear that the real-estate bubble of recent years, like the stock bubble of the late 1990s, both caused and was fed by widespread malfeasance. Rating agencies like Moody's Investors Service, which get paid a lot of money for rating mortgage-backed securities, seem to have played a similar role to that played by complaisant accountants in the corporate scandals of a few years ago. In the '90s, accountants certified dubious earning statements; in this decade, rating agencies declared dubious mortgage-backed securities to be highest-quality, AAA assets.
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Con sb into doing
who else could i con into crazy things like this?
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Conciliatory
Clinton, Obama Strike Conciliatory Tone in Debate (Update2)
By Nicholas Johnston and Kristin Jensen
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Concur with sb in sth
I like Tyra, I like Tyra a lot. There are things I dislike too and that's just how it is with everyone I know [we all have virtues and faults]. I sympathize with some of the criticism of Tyra posted on this thread and I also concur with those who balance it out with Ms. Banks' redeeming values.
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Conflagration
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Conformity
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Conjoin
Conjoined twin
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Conjunction
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Conjunction of Venus and the moon
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Constrain
Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush's Choices on Iran Conflict: Staff Engaged in Insubordination Against President Bush
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Constrict
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Indigent
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Ostentation
You used to be able to tell a Bentley from a Rolls by the radiator grill—that was the only difference.
You drove a Bentley because it was, how shall I put it, less ostentatious.
As I walked home on a damp evening, this Bentley shocked me with its lack of ostentation .
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Remedy sth
Agbar Tower in Barcelona, via Flickr user alexdcardona
Urban Dispatch: How To Remedy The Cira Centre's Wanting Lite-Brite Nighttime Lighting Schematic
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