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a. done with very great haste and without due deliberation, extremely steep

a. relating to or involving money, consisting of or measured in money

a. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger, characterized by violent emotions or behavior

a. having or showing a ready disposition to fight

a. done with very great haste and without due deliberation, extremely steep

n. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things, an indirect way of expressing something

n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

n. the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle

a. harmful to living things, causing harm or damage

n. practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

n. synthesis of compounds with the aid of radiant energy (especially in plants)

v. repeat an earlier theme of a composition, repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life

a. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger, characterized by violent emotions or behavior

n. a blood-red color, confidently optimistic and cheerful

v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

n. a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

n. a divine manifestation, twelve days after Christmas

a. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy, expressive of contempt

n. the branch of physics concerned with the conversion of different forms of energy

a. generally incompetent and ineffectual, not fit to assume responsibility

n. an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)

a. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

n. function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues

n. a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches

v. divide unfairly and to one's advantage, of voting districts

n. function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues

n. rejection of all religious and moral principles

n. (logic) a statement that is necessarily true, useless repetition

a. with your identity concealed

n. a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order

n. the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle

n. a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes

n. a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

a. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy, expressive of contempt

a. necessarily or demonstrably true, impossible to deny or disprove

n. either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length

n. a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

a. having unlimited power, having virtually unlimited authority or influence

n. rejection of all religious and moral principles

n. a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order