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| unleash | adverse | averse | aggravate
| casualty | disperse | scatter | dissipate
| emission | emit | enclosure | evacuate
| precaution | quench | pile ||
| precaution | quench | pile | elevated |
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* *As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.*
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| queer | eccentric | slippery | sly
| sympathetic | sympathize | tame | temperament
| vanity | vicious | savage | weird |
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* *The Navy Department moved into the east wing in 1879, where elaborate wall and ceiling stenciling and marquetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.*
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| elaborate | stencil | marquetry | escort
| squire | invasion | maneuver | militant
| raid | siege | besiege | cunning
| delicate | exquisite | aisle | bolt
| compartment | overleap | tilt | incline
| lean | tuck | waterproof | wedge |
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* *The researchers mapped not only the city's vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.*
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| ornate | ceremonial | antique | clue
| engrave | epoch | excavation | pinpoint
| primitive | savage | barbaric | barbarous
| settlement | systematic | terrain | enormous
| grave | immense | ingenious | lofty |
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* *It may be said that the measure of worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience, but this effect is not a part of its original motive.*
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| aboriginal | appetite | crush | deviate
| directive | disposition | disrupt | drawback
| enslavement | entity | essence | gratify
| hatred | headway | incidental | industriousness
| instill | overrule | overthrow | perpetuity
| resent | thrift | tuition | uproar |
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* *Our mental health doesn't really go anywhere, like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable being restored in an instant.*
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| inflict | afflict | conscience | immune
| innate | instinct | mend | shatter
| sigh | exterior | interior | intermediate
| inverse | lateral | mutual | oriental
| rear | bump | creep | linger
| procession | scramble | disorder | stagger
| astound | stroll | wander | |
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* *No boy who went to a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.*
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| ignorant | decay | dignity | disguise
| farcical | inhabitant | interval | monologue
| prosper | repertoire | sarcastic | hollow
| medieval | metaphor | orthodox | renaissance
| renewal | satire | decline | verse |
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