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abject |
utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty. |
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bane |
a person or thing that ruins or spoils: Gambling was the bane of his existence. |
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bestial |
without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman: bestial treatment of prisoners. |
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malice |
desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: |
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plagarism |
the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. |
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surreptitious |
obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine: |
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vilify |
to speak ill of; defame; slander. |
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Standards |
something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model |
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deduction |
the act or process of deducting; subtraction. |
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congeal |
to change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing: |
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intoxicating |
causing or capable of causing intoxication: |
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permeate |
to pass into or through every part of: |
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insatiable |
not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased |
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insipid |
without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: |
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palatable |
acceptable or agreeable to the palate or taste; savory |
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satiate |
to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit. |
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subsist |
to exist; continue in existence. |