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n. generous gift; money or gifts bestowed


Spelling Word: largess
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n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; generally ignorant person


Spelling Word: layman
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v. cause to rise, especially by fermentation; add a rising agent to


Spelling Word: leaven
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n. someone who releases people from captivity


Spelling Word: liberator
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n. repetitive or incantatory recital; long and tedious address


Spelling Word: litany
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a. talkative; given to continual talking; chattering


Spelling Word: loquacious
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n. general sense of depression or unease; vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness


Spelling Word: malaise
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v. depict as if on a map; plan or delineate, especially in detail; arrange


Spelling Word: map
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n. collection of live wild animals on exhibition; enclosure in which wild animals are kept


Spelling Word: menagerie
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n. a small, representative system having analogies to the larger system; miniature model of something


Spelling Word: microcosm