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employ

To engage the services of; put to work: agreed to employ the job applicant.
To provide with gainful work: factories that employ thousands.

To put to use or service.
To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose: employed several months in learning Swahili.

The state of being employed: in the employ of the city.
Archaic Occupation.
 

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lonely

There is a clear distinction between feeling lonely and being socially isolated (for example, a loner).

In particular, one way of thinking about loneliness is as a discrepancy between one's desired and achieved levels of social interaction, while solitude is simply the lack of contact with people.
 

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loyal

Steadfast in allegiance to one's homeland, government, or sovereign.
Faithful to a person, ideal, custom, cause, or duty.
Of, relating to, or marked by loyalty.
 

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Dwell

means to remain in a place, as a residence (a dwelling), or metaphorically to stay on a subject.

Dwell is an (angular) measure important to tuning how long the coil spends charging to spark automotive ignition systems.
 

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elder

Greater than another in age or seniority.Superior to another or others, as in rank.


An older person.
An older, influential member of a family, tribe, or community.
One of the governing officers of a church, often having pastoral or teaching functions.
Mormon Church A member of the higher order of priesthood.
 

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hemp

Cannabis.
The tough, coarse fiber of the cannabis plant, used to make cordage.
Any of various plants similar to cannabis, especially one yielding a similar fiber.
The fiber of such a plant.
 

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patch

A patch is a piece of software designed to update a computer program or its supporting data, to fix or improve it.
This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, and improving the usability or performance.

To mend..
 

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aphoria

a condition in which physical weakness is not lessened as a result of exercise.
 

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aardvark

The aardvark (/ˈɑːrd.vɑːrk/ ARD-vark, Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa
 

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lack

Deficiency or absence: Lack of funding brought the project to a halt.
A particular deficiency or absence: Owing to a lack of supporters, the reforms did not succeed.
 

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flask

A small container, such as a bottle, having a narrow neck and usually a cap, especially:
A flat, relatively thin container for liquor.
A container or case for carrying gunpowder or shot.
A vial or round long-necked vessel for laboratory use.

A frame for holding a sand mold in a foundry.
 

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freaky

= Strange and somewhat frightening

= Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
 

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mayflower

- Any of various plants that bloom in May.
- Common name for trailing arbutus.
(A low-growing evergreen shrub (Epigaea repens) of eastern North America, having leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers.)

the Mayflower the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
 

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stream

A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill (occasionally ghyll), kill, lick, mill race, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run, or runnel.
 

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asthma

A chronic respiratory disease, often arising from allergies, that is characterized by sudden recurring attacks of labored breathing, chest constriction, and coughing.
 

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llama

The llama (/ˈlɑːmə/; Spanish: [ˈʎama] locally: [ˈʝama] or [ˈʒama]) (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since pre-Hispanic times.
 

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ablative

(Grammar)
(in certain inflected languages such as Latin) denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument, manner, or place of the action described by the verb

(Grammar)
the ablative case
a word or speech element in the ablative case
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taking away or removing: ablative surgery.

(Aeronautics)
able to disintegrate or be worn away at a very high temperature: a thick layer of ablative material.
 
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