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1 unsophisticated (adjective satellite) lacking sophistication

(adjective satellite) awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

(adjective satellite) lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"

(adjective satellite) lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine"

(adjective satellite) not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien

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2 gait (noun) a person's manner of walking

(noun) a horse's manner of moving

(noun) the rate of moving (especially walking or running)

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3 collusion (noun) secret agreement

(noun) agreement on a secret plot

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4 deponent (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition

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5 duration (noun) continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required"

(noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time

(noun) the period of time during which something continues

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6 practicable (adjective satellite) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

(adjective satellite) usable for a specific purpose; "an operable plan"; "a practicable solution"

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7 tolerate (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

(verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"

(verb) have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen; "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him"

(verb) recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others); "We must tolerate the religions of others"

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8 excellence (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree

(noun) something in which something or some one excels; "the use of herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine"

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9 itinerary (noun) a proposed route of travel

(noun) a guidebook for travelers

(noun) an established line of travel or access

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10 superannuate (verb) retire or become ineligible because of old age or infirmity

(verb) become obsolete

(verb) declare to be obsolete

(verb) retire and pension (someone) because of age or physical inability

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11 extensor (noun) a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part

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12 contagious (adjective satellite) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

(adjective satellite) easily diffused or spread as from one person to another; "a contagious grin"

(adjective) of or relating to communicable diseases; "by the road to the contagious hospital"

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13 crustacean (noun) any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton

(adjective) of or belonging to the class Crustacea

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14 phlegmatic (adjective satellite) showing little emotion; "a phlegmatic...and certainly undemonstrative man"

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15 virago (noun) a large strong and aggressive woman

(noun) a noisy or scolding or domineering woman

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16 nostrum (noun) patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable

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

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17 enlist (verb) join the military

(verb) engage somebody to enter the army

(verb) as of aid, help, services, or support

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18 subside (verb) wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

(verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair"

(verb) sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"

(verb) sink to a lower level or form a depression; "the valleys subside"

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19 alder (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the rot-resistant wood

(noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc

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20 superintendence (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

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21 dissentious (adjective satellite) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

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22 clement (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence"

(adjective) (of weather or climate) physically mild; "clement weather"

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23 inquisition (noun) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)

(noun) a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy

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24 residue (noun) something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"

(noun) matter that remains after something has been removed

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25 retrench (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"

(verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully

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26 reproduction (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring

(noun) the act of making copies; "Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient"

(noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

(noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall

(noun) the process of generating offspring

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27 unify (verb) join or combine; "We merged our resources"

(verb) become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "Will the two Koreas unify?"

(verb) to bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance"

(verb) act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief

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28 botany (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants

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29 abrupt (adjective satellite) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"

(adjective satellite) exceedingly sudden and unexpected; "came to an abrupt stop"; "an abrupt change in the weather"

(adjective satellite) extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"

(adjective satellite) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions; "abrupt prose"

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30 ornate (adjective satellite) rich in decorative detail

(adjective satellite) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

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31 hereditary (adjective satellite) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

(adjective satellite) tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features"

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32 retroactive (adjective satellite) affecting things past; "retroactive tax increase"; "an ex-post-facto law"; "retro pay"

(adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously

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33 plenipotentiary (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government

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34 impiety (noun) unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god

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35 therefor (adverb) (in formal usage, especially legal usage) for that or for it; "ordering goods and enclosing payment therefor"; "a refund therefor"

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36 diplomat (noun) an official engaged in international negotiations

(noun) a person who deals tactfully with others

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37 illumine (verb) make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit"

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38 forth (adverb) out into view; "came forth from the crowd"; "put my ideas forth"

(adverb) forward in time or order or degree; "from that time forth"; "from the sixth century onward"

(adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school";

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39 optometry (noun) the practice of an optometrist

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40 metronome (noun) clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music

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41 foretell (verb) indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"

(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"

(verb) foreshadow or presage

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42 disobedient (adjective) not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"

(adjective satellite) unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers"

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43 protuberant (adjective satellite) curving outward

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44 sense (noun) sound practical judgment; "I can't see the sense in doing it now"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing"

(noun) a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self"

(noun) a natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing"

(noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted; "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"; "in the best sense charity is really a duty"; "the signifier is linked to the signified"

(verb) comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"

(verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"

(verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"

(verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization"

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45 triplicate (noun) one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly

(verb) reproduce threefold; "triplicate the letter for the committee"

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46 anthology (noun) a collection of selected literary passages

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47 participate (verb) become a participant; be involved in; "enter a race"; "enter an agreement"; "enter a drug treatment program"; "enter negotiations"

(verb) share in something

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48 secede (verb) withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"

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49 employee (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job

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50 ligament (noun) any connection or unifying bond

(noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs

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51 precedential (adjective satellite) having precedence (especially because of longer service); "precedential treatment for senior members of the firm"

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52 regiment (noun) army unit smaller than a division

(verb) assign to a regiment; "regiment soldiers"

(verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization; "regiment one's children"

(verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment

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53 bitterness (noun) a sharp and bitter manner

(noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste

(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

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

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