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1. Take apart; disassemble






2. Living at the same time as; existing during the same period of time; contemporary; of the same age






3. Weakness






4. Poison (of an animal); hatred; Ex. remarks full of venom; ADJ. venomous






5. One who has adopted a different religion or opinion; V: change into another form; (persuade to) adopt a particular religion or belief






6. One who installs and repairs pipes and plumbing(pipes)






7. Count; calculate; regard as; think; suppose






8. Driving away; disgusting; offensive; repulsive; unattractive; N.






9. Impartial; fair






10. Large kettle






11. Unoriginal; obtained from another source; Ex. derivative prose style; N.






12. Insane; Ex. lunatic asylum






13. (of land) plowed but not sowed (to improve the quality); uncultivated






14. Restraint from pleasant things - esp. eating or drinking; CF. abstention: act of abstaining from vote






15. Infallibility






16. Killing of animals for food; massacre; V: butcher (animals) for food; kill in large numbers






17. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition






18. Commence; go on board a boat; begin a journey






19. Judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief






20. Fantastic; comically hideous; strange and unnatural (causing fear or amusement)






21. Chief; first; Ex. archbishop






22. Abstain from; resist; forbear; N: chorus






23. Wall painting






24. Desertion






25. Derived by reasoning; V. deduce: infer; derive by reasoning






26. Payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce






27. Hollow; curved inwards; OP. convex






28. Use of force to get someone to object; compelling; V. coerce






29. Place formally in office; install; admit as a member; initiate; N. induction: inducting; process of deriving general principles from particular facts






30. Place over something else






31. Stoppage






32. Scarcity; dearth






33. Familiar with; having knowledge of






34. Make stupid in mind; cause to appear or become stupid or inconsistent; suppress; frustrate or hinder; Ex. stultifying effect of uninteresting work; Ex. stultify free expression






35. Record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry






36. Put or force in without being asked; trespass; enter as an uninvited person; Ex. intrude one's own opinion into the report; CF. thrust in






37. Causing plague; tending to cause death; baneful; N. pestilence: fatal epidemic disease (esp. bubonic plague)






38. That cannot be impeached; beyond doubt or question; blameless and exemplary






39. Coarsely insulting; physically harmful






40. Delusion; false idea; false perception of objects with a compelling sense of their reality; objects so perceived; V. hallucinate; ADJ. hallucinatory






41. Desecrating; profane; N. sacrilege: desecration - misuse - or theft of something sacred






42. Wind or turn in its course; follow a winding or turning course; move aimlessly and idly






43. Violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness); V. convulse; ADJ. convulsive






44. Capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around); Ex. prehensile tails






45. Dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; N: a group of soldiers - ships to a larger force; CF. contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; Ex. prepare for every contingency






46. Illusive; deceptive; not real






47. Nourish; feed; educate; rear; care for while it is growing or developing; foster; cultivate; N: something that nourishes; rearing






48. Cloying sweet; characteristic of sugar or saccharin






49. Formal agreement






50. Trick; deceive; hoodwink; N: person who is easily tricked; dupe







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