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a cheap lodging house for homeless people and tramps
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doss house
appear to be or do something, especially falsely
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purport
be a perfect example of
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epitomize
a distinctive and typical style, form, or character
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mould
a hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material when it cools and hardens
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mould
extremely bright, especially so as to blind the eyes temporarily
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dazzling
great wealth or luxuriousness
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opulence
magnificent and splendid appearance; grandeur
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splendour
intense and passionate feeling
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fervour
attractive and impressive through being richly colourful or sumptuous
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resplendent
(of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something
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ooze
give a powerful impression of (a quality)
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ooze
belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes
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bourgeois

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