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| abnegate, forswear (also foreswear), recant, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, retract, take back |
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| continual fluctuation (as between one thing and its opposite) |
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| abuse, attack, bash, belabor, blast, castigate, excoriate, jump (on), lambaste (or lambast), potshot, |
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| humane, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, |
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| bluster, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, |
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| secluded, covert, hidden, isolated, quiet, remote, retired, secret, sheltered |
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| aesthetic (also esthetic or aesthetical or esthetical), attractive, beauteous, bonny (also bonnie) |
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| boon, clubbable (also clubable), clubby, companionable, extroverted (also extraverted), gregarious, outgoing, sociable, social |
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| befitting, correct, decent, proper, de rigueur, genteel, nice, polite, respectable, seemly |
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| alien, alienate, estrange, disgruntle, sour |
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| artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceitfulness, |
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| appeal (to), beseech, besiege, conjure, beg, impetrate, implore, importune, petition, plead (to), pray, |
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| bad, contrary, naughty, froward, misbehaving, mischievous |
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| apple-polish, bootlick, fuss, kowtow, suck (up), toady, truckle, curry favor, kiss up to |
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| applicable, apposite, apropos, pertinent, material, pointed, relative, relevant |
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| clog, cramp, embarrass, encumber, fetter, handcuff, handicap, hinder, hobble, hog-tie, hold back, hold |
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| incomparable, only, matchless, nonpareil, peerless, unequaled (or unequalled), unexampled, |
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| deride, ridicule (or jibe), jeer, laugh (at), mock, scout, shoot down, skewer |
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| to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
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| bitter, brutal, burdensome, cruel, excruciating, grievous, grim, hard, hardhanded, heavy, inhuman, |
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| to ward off a weapon or blow |
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| blotched, blotchy, dappled (also dapple), marbled, mottled, piebald, pinto, splotched, spotted |
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| bendy [chiefly British], flexible, limber, lissome (also lissom), lithe, lithesome, pliable, willowy, supple |
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| amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, awful, eye-opening, fabulous, miraculous, portentous, |
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| annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, |
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| deport, displace, exile, expatriate, banish, transport |
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| assuage, quench, sate, satiate, satisfy |
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| drowsy, narcotic, opiate, sleepy, slumberous (or slumbrous), somniferous, somnolent, hypnotic |
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| black, caliginous, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, |
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| moderateness, moderation, temperateness |
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| bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, freehearted, fulsome, liberal, munificent, |
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| blemish, darken, mar, poison, spoil, stain, tarnish, touch, taint |
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