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Earl C. (United States of America)
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  1. district
    a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
  2. address
    the place where a person or organization can be found
  3. complain
    express discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
  4. explain
    make plain and comprehensible
  5. improve
    to make better
  6. farther
    more distant in especially space or time
  7. simply
    in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment
  8. hundred
    ten 10s
  9. laughter
    the activity of laughing
  10. mischief
    reckless or malicious behavior causing annoyance in others
  11. complex
    complicated in structure
  12. partner
    a person who is a member of a cooperative relationship
  13. orphan
    a child who has lost both parents
  14. constant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
  15. dolphin
    any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout
  16. employ
    put into service
  17. sandwich
    two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them
  18. monster
    an imaginary creature usually having human and animal parts
  19. orchard
    a small cultivated area where fruit trees are planted
  20. empty
    holding or containing nothing
  21. hungry
    feeling a need or desire to eat food
  22. handsome
    pleasing in appearance
  23. illness
    impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
  24. Congress
    the legislature of the United States government
  25. abstain
    refrain from doing, consuming, or partaking in something
  26. conscience
    motivation deriving from ethical or moral principles
  27. function
    what something is used for
  28. extreme
    of the greatest possible degree, extent, or intensity
  29. distrust
    doubt about someone's honesty
Created on Mon Nov 09 22:07:20 EST 2009 (updated Sun Nov 15 22:47:31 EST 2009)

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