| Term | Definition |
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Marathon |
Contest that involves endurance |
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Stygian |
A sense of infernal gloom |
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Tawdry |
cheap, showy, and lacking in good tast |
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Calliope |
keyboard instrument using steam to power whistles that play musical notes |
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Apochrypha |
doubtful accuracy |
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Byzantine |
scheming, devious, or complex design |
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Mesmerize |
to spellbind, to fascinate, to hypnotize |
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Halloween |
used to describe a holilday in which kids dress up and go around collecting treats from neighbors |
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Vandal |
mischievous or malicous destruction or damge done to property |
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bowdlerize |
to expurgate, to edit by prudishly omitting parts considered indelicate |