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Earnest :: Earnest (a.) Serious; important.

Pensive :: Pensive (a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing..

Implore :: Implore (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought..

Sprightless :: Sprightful (a.) Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Ernest :: Ernest (n.) See Earnest.

Strife :: Strife (n.) The act of striving; earnest endeavor.

Supplication :: Supplication (n.) A humble petition; an earnest request; an entreaty.

Levity :: Levity (n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.

Arles :: Arles (n. pl.) An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain.

Postulate :: Postulate (v. t.) To invite earnestly; to solicit.

Engagedness :: Engagedness (n.) The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.

Contest :: Contest (n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter..

Serious :: Serious (a.) Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile..

Strong :: Strong (superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory..

Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

Heartedness :: Heartedness (n.) Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness.

Supplier :: Supplicatory (a.) Containing supplication; humble; earnest.

Groan :: Groan (v. i.) To strive after earnestly, as with groans..

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action..

Gloat :: Gloat (v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice..

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