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| dirty or squalid; arousing moral distaste or contempt |
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| noun- dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| adj.- fierce and cruel, eager to fight |
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| adj.- unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| noun- difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| verb- to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| verb - to atone or make amends for |
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| noun - an outcome or solution; unravelling of a plot |
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| verb - to find fault without good reason |
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| adj. - belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| adj. - hard working, diligent, sedulous |
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| noun - farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith |
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noun - rope, cord, cable attached as a brace or guide
verb - to steady, reinforce |
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| verb - to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| noun - power, strength [puissant - powerful, strong] |
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| WG- abbreviated, communication |
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| abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse |
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| apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate |
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| abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance |
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| bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish |
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| dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro |
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| burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent |
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| WG - biting (wit or temperament) |
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| acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant |
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| banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, prosaic, quotidian, trite |
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| bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude |
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| bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, sepulchral, wraith |
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| implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refracting, renitent, untoward, vexing |
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| verb - to test or try, attempt, experiment |
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| verb - to pry, to press, or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils |
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| verb - to lose courage, turn frightened |
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| verb - to remove from consideration |
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| verb - to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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| noun - the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| verb - to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| adj. - aphoristic or monastic; epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively |
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| adj. - disorganized and incoherent, with sense of not being fully formed |
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| adj. - talkative, speaking easily |
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| diligence (as in sedulous, showing diligence) |
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| diligence (as in sedulous, showing diligence) |
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| state of eternal damnation or punishment |
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| adj. - done in a solemn or overly pretentious manner |
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| noun - trite, meaningless, biased or prosaic statement |
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| apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious |
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| aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy |
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| adj. - radiant, shiny, bright |
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| adj. - not capable of change |
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| noun - devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially pleasure of the senses |
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adj - phony; artificial
syn: insincere, pretentious, put-on |
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adj. - extremely plain or secluded, as in a monastery
syn: austere; contemplative; disciplined; regimented; self-abnegating |
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adj. - cynical; scornfully mocking
syn: acerbic; caustic; sarcastic' satirical; snide |
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adj. - rude and bad tempered
syn: gruff; grumpy; testy |
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verb - to tarnish; taint
syn: besmirch; defile |
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verb - irritate
syn: annoy, vex |
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adj. - stupid; foolishly self-satisfied
syn: absurd; ludicrous; preposterous; ridiculous; silly |
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adj. - quick, shrewd, and unpredictable
syn: clever, crafty; volatile' whimsical |
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verb - to infuse, dye, wet, or moisten
syn: charge; freight; impregnate; permeate; pervade |
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adj. - of questionable authority or authenticity
syn: disputed; doubtful; fictitious; fradulent |
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adj. - allowing light to show through; delicate
syn: gauzy; sheer; tenuous; translucent; transparent |
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adj. - respected because of age
syn: distinguished; elderly; respectable |
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verb - to ridicule with satire
syn: tease |
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adj. - acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion
syn: extremist, fiery; frenzied; zealous |
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to make larger; expand
syn: amplify; develop; elaborate; enlarge; expand' expatiate |
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adj. - too helpful; meddlesome
syn: eager; unwanted; intrusive |
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noun - grammatical mistake; blunder in speech
syn: blooper; faux pas; vulgarism |
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adj. - having low moral standards; not noble in character; mean
syn: lowly; vulgar |
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adj. - inducing sleep or lethargy
syn: hypnotic; narcotic; slumberous; somnolent |
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noun - blocked path; dilemma with no solution
sy: cul-de-sac; deadlock; stalemate |
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noun - trick used to deceive ones enemy
syn: artifice; feint; maneuver; ruse; wile |
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adj. - easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
syn: capricious; erratic; fickly; inconsistent; inconstant; mercurial; temperamental |
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| noun - a lessening of pain without loss of consciousness |
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verb - to glare or stare angrily or intensely
syn: frown; lower; scowl |
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adj. - absolute; certain
syn: categorical; clear; explicit; express; unambiguous |
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verb - to trim off excess; reduce
syn: clip; peel |
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adj. - pompous in speech or manner
syn: bloated; declamatory; fustian; grandiloquent; grandiose; high-flown; magniloquent; orotund; pretentious; rhetorical; self-important |
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adj. - silent; not talkative
syn: laconic; reticent |
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noun - the female branch of a family
syn: maternal |
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noun - effectiveness
syn: dynamism, effectiveness, efficiency, force, power, productiveness, proficiency, strength, vigor |
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verb - to dance or skip around playfully
syn: caper; cavort; frisk; frolic; rollick; romp |
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noun - beauty
syn: comeliness; gorgeousness; handsomeness; loveliness; prettiness |
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verb - to set fire or ignite; to excite or inspire
syn: arouse, awaken, light, spark |
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noun - a self-serving flatterer; a yes-man
syn: bootlicker; fawner; lickspittle; toady |
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noun - meal or mealtime
syn: banquet; feast |
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adj. - temporary, lasting a brief time
syn: ephemeral; evanescent; fleeting; impermanent; momentary |
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noun - growth process from conception to birth
syn: development; pregnancy |
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verb - to treat as a celebrity
syn: feast; honor; ply; regale |
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adj. - relating to a palace; magnificent
syn: grand; stately |
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noun - an abusive, condemnatory speech
syn: fulmination; harangue; invective; jeremiad; malediction; obloquy; tirade |
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verb - to shed hair, skin, or an outer layer periodically
syn: cast, defoliate; desquamate |
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noun - rebellion
syn: mutiny; revolt; revolution; uprising |
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adj. - extremely careful; fastidious; painstaking
syn: finicky; fussy; picky; precise; punctilious; scrupulous |
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adj. - deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
syn: illusory; ostensible; plausible; sophistic; spurious |
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adj. - suspicious
syn: distrustful; guarded; wary |
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noun - wisdom, caution, or restraint
sy: astuteness; circumspection; discretion; frugality; judiciousness; providence; thrift |
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noun - deviation from what is normal
syn: aberrant; aberration; abnormality; deviance; deviation; irregularity; preternaturalness |
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adj. - fluent in an insincere manner; offhand; casual
syn: easy; superficial |
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adj. - extremely sacred; beyond criticism
syn: holy; inviolable; off-limits |
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verb - to divide into two parts
syn: bisect |
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noun - someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
syn: amateur; dabbler; superficial; tyro |
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adj. - inclined to complain; irritable
syn: peevish; puling; sniveling; whiny |
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adj. - able to be molded, altered, or bent
syn: adaptable; ductile; malleable; pliant |
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| noun - minor sin or offense |
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| verb - to turn to bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern |
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noun - controversy; argument; verbal attack
syn: denunciation; refutation |
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noun - a free thinker; usually used disparagingly ; one without moral restraint
syn: hedonist |
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adj. - stinking; putrid
syn: disgusting; foul; malodorous |
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adj. - joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought
syn: carefree; lighthearted; merry |
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adj. - frolicsome; playful
syn: frisky; merry |
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noun - the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
syn: loan-sharking |
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verb - to overwhelm; to cover with water
syn: deluge; drown; engulf; flood; submerge |
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adj. - done in a routine way; indifferent
syn: apathetic; automatic; mechanical |
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noun - a state of balance or equilibrium; stagnation
syn: inertia; standstill |
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verb - to wander from place to place; to travel, especially on foot
syn: journey; traverse; trek |
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without
ex: amoral, atheist, atypical |
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off, away from, apart, down
ex: abdicate, abolish, abscond |
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sharp, bitter
ex: acid, acute, acerbic |
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to do, to drive, to force, to lead
ex: agitate, pedagogue, prodigal |
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toward, near
ex: adapt, adjacent |
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other, another
ex: alias, alibi, alternative |
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love
ex: amorous, amity, amateur |
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walk, to go
ex: ambient, preamble, ambush |
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both, more than one, around
ex: ambiguous, amphibian |
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of the life, mind, soul, spirit
ex: animous, magnanimous |
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year
ex: annual, anniversary |
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before
ex: antebellum, anterior |
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man, human
ex: android, androgen |
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to lean towards
ex: decline, proclivity |
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running a course
ex: excursion, cursory, courier |
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to grow
ex: accrue, increase, crescendo |
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to believe, to trust
ex: credo, credulity, credit |
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hidden
ex: crypt, apocryphal, cryptic |
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to lie down
ex: cubicle, incubate, recumbant |
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blame
ex: mea culpa, inculpate |
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headlong
ex: disciple, capitulate, caption |
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ex: cardiac, encourage, discord |
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ex: cast, caste, castigate, chastise |
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to separate, to judge, to discern, to distinguish, to decide
ex: discrete, hypocrite, criterion |
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to cut
ex: exorcise, scissors, incisive |
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shut, close
ex: conclude, claustrophobia, disclose, cloister |
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to shout, to cry out
ex: exclaim, proclaim, clamor |
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to fall, to happen by chance
ex: accident, recidivist |
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to sing
ex: accent, chant, recant |
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chief, principal, ruler
ex: archenemy, anarchy |
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to take, to get
ex: capture, emancipate, precept |
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away, off, down, completely, reversal
ex: descend, defame, delineate |
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people
ex: democracy, epidemic, pandemic |
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worth
ex: dignity, deign, disdain, condign |
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away from, apart, reversal, not
ex: disperse, diffuse, dissuade |
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opinion
ex: orthodox, paradox, dogma |
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suffer, pain
ex: condolence, indolence, doleful |
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to give
ex: donate, pardon, endow |
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doubt
ex: dubious, dubiety |
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to lead
ex: abduct, conduct, conducive |
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out, out of, from, former, completely
ex: efface, exonerate |
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ex: epidermis, epithet |
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becoming
ex: adolescent, incandescent, convalescent |
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speak
ex: fable, ineffable, defame |
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to boil, to bubble
ex: fervor, fervid |
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faith, trust
ex: fidelity, fiduciary, infidel |
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ex: profuse, fusillade, suffuse, diffuse |
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know
ex: agnostic, ignore, incognito, progeny |
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chance or strength
ex: fortune / fortify |
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adj. - corrupt; degenerate
syn: dissolute, extravagant; improvident; prodigal |
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adj. - too trusting; gullible
syn: naive; susceptible; trusting |
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adj. - starting to develop; coming into existence
syn: embryonic; emerging; inchoate; incipient |
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adj. - extremely loud
syn: clamorous |
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noun - a curse
syn: damnation |
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verb - to make less serious; ease
syn: alleviate; assuage; extenuate; mitigate |
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adj. - moderate in appetite
syn: abstinent; continent; sober; temperate |
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noun - frivolity; gaiety; laughter
syn: glee; hilarity; jollity; merriment |
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verb - to harden; accustom; become used to
syn: condition; familiarize; habituate |
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adj. - overly sentimental
syn: bathetic; mawkish; saccharine; weepy |
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verb - to soften; to lessen
syn: allay; alleviate; assuage; ease; lighten; moderate; mollify; palliate |
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verb - to humble; disgrace
syn: demean; humiliate |
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noun - one who renounces a religious faith
syn: defector; deserter; traitor |
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adj. - unemotional; lacking sensitivity
syn: apathetic; impassive; indifferent; phlegmatic; stoic; unconcerned |
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adj. - lacking self confidence
syn: backward; bashful; coy; demure; modest; retiring; self-effacing; shy; timid |
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adj. - aware; conscious; able to perceive
syn: feeling; intelligent; thinking |
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adj. - showing innocence or childlike simplicity
syn: artless; guileless; innocent; naive; simple; unaffected |
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verb - to overlook, pardon, or disregard
syn: exculpate; excuse; pardon; remit |
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adj. - indirect or evasive; misleading or devious
syn: glancing; slanted; tangential |
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verb - to claim without justification; to claim for oneself without right
syn: appropriate; presume; take |
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verb - to prevent; to make unnecessary
syn: forestall; preclude; prohibit |
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verb - to afflict; to destroy
syn: damage; plague |
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noun - a change or variation; ups and downs
syn: inconstancy; mutability |
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adj. - hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
syn: inflexible; intransigent; recalcitrant; tenacious; unyielding |
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verb - to reduce in force or degree; weaken
syn: debilitate; devitalize; dilute; enervate; enfeeble; rarefy; sap; thin; undermine; undo |
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adj. - unfortunate; having bad luck
syn: ill-fated; ill-starred; jinxed; luckless |
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noun - response
syn: retort |
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adj. - subtly or unexpectedly harmful
syn: adverse; inimical; injurious |
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noun - greed; strong desire
syn: avarice; covetousness; rapacity |
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adj. - prominent; of notable significance
syn: marked; noticeable |
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noun - ceremony conferring authority
syn: inaugural; inauguration; induction; initiation; installation |
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verb - to pamper; treat with great care
syn: cater to; cuddle; dandle; fondle; love; pamper; pet; spoil |
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verb - to give up a position, right, or power
syn: cede; relinquish; resign |
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adj. - quick to act without thinking
syn: impulsive; precipitate; rash; reckless |
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adj. - impatient, uneasy, or restless
syn: agitated; anxious; fretful |
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adj. - inflexible; unyielding
syn: adamant; relentless; obdurate |
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adj. - intensely emotional; feverish
syn: burning; impassioned; passionate |
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verb - to express doubts or objections
syn: dissent; expostulate; kick; protest; remonstrate |
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adj. - exhilarated; full of enthusiasm and high spirits
syn: ardent; avid; bubbly; zestful |
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noun - public disgrace
syn: discredit; disgrace; dishonor; disrepute; ignominy; infamy; obloquy |
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noun - approval and praise
syn: acclaim; adulation; applause; commendation; exalt; extol; hail; kudos; praise |
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adj. - lacking energy; indifferent; slow
syn: faineant; lackadaisical; listless; sluggish; weak |
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verb - to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
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verb - to satisfy fully or overindulge
syn: cloy; glut; gorge; surfeit |
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noun - harsh, jarring noise
syn: chaos; clamor; din; discord |
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adj. - deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong
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noun - a person with expert knowledge or discriminating tastes
syn: authority; epicure |
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adj. - clear and easily understood
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adj. - persuasive and moving; especially in speech
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syn: acme; capstone; meridian |
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verb - to punish or criticize harshly
syn: admonish; chide; scold; tax |
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adj. - lacking sophistication or experience
syn: artless; credulous; guileless |
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noun - relaxation; leisure
syn: calmness; tranquility |
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verb - to give praise; to glorify
syn: acclaim; extol; hail |
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adj. - digressing; diverting
syn: digressive;extraneous; irrelevant |
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adj. - fearless and daring
syn: venturous; plucky; doughty |
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verb - to polish
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noun - a nest built high in the air; an elevated, often secluded, dwelling
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noun - highest point; summit; the highest level or degree attainable
syn: apex |
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adj. - convincing and well reasoned
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adj. - relating to motion; characterized by movement
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adj. - intricate and complicated
syn: knotty; Byzantine; labyrinthine |
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verb - to be present throughout; to permeate
syn: imbue; infuse; penetrate |
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adj. - proper; tasteful; socially correct
syn: appropriate; comme il faut |
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noun - one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
syn: maverick; nonconformist; rebel |
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verb - to shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful)
syn: avoid; bilk; elude |
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adj. - of a similar kind
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syn: interval |
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verb - to act confusedly or without clear purpose
syn: falter; hesitate; vacillate |
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verb - to add ornamental or fictitious details
syn: adorn; bedeck; elaborate |
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verb - to make more bearable
syn: allay; assuage; comfort; ease; lessen; lighten; mitigate; palliate; relieve |
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noun - purposeful exaggeration for effect
syn: embellishment; inflation |
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noun - strongbox; large chest for money
syn: treasury; chest |
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adj. - fresh and clean; uncorrupted
syn: innocent; undamaged |
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verb - to soothe or pacify
syn: appease; conciliate |
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verb - to support; prop up
syn: brace; buttress; crutch |
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noun - meaningless, foolish talk
syn: babble; blather; chatter |
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noun - process occurring by regular degrees or stages; variation in color
syn: nuance, shade |
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noun - trickery
syn: chicanery; conjuring |
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noun - boxing
syn: fighting |
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noun - piece or literature or music imitating other works
syn: medley |
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adj. - fundamentally different; entirely unlike
syn: various; diverse |
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adj. - lacking interest or flavor
syn: banal; bland; dull |
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noun - the domination of one state or group over its allies
syn: authority; power |
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adj. - suffering from indigestion; gloomy and irritable
syn: acerbi; melancholy; morose |
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verb - to make thinner or sparser
syn: attenuate; thin |
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verb - to combine; to mix together
syn: admix; blend; coalesce; combine |
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syn: alike; parallel |
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noun - complete honesty and integrity
syn: virtue; morality |
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adj. - sensible; showing good judgment
syn: circumspect; prudent; sagacious |
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verb - to bury
syn: entomb; inhume |
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verb - to attack; assault
syn: best; strike; storm |
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verb - to set right; free from error
syn: correct; undeceive |
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adj. - dishonest
syn: deceitful; false; lying; untruthful |
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adj. - acute, sharp, or incisive; forceful; effective
syn: biting; caustic; cutting; keen |
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verb - to reduce in amount, degree, or severity
syn; ebb; lapse; let up; moderate |
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adj. - envious; obnoxious, or offensive; likely to promote ill-will
syn: jaundiced; resentful |
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noun - deception by means of craft or guile
syn: artifice; conniving; pettifoggery; sophistry; subterfuge |
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adj. - shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things; diplomatic
syn: tactful |
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noun - a curse; a wish of evil upon another
syn: anathema; imprecation |
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adj. - silent; reserved
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| noun - great disorder or confused situation |
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| verb - to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
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| adj. - amusing in a wry, subtle way |
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| noun - a person devoted to pleasure and luxury |
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| adj. - tending to talk a lot |
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adj. - lasting a short time
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noun - a subtle expression of meaning or quality
syn: gradation; subtlety; tone |
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| verb - to choose not to do something |
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adj. - uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
syn: implacable; inexorable; irreconcilable; obdurate; obstinate; rigid; unbending; unrelenting |
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| adj. - blood red in color |
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noun - novice; beginner
syn: apprentice; greenhorn; tyro |
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adj. - willing to betray one's trust
syn: traitorous; treachorous |
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noun - dormant; unused
syn: idle; inactive; unseeded |
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syn: artifice; chicanery; connivery |
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| adj. - earthly; down to earth; commonplace |
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verb - to manage economically; to use sparingly
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noun - generous giving (as of money) to others who may seem inferior
syn: boon; favor, present |
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| adj. - impartial and honest in speech |
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| noun - use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one |
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| adj. - related to spring; fresh |
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| verb - to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
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verb - to make something unpleasant less severe
syn: mitigate; mollify; pacify; sooth; placate; propitiate |
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syn: amorphous; incoherent; unorganized |
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noun - a sorrowful poem or speech
syn: dirge; lament |
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syn: boor; bourgeois; lout; vulgarian |
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adj. - poor; having no money
syn: destitute; penniless; indigent |
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adj. - known or understood only by a few
syn: abstruse; arcane; obscure |
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| verb - to annoy or provoke to anger |
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noun - new word or expression
syn: slang |
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adj. - overly submissive and eager to please
syn: compliant; deferential; servile |
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adj. - cautious; aware of potential consequences
syn: alert; solicitous; prudent; heedful |
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noun - extreme dislike
syn: abhorrence; animosity; animus; loathing; repellence |
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adj. - stubborn; unyielding
syn: intransigent; mulish; persistent |
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adj. - bright; brilliant; glowing
syn: incandescent; lucent; lustrous |
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syn: deny; disavow |
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| verb - to discard; to get rid of as unnecessary or encumbering |
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verb - to cross a body of water by wading
syn: traverse |
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verb - to copy; to try to equal or excel
syn: ape; imitate |
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adj. - habitually lazy or idle
syn: faineant; languid |
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verb - to clear from blame; to prove innocent
syn: exonerate |
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verb - to grow together to form a single whole
syn: amalgamate; condense |
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syn: figure; image |
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syn: affable; communicative; congenial |
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adj. - belonging to a particular area; inherent
syn: indigenous |
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syn: amass; acquire; glean |
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syn: supporter |
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adj. - having foresight
syn: augural; divinatory; mantic; oracular |
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adj. - healthful
syn: bracing; curative; medicinal; therapeutic; tonic |
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syn: effusive; garrulous |
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adj. - unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
syn: inexorable; intransigent; irreconcilable; remorseless; unforgiving; unrelenting |
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verb - to ward off or deflect, especially by a quick witted answer
syn: avoid; evade; repel |
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| adj. - not devout in religion |
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verb - to deceive; a person who is easily deceived
syn: beguile; betray; bluff; cozen; delude |
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adj. - profound or substantial yet concise, succinct, and to the point
syn: brief; compact; laconic |
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syn: atom; iota; mote |
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adj. - frantic; frenzied
syn: corybantic; delirious |
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adj. - excessively decorated or embellished
syn: baroque; rococo |
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verb - to damage or deface; spoil
syn: blemish; disfigure; impair; injure |
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adj. - acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
syn: apathetic; lackadaisical |
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syn: obscure |
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syn: fulsome |
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syn: fulsome |
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noun - offense; resentment
syn: asperity; dudgeon; ire; pique; rancor |
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verb - to gain favor with another by deliberate effort; to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage
syn: curry favor |
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syn: relic |
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| noun - good natured geniality; atmosphere of good cheer |
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syn: timid |
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verb - to lie or deviate from the truth
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syn: faineant; indolent |
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syn: adjudge; adjudicate; intermediate |
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syn: apotheosis; quintessence |
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syn: flourishing |
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noun - sin; evil act
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verb - to speak or treat with contempt; to mock
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adj. - concerning the appreciation of beauty
syn: tasteful |
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verb - to join together
syn: harness, bind |
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noun - a lie
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adj. - angelic; sweet
syn: cherubic |
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syn: argot; cant; slang |
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adj. - lacking courage
syn: spineless |
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verb - to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
syn: shirk |
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noun - peculiarity of temperament; eccentricity
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verb - to humble oneself in a demeaning way
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syn: fawn; kowtow |
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verb - to support with evidence
syn: back; buttress; validate |
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| adj. - existing in name only; negligible |
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| adj. - impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected |
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| noun - someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs |
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| adj. - swollen as from a fluid; bloated |
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| adj. - having a sharp edge; intellectually sharp; perceptive |
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| noun - a leader or rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice |
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| noun - an inappropriate lack of seriousness; overly casual |
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| noun - person with refined taste in food and wine |
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syn: judicious; perspicacious |
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syn: acquit; exculpate |
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syn: quench |
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syn: affected |
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| noun - a person who dislikes others |
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noun - outcast
syn: offscouring; untouchable |
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noun - plot or scheme
syn: cabal; conspiracy |
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noun - beginner; novice
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| noun - something that brings about a change in something else |
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| noun - an oppressive lack of resources (as money); severe poverty |
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| verb - to swell, inflate, or bloat |
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| noun - book, usually large and academic |
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| noun - someone passionately devoted to a cause |
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| adj. - unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust |
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verb - to instruct morally and spiritually
syn: enlighten |
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| noun - something that calms or soothes pain |
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| adj. - occurring daily; commonplace |
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| verb -to annoy; puzzle; confuse |
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| verb - to increase in power, influence, and reputation |
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| noun - sound of a funeral bell; omen of death or failure |
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| verb - to reduce in strength |
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| adj. - discolored from a bruise; pale; reddened with anger |
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| adj. - predictable; cliched; boring |
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| noun - elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise |
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| noun - whirlpool; turmoil; agitated state of mind |
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| verb - to dry out thoroughly |
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| noun - collaboration; complicity; conspiracy |
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