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""When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred." - Thomas Jefferson on reading Beloved

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Annals

(N.) - a record of events year by year

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Superannuated

(adj.) - obsolete through age or new technological developments

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Biennial

happening every two years

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Spite

(n.) -a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone; malice; bitter animosity

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Strewn

untidily scattered or dispersed

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Perfunctory

(Adj.) - carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection; cursory or hurried

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Churn

(N) - unpleasantly disturbing feeling; agitation or turning; a machine or container in which butter is made by agitating milk or cream.

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Luminous

(adj.) - full of light; bright or shining

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Revulsion

(n.) - a sense of disgust and loathing

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Rebuke

(v.) - express sharp disapproval or criticism of (someone) because of their behavior or actions; to criticize or reprimand

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Deprivation

(n.) - the damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society; poverty

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Tribulation

(n.) -a cause of great trouble or suffering

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Rendezvous

(n.) - a meeting at an agreed time and place, typically between two people.

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Idle

(adj. Or v.) - as an adjective: avoiding work, lazy; without purpose or effect; pointless, frivolous

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As a verb: do nothing, be inactive

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Yearning

(n.) - a feeling of intense longing

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Chastise

(v.) - to reprimand severely; to scold or lambaste

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Sullen

(adj.) - bad tempered and sulky; gloomy, surly

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Reluctant

(Adj.) - unwilling and hesitant; disinclined

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Zealot

(n.) - a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their relitgious, political, or other ideals

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Reverie

(n.) -a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream

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Vex

(V.) -make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters; to irritate

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Resigned

(Adj.) -having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about

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Radiate

(v.) -diverge or spread from or as if from a central point; emit (energy, especially light or heat) in the form of rays or waves

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Unbearable

(Adj.) -not able to be endured or tolerated; insufferable

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Elude

(v.) -evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.

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Gall

(n.) - bold and impudent behavior; brazenness; annoyance; irritation

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Riven

(Adj.) - split or torn apart violently.

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Righteous

(Adj.) -(of a person or conduct) morally right or justifiable; virtuous

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Dissipate

(v.) - (with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear; squander or fritter away

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Indolent

(adj.)- wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy, idle, lethargic

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Ann (Root)

Year

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Super (Root)

Above or Over

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Bi (Root)

Two

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