Related Words for the black death

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black plague
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Name, Name, Name
bubonic plague
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Phrase, Noun
pestilence
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Noun
infectious disease
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Phrase, Noun
ebola virus
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Name, Name
contagious disease
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Phrase, Name
plague
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Noun
contagion
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Noun
epidemics
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Noun
pandemic
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Noun
typhoid fever
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Phrase, Noun
death rate
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Phrase, Noun
cholera
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Noun
death toll
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Phrase, Noun
smallpox
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Noun
disease
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Noun
typhus
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Noun
apocalypse
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Noun
outbreak
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Noun
mortality rate
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Phrase, Noun
poliovirus
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Noun
black mold
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Name
coronavirus
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Noun
scarlet fever
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Phrase, Noun
pathogen
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Noun
black spot
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Name, Name
dysentery
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Noun
communicable disease
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Phrase, Noun
malaria
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Noun
histoplasmosis
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Noun
infection
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Noun
mortality
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Noun
falling sickness
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Phrase, Noun
typhoid
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Noun
lyme disease
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Name, Name
tuberculosis
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Noun
apocalyptic
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Noun
wasting disease
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Phrase, Noun
dengue fever
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Phrase, Noun
syphilis
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Noun
epidemiological
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Adjective
blackish
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Adjective
necrotizing
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Noun
deathly
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Adjective
bioterrorism
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Noun
hemorrhagic fever
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Phrase, Noun
blood poisoning
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Phrase, Noun
reinfection
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Noun
pathogenic
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Adjective
biohazard
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Noun
infectious
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Adjective
sleeping sickness
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Phrase, Noun
morbidity
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Noun
pathogenetic
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Adjective
abject
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
accident
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Noun, Adjective
achromatic
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Adjective
actual
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Adjective, Noun
african
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Adjective, Name
afterlife
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Noun
agonising
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Noun, Adjective
agony
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Noun
alive
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Adjective
angry
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Adjective, Verb
annihilation
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Noun
apoptosis
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Noun
arrowhead
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Noun
assassination
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Noun
awful
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Adjective, Adverb
bad
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
baltic
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Name, Adjective
beat
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
beautiful
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Adjective, Noun
behind
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Adverb, Adjective, Noun
belowground
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Adjective
bereavement
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Noun
berries
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Noun
biggie
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Noun
birth
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
blacken
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Verb
blacklist
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Noun, Verb
blake
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Name, Adjective
blanco
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Name, Verb
blank
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
bleak
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Adjective, Noun
blood
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Noun, Verb
blue
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
bootleg
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
bosnia
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Name
bosnian
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Name, Adjective
bright
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
brother
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Noun, Verb
brown
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Name, Adjective, Verb
burial
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Noun
bury
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Verb, Noun
busted
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Adjective
calamitous
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Adjective
calico
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Noun, Adjective
capital
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Noun, Adjective
carrion
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Noun, Adjective
casualties
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Noun
cat
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
cherry
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Noun, Adjective
chestnut
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Noun, Adjective
clad
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Verb, Adjective
clandestine
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Adjective
closet
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
coal black
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Name, Adjective, Name
color
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
colorful
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Adjective
colour
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
commonplace
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
complicated
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Adjective
contraband
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
coroner
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Noun
corpse
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Noun, Verb
covert
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Adjective, Noun
cremation
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Noun
crucifixion
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Noun
culmination
xx/x
Noun
darkroom
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Noun
dayton
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Name
dead
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
deadly
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Adjective, Adverb
deaths
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Noun
decease
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Noun, Verb
defying
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Verb, Adjective
deliverance
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Noun
demise
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Noun, Verb
dense
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Adjective, Noun
departure
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Noun
descendant
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Noun, Adjective
destruction
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Noun
die
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Verb, Noun
dim
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
dire
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Adjective, Noun
dirty
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Adjective, Adverb, Verb
disappearance
xx/x
Noun
disappearing
xx/x
Noun
disastrous
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Adjective
disgraceful
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Adjective
dishonorable
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Adjective
dismemberment
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Noun
dog
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
doom
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Noun, Verb
dot
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Noun, Verb
downfall
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Noun, Verb
dread
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
dye
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Noun, Verb
ebony
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Noun, Adjective
eclipse
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Noun, Verb
embarrassing
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Adjective, Noun
end
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Noun, Verb
evil
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
ewe
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Noun, Adjective
executed
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Adjective
execution
xx/x
Noun
exhaustion
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Noun
exit
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Noun, Verb
expiration
xx/x
Noun
extermination
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Noun
extinction
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Noun
extirpation
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Noun
extrajudicial
xxx/x
Adjective
fatal
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Adjective, Noun
fatalities
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Noun
fateful
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Adjective
father
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Noun, Verb
ferrous
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Adjective
finish
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Verb, Noun
fruition
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Noun
frustrating
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Adjective
funeral
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Noun, Adjective
fur
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Noun, Verb
gloomy
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Adjective, Noun
gloss
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Noun, Verb
going
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
gold
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Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb
goner
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Noun
goon
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Noun, Verb
grave
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
gray
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
greatly
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Adverb
green
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
greenland
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Name
grey
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Adjective, Name, Verb
grief
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Noun, Verb
grim
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
grim reaper
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Phrase, Noun
halibut
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Noun
heartbreaking
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Noun, Adjective
heaven
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Noun, Verb
hidden
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Adjective, Noun
hit
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
homicide
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Noun
hopeless
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Adjective
hostess
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Noun, Verb
hungry
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Adjective
hunk
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Noun
ignominious
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Adjective
illegal
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Adjective, Noun
illicit
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Adjective, Noun
imposition
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Noun
in color
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Phrase, Noun
informal
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Adjective
inglorious
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Adjective
inky
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Adjective, Noun
ivory
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Noun, Adjective
jesus
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Name, Verb
kill
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Verb, Noun
killer
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Noun, Adjective