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manumit
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(v) free from slavery or servitude

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

triumvirate
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(n) a group of three men responsible for public administration or civil authority

sybarite
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(n) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

jibe
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(n) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

(v) shift from one side of the ship to the other; "The sail jibbed wildly"

(v) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

magisterial
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(s) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"

(s) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisteri

(a) of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions"

roseate
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(s) having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn"

obloquy
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(n) a malicious attack

(n) state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

hoodwink
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(v) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"

(v) influence by slyness

striate
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(v) mark with striae or striations

(a) marked with stria or striations

arrogate
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(v) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died"

(v) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"

(v) make undue claims to having

rarefied
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(s) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"

(s) reserved for an elite group

(s) having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

chary
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(s) characterized by great cautious and wariness; "a cagey avoidance of a definite answer"; "chary of the risks involved"; "a chary investor"

credo
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(n) any system of principles or beliefs

superannuated
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(s) old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"

(s) too old to be useful; "He left the house...for the support of twelve superannuated wool carders"- Anthony Trollope

(s) discharged as too old for use or work; especially with a pension; "a superannuated civil servant"

impolitic
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(a) not politic; "an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue"

aspersion
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(n) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)

(n) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

(n) a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility"

abysmal
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(s) so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean"

(s) very great; limitless; "abysmal misery"; "abysmal stupidity"

poignancy
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(n) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"

(n) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; "a moment of extraordinary poignancy"

stilted
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(s) artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

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