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a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife
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pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory; deprecatory; belittling
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asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor
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improper or disrespectfultreatment of something held sacred
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a whirpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirpool in violence and destruction
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the state of being proper; appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
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without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
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having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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to move in waves or with wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
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an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers; an amulet, fetish
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a legendary bird indentified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy;golden; properous, affluent
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straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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nearsighted; lacked a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
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in chess; an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor peice in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
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to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
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open; not hidden; expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
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desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
