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Verbs
1. (verb) gall, irk;
  - irritate or vex;
  - “It galls me that we lost the suit”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) profiteer;
  - someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply);

Verbs
1. (verb) profiteer;
  - make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, vehement, violent;
  - marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid;
  - “fierce loyalty”; “in a tearing rage”; “vehement dislike”; “violent passions”;

2. (adj.) vehement;
  - characterized by great force or energy;
  - “vehement deluges of rain”; “vehement clapping”; “a vehement defense”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) laudatory, praiseful, praising;
  - full of or giving praise;
  - “a laudatory remark”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) acknowledge, know, recognise, recognize;
  - accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority;
  - “The Crown Prince was acknowledged as the true heir to the throne”; “We do not recognize your gods”;

2. (verb) agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize;
  - be fully aware or cognizant of;

3. (verb) discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart;
  - detect with the senses;
  - “The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards”; “I can’t make out the faces in this photograph”;

4. (verb) recognise, recognize;
  - perceive to be the same;

5. (verb) accredit, recognise, recognize;
  - grant credentials to;
  - “The Regents officially recognized the new educational institution”; “recognize an academic degree”;

6. (verb) greet, recognise, recognize;
  - express greetings upon meeting someone;

7. (verb) acknowledge, recognise, recognize;
  - express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for;
  - “We must acknowledge the kindness she showed towards us”;

8. (verb) recognize;
  - exhibit recognition for (an antigen or a substrate);

9. (verb) recognise, recognize;
  - show approval or appreciation of;
  - “My work is not recognized by anybody!”; “The best student was recognized by the Dean”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) disinter, exhume;
  - dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies;

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Nouns
1. (n.) horror, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion;
  - intense aversion;

2. (n.) incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance;
  - the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) erroneous;
  - containing or characterized by error;
  - “erroneous conclusions”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) tense;
  - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time;

Verbs
1. (verb) strain, tense;
  - become stretched or tense or taut;
  - “the bodybuilder’s neck muscles tensed;”; “the rope strained when the weight was attached”;

2. (verb) tense;
  - increase the tension on;
  - “alternately relax and tense your calf muscle”; “tense the rope manually before tensing the spring”;

3. (verb) tense, tense up;
  - become tense, nervous, or uneasy;
  - “He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room”;

4. (verb) strain, tense, tense up;
  - cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
  - “he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up”;

Adjectives
1. (adj.) tense;
  - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension;

2. (adj.) tense;
  - pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat’);

3. (adj.) tense;
  - taut or rigid; stretched tight;
  - “tense piano strings”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) scholarly;
  - characteristic of scholars or scholarship;
  - “scholarly pursuits”; “a scholarly treatise”; “a scholarly attitude”;

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