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| 1 | jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane (verb) throw away, of something encumbering
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| 2 | jocund | (adjective satellite) 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"
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| 3 | jollity | (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor
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| 4 | jovial | (adjective satellite) 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"
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| 5 | judicious | (adjective satellite) proceeding from good sense or judgment; "a sensible choice" (adjective satellite) marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a sensible manager"; "a wise decision" (adjective satellite) characterized by good judgment or sound thinking; "judicious journalism"
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| 6 | juncture | (noun) an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions" (noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made (noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made; "at that juncture he had no idea what to do"; "he must be made to realize that the company stands at a critical point"
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| 7 | juxtapose | (verb) place side by side; "The fauvists juxtaposed strong colors"
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| 8 | ken | (noun) the range of vision; "out of sight of land" (noun) range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken"
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| 9 | kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" (verb) cause to start burning; "The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds" (verb) catch fire; "The dried grass of the prairie kindled, spreading the flames for miles"
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| 10 | kinship | (noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities" (noun) state of relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
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| 11 | kith | (noun) your friends and acquaintances; "all his kith and kin"
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| 12 | knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
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| 13 | knead | (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes; "She rubbed down her child with a sponge" (verb) make uniform; "knead dough"; "work the clay until it is soft"
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| 14 | knotty | (adjective satellite) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" (adjective satellite) highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by lab (adjective satellite) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick"
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| 15 | labyrinth | (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost (noun) a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
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| 16 | lacerate | (verb) cut or tear irregularly (verb) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; "his lacerating remarks" (adjective satellite) having edges that are jagged from injury (adjective satellite) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves"
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| 17 | laconic | (adjective satellite) brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"
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| 18 | laggard | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind (adjective satellite) wasting time (adjective satellite) inclined to waste time and lag behind
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| 19 | lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" (verb) beat with a cane
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| 20 | lambent | (adjective satellite) softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars"
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| 21 | lament | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person (noun) a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" (verb) regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" (verb) express grief verbally; "we lamented the death of the child"
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| 22 | languid | (adjective satellite) lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
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| 23 | larceny | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
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| 24 | lascivious | (adjective satellite) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
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| 25 | lassitude | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
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| 26 | latency | (noun) the state of being not yet evident or active (noun) the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it (noun) (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head
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| 27 | laud | (verb) praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
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| 28 | lax | (adjective satellite) emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" (adjective satellite) lacking in rigor or strictness; "such lax and slipshod ways are no longer acceptable"; "lax in attending classes"; "slack in maintaining discipline" (adjective satellite) tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children" (adjective satellite) lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "flaccid muscles"; "took his lax hand in hers"; "gave a limp handshake"; "a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know" G.K.Chesterton; "a slack grip" (adjective) not taut or rigid; not stretched or held tight; "a lax rope" (adjective) pronounced with muscles relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')
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| 29 | lecherous | (adjective satellite) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for-nothing"
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| 30 | lethargic | (adjective) deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"
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| 31 | levee | (noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
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| 32 | levity | (noun) lightness of manner (noun) feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
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| 33 | lewd | (adjective satellite) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" (adjective satellite) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
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| 34 | liaison | (noun) a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
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| 35 | liberalism | (noun) an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market and the gold standard (noun) a political orientation that favors progress and reform
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| 36 | libertine | (noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained (adjective satellite) unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"
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| 37 | licentious | (adjective satellite) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained; "coarse and licentious men"
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| 38 | ligneous | (adjective satellite) consisting of or containing lignin or xylem; "ligneous (or woody) tissue"
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| 39 | limber | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used to pull a field gun or caisson (verb) cause to become limber; "The violist limbered her wrists before the concert" (verb) attach the limber; "limber a cannon" (adjective satellite) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely (adjective satellite) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
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| 40 | lithe | (adjective satellite) gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease
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| 41 | litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" (verb) engage in legal proceedings
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| 42 | livid | (adjective satellite) furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid" (adjective satellite) (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; "livid lightning streaked the sky"; "a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day"- E.A.Poe (adjective satellite) ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror (adjective satellite) discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten black and blue"; "livid bruises"
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| 43 | loiter | (verb) be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
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| 44 | loquacious | (adjective satellite) full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"
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| 45 | lucent | (adjective satellite) softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars"
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| 46 | lucid | (adjective satellite) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" (adjective satellite) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" (adjective satellite) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" (adjective satellite) having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness"
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| 47 | lucrative | (adjective satellite) producing a good profit; "a remunerative business"
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| 48 | lugubrious | (adjective satellite) excessively mournful
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| 49 | luminous | (adjective satellite) softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars"
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| 50 | lunge | (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly (verb) make a thrusting forward movement
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