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Undue

Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

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Immoderate 84% connected

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate…

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Immoderate 84% connected

Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate…

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Unreasonable 84% connected

Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant.

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Unreasonable 84% connected

Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant.

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Excessive 92% connected

Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

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Inordinate 92% connected

Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world.

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Unreasonable 92% connected

Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant.

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Unwarranted 92% connected

Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.

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Due 94% connected

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

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Due 94% connected

Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.

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Acquittance noun · 78% connection

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

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Alien noun · 78% connection

A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess…

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Annat noun · 78% connection

A half years's stipend, over and above what is owing for the incumbency, due to a minister's heirs after his decease.

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Appoggiatura noun · 78% connection

A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree a…

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Assignment noun · 78% connection

A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular e…

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Attendant verb · 78% connection

Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.

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Bite verb · 78% connection

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

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Bond noun · 78% connection

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways…

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Brevipennate adjective · 78% connection

Short-winged; -- applied to birds which can not fly, owing to their short wings, as the ostrich, cassowary, and emu.

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Cacophony noun · 78% connection

An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.

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covalent bond noun · 78% connection

A bond in which atoms share electrons.

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Date verb · 78% connection

To note the time of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution; as, to date a letter, a bond, a deed,…

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Debenture noun · 78% connection

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum…

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Debit entry noun · 78% connection

an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing

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Deface verb · 78% connection

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important fe…

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Discord verb · 78% connection

Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they pr…

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Duebill noun · 78% connection

A brief written acknowledgment of a debt, not made payable to order, like a promissory note.

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Elegit noun · 78% connection

A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to sat…

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