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effete
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(s) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

provender
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(n) a stock or supply of foods

(n) food for domestic livestock

endemic
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(n) a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island"

(n) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location

(s) originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"

(a) native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"

(a) of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of th

jocund
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(s) full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"

procedural
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(a) applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure; "adjective law"

(a) of or relating to procedure; "a procedural violation"

rakish
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(s) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore

(s) marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

skittish
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(s) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)

peroration
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(n) (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

(n) a flowery and highly rhetorical oration

nonentity
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(n) a nonexistent thing

(n) a person of no influence

(n) the state of not existing

abstemious
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(a) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy

(s) marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious meals"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper"

viscid
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(s) having the properties of glue

doggerel
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(n) a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind"

sleight
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(n) adroitness in using the hands

rubric
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(n) category name; "it is usually discussed under the rubric of `functional obesity'"

(n) a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type

(n) a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with; "Title 8 provided federal help for schools"

(n) an authoritative rule of conduct or procedure

(n) directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)

(n) an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text

(v) adorn with ruby red color

plenitude
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(n) a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"

rebus
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(n) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words

wizened
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(s) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered

whorl
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(n) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

(n) a strand or cluster of hair

(n) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles

fracas
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(n) noisy quarrel

iconoclast
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(n) someone who tries to destroy traditional ideas or institutions

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