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concise and exact use of words in writing or speech | |
pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, esp. in a way that is intended to impress: | |
dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of (a statement or motive); call into question | |
make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense | |
concise and forcefully expressive | |
playfully quaint or fanciful, esp. in an appealing and amusing way | |
the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | |
not self-indulgent, esp. when eating and drinking | |
severe or strict in manner, attitude, or appearance: | |
pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one's own | |
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stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action | |
put an end to (a rebellion or other disorder), typically by the use of force | |
of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood: | |
a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot: | |
come together and form one mass or whole | |
a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy | |
thin, supple, and graceful. | |
loud and harsh; | |
fond of or causing heated arguments: | |
offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging | |
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