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::: repress - hold back (the natural expression of); restrain; crush; oppress; Ex. repressed child; Ex. repress a laugh/rebellion
::: fancied - imagined; unreal
::: somber - dark; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; CF. shadow
::: titillate - tickle; excite pleasantly; Ex. not to titillate the audience but to enlighten it
::: commune - small (often rural) community whose members share work and income; V: exchange thoughts or feelings; Ex. commune with nature
::: incarnate - endowed with flesh; invested with bodily form; personified; Ex. devil incarnate; V: give bodily form to; embody
::: amphibian - able to live both on land and in water; N.
::: apposite - appropriate; fitting
::: debonair - (of men) friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed; aiming to please; CF. of good disposition
::: analogy - similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things