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Verb; to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
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Adj; Deviating from the norm (noun: aberration)
[A bear-ant is a deviation from the norm] |
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N; Eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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N; Deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality (adj: anomalous) |
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N; an expression of approval or praise
[A pro nation] |
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Adj; strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
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V; to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
[the sewage company appeased or pacified our needs to ease or lessen a sewage treatment] |
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adj; daring and fearless; recklessly bold (N; audacity) |
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adj; without adornment; bare, severely simple, ascetic (N; austerity) |
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Adj; taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth (N; axiom)
[The Axe had blood on it, possessing self-evident truth to the murder (axiom axe)] |
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Adj; following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards (N canon)
[in the revolutionary war, the cannon was used by both british and revolutionaries; it was the only thing they followed or agreed with; the traditional standard] |
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Adj; Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable
Capricorns are crazy, impulsive, and unpredictable |
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V; to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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N; trickery or subterfuge
[chicks are tricky] |
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N; an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
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Adj; complex or complicated |
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V; to undeceive; to set right
dis(undo) abuse |
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Adj; Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
[the piano was out of tune, so when he played a chord, it was discordant] |
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Adj; fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
the twins were fraternal and separate, disparate, dissimilar |
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N; extreme boldness; presumptuousness
[Zach Effron puts up a show of effrontery, he is bold and presumptuous] |
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Adj; well-spoken, expressive, articulate (N; eloquence) |
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V; to weaken; to reduce in vitality
[nerves enervate our bodies and make us weak to pain] |
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N; dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
[the ennui inuit was trapped in his house by the snow, so he became restless and bored] |
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V; to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent (Adj; equivocal) |
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Adj; Very learned, scholarly (N; erudition) |
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V; exonerate; to clear of blame
[The culprit was exculpated of blame] |
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Adj; Urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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Adj; improvised; done without preparation |
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N; intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
[fill a buster by making a long speech and blocking progress] |
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V; to loudly attack or denounce
[He was full of hate so he fulminated his boss] |
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Adj; accustomed to accepting something undesirable
[Genius doctors are ingenuous when it comes to dealing with undesirable cases] |
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Adj; easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts
irascible people can be irate |
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V; to praise highly (adj; laudatory)
[Loud laud to the Lord] |
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Adj; Clear, easily understood
[the lucid dream was clear] |
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N; The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp in forgiving (Adj: magnanimous) |
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Adj; Associated with war and the armed forces |
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Adj; of the world, typical of or concerned with the ordinary |
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Adj; Coming into being; in early developmental stages
[Nacer is to be born, when you come into being] |
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Adj; vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
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N; a new word, expression or usage; the creation of new words or senses |
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Adj; lacing sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
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V; to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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Adj; troubling; burdensome
[the mother was worried and burdened by her ornery and onerous child] |
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N; a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
[The pilgrims sang paeans during thanksgiving] |
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N; a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp in literature or art |
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Adj; recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
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N; intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj: perfidious) |
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Adj; Cursory; done without case or interest |
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N; intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj: perfidious) |
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Adj; Cursory; done without case or interest |
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Adj; acutely perceptive; having keen discernment (N; perspicacity) |
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V; to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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Adj; acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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V; to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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N; a disposition in favor of something; preference
He had a predilection for the delectable food |
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N; foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring (Adj: prescient)
[witches and prophets were the only people who possessed the ability to predict things pre-science] |
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V; to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
the truth could not be verified because the witness mislead the court and by prevaricating
[pre-varicate; pre-verification] |
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N; misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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V; to rectract, esp. a previously held belief |
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V; to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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V; to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position
[the soldier was relegated to a guard position by the gate] |
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Adj; quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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Adj; concerned and attentive; eager
[the solicitous solicitors wanted to make sure they got their money, so they were concerned and attentive to what the dude said] |
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Adj; characterized by filth, grime or squalor; foul
[he could not sort through the sordid room because it was so filthy and foul] |
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Adj;not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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V; to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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N; the combination of parts to make a whole (V; synthesize) |
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N; a force that causes rotation |
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Adj; winding, twisting; excessively complicated |
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Adj; fierce and cruel; eager to fight
[A drunk is truculent and is not willing to come to a truce] |
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Adj; extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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Adj; having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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V; to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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