An excessive desire of gain; greediness

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Understood by only a few

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Characterized by or consisting of two parts or components

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The choice and use of words in speech or writing

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Conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson

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Characterized by extensive reading or knowledge; well instructed; learned

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a natural inclination; predisposition

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disparaging, belittling

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Patience; good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

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Argument over the definition of words

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Very talkative

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To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear

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A Mild or vague word or phrase replacing one considered harsh or offensively direct

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Having bounds

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Extravagant exaggeration

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Without contents, empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; useless

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A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary

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Environment; setting

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being everywhere

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course, base, instinctive

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more than is wanted or is sufficient

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A tensely phrased statement of truth or an opinion; an adage

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Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)

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Short lived

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Favoring social equality

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Id est (that is)

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Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible

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Frivolity (not serious or sensible)

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wicked in the extreme

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Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning

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Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences with a mark or series of marks (... or *** for example)

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Made up of or combining elements from varying sources

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A leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion, prejudice, etc.., in order to achieve power

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Quickness of perception or discernment (understanding)

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Commonplace; trivial

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To divide into two parts or branches

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Whimsical; changeable

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Characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues

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A core or nucleus of trained or otherwise qualified personnel around which an organization is formed

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Seize the moment/day

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The representation of abstract ideas or principal by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form

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Happening by chance

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them

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brief, concise

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a relationship of mutual benefit or dependence

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characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules

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a word or phrase by which anything is likened to something else; it's often introduced by "like" or "as"

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noticeable; also, projecting; also, leaping

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having only one side

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