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Deviation from the common rule.
SYN: Irregularity, abnormal, peculiar |
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To lessen or ease the intensity of.
SYN: Pacify, quiet, relieve |
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Something hard to understand or explain; a mysterious person; an obscure speech or writing.
SYN: Mystery |
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Subject of two or more interpretations, usually to mislead or confuse; uncertain nature or classification.
SYN: Undecided, obscure |
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Extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books
SYN: Learned |
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Very hot; intensity of feeling
SYN: Passion, impassioned |
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Suffused with light; having full used of one's faculties; clear to the understanding
SYN: Luminous, translucent, sane, intelligible, clear |
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Hard to understand or explain; blocking the passage of light.
SYN: Obtuse, thickheaded |
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To soothe or mollify, especially by concessions.
SYN: Pacify, appease, please |
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To bring about especially abruptly (to precipitate an argument); to rain; to throw violently
SYN: Hurl |
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Recklessly spendthrift; yielding abundantly; profuse or wasteful expenditure
SYN: Lavish, profuse |
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Eagerness and ardent interest in pursuing something
SYN: Fervor, passion |
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| To refrain from deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from action or practice. |
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| To corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element; esp. to prepare for sale by replacing expensive elements with cheap ones |
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Lack of feeling or emotion.
SYN: Indifference. |
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Intrepidly daring; comtemptuous of law, religion, or decorum; marked by originality or verve; recklessly bold.
SYN: Adventurous, insolence, rash |
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A disposition to do things impulsively.
SYN: Whim, impulsive, unpredictable |
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A disposition to do things impulsively.
SYN: Whim, impulsive, unpredictable |
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