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Begrudge |
to envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of (someone): |
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Belie |
to show to be false; contradict; to misrepresent |
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Behoove |
to be necessary or proper for, as for moral or ethical considerations; be incumbent on: |
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Diabolical |
having the qualities of a devil; devilish; fiendish; outrageously wicked |
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Impediment |
obstruction; hindrance; obstacle. |
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Parsimonious |
Parsimonious |
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Ebullient |
overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited |
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Ephemeral |
lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory |
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Effrontery |
shameless or impudent boldness; barefaced audacity |
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Prodigious |
Prodigious |
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Quatrain |
a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes. |
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Sestet |
the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit. |
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Cinquain |
a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing, respectively, two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. |
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Couplet |
a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length. |
