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to leave secretly
Similar words: decamp escape |
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to increase in power, influence, and reputation
Similar words: ennoble apotheosize augment uplift |
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| to combine; to mix together |
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| something out of place or time |
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| similar or alike in some way; equivalent to |
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extreme dislike
Similar words: animus antagonism |
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to judge a dispute between two opposing parties
Similar words: adjudicate judge |
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to reduce in force or degree; to weaken
Similar words: propitiate alleviate conciliate mollify placate |
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fearless or daring
Similar words: intrepid doughty mettlesome |
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stern or severe in appearance; undecorated.
Similar words: dour |
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biting in wit
Similar words: acerbic mordant trenchant |
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deception by means of craft or guile
Similar words: artifice pettifoggery sophistry conniving deviousness |
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| convinced and well-reasoned |
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| jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
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an abusive, condemnatory speech
Similar words: tirade jeremiad harangue malediction invective obloquy |
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lacking self-confidence
Similar words: shy self-effacing demure |
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intended to delay
Similar words: dragging slow laggard |
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someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
Similar words: amateur tyro |
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to set right; to free from error
Similar words: correct undeceive |
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| fundamentally different; entirely unlike |
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to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
Similar words: cloak dissimulate simulate pretend |
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dictatorial in one's opinions
Similar words: authoritarian doctrinaire peremptory imperious overbearing |
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to produce, cause, or bring about
Similar words: beget proliferate procreate |
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lasting a short time
Similar words: evanescent transient |
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| to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
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learned, scholarly, bookish
Similar words: scholastic wise |
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known or understood by only a few
Similar words: abstruse arcane obscure |
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admirable
Similar words: meritorious |
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to clear from blame; to prove innocent
Similar words: acquit vindicate exonerate absolve |
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| urgent; requiring immediate action |
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excessively decorated or embellished
Similar words: baroque ostentatious rococo |
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outgoing, sociable
Similar words: affable congenial |
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one who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions
Similar words: maverick rebel |
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not capable of being disturbed
Similar words: dispassionate stoical |
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quick to act without thinking
Similar words: spontaneous precipitate |
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not fully formed; disorganized
Similar words: amorphous incoherent |
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showing innocence or childlike simplicity
Similar words: artless guileless naive |
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hostile; unfriendly
Similar words: adverse antagonistic recalcitrant dissident |
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| lacking interest or flavor |
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uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
Similar words: implacable inexorable |
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using few words
Similar words: concise taciturn pithy |
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| to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
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| a person who dislikes others |
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to soften; to lessen
Similar words: mollify palliate |
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hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion
Similar words: intransigent recalcitrant |
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overly submissive and eager to please
Similar words: compliant subservient servile |
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to prevent; to make unnecessary
Similar words: forestall preclude prohibit |
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| to stop up; to prevent the passage of |
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public disgrace
Similar words: obloquy ignominy infamy disgrace disrepute |
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| someone who shows off learning |
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| willing to betray one's trust |
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| done in a routine way; indifferent |
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able to be molded, altered, or bent
Similar words: ductile malleable |
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to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
Related words: precipice and precipitation |
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to lie or deviate from the truth
Similar words: equivocate lie perjure |
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to conciliate; to appease
Similar words: mollify conciliate appease |
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to reject the validity of
Similar words: disavow renounce disown |
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silent; reserved
Similar words: laconic taciturn introverted |
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causing sleep or lethargy
Related words: sopor - deep sleep
Similar words: narcotic hypnotic somnolent |
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deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
Similar words: ostensible spurious plausible |
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unemotional; lacking sensitivity
Similar words: phlegmatic stoical |
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lofty or grand
Similar words: august resplendent noble |
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silent; not talkative
Similar words: laconic reticent |
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filled with truth and accuracy
Similar words: fidelity exactitude probity candor |
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| easily arouse or changeable; lively or explosive |
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