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| (adj) sparing in eating and drinking; temperate :: concerned whether her vegetarian son's ___ diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him. |
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| (v) combine, unite in one body. :: the unions will attempt to ___ their groups into one national body. |
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| (v) improve ::: Many social workers have attemtped to ___ the conditions of people living in the slums. |
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| (n) something or someone misplaced in time :: Shakespeare's reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is an ____; no clocks xisted in Caesar's time. |
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| (adj) abnormal; irregular. she was placed in the ___ position of seeming to approve procedures that she despised. |
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| (n) aversion; dislike :: tom's extreme ___ for disputes keeps him from getting into arguments with his wife. |
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| (v) inform :: when she was ___ (past tense) of the dangerous weather conditions she decided to postpone her trip. |
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| (n) approval :: wanter her parents' regard, she looked for some sign of their ____. |
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| (v) acquire, take possession of for one's own use. :: the ranch owners ___ (past tense) the lanmds that had originally been set aside for the indians' use. |
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| (adj) without guile; open and honest :: Red riding hood's ___ comment, "grandma, what big eyes you have" indicates the child's innocent surprise. |
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| (adj) practicing self denial; austere :: the wealthy yough man felt drawn to the strict ___ life led by members of some monastic orders |
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| (adj) dilligent :: it took rembrandt weeks of ___ labor before he was satisfied with his portrait. |
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| (v) ease or lessen, satisfy, soothe. Jilted by jane, dick tried to ___ his heartache by indulging in ice cream |
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| (v) make tin; weaken :: by withdrawing forces, the generals hoped to ___ the enemy lines. |
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| (adj) forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented. :: the headmaster's ___ demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students. |
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| (v) state confidently. i wish to __ that i'm certain of success. |
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| (adj) hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality. the hack writer's worn-out cliches made the comic sketch seem ___. |
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| (v) contradict; give a false impression :: his coard, hardbitten exterior ___ (past tense) his innate sensitivity |
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| (adj) pompous; using inflated language. Puffed up with coneit, the orator spoke in such a ___ manner that we longed to deflate him |
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| (adj) rude, insensitive :: though mr. potts constantly interrupted his wife, she ignored his ___ behavior. |
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| (v) grow forth; send out buds :: in the spring, the plants that ___ are a promise of the beauty that is to come. |
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| (v) make shiny by rubbing, polish :: the main ___ (past tense) the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamp light. |
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| (v) support, prop up :: just as architects ___ the walls of cathedrals, debaters ___ their arguments with facts. |
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| (adj) discordant; inharmonious. Do the students in the orchestra enjoy the ____ sounds they make when they're tuning up? |
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| (adj) unpreditable; fickle. :: the storm was ___, changing course constantly. |
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| (n) punishment; severe criticism. :: Sensitive even to milk criticism, Woolf could not bear the ____ that she found in certain reviews. |
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| (adj) burning; sarcastically biting :: the critic's ___ remarks angered the hapless actors. |
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| (n) trickery; deception :: those sneaky lawyers misrepresented what occurred, made up all sorts of implausible alternatives to confuse the jury, and in general depended on ___ to win the case. |
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| (adj) convincing :: it was inevitable that dave chose to go to harvard, he had several ___ reasons for doing so including a full ride. |
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| (adj) equal in extent :: your reward will be ___ with your effort |
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| (adj) try to please; obliging :: the courtier obeyed the king's orders in a ___ manner |
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| (v) brief, comprehensive summary :: this text can serve as a ___ of the tremendous amounto f new material being developed in this field. |
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| (adj) reconciling; soothing :: she was still angry despite his ___ words. |
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| (n) claim, thesis :: it is our ___ that, if you follow our tactics, you will boost your score on the GRE. |
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| (adj) penitent :: her ___ tears did not influence the judge when he imposed sentence. |
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| (adj) cowardly :: lillian's ___ refusal to join the protest was criticized by her comrades, who expected her to be brave enough to stand up for her beliefs. |
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| (n) propriety, orderliness and good taste in manners :: even the best mannered students have trouble behaving in ___ on the last day of school |
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| (v) protray, depict, sketch :: using only a few descriptive phrases, Austen ___ the character of Mr. Collins so well that we can predict his every move. |
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| (V) blaken :: all attempts to ___ the character of our late president have failed, the people still love him. |
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| (v) ridicule, make fun of :: the critics ___ (past tense) his pretentious dialogue and refuse to consider his play seriously. |
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| (v) dry up :: a tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to ___ food to preserve it. |
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| (adj) aimless, haphazard; digressing at random :: in prison, Malcom X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary, to him, ready was purposeful, not ____. |
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| (n) bitter scolding, invective :: during hte length ___ delivered by his opponent, he remained calm. |
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| (N) shyness : you must overcome your ___ if you intend to become a salesperson. |
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| (adj) wordy, rambling, spread out :: if you pay authors by the word, you tempt them to produce ___ manuscripts. |
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| (n) lament with music :: the funeral ___ stirred us to tears. |
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| (v) correct a false impression; undecieve. :: I will attempt to __ you of your impression of my client's guilt. |
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| (adj) not harmoniuous; conflicting :: nothing is quite so ___ as the sound of a junior high school orchestra tuning up. |
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| (adj) separate, unconnected :: the universe is composed of ___ bodies. |
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| (adj) not native, sophisticated. Although he was young, his remarks indicated he was _____. |
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| (adj) unprejudiced :: given the judge's political ambitions and the lawyer's financial interest, the court reporter may have been the only ___ person in the court room. |
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| (v) disguise, pretend :: even though john tried to ___ his motive for taking modern dance, we all knew he was just there for the girls. |
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| (n) disintegration, loseness in morals :; the profligacy and ___ of life in Caligula's Rome appall some historians. |
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| (v) strip, deprive :: he was ___ (past tense) of his power to act and could no longer goern |
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| (adj) opinionated, arbitrary, doctrinal :: we tried to discourage him from beins so ____ but never could convince him that his opinions might be wrong. |
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| (n) someone easily fooled. While the gullible watson often was made a ____, sherlack holmes was for more difficult to fool. |
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| (adj) showing excitement, overflowing wtih enthusiasm :: amy's ___ nature could not be repressed, she was always bubbling over wtih excitemtent. |
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| (adj) selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources. His style of intereior design was ___; bits and pieces from widely divergent periods. |
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| (n) power to produce desired effect. The ___ of this drug depends on the regularity of dosage. |
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| (n) shameless boldness :: she had the __- to insult the guest |
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| (n) poem or song expresing lamentation :: on the death of edward king, milton composed the ____ "lycidas" |
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| (v) draw out by discussion. the detectives tried to ___ where he had hidden his loot. |
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| (v) weaken :: she was slow to recover from her illness, even a short wolk to the window ___ (past tense)her |
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| (v) cause, produce :; to receive praise for real accomplishments ___ self-confidence in a child. |
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| (adj) short lived :: the mayfly is an ___ creature, it's adult life lasts little more than a day. |
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| (n) calmness of temperament; composure :: even the inevitable strains of caring for an ailing mother did not disturb Bea's ____. |
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| (v) lie, mislead :: the audience saw through his attemtps to ___ on the subject. |
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| (adj) learned; scholarly :: though his fellow students thought him ____, paul knew he would have to spend a lot of time studying. |
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| (adj) hard to understand; known only to the chosen few :: New yorker short stories often include ___ allusions to obscure people and events. |
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| (n) mild expression in the place of an unpleasant one :: "he passed away" is a _____ for "he died" |
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| (v) clear from blame :: she was ____ (past tense) of the crime when the real criminal confessed. |
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| (n) urgent situation :: in this ____, we must look for aid from our allies. |
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| (adj) foolish; inane :: she is far too intelligent to utter such ___ remarks. |
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| (adj) courting favor by cringing and flattering :: she was constantly surounded by a group fo ___ admireres who hoped to win some favor. |
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| (adj) apt; suitably expressed; well chosen :: he was famous for his felicitous remakrs and was called upon to serve as master of ceremonies. |
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| (v) droop, grow feeble :: when the opposing hockey team scored it's third goal, the home team's spirits started to ___. |
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| (adj) inexperienced: while it is necessary to provide these ___ poets with an opportunity to present their work, it is not essential that we admire everything they write |
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| (v) reject, mock :: the headstrong youth ___ (pt) all athority. |
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| (v) stir up; intigate :: cher's archenemy heather spread nasty rumors that ___ (pt) trouble in the club. |
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| (v) prevent from taking action in advance :: by setting up prenuptials, the prospective bride and groom hoped to ___ any potential arguments in the event of a divorce. |
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| (v) deny :: she was too honest to ___ the truth of the report. |
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| (adj) loquacious, wordy, talkative :: my uncle can out-talk any other three people. he is the most ___ person in missouri. |
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| (v) urge on :: she was ___ (pt) by her friends until she yielded to their wishes. |
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| (v) overcharge :: during the world series, ticket scalpers tried to ___ the public by jacking up prices. |
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| (adj) pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language :: the politician could never speak simply, she was always ___. |
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| (n) deciet; duplicity; wiliness; cunning :: Lago uses considerable ___ to trick Othello into belieing Desdemona has been unfaithful. |
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| (n) long, passionate, and vehement speech :: in her lengthy ___, the principal berated the offenders. |
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| (adj) attacking cherished traditions :: deeply ___, jean genet deliberately set out to shock conventional theatergoers with his radical plays. |
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| (adj) unchangeable; all things change over time, nothing is ___. |
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| (adj) without feeling; imperturbable; stoical :: refusing to let the enemy see how shaken he was, the prisoner kept his face ___. |
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| (adj) calm, placid :: matt remained ___ and in full command despite the hysteria. |
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| (adj) impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed.:: the carpet salesman told simone that his most expensive brand was warranted to be __- to ordinary wear and tear. |
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| (adj) incapable of being pacified :: madame defarge was the ___ enemy of the evremonde family. |
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| (adj) recently begun; rudimentary; elementary :: before the creation, the world was a ____ mass. |
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| (n) poverty :: netiehr the economists nor the political scientists have found a way to wipe out hte inequities of wealth and eliminate ___ from our society. |
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| (adj) lazy. couch potatoes lead an ))) life. |
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| (adj) inactive; lacking power to move :: tina told tony to get up, who lay in bed ____ |
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| (adj) naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated :: the woodsman did not realize how ___ little red riding hood was until he heard that she had gone off for a while with the big bad wolf. |
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| (aDJ) harmless :: an occasional glass of wine with dinner is relatively ___ and should have no effect on most people. |
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| (adj) unconscious, unresponsive :: shery and i are very different and at times when i would be embarrassed, she seems ___ to shame. |
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| (adj) lacking in flavor :: flat prose and flat ginger ale are equally ___. |
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| (n) narrow mindedness; isloation :: the ___ of the islanders manifested itself in their suspicion of anything foreign. |
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| (adj) unruly; stubborn; unyielding :: charlie brown's friend pipen was ___. he absolteuly refused to take a bath |
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| (n) refusal of any compromise; stubborness :: the negotiating team had not expected such ___ fromt he striking workers. |
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| (adj) accustomed; hardened :: she became ___ to the alaskan cold. |
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| (n) abuse :: he had expected criticism but not the ___ that greeted his proposal |
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| (adj) irritable; easily angered :: miss minchin's ___ temper intimidated the younger kids, who feard she's burst into rage at any moment. |
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| (adj) uncertain how to act; weak :: once you have made your decision, don't waver; a leader should never appear ___. |
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| (adj) brief and to the point :: many of the characters portrayed by clint eastwood are ___ types, strong men of few words. |
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| (n) languor; weariness :: after a massage and a long soak in the hot tub, i surrendered to my growing __ -and lay down for a nap. |
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| (v) praise :: the NFL ___ (PT) his efforts to raise money to combat CF. |
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| (n) lack of seriousness :: stop giggling; such ___ is inappropriate in church. |
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| (adj) talkative :: tough our daughter barely says a word, put a phone in her hand and see how ___ she can be. |
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| (adj) easily understood; clear; intelligible :: lexy makes an excellent teacher, her explanations of techical points are __- enough for a child to grasp. |
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| (n) generosity :: noted for his ____, philantrhopist Eugene Lang donated millinos to charity. |
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| (n) one hwo feigns illness to escape duty :: the captain ordered the sergeant to punish all ____ and force them to work. |
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| (adj) lying :: distrusting Huck from the start, Miss watson assumed he was ___ and refused to believe a word he said. |
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| (n) one who hates mankind. In Gulliver's Travels, Swift portrays humans as vile, degraded beasts; for this reason, various critics consider him a ____. |
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| (v) soothe :: the airline customer service rep tried to ___ the angry passenger. |
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| (adj) worldly as opposed to spiritual, every-day. Tom only talked about ___ topics such as the waether. |
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| (n) recent convert; beginner :: this mountain slope contains slides that will challenge experts and ___. |
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| (adj) stubborn :; he was ___ in his refusal to listen to our complaints |
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| (adj) slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic :: helen valued people who behaved as if they respoected themselves; nothing irritate her more than an excessivbley ____ person. |
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| (v) make necessary; get rid of :: i hope this contribution will ___ any need for further collections of funds |
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| (adj) meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services :: After her long flight Jill just wanted to nap, but the ___ bellboy was intent on showering her all the special features of the hotel. |
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| (adj) burdensome :: she asked for an assistanat because her work was too ____. |
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| (n) infamy; vilification :: he refused to defend himself against the slander and ___ hurled against him by the nespapers. |
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| (n) model of perfection :: her fellow studentss disliked her because the teacher always pointed her out as a ___ of virtue. |
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| (adj) showing off learning; bookish :: leavening her decisions with humorous, down to earth anecdotes, judge judy was not at all the ___ legal scholar. |
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| (n) scarcity :; they closed the restaurant bc the __- of the customers made it uneconomicl to operate. |
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| (n) strong inclination; liking : dave has a __ for taking risks. |
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| (n) severe poverty; stinginess :: when his pension fund failed, goerge feared he would ned his days in ___. |
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| (adj) treacherous, disloyal :: when caesar realized that brutus had betrayed him, he reproached his ____ friend. |
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| (adj) superficial :: not thorough; lacking interest, care and enthusiasm :: the auditor's ___ _inspection of the books overlooked many errors |
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| (adj) spread throughout :: despite airing them for several hours, she could not rid her clothes of the ___ odor of mothballs. |
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| (adj) calm, not easily disturbed :; the nurse was a cheerful bu ___ person, unexcited in the face of sudden emergencies. |
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| (v) pacify, conciliate :: the store manager tried to __- the angry customer. |
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| (N) trite remark; commonplace statement :: in giving advice to his son, old polonius expressed himself only in ___, every word out of his motuh was a truism. |
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| (adj) practical :: this coming trip to france should prvide me with a ___ test of the value of my French |
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| (adj) rash, premature, hasty, sudden :: though i was angry enough to resign on the spot,m i had enough sense to keep myself from quitting a job in such a ___ fashion. |
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| (v) lie :: some people believe that to ___ in a good cause is justifiable and regar the statement as a 'white lie' |
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| (n) uprightness, incorruptibility :; everyone took his ___ for granted, his defalcations, therefore shocked us all. |
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| (adj) wasteful; reckless with money :: don't be so ___ spending my money, when you've earned som money you can waste it as much as you want. |
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| 9adj) tending to prevent the purchase of use of something; inclined to prevent or forbid :: susie wanted to buy a new volvo but had to settle for a used dodge bc the new car's price was ___. |
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| (v) appease ::: the natives ofered sacrifices to ___ the gods |
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| (n) fitness; correct conduct :: Miss manners cousels her readers her readers so that they may behave with ___ in any social situation. |
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| (v) ostracize; banish; outlaw :: antony ___ all those who had conspirated againsed julius caesar |
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| (adj) limited or restricted :: unable to give the candidate full support, the mayor gave him only a ___ endorsement |
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| (adj) at rest, dormant :: after the eruption, peopled did not return to the mountain until the volcano had been ___ for a while. |
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| (adj) made less dense :: the mountain climbers had difficulty breathing in the ___ atmosphere. |
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| (adj) stubborn; determined to resist :: which animal do you this is more ____, a pig or a mule? |
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| (adj) abstruse; profound; secret :: he read many recondite books in order to obtain the matieral for his scholarly thesis |
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| (adj) stubborn, unmanageable :: the ___ horse was elmiminated from the race when he refused to obey the jockey. |
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| (v) banish to an inferior psoition: delegate; assign :: after ralph dropped his second tray of drinks, he was ___ to cleaning tables. |
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| (n) person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency :: i cannot understand why he has so many admirers if he is the ___ you say he is. |
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| (v) disown, disavow :: on seaparating from tony, tina announced she would __ all debts incured by her soon-to-be ex-husband. |
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| (v) cancel :: bc of the public outcry against new taxes, the senator proposed a bill to ___ the measure. |
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| (adj) reserved; uincommunicative :: fearing his competitors might get advacne word about his place, hughes preferred ____ employees instead of loquacious ones. |
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| (n) person celebrated for wisdom :: hearing tales of a mysterious master of all knowledge, sandy was possessed with a buring desire to consult the ____. |
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| (adj) healthful, many people with hay fever move to the more ____ sections of the country during august and sept. |
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| (V) approve; ratify :: nothing will convince me to ___ the engagment of my daughter to such a worthless guy. |
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| (adj) worried; concerned :: the employer was very ___ about the health of her employees. |
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| (adj) sleep causing, marked by sleepiness :: pringle's lectures were so ___ that even he fell asleep in class. |
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| (adj) seemingly reasonable but incorrect :: to claim that, c houses and bird both have wings, both can fly is extremely ___ reasoning |
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| (n) token of disgrace; brand :: i do not atach any ___ to the fac tthat you were a cheerleader. |
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| (v) be thrifty, set limits :: "spare no expense" said the bride's father, refusing to ___ on the wedding. |
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| (adj) dull, impassive :: the earthquake shattered stuart's usual ___ demeanor, |
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| (v) establish by evidence :: these endorsement from satsifed customers ___ our claim that we're the best. |
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| (v) cause to be set aside, replace, make obsolete :: computers ___ typewriters. |
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| (n) hypothosise, surmise ::i based my decision to confide in him on the ___ that he would be discreet. |
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| (adj) understood but not put into words :: we have a ___ agreement based on a handshake. |
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| (adj) thin, rare, slim :: the allegiance of our allies is held by rather __ ties |
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| (n) lethargy :: through thte winter, nother aroused the bear from his ____ |
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| (adj) winding, full of curves :: bc this road is so ____, it is unwise to go faster than 25. |
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| (adj) docile, easily managed :: although susan seemed a ___ young woman, she had a stubbord streak. |
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| (n) aggressiveness; ferocity :: tyler's reviews were notd for their caustic attacks and general tone of ____. |
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| (v) waiver; fluctuate :: uncertain which suitor she out to marry, the princess ____ (pt), saying now one, now the other. |
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| (v) revere :: in tibet today, the common people still ___ their traditional spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama |
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| (adj) truthful :: I can recommend him for this position bc i have always found him ___ and relaiable. |
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| (adj) wordy : we had to make some major cuts in senator foghorn's sppech bc it was far too ____. |
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| (adj) abusive; scolding :: he became more ___ as he realized that we were not going to grant him his wish. |
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| (n) turmoil; bewildering jumble :: the existing ___ of overlapping federal and state proclaims cries out for immediate reform. |
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| (n) fanatic :: though glen was devout, he was no ___; he never tried to force his religious beliefs on anyone. |
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