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disaffected
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(s) discontented as toward authority

preternatural
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(s) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; "find transcendental motives for sublunary action"-Aldous Huxley

(s) surpassing the ordinary or normal; "Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel"- George Will

eschew
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(v) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

expatiate
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(v) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

didactic
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(s) instructive (especially excessively)

sinuous
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(s) curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines"

rancor
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(n) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

puissant
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(s) powerful

homespun
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(n) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with homespun yarn

(s) made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"

(s) characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"

embroil
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(v) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"

pathological
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(s) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"

(s) caused by or evidencing a mentally disturbed condition; "a pathological liar"; "a pathological urge to succeed"

(a) of or relating to the practice of pathology; "pathological laboratory"

libretto
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(n) the words of an opera or musical play

flail
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(n) an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing

(v) give a thrashing to; beat hard

(v) move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"

bandy
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(v) discuss lightly; "We bandied around these difficult questions"

(v) exchange blows

(v) toss or strike a ball back and forth

(s) have legs that curve outward at the knees

gratis
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(r) without payment; "I'll give you this gratis"

upshot
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(n) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"

aphorism
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(n) a short pithy instructive saying

redoubtable
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(s) inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"

(s) having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"

corpulent
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(s) excessively fat; "a weighty man"

benighted
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(s) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"

(s) overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"

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