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• Nefarious
  ==Adjective==
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• Extended
  ==Adjective==
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• Static
  ==Adjective==
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• Guilty
  ==Adjective==
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• Unknown
  ==Adjective==
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• Comparable
  *3 : to inflect or [[modify]] (an adjective or adverb) according to the [[degrees]] of comparison ...alue]] of one [[thing]] with something in another clause of a sentence. An adjective may simply describe a [[quality]], (the positive); it may compare the [[qua
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• Unique
  ==Adjective==
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• Professional
  ==Adjective==
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• Profound
  ==Adjective==
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• Emeritus
  ...is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-positive_adjective post-positive adjective] that is used to designate a [[retired]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro ...postpositional adjective (e.g., "professor emeritus") or as a preposition adjective (e.g., "emeritus professor"). There is a third, somewhat less common usage,
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• Authoritative
  *adjective
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• Mortal
  ==Adjective==
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• Public
  ==Adjective==
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• Dubitable
  '''dubitable'''- adjective
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• Chastity
  ...ry that the two words came to have the same basic [[meaning]] as a related adjective and noun.
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• Embryo
  ===Adjective===
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• Subordinate
  :''Adjective'' *3 : of, relating to, or constituting a clause that [[functions]] as a noun, adjective, or adverb
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• Intent
  ===Adjective===
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• Trivia
  ...ace where three ways meet". The pertaining adjective is ''triviālis''. The adjective ''trivial'' was adopted in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_Engl The [[Latin]] adjective ''triviālis'' in Classical Latin besides its [[literal]] [[meaning]] could
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• Peers
  ...ier as adjective as pare (late 12th cent.)), Portuguese par (13th cent. as adjective and noun). ...the person in question; an equal before the [[law]]. Freq. with possessive adjective and in pl.
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• Necessity
  :b. As a mass noun (freq. with possessive adjective): what is necessarily required; necessaries, needs. Now rare. :b. With possessive adjective or with the and modifying of-clause. Now rare.
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• Possessed
  *A. adjective.
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• Ignorance
  ...ation or general awareness are not the same. The [[word]] "Ignorant" is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware. The term may be used spe
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• Expression
  ex⋅pres⋅sion⋅al, adjective ex⋅pres⋅sion⋅less, adjective
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• Weird
  ...odern English adjective "weird" around 1400, and was originally used as an adjective for Weird Sisters. The meaning of "odd" is first attested in 1815. The term
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• Potential
  ==Adjective==
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• Foe
  ...100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] fāh, from fāh, adjective, [[hostile]]; akin to Old High German gifēh hostile
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• Finite
  Adjective - '''finite''' (comparative more finite, superlative most finite)
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• Principle
  ...incipal, many people still do. Principle is only a noun; principal is both adjective and noun.
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• Vernacular
  *Function: adjective
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• License
  synonyms see [[freedom]]— licensed adjective
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• Wonder
  ===Adjective===
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• Adjacent
  Adjacent is an adjective meaning contiguous, adjoining or abutting.
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• Military
  ...ending its country by combating [[actual]] or [[perceived]] threats. As an adjective the term "military" is also used to refer to any [[property]] or aspect of As an adjective military [[originally]] applied only to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sold
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• Open-ended
  adjective
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• Deja vu
  French, adjective, [[literally]], already seen
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• Fraud
  ...ade for [[personal]] gain or to damage another [[individual]]; the related adjective is fraudulent.
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• Primitive
  Adjective - '''primitive'''
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• Phrase
  ...ger prepositional phrase. At the end of the street could be replaced by an adjective such as nearby: the nearby house or even the house nearby. The end of the s ...ss. For example, the rich is a noun phrase composed of a determiner and an adjective without a noun.
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• China
  late [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 16th century] (as an adjective): from Persian chīnī ‘relating to China’, where it was originally mad
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• Superficial
  '''Superficial''' is an adjective generally [[meaning]] "regarding the surface", often [[metaphorically]]. Bo
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• Celestial
  Adjective - '''celestial''' (not comparable)
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• Proteus
  ...ne who is capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, with the general meaning of "[[versatile]]", "mutable", "capable ...m Proteus' [[transforming]] [[nature]], and multifarious aspects comes our adjective "protean". A "protean [[career]]" would [[embrace]] many human concerns. Fo
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• Condemn
  ...overtones. From it in [[English]] came "condemn"; "damnified" (an obsolete adjective [[meaning]] "damaged"); "damage" (via French from Latin damnaticum). It beg
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• Classic
  ...ething of lasting worth or with a timeless [[quality]]. The word can be an adjective (a classic car) or a noun (a classic of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engl
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• Abyss
  ...from Late Latin ''abyssus'', from [[Greek]] ''ἄβυσσο'', from ''abyssos'', adjective, bottomless, from a- + ''byssos'' depth; perhaps akin to [[Greek]] ''bathys
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• Vaccine
  ...variolae'' ''vaccinae'' cowpox), from ''Latin'', feminine of ''vaccinus'', adjective, of or from cows, from ''vacca'' cow; akin to [[Sanskrit]] ''vaśa'' cow
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• Grotesque
  ...ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English], grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or bizarre, and
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• Internship
  as an adjective in the sense ‘internal’: from French ''interne'' (adjective), ''interner'' (verb), from [[Latin]] ''internus'' ‘inward, internal.’
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• Atrophy
  ...art are referred to as trophic [noun] in medical practice ('trophic" is an adjective that can be paired with various nouns). ''Trophic'' [[describes]] the troph
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• Loyalty
  *Adjective. French. loyal, Old French. loial, leial, semi-popular ad. L. lgl-em
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• Waste
  ...] waste, wast; in sense 1, from Anglo-French wast, from wast, gast, guast, adjective, desolate, waste, from [[Latin]] vastus; in other senses, from Middle Engli
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• Corpora
  ...agging, in which information about each word's part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of tags. Another example is indic
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• Perversion
  ...form as "perv" and used as a verb meaning "to act like a pervert", and the adjective "pervy" also occurs. All are often, but not exclusively, used non-seriously
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• Morale
  ...r senses, [[modification]] of French ''moral'' ''morale'', from ''moral'', adjective
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• Cavalier
  :''adjective''
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• Twelve
  ...alled a ''Duodecad''. The ordinal adjective is ''duodenary'', twelfth. The adjective referring to a [[group]] consisting of twelve [[things]] is ''duodecuple''.
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• Entity
  The word entitative is the adjective form of the noun entity. Something that is entitative is "considered as pur
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• Realism
  ...lo-Norman ''real'' and Middle French ''reel'', ''real'' (French ''réel'') (adjective) (in [[legal]] use) that concerns [[things]] and not people (1283), [[actua
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• Subconscious
  ...el of awareness and [[automatism]]. In the strict psychological sense, the adjective is defined as "operating or existing outside of [[consciousness]]".[https:/
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• Profanity
  The original [[meaning]] of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not
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• Crescendo
  Italian, from ''crescendo'', adjective, increasing, gerund of ''crescere'' to [[grow]], increase, from [[Latin]]
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• Majesty
  ...sive (your, his, her, the king's, the queen's); sometimes with a modifying adjective, as (most) sacred, gracious, royal, etc.: an honorific title given to a kin
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• Human
  ...h] loan from Old French humain, [[ultimate]]ly from [[Latin]] hūmānus, the adjective of homō "man". Use as a noun (with a plural humans) dates to the 16th cent
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• Supernatural
  ...with [[paranormal]] or preternatural - the latter typically limited to an adjective for describing [[abilities]] which appear to exceed possible bounds. Likewi
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• Law
  ...ne.com/index.php?search=law&searchmode=none Etymonline Dictionary] and the adjective ''legal'' comes from the Latin word ''lex''. [https://www.m-w.com/dictionar
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• Surgery
  ...rgery. In this [[context]], the verb operate means to perform surgery. The adjective surgical means pertaining to surgery; e.g. surgical instruments or surgical
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• Hysteria
  New Latin, from [[English]] hysteric, adjective, from [[Latin]] hystericus, from [[Greek]] hysterikos, from hystera [[womb]
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• Mob
  ...ne who is an advocate or partisan of ochlocracy. It can also be used as an adjective (ochlocratic or ochlocratical).
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• Polytheism
  It [[ultimate]]ly derives from the [[Greek]] adjective πολυθεός (from πολύς "many" and θεός "god"), in the [[mean
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• Apocrypha
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• Artisans
  ..., jewelry, household items, and [[tools]]. The term can also be used as an adjective to refer to the craft of hand making food products, such as bread, beverage
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• Narcotics
  ...ish] ''narkotik'', from Middle French ''narcotique'', from ''narcotique'', adjective, from Medieval Latin ''narcoticus'', from Greek ''narkōtikos'', from ''nar
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• Derivative
  ==Adjective==
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• Origin
  ...nse ‘birth of an [[individual]] or a family’, 1679 in [[mathematics]]) and adjective (1520). Compare Italian origine (1304-8), Spanish origen (a1400).With the t
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• Polite
  ...] ''polītus'', past participle of ''polīre'' to smooth, to polish, also as adjective in figurative senses (of people, their [[manners]], or their [[appearance]]
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• Infancy
  ...Anglo-French enfant, from [[Latin]] infant-, infans, from infant-, infans, adjective, incapable of speech, young, from in- + fant-, fans, present participle of
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• Piety
  ...ord]] [[piety]] comes from the [[Latin]] word pietas, the noun form of the adjective pius (which means "devout" or "[[good]]"). Pietas in [[traditional]] Latin
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• Social
  The adjective "social" implies that the verb or noun to which it is applied is somehow mo ...ply a negative characteristic. It should also be noted that, overall, this adjective is used much more often by those on the political left than by those on the
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• Strict
  In [[mathematical]] [[writing]], the adjective '''strict''' is used to [[modify]] technical terms which have multiple [[me
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• Corpus
  ...ng, in which [[information]] about each word's part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of tags. Another example is indic
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• Epic
  An epic (from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek Ancient Greek] adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos) "[[word]], [[story]], poem")
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• Degree
  :c : one of the forms or sets of forms used in the comparison of an adjective or adverb
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• Eccentric
  ...]], sun. etc. deviates from its [[center]]." Five years later, in 1556, an adjective form of the [[word]] was added. 129 years later, in 1685, the definition ev
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• Secular
  Secularity (adjective form '''secular''') is the [[state]] of [[being]] separate from [[religion]
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• Ten
  ...09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] tīene, from tīen, adjective, ten; akin to Old High German zehan ten, [[Latin]] decem, [[Greek]] deka
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• Veteran
  [[Latin]] veteranus, from veteranus, adjective, old, of long [[experience]], from veter-, vetus old
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• Positive
  ...t is expressed in [[English]] by the unmodified and uninflected form of an adjective or adverb and denotes no increase or diminution
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• Hermit
  ...from Late Latin ''eremita'', from Late Greek ''erēmitēs'', from [[Greek]], adjective, living in the [[desert]], from ''erēmia'' desert, from ''erēmos'' desola
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• Original
  Adjective - '''original'''
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• Guru
  ...s the imparter of [[knowledge]] (''jñāna''; Also Persian: ''Dāna''). As an adjective, it means 'heavy,' or 'weighty,' in the sense of "heavy with [[knowledge]],
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• Concrete
  ...nating a [[quality]] belonging to a substance (usually [[expressed]] by an adjective such as white in white paper) as opposed to the quality itself (expressed b
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• Gymnasium
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• Clarion
  ...on" derives from three [[Latin]] words: the noun ''clario'' (trumpet), the adjective ''clarus'' (bright or clear), and the verb ''claro'' (to make clear). Throu
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• Oblique
  Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French ''oblique'' (adjective) diverging from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpendicular perpendicu
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• Cosmopolis
  adjective
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• Humility
  ...ity" is derived from the [[Latin]] word "humilitas", a noun related to the adjective "humilis", translated not only as "humble", but also alternatively as "low"
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• Malapropism
  ...ly chose her name in [[humorous]] reference to the word ''malapropos'', an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the Fr
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• Mountain
  ...ly in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill. The adjective montane is used to describe mountainous areas and things associated with th
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• Libertine
  ...sh] ''libertyn'' freedman, from [[Latin]] ''libertinus'', from libertinus, adjective, of a freedman, from ''libertus'' freedman, from ''liber''
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