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A departure usually of a large number of people
S: flight escape, migration, hegira
A: arrival influx, immigration |
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Foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual
S: alien: striking, extraordinary
A: native, indigenous, endemic; commonplace, familiar, ordinary |
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a: Advantageous to one's interest or purpose.
b: An emergency course of action; a means to an end
S: convenient, timely, practical,; device scheme design stratagem maneuver stopgap
A: disadvantageous, unservicable, unsuitale |
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a. to use to the greatest possible advantage, often selfishly
b. A brillant or heroic deed
S: capitalize on; feat, heroics, coup, tour de France, derring-do
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To explain in detail
S: clarify, eludicate, explicate, delineate,
A: summarize, abstract, synopsize |
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a: to assemble or sonstruct from seperate parts
b. to make up with the intention of decieving
S: produce, devise, manufacture, concoct, contrive, come up with, cook up
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Not ment seriously: playful or humerous
S: waggish, whimsical, joking, comic, frivolous, droll
A: serious, grave solemn, sober, earnest, humorless |
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a. an exact copy
b. reproduced exactly
S: replica, reproduction, duplicate
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a. faulty reasoning: an error in logic
b. A false or mistaken notion
S: mistake, flaw, fault, defect, solecism |
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a.A unit of length roughly equal to six feet and used primarily in the measurements of marine depths
b. To get to the bottom of; to understand
S: sound, plump, prob, delve, penetrate, ferret out, root out: devine, grasp, comprehend
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Unconsciously foolish, stupid, or absurd
S: inane, vacuous, vapid, nonsensical, laughable, silly, ridiculous, ludicrous: wacky, goofy
A: sensible, intelligent, perceptive, acute, incisive: judicous |
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Possible; both doable and workable
S: practicable, practical, usable, realistic
A: impossible, unworkable, impracticable, impractical |
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To pretend or to give a false apperence of
S: fake, sham, simulate
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agreeably suited to the purpose or occasion; aptly or gracefully expressed
S: fake, sham, simulate
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a. An objective believed amoung primitive peoples to have magical powers.
b. An object of unreasonably excessive attention or reverence
S: charm, amulet, tailsman: fixation, obsession, preoccupation, compulsion
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