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- animosity (n)
animous, animosities |
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o concomitant (adj),(n)
concomitance, concomitantly |
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concurrent, existing with something else, accompanying something else
"in order to really understand women's rights movements in america it is necessary to understand the concomitant movements" |
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o enigma (n)
enigmatic, enigmatically |
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a puzzle, a riddle, a mystery, an inexplicable occurrence
plural: enigmata |
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o hypothetical (adj)
hypothesis, hypothesize |
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supposed, assumed, theoretical, in the manner of an educated guess
something hypothetical lies beneath the real stating or placing or theorizing of something |
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- invidious (adj)
-ly, -ness |
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| an invidious comparison is one that causes envy, resentment, dislike |
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| the means of connection, the link, the binding element, or the series that is so bound |
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- petulant (adj)
-ly, petulance |
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| peevish, touchy, annoyed, impatient, testy, especially over trifling matters |
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- recondite (adj)
-ly, -ness |
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| deep, mysterious, hidden, abstruse, beyond ordinary knowledge, *confusingly profound |
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- spurious (adj)
-ly, -ness |
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| not genuine, counterfeit, plagiarized |
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| a shrew, a scold, a violent ill-tempered woman |
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+ apex (n)
apices, apexes, apical |
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the tip, the point, vertex, summit, acme, zenith, the climax, often figurative.
can be literal: triangles have many apices |
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o/+ cogitation (n)
cogitable, cogitative, cogitate |
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| meditation, contemplation, thinking, the faculty for thinking, a thought itself, a plan or design. to cogitate is to think carefully about something, to scheme, to plan |
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+ ductile (adj)
-ly, -ness, ductility |
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| capable of being drawn or extended, made into a thin thread. malleable, capable of being hammered thin, docile, |
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- grandiloquent (adj)
-ly, grandiloquence |
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| grandly eloquent, pompous, bombastic, puffed up, turgid, pretentious |
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| an intimation, an implication, a hint, an indirect statement |
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- niggard (n)
-ly, -liness, -ize |
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| a miser, a scrooge, a tight person, a stingy person |
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+ piquent (adj)
-ly, -ness, piquency, pique |
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| agreeably sharp, agreeably biting, agreeably pungent, agreeably stimulating |
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o reconnoiter (v)
reconnaissance, 'recon' |
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to inspect ahead of time to gain advantage, especially for military purposes.
"to case da joint" |
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- stratagem (n)
strategy, strategic |
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| a plan, a scheme, a trick, a ruse, an artifice, a misleading trick/strategy. |
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| masculinity, manly, macho, |
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