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::: attenuate - make thin; weaken
::: repartee - quick clever reply
::: topple - become unsteady and fall down
::: clavicle - collarbone
::: flamboyant - ornate; highly elaborate; richly colored; ostentatious; showy; CF. flame
::: pinion - restrain or immobilize by binding the wings or legs; N: bird's wing
::: adversity - great hardship or affliction; misfortune; calamitous event
::: circumscribe - limit; confine; draw a line around
::: effigy - dummy; likeness of a person made of wood, paper, or stone; Ex. burn an effigy of the President
::: tether - tie (an animal) with a rope or tether; N: rope or chain to which an animal is tied; limit of one's endurance; Ex. the end of one's tether