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Verbs
1. (verb) break away, secede, splinter;
  - withdraw from an organization or communion;
  - “After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) irresponsible;
  - showing lack of care for consequences;
  - “behaved like an irresponsible idiot”; “hasty and irresponsible action”;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) fractious, recalcitrant, refractory;
  - stubbornly resistant to authority or control;
  - “a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness”; “a refractory child”;

2. (adj.) recalcitrant;
  - marked by stubborn resistance to authority;
  - “the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) pang, stab, twinge;
  - a sudden sharp feeling;
  - “pangs of regret”; “she felt a stab of excitement”; “twinges of conscience”;

2. (n.) twinge;
  - a sharp stab of pain;

Verbs
1. (verb) prick, sting, twinge;
  - cause a stinging pain;
  - “The needle pricked his skin”;

2. (verb) twinge;
  - feel a sudden sharp, local pain;

3. (verb) nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch;
  - squeeze tightly between the fingers;
  - “He pinched her behind”; “She squeezed the bottle”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) sylph;
  - a slender graceful young woman;

2. (n.) sylph;
  - an elemental being believed to inhabit the air;

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Adjectives
1. (adj.) excellent, fantabulous, first-class, splendid;
  - very good;of the highest quality;
  - “made an excellent speech”; “the school has excellent teachers”; “a first-class mind”;

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Nouns
1. (n.) deposit, deposition;
  - the natural process of laying down a deposit of something;

2. (n.) deposition;
  - (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer’s office;

3. (n.) deposit, deposition;
  - the act of putting something somewhere;

4. (n.) deposition, dethronement;
  - the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office;

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Nouns
1. (n.) dark, darkness, iniquity, wickedness;
  - absence of moral or spiritual values;
  - “the powers of darkness”;

2. (n.) evil, immorality, iniquity, wickedness;
  - morally objectionable behavior;

3. (n.) iniquity, injustice, shabbiness, unfairness;
  - an unjust act;

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Verbs
1. (verb) broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread;
  - cause to become widely known;
  - “spread information”; “circulate a rumor”; “broadcast the news”;

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Verbs
1. (verb) reproach, upbraid;
  - express criticism towards;
  - “The president reproached the general for his irresponsible behavior”;

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