1. Definition: 1. determine by choice; "This action was willed and intended"

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1. Definition: 1. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);

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1. Definition: 1. the quality of being valid and rigorous

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1. Definition: 1. a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal; "stayed home in a sulk"

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1. Definition: 1. remain inactive or immobile; "standing water"

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1. Definition: 1. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others

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1. Definition: 1. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"

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1. Definition: 1. cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us"

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1. Definition: 1. the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"

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1. Definition: 1. reach a decision; "he resolved never to drink again"

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1. Definition: 1. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

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1. Definition: 1. enduring strength and energy

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1. Definition: 1. cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

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1. Definition: 1. force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"

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1. Definition: 1. a message refusing to accept something that is offered

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1. Definition: 1. persistent determination

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1. Definition: 1. doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; "his style of painting was a reaction against cubism"

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1. Definition: 1. the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe

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1. Definition: 1. a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor"

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1. Definition: 1. the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand

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1. Definition: 1. the act of retaining something

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1. Definition: 1. an earnest and sincere feeling

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1. Definition: 1. influence (somebody's) opinion in advance

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1. Definition: 1. faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive"

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1. Definition: 1. excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being resolute; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"

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1. Definition: 1. the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents; "these trees are widely planted because of their resistance to salt and smog"

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1. Definition: 1. intense aversion

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1. Definition: 1. resoluteness evidenced by strength of character; "sturdiness of moral principle"

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice

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1. Definition: 1. resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being unmanageable

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1. Definition: 1. persistent determination

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1. Definition: 1. the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise

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