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::: virtue - goodness; moral excellence; good quality; advantage; Ex. by virtue of; Ex. make a virtue of necessity
::: chide - scold; rebuke (someone who has done wrong)
::: subside - sink to a lower level; settle down; sink to the bottom (as a sediment); descend; grow quiet; become less; moderate; abate
::: impale - pierce (with a sharp point); Ex. impaled by the spear
::: centaur - mythical figure, half man and half horse
::: veracious - (of a person) truthful
::: penumbra - partial shadow (in an eclipse); CF. almost shadow
::: profligate - wasteful (of money); dissipated; wildly immoral; dissolute; N: profligate person; N. profligacy
::: transgression - violation of a law; sin; V. transgress: go beyond (a limit); violate; do wrong
::: smother - kill from lack of air; suppress; cover thickly; Ex. smothered in little stickers