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permissive  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
read or examine, typically with great care
Exercise
approving; tolerant; granting; not strict in discipline
Exercise
disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious; throw into great confusion
Exercise
privilege; unquestionable right; exclusive power to command
perpetuate  Speak Example sentences
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make something last; preserve from extinction
Exercise
crude or coarse; unrefined or coarse in nature or manner; common or vulgar
Exercise
stir up; urge; goad to action; incite
Exercise
pull or draw, especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something
pervasive  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
advanced in development; appearing or developing early
Exercise
based on experience; useful
Exercise
make something last; preserve from extinction
Exercise
pervading; spread throughout every part
petulant  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
read or examine, typically with great care
Exercise
easily irritated or annoyed; unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered
Exercise
pierce, punch, or bore hole or holes in; penetrate
Exercise
rash; moving rapidly and heedlessly; speeding headlong; occurring suddenly
phlegmatic  Speak Example sentences
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make oneself tidy in appearance; feel self-satisfaction
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overconfident; going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward
Exercise
animal order including monkeys and apes and human beings; senior clergyman
Exercise
calm; not easily disturbed; not easily excited to action or passion
plumb  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
person who loves mankind in general; very generous person or institution
Exercise
position or arrangement of the body and its limbs
Exercise
make something last; preserve from extinction
Exercise
checking perpendicularity; exactly vertical
potential  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
pull or draw, especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something
Exercise
one who has more than one spouse at a time
Exercise
existing in possibility; expected to become or be
Exercise
superiority in numbers or amount
prate  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
speak foolishly; talk idly and at length; chatter
Exercise
make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate
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tending to betray; disloyal; faithless
Exercise
flexible; yielding; easily bent or shaped
preclude  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
Exercise
stir up; urge; goad to action; incite
Exercise
make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent; eliminate
Exercise
make oneself tidy in appearance; feel self-satisfaction
predetermine  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
calm; not easily disturbed; not easily excited to action or passion
Exercise
determine, decide, or establish in advance; influence markedly
Exercise
read or examine, typically with great care
Exercise
advanced in development; appearing or developing early