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(adj.) severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury, simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor
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Austere
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(adj.) performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good
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Beneficent
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(adj.) pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse
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Cadaverous
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(v.) to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish); to devise, invent, fabricate
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Concoct
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(adj.) coarse, unfeeling; stupid
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Crass
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(v.) to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate
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Debase
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(v.) t ocommit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently; to contaminate, pollute
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Desecrate
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(v.) to confuse; to disturb the composure of
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Disconcert
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(adj.) grand in an impressive or stately way; marked by pompous affectation or grandeur, absurdly exaggerated
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Grandiose
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(adj.) trifling, unimportant
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Inconsequential
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(n.) a breaking of a law or obligation
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Infraction
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(v.) to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity
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Mitigate
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(v.) to rob of goods by open force (as in war), plunder; (n.) the act of looting; booty
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Pillage
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(v.) to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion
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Prate
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(adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette
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Punctilious
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