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meticulous
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adj. excessively careful.
He was ____________ in his checking his accounts and never made mistakes.
Synonyms: careful, conscientious, conscionable, exact, fussy, heedful, painstaking, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous
Antonyms: none |
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adj. stingy; mean.
The _________ old man hoarded his coins not our of prudence but out of greed.
Synonyms: cheeseparer, close, closefisted, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, tight, tightfisted
Antonyms: bountious, generous, altruistic, benevolent, charitable |
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v. appease.
Nothing he did could ___________ her wrath; she was unforgiving.
Synonyms: relieve, allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, lighten, mollify
Antonyms: intensify |
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adj. ill-humored; sullen
When we first meet Hamlet, we find him __________ and depressed.
Synonyms: crabbed, dorty, dour, gloomy, glum, saturnine, sulky, surly, ugly
Antonyms:blithe |
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adj. worldly as opposed to spiritual.
He was concerned only with __________ matters, especially the daily stock market quotations.
Synonyms: earthly, earthy, sublunary, tellurian, telluric, terrene, terrestrial, uncelestial,
Antonyms: eternal |
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notoriety
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n. disrepute; ill fame.
If the starlet couldn't have a good reputation, she'd settle for ___________.
Synonyms: fame, celebrity, éclat, renown, rep, reputation, repute, opprobrious
Antonyms: none |
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v. to make invalid.
Once the contract was ___________, it no longer had any legal force.
Synonyms: abolish, abate, abrogate, annihilate, annul, invalidate, negate, quash, undo, vitiate
Antonyms: none |
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v. bring up; feed; educate.
We must ___________ the young so that they will develop into good citizens.
Synonyms: nurse, cherish, cultivate, foster, nourish, nursle
Antonyms: disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook, pass over, slight |
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n. forgetfulness.
Her works had fallen into a state of __________; no one bothered to read them.
Synonyms: lethe, obliviousness, insensibleness, nirvana
Antonyms: alertness, awareness, consciousness, memory, recall, remembrance |
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adj. dark; not transparent.
The _________ window shade kept the sunlight out of the room.
Synonyms: obscure, ambiguous, amphibological, equivocal, nubilous, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague
Antonyms: transparent, transpicuous |
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n. wealth.
Visitors from less wealthy lands are ameazed and impressed by the __________ of this country.
Synonyms: 1. rich, affluence, moneyed, oofy, wealthy,
2.luxurious, capuan, deluxe, luscious, lush, palatial, plush, sumptuous, upholstered,
3. profuse, exuberant, lavish, prodigal, profusive, riotous
Antonyms: none |
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ostentatious
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adj. showy; pretentious.
The real hero is modest, never _________________.
Synonyms: chichi, flamboyant, orchidaceous, peacockish, peacocky, pretentious, splashy, swank
Antonyms: unostentatious |
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n. one opposed to force; antimilitarist.
The ___________ urged that we reduce our military budget and recall our troops stationed overseas.
Synonyms: dove, pacificist
Antonyms: bellicist |
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adj. one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party.
On certain issues of conscience she refused to take a __________ stand.
Synonyms: biased, colored, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, prejudiced, prepossessed, tendentious, unindifferent, warped
Antonyms: impartial, indifferent, unbiased, nonpartisan |
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perfunctory
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adj. superficial; not thorough.
He overlooked many weaknesses when he inspected the factory in his ______________ manner.
Synonyms: automatic, mechanical, cursory, routine, usual
Antonyms: cordial, friendly, genial, hearty, warm |
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peripheral
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adj. marginal; outer.
We lived, not in central London, but in one of those _____________ suburbs that spring up on the outskirts of a great city.
Synonyms: accessorial, accessory, appurtenant, auxiliary, supplemental, supplementary, perimeter, border, edge, margin
Antonyms: chief, main, principal |
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adj. spread throughout; permeating.
The ____________ odor of mothballs clung to the clothes and did not fade away until they had been thoroughly aired.
Synonyms: charge, compenetrate, impenetrate, impregnate, penetrate, percolate, saturate, transfuse
Antonyms: none |
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philanthropist
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n. lover of mankind; doer of good.
When he grew older, he became famous as a __________________ and benefactor of the needy.
Synonyms: altruistic, benevolent, eleemosynary, good, humane, humanitarian
Antonyms: misanthropist |
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