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indite
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(v) produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

emetic
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(n) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting

temporize
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(v) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; "The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote"

unimpeachable
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(s) completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach; "two unexceptionable witnesses"; "a judge's ethics should be unexceptionable"

(s) free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an unimpeachable reputation"

(s) beyond doubt or reproach; "an unimpeachable source"

genesis
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(n) the first book of the Old Testament: tells of creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers

(n) a coming into being

smattering
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(n) a slight or superficial understanding of a subject

(n) a small number or amount; "only a handful of responses were received"

suavity
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(n) smooth and gracious in manner

stentorian
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(s) used of the voice

junket
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(n) a trip taken by an official at public expense

(n) a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field"

(n) dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet

(v) partake in a feast or banquet

(v) provide a feast or banquet for

(v) go on a pleasure trip

appurtenance
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(n) a supplementary component that improves capability

nostrum
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(n) patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable

(n) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

immure
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(v) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"

astringent
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(n) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals

(a) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue; "astringent cosmetic lotions"

(s) sour or bitter in taste

unfaltering
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(s) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"

tutelage
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(n) attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"

(n) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)

testator
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(n) a person who makes a will

elysian
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(s) of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"

(s) resembling paradise; causing happiness; "elysian peace"; "a paradisal place without work or struggle"; "paradisial isles"; "an age of paradisiacal happiness"

(a) relating to the Elysian Fields

fulminate
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(n) a salt or ester of fulminic acid

(v) cause to explode violently and with loud noise

(v) come on suddenly and intensely; "the disease fulminated"

(v) criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"

fractious
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(s) unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"

(s) easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

(s) stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

pummel
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(v) strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"

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