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  1. parlor
    a room in a house where people can sit, relax, and talk
    Imagine that you enter a parlor.
  2. precede
    come before
    When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about.
  3. pause
    stop an action temporarily
    When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about.
  4. qualified
    meeting the proper standards and requirements for a task
    In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before.
  5. tenor
    the general meaning or substance of an utterance
    You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar.
  6. defense
    the act of guarding someone or something against attack
    Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance.
  7. align
    adjust oneself with a group or a way of thinking
    Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance.
  8. gratification
    state of being satisfied
    Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance.
  9. opponent
    a contestant that you are matched against
    Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance.
  10. ally
    an associate who provides cooperation or assistance
    Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally’s assistance.
  11. interminable
    tiresomely long; seemingly without end
    However, the discussion is interminable.
  12. vigorously
    in an energetic manner
    And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.
Created on Sun Jan 12 15:27:35 EST 2020 (updated Sun Jan 12 15:30:21 EST 2020)

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