Related Words for the dark ages

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dark age
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Phrase, Noun
middle ages
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Phrase, Noun
ancient history
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Phrase, Noun
bronze age
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Phrase, Noun
christian era
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Name, Name
medievalism
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Noun
stone age
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Phrase, Noun
medieval
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Noun
darkness
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Noun
preindustrial
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Adjective
great depression
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Name, Name
iron age
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Phrase, Noun
antiquity
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Noun
centuries
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Noun
paleolithic
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Name
mediaeval
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Name
prehistory
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Noun
bleakness
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Noun
premodern
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Noun
interregnum
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Noun
roman empire
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Name, Name
antediluvian
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Adjective
historical
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Noun
black plague
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Name, Name
retrogression
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Noun
recessionary
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Adjective
darkening
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Noun
neolithic
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Name
historically
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Adverb
barbarians
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Noun
dystopia
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Noun
feudalism
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Noun
famine
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Noun
desolate
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Adjective
deprivations
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Noun
archaic
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Name
illiteracy
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Noun
deindustrialization
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Noun
time immemorial
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Phrase, Noun
christendom
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Name
shogunate
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Noun
desolation
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Noun
renaissance
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Noun
apocalyptic
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Noun
pessimism
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Noun
blackness
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Noun
starvation
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Noun
privations
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Noun
ice age
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Phrase, Noun
crusades
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Noun
apocalypse
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Noun
obscurity
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Noun
golden age
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Name, Name
old world
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Name, Name
christianity
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Name
isolationism
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Noun
ahistorical
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Adjective
dimness
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Noun
depression
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Noun
apocalypticism
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Noun
nuclear winter
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Name, Name
acorn
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Noun
addressees
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Noun
aeons
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Noun
age
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Noun, Verb
alley
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Noun
alters
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Noun
an
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Noun
anonymous
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Adjective, Noun
arcane
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Adjective
bad
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
bedtime
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Noun
behind
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Adverb, Adjective, Noun
blackout
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Noun, Verb
blind
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Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
blue
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
bluish
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Adjective
blur
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
blurry
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Adjective
bosnian
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Name, Adjective
bright
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
brown
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Name, Adjective, Verb
brunet
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Name, Adjective
brunette
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Noun, Adjective
bruno
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Name
cantos
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Noun
chandeliers
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Noun
changer
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Noun
cheerless
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Adjective
chestnut
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Noun, Adjective
children
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Adjective
civilisations
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Noun
civilizations
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Noun
classifies
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Verb, Noun
cloudy
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Adjective
cohorts
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Noun
cold
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
color
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
colour
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
concealed
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Verb
confusing
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Adjective
construction
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Noun
covert
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Adjective, Noun
creepy
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Adjective
cryptic
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Adjective, Noun
curtain
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Noun, Verb
cycles
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Noun
dank
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
dappled
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Adjective
darkling
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Adjective, Name, Adverb
dates
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Adverb
daylight
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Noun, Verb
days
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Noun, Adverb
daytime
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Adjective, Noun
deep
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun
depressing
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Adjective
dire
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Adjective, Noun
discoloration
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Noun
disconsolate
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Adjective, Noun
dispiriting
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Adjective
dour
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Adjective
drizzle
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Noun, Verb
dubious
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Adjective
dull
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
dusk
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
dusky
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Adjective, Noun
eerie
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Adjective, Noun
elderly
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Adjective, Noun
empty
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
english
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Name, Adjective, Verb
eons
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Noun
epochs
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Noun
eras
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Noun
esoteric
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Adjective, Noun
evening
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Noun
evil
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb
extinct
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
featureless
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Adjective
flame
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
fog
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
foggy
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Adjective
foul
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
gap
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Noun, Verb
gat
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Noun, Verb
generations
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Verb
ghoulish
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Adjective
gloom
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Noun, Verb
glowering
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Noun
glum
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
gray
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
grayling
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Noun
green
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
grey
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Adjective, Name, Verb
grievance
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Noun
grim
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
halibut
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Noun
hazy
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Adjective
heavy
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
hidden
/x
Adjective, Noun
hunk
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Noun
ignorance
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Noun
inactive
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Adjective, Noun
incomprehensible
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Adjective, Noun
iniquity
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Noun
inky
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Adjective, Noun
inner
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Adjective, Noun
inside
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Adverb, Noun, Adjective
jacket
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Noun, Verb
jew
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Name, Adjective, Verb
lapses
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Noun
legend
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Noun, Verb
lifespan
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Noun
lifetimes
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Noun
light
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Noun, Adjective, Verb, Adverb
magic
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
matures
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Verb, Noun
media
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Noun, Adjective
midnight
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Noun, Adjective
miserable
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Adjective, Noun
mist
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Noun, Verb
moody
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Name, Adjective
morose
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Adjective
mule
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Noun, Verb
murky
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Adjective
mysterious
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Adjective
nasty
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Adjective, Noun
nebulous
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Adjective
negative
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
night
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Noun, Verb
nightfall
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Noun
nighttime
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Noun, Adjective
nocturnal
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Adjective, Noun
noir
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Noun, Adjective
obscure
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Adjective, Verb
olds
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Noun
ominous
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Adjective
opaque
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
orange
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
outside
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
overcast
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
overnight
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Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
pale
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
papal
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Adjective
periods
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Noun
popes
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Noun
purple
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
purplish
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Adjective
rebuilding
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Noun
reconstruction
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Noun
red
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
reddish
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Adjective, Noun