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Truant

One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

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Absent 84% connected

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

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Absent 84% connected

Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.

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Absentee 76% connected

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where hi…

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Offender 76% connected

One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer.

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Wrongdoer 76% connected

One who injures another, or who does wrong.

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Abandon verb · 78% connection

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

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Academy noun · 78% connection

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a ra…

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Balk verb · 78% connection

To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.

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Bencher noun · 78% connection

One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

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Blink verb · 78% connection

To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question.

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Dawdler noun · 78% connection

One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

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Defection noun · 78% connection

Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; fail…

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Desert verb · 78% connection

To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame…

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Desolate verb · 78% connection

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

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Dismiss verb · 78% connection

To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.

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Dismission noun · 78% connection

The act dismissing or sending away; permission to leave; leave to depart; dismissal; as, the dismission of the grand jury.

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Dorr noun · 78% connection

The dorbeetle; also, a drone or an idler. See 1st Dor.

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Ethics noun · 78% connection

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

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Flunk verb · 78% connection

To fail in; to shirk, as a task or duty.

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Forsake verb · 78% connection

To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in…

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Furlough adjective · 78% connection

Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document gr…

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Hedge verb · 78% connection

To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shir…

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Inveterate adjective · 78% connection

Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

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