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outrageous; reprehensible; rude; insolent; nefarious

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Arthur

2

to call together; to convene

3

conquest; subjugation; overcoming; chastisement; punishment; punitive expedition

1

decoration; order; medal

3

indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)

2

wicked person; evil person; bad child; naughty child; bad thing; mischief

1

attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat

1

youngest child

2

family quarrel; quarrel between parent and child

1

(nature of a) crime; (criminal) charge

1

tax

2

embezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation

1

diversion into illegal channels; putting on the black market; selling through illegal channels

3

territory

4

law; legislation; act

2

to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse; to use as grounds (for); to use as a shield; to shelter behind; to hide behind

1

abduction and confinement (esp. unlawful)

2

a day after the fair; (at a) stage when it's too late

1

grandson

1

process; course; mechanism

4

position in a game; state of the game; situation; stage; phase

4

one's frame of mind; way one looks at things

1

passing mark

1

examiner

3

to puzzle over; to think deeply about; to rack one's brains over (wrack)

4

spoiling (e.g. a plot); revealing (e.g. a trick); giving it away

1

piece of metal

1

to continue writing

1

to come out completely; to be fully expressed (of views, ideas, etc.); to be aired fully; to be exhausted; to run out

1

to knit (one's eyebrows); to furrow; to contract

10

to pull up; to haul up

1

incineration; destruction by fire

2

on the desk; theoretical; academic; armchair (e.g. plan)

1

feeling keenly; fully realizing

5

emotional; sentimental

1

to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play

1

dignified; majestic; stately; lordly; commanding

1

to make someone's acquaintance; to become acquainted (with)

2

check; restraint; oppression; repression

2

model; (good) example; exemplar; model handwriting; model drawing; copybook

2

neophilia; love of new or novel things; one who loves new or novel things

1

ceramic art; ceramics

2

mud; muddy; covered in mud

2

fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic

12

public and private matters; official and personal affairs; professional and personal lives

2

proper use; using (different things) for different purposes

1

there's nothing we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have; nonexistent; not in one's possession; we (I, he, she, etc.) don't have what we don't have

1

praiseworthy; commendable; laudable; strange (person); weird; odd

5

just out of the bath

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