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to produce or work out something through long and intensive intellectual effort

the worship of novelty or an excessive fondness for new things and ideas

characterized by bombastic, long-winded language or empty rhetorical flourishes

having a very strong or highly developed sense of smell

not covered with scales or scale-like structures; having a smooth outer covering

relating to or marked by a sudden and profound realization or insight

having nodules or small rounded lumps

merely mechanical, materialistic, or narrowly utilitarian

to call together or summon people for a meeting or gathering

containing petroleum or relating to petroleum extraction

living in mud or muddy regions

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