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n. lacking restraint or control; feeling of extreme emotional intensity; unbounded enthusiasm


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v. pronounce clear of guilt or blame; grant remission of sin to; acquit


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n. skin condition, usually of the face that is common in adolescents, characterized by red pimples, caused by inflammation


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v. govern; supervise; give or apply medications


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n. payment by a husband to his divorced wife, or vice versa


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n. large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America


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v. attract with something desirable; be highly, often subtly attractive


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a. apart; remote in manner; distant physically or emotionally; reserved and remote


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n. formal public statement; an act of making known publicly


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n. bowman, one skilled in the use of the bow and arrow


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