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noun

• a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color

• a young deer

verb

• show submission or fear

• try to gain favor by cringing or flattering

• have fawns

29%5 An act of crawling or inching slowly or stealthily; an inexorable movement of something, such as fog; or, a sycophant or otherwise unpleasant or detestable person
noun

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

• a slow longitudinal movement or deformation

• a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot

• a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body

verb

• move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground

• to go stealthily or furtively

• grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface)

• show submission or fear

28%6Sycophant
noun

• someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect

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