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Adapt
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To adjust or change to suit conditions
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Attest
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To bear witness, affirm to be true or genuine
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Dovetail
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To fit together exactly; to connect to form a whole
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Enormity
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The quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an
exceedingly evil act; huge in size, immensity
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Falter
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To hesitate, stumble, lost courage; to speak
hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline
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Foreboding
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A warning or feeling that something bad will happen;
marked by fear
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Forlorn
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Totally abandoned and helpless; sad and lonely; hopeless
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Haughty
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Chillingly proud and scornful
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Impediment
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A physical defect; a hindrance, obstacle
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Imperative
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Necessary, urgent; that which is necessary or required
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Loiter
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To linger in an aimless way, hang around
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Malinger
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To pretend illness to avoid duty or work
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Pithy
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Short but full of meaning and point
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Plunder
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To rob by force, esp. during wartime; property stolen
by force
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Simper
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To smile or speak in a silly way; a silly smile
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