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a. strange; mysterious; peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature


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v. experience; suffer; pass through


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a. lying under or beneath something; basic; implicit; taking precedence; prior


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a. not bound by chains or shackle; not restricted


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v. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; happen


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a. unrelieved or immoderate in intensity or severity; without exception; absolute


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a. in a natural or wild state


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n. idealistic but usually impractical social reformer


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v. patch up something old; refurbish; put together; fabricate or improvise


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n. poison; poisonous secretion of animals, such as snake or spider; spite


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