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| Using or involving minimal words |
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| cause to become less harsh or hostile |
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| A quality or state of being proper |
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| To support with evidence or authority, make more certain |
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| Intensity of feeling or expression |
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| to laugh at with contempt |
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| Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing. Hardened in feelings |
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| To deviate from the truth. |
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Def: To reduce in amount, degree or severity.
Similar meanings: Ebb, Moderate, Subside, Lapse, Relent, Wane, Let-up, Slacken |
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Def: To leave secretly
Similar meanings: Flee, Decamp, and Escape |
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Def: To choose not to do something.
Similar Words: Forbayer, refrain, withhold. |
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Def: An extremely deep hole
Similar Words: Abyssal: Pertaining to great depth
Abysmal: Extremely bad
Words with similar meanings: Chasm and Void |
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To increase in power, influence and reputation
Similar Meanings: Amplify, dignify, ennoble, magnify, wax, apotheosize, elevate, exalt, swell, augment, enlarge, glorify, uplift |
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Something out of place and time
Similar words: archaism and incongruity |
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Deviation from what is normal
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Aberrance, deviants, preternaturalness, aberration, deviation, abnormality, irregularity |
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Extreme dislike
SImilar Words: animosity, aversion, repellence, animus, enmity, antagonism, hostility |
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lack or interest or emotion
similar words: coolness, impassivity, lassitude, phlegm, unresponsiveness, disinterest, indifference, lethargy. stolidity, disregard, insensibility, listlessness, unconcern |
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to judge a dispute between two opposing parties
adjudge
adjudicate |
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Ancient or old-fashioned
Bygone
superseded
antediluvian
obsolete, outmoded, dowdy, passe. |
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Intense and passionate feeling
Similar Words: Fervidity, |
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To reduce in force or degree, to weaken.
Debilitate, enervate, sap, devitalize, enfeeble, |
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fearless and daring
plucky, valorous, dauntless, intrepid, stout, doughty, stouthearted. |
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severe or stern in appearance
bleak, dour |
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predictable or cliche
innocuous, musty, bromidic, insipid, platitudinous, shopword, threadbare, jejune , timeworn, vapid. |
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pompous in speech and manner
bloated, grandiloquent, magniloquent, declamatory, grandiose, orotund, fustian, high-flown |
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changing ones mind quickly and often
arbitrary, mercurial, fickle, whimsical |
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to punish or criticize harshly
admonish, rebuke, reprove, upbraid, chastise, chide, reproach |
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biting in wit
acerbic, trenchant, biting, mordant |
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| somebody prejudiced to the group to which he or she belongs |
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deception by means of craft of guile
artifice, deception, pettifogery, sophistry, subterfuge, underhandedness, |
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| convincing and well-reasoned |
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to overlook or disregard
exculpate, remit, excuse, pardon |
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intricate and complicated
byzantine, knotty, labyrinthine |
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appropriateness of behavior or conduct
seemliness, decency, mores, propriety |
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respect or courtesy
obeisance, veneration, homage, reverence. |
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jumping from one thing to another, disconnected
similar words: erratic, objectless, stray |
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an abusive condemnatory speech
similar meanings: fulmination, jeremiad, tirade, harangue, malediction, invective, obloquy. |
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lacking self-confidence
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demure, self-effacing, coy, retiring u |
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to make larger, to expand
amplify, enlarge,expatiate |
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intended to delay
flagging, laggard, slow-footed |
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someone with an amateur and superficial interest in a topic
tyro dabbler |
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a funeral hymn or mournful song
elegy, lament |
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to set right to free from error
undecive |
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fundamentally different, entirely unalike
variant, divergent |
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to prevent a false appearance; to disguise ones real intentions or character
similar words: feign, dissimulate |
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a harsh and disagreeable combination; often sounds
dissension, friction, contention, strife, dissidence, variance. |
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dictatorial in one's opinions
doctrinaire, magisteral, peremptory, imperious |
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to deceive
beguile, cozen, betray, bluff, delude hoodwink, humbug |
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to count, list or itemize
Words with similar meaningsL catalog, index, tabulate |
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to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
Similar: ambiguous, evasive waffling. |
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| Learning, scholarly, bookish. |
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known or understood by only a few
abstruse, arcane, obscure |
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admirable
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use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
circumlocution, whitewash |
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To clear from blame or prove innocent
absolve, exonerate, acquit, vindicate |
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Urgent, requiring immediate action
Similar words: imperative, needed |
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to arouse or incite
agitate, instigate, kindle, inflame |
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deceit and trickery
artifice, duplicity, chicanery, connivery |
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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
maverick, revolutionary, non-conformist, rebel |
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incapable of being disturbed
dispassionate, stoical |
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quick to act without thinking
precipitate, rash |
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unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
inexorable, intransigent, remorseless, irreconcilable, unforgiving |
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Not fully formed; disorganized
Similar wards: amorphous, incoherent, incomplete, unorganized |
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showing innocence or childlike simplicity
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Artless, naive, guileless, simple, innocent, unaffected |
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hostile, unfriendly
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adverse, recalcitrant, antagonistic, dissident, |
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uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled
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implacable, obdurate, rigid, unyielding, inexorable, obstinate, unbending, irreconcilable, remorseless, unrelenting |
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easily made angry
words with similar meanings:
cantankerous, irritable, ornery, testy |
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using few words
words with similar meanings: concise, taciturn, curt, terse, pithy |
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to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
words with similar meanings: shirk slack |
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capable of being shaped
adaptable, pliable, ductile, pliant, plastic |
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a figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
words with similar meanings: analogy, comparison |
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| a person who dislikes others |
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to calm or make less severe
similar words: appease, pacify, assuage, conciliate |
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overly submissive and eager to please
a physical show of respect or submission
similar words: compliant, subservient, deferential, servile |
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stubborn, unyielding
similar words: intransigent, pertinacious, mulish, stubborn, persistent, tenacious |
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to prevent, make unnecessary
forestall, preclude, prohibit |
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to stop up; to prevent the passage of
similar words: barricade, obstruct, block, close |
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troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
similar words: arduous, cumbersome, formidable, oppressive, trying, backbreaking, difficult, hard, rigorous, burdensome, exacting, laborious, taxing |
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public disgrace
discredit, disrepute, obloquy, disgrace, ignominy, shame, dishonor, infamy |
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excessive showiness
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conspicuousness, flashiness, pretentiousness, showiness |
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a contradiction or dilemma
similar words: anomaly, irony |
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model of excellence or perfection
apotheosis, ideal, quintessence, standard |
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someone who shows off learning
similar word: pedantic |
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willing to betray one's trust
words with similar meanings: disloyal, treacherous, faithless, traitorous |
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done in a routine way; indifferent
words with similar meanings:
apathetic, automatic, mechanical |
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to penetrate
words with similar meanings:
imbue, infuse, suffuse |
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charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
similar words: altruism, humanitarianism |
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practical as opposed to idealistic
similar words: rational, realistic |
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lavish; wasteful
similar words: extravagant, spendthrift, lavish, wasteful, profligate |
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to appease or conciliate
words with similar meanings:
appease, pacify, conciliate, placate, mollify |
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wisdom, caution, or restraint
words with similar meanings: astuteness, frugality, thrift, circumspection, judiciousness, discretion, providence |
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sharp and irritating to the senses
similar words: acrid, caustic, poignant, stinging, piquant |
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motionless
similar words: dormant, latent |
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to make thinner or sparser
similar words: attenuate, thin |
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to reject the validity of
similar words: deny, disown, disavow, renounce, disclaim |
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silent, reserved
similar words: cool, standoffish, introverted, taciturn, laconic, undemonstrative |
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causing sleep or lethargy
words with similar meanings: hypnotic, somnolent, narcotic, slumberous |
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deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious
words with similar meanings: illusory, spurious, ostensible, sophistical, plausible |
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unemotional; lacking sensitivity
similar words: apathetic, phlegmatic, impassive, stoical, indifferent, unconcerned |
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Done without using words
words with similar meanings:
implicit,unsaid, implied, unuttered, undeclared
They had a tacit agreement that he would take out the garbage and she would clean the dishes. |
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Silent, not talkative.
Words with similar meanings:
Laconic, reticent |
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long harsh speech or verbal attack
Words with similar meanings:
Diatribe, fulmination, harangue, obloquy, revilement, vilification |
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extreme mental and physical sluggishness
Related words: sluggish, lacking movement
Words with similar meanings: apathy, languor |
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temporary, lasting a brief time
Words with similar meanings: ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary |
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to sway physically; to be indecisive
Words with similar meanings:
Dither, Oscillate, Falter, Waver, Fluctuate |
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To respect deeply
Words with similar meanings: adore, revere, honor, idolize |
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truthfulness; accuracy
words with similar meanings:
candor, exactitude, fidelity, probity |
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wordy
Long-winded, loquacious, prolix, superfluous |
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to annoy
Words with similar meanings: annoy, exasperate, peeve, bother, irk, provoke, chafe, nettle. |
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easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
words with similar meanings:
Capricious, inconsistent, temperamental, erratic, inconstant, fickle, mercurial |
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to fluctuate between choices
Words with similar meanings:
Dither, oscillate, falter, vacillate, fluctuate |
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acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
Words with similar meanings:
Capricious, frivolous, erratic, flippant |
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Passion, excitment
Words with similar meanings:
Ardency, passion, fervor, fire |
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