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| to read something carefully |
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| to try to convert someone to a religion or a point of view |
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to make ashamed; to EMBARRASS
"she felt abashed bc she couldnt remember the words"
To do something without shame or embarrassment
"Ken stood up and unabashedly sang karaoke" |
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to SUBSIDE: to reduce
"Gradually the pain abated"
"A rainstorm that does not let up continues unabated"
"The pain abates after taking lortab.":)
"A tax abatement is a reduction in taxes" Yea Right!!!! |
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To step down from a position of power or responsibility.
" Someone can abdicate
while he/she abdicated |
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something not typical; a DEVIATION from the standard
"Her behavior was an aberration
"The mac and cheese was an aberration
"Snow in July is an aberration
"the dogs behavior was aberrant |
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to hate very, very much; to detest
"Johnny abhorred hanging out with his in laws
"I abhor snakes, abhorrence for snakes, find them abhorrent |
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hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated
"he felt abject humiliation after she said no"
"Abject poverty" |
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to deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce
"Lint is a form of self-abnegation
"self-abnegation is giving up oneself, usually for a higher cause |
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unsuccessful
"dakota made an abortive effort at spaghetti"
To abort something means to end it before completeion---- pregnancy |
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to shorten; to condense
"the editor abridged to novel" |
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to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from obligation
"The DNA test absolved the accused man"
"His mom absolved his chores" |
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| eager willingness to do something |
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| dull and lacking imagination |
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full of hunger
"voracious animal" |
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hard to understand
"Life can be abstruse" |
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extremely hopeless or wretches; bottomless
abyss= bottomless pit |
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to approach and speak to someone agressively
"the old man accosted the intern yesterday" |
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| sour;severe; like acid in temper, mood, or tone |
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to comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree
"doing something w/o objection- to do it QUIETLY" not so much agreeing |
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harshly pungent; bitter
"That beer last night had an acrid taste" |
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full of spite; bitter; nasty
"Relations between the husband and in-laws turned acrimonious" |
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keenness of judgment; mental sharpness
"Making money means you have business acumen" |
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sharp; shrewd
"your eyesight is actue, I cant read that" |
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stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible
"She was adamant about getting a coffee drink" |
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| follower; supported; believer |
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to scold gently; to warn
"She was admonished about climbing that high" |
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skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease
***Comes from the old french word Right as in right handedness- which had the superstition that right handed people were superior |
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wild or excessive admiration; flattery
"adulate is the verb" |
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| easy to talk to; friendly |
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| unnatural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impress |
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| sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity |
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| one who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven |
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relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land
"think agriculture" |
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| cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond |
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| to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen |
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a combination of two or more things; usually metals
"Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc." |
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uninvolved; standing off; keeping one's distance
"stand aloof during the midnight jam" |
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selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others
"to be altruistic" |
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atmosphere; mood; feeling
"Creating an ambience for learning"
The verb ambient means surrounding or circulating |
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| unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways |
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| undecided; having opposed feelings simultaneously |
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| an indirect reference ; a hint |
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to make better or more tolerable
"Her mood was ameliorated once he arrived home" |
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obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable
"The plumber was amenable to me paying my bill with jelly beans" |
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pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature
"amenities" |
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friendly; agreeable
"Our amiable guide provided us with an awesome rafting adventure" |
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an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy
"Amnesty always refers to a pardon for a group or class of people"
Tax amnesty
Official forgetting |
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lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good or bad, neither moral or immoral; without moral feelings
"very young children are amoral,; when they cry they dont mean good or bad- they're doing what they have to do"
A moral person does right; an immoral person does wrong; an amoral person simply does |
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feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense; in love; relating to love
"The amorous couple made a scene at the boat launch" |
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shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike
"A term paper can be amorphous.. so can a body shape" |
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something out of place in time or history; an incongruity
"A family doctor who will visit you at home seems like an anachronism" |
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a comparison of one thing to another; similarity
Analogous |
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| absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
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a short account of a humorous or revealing incident
"Alvare told an anecdote about the time Sally got her big toe stuck in a bowling ball" |
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| agonizing physical or mental pain |
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resentment; hostility; ill will
"High school rivals feel great animosity towards each other" |
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an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation
"A house without a roof is an anomaly" |
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| someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it |
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firm dislike; a dislike
"I feel antipathy towards bananas wrapped in ham" |
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| the former policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Republic of South Africa |
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| lack of interest; lack of feeling |
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a brief, often witty saying; a proverb
"Ben Franklin was fond of aphorisms. He was frequently aphoristic." |
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| a prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world |
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dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious
"Brandi's blog discredited the apocryphal report of Martians in Congress" |
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elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something
"Some people think that the Corvette is the apotheosis of American car making" |
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to soothe; to pacify by giving in to
"Jaleel appeased his angry mother by promising to make his bed every morning" |
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worried; anxious
"misapprehension is a misunderstanding" |
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approval; praise
"The crowd expressed its approbation for the band as the show ended" |
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to take without permission; to set aside for a particular use
"The couple had to appropriate money for their upcoming vacation" |
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| capacity for learning; natural ability |
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one who decides; a judge
"The arbiters are the buyers of the clothes" |
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mysterious; known only to a select few
"The arcane formula for the cocktail was discussed with the customers" |
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extremely old; ancient; outdated
"Family traditions can become archaic"
Archaic meaning of a word means that it isnt used any more |
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| an original model or pattern |
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passionate; enthusiastic
"The young lovers were oblivious to everthing expect their ardor for each other |
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hard; difficult
"Climbing the mountain was arduous" |
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crafty; wily; sly
"If you are artless you are simple and honest" |
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a clever trick; cunning
"The Trojan horse was an artifice designed to get the soldiers inside the walls" |
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supremacy; domination
"Small computers have been in ascendancy for the past few years" |
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hermitlike; practicing self-denial
"In his effort to save money, Roy led an ascetic existence" |
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hardworking; busy; quite diligent
"Wendell was the only assiduous student in math class" |
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to take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly
"Your body assimilates nutrients from the food you eat" |
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| to soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
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shrewd; keen in judgment
"Morris was an astute judge of a persons character" |
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| one who does not believe in the existence of any god or divine being |
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| gradual wearing away, weakening, or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size |
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boldness; reckless; daring; impertinence
"Ivan had the audacity to tell that nice old lady to shut up" |
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to make bigger; to add to; to increase
"To augment a record collection is to add more records to it"
"Breast augmentation" |
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favorable; promising; pointing to a good result
"A clear sky in the morning is an auspicious sign on the day of a picnic" |
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unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess
"The Smith's house was austere; there was no furniture in it, and there was nothing hanging on the walls" |
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ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy
"No one at our office liked the autocratic manager" |
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greed; excessive love of riches
"The rich man's avarice was annoying to everyone who met him" |
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to claim; to declare boldly; to admit
"After getting his PharmD, Landon avowed he was seeking a PhD" |
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like an uncle, especially a nice uncle
"Professors can give avuncular advice" |
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off course; twisted to one side
"The hunter's bullet went awry" |
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self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying
"Everything that is living is dying" |
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unoriginal; ordinary
"The dinner conversation was so banal that Amanda fell asleep in her dessert dish" |
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poison; torment; cause of harm
baneful= harmful
"You are the bane of my existence" |
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| stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
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to give birth to; to create; to lead; to cause
"One lie often begets another lie" |
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to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent
"The professor spent an hour belaboring over what I already knew" |
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to surround; to besiege; to harass
beleaguered
"Oscar felt beleaguered at work" |
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to give a false impression of; o contradict
"The messy table belied the effort to maintain its cleanliness" |
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| to make to seem little; to put someone down |
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combative; quarrelsome; wagging war
"belligerent drunk" |
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confused; bewildered
"The two stood bemused in the middle of the parking lot" |
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| generous; kind; doing good deeds |
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| something left to someone in a will |
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deprived or left desolate, especially through death
"The new widow was still bereved when we saw her" |
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to harass; to surround
"The bereaved widow was beset by grief"
"The little town was beset by robberies, but the police could do nothing" |
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| irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
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unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring
used in terms of not concealing something very well- flagrant= intentional
both words mean glaring |
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| a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
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| middle class;boringly conventional |
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briefness
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| charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike |
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| a system of government with numerous bureaus and offices |
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| a ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation |
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harsh-sounding mixture of wrods, voices, or sounds
"The parade's two marching bands played simultaneously; the resulting cacophony drove many spectators to tears" |
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| rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds " |
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| to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do |
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immature
"The patient was alarmed by the callowness of the medical staff"
To be callow is to be youthfully naive, inexperienced, and sophisticated |
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truthfulness; sincere honesty
To show candor is to be candid.
Candid camera- the camera shows the truth |
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to surrender; to surrender;to give up or give in
recapitulate- to summarize |
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unpredictable; likely to change at any moment
"The weather is often said to be capricious" |
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to criticize severely; to chastise
"Jose's mother-in-law castigated him for forgetting to pick her up at the airport" |
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unconditional; absolute
"A categorical denial is one without exceptions- it covers every category"
"I categorically refuse to do anything" |
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purification that brings emotional relief or renewal
"A catharsis is cathartic- some people find emotional movies cathartic- watching one often allows them to release buried feelings." |
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universal; embracing everything
"Da Vinci was a catholic genius who excelled at everything he did"
Parochial means narrow-minded |
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like acid; corrosive
"Caustic comment is one that is so nasty or insulting that is seems to burn" |
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| to condemn severely for doing something bad |
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| brainy; intellectually refined |
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humiliation; embarrassed disappointment
"Doug was filled with chagrin when he lost the race" |
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| a magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
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