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| Speaking in riddles and dressed in old robes, the artist gained a reputation as something of an ENIGMA |
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| The annual meeting of philosophy proffesors was a gathering of the most ERUDITE, well-published individuals in the field |
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| characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly |
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| The explanations were written in a simple and LUCID manner so that students were immediately able to apply what they had learned |
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- easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible
- characterized by clear perception or understanding; rational or sane
- shining or bright
- clear; pellucid; transparent
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| The heavy build up of dirt and grime on the windows almost made them OPAQUE |
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- not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through
- not transmitting radiation, sound, heat, etc.
- not shining or bright; dark; dull
- hard to understand; not clear or lucid; obscure
- dull, stupid, or unintelligent
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| The burglar tried to PLACATE the snarling dog by saying, "Nice doggie," and offering it a treat |
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| To appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures |
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| Upon learning the couple married after knowing eachother only a few months, friends and family members expected such a PRECIPITATE marriage to end in divorce. |
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- to hasten the occurrence of bringing out premately, hastily, or suddenly
- to cast, plunge, or send especially violently or abruptly
- to separate (a substance) in solid form from a solution as by means of a reagent
- to fall to the earth's surface as a condensed form of water; to rain, snow, hail, drizzle, etc.
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| The PRODIGAL son quickly wasted all of his inheritance on a lavish lifestyle devoted to pleasure |
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- wastefully or recklessly extravagant
- givingly or yielding produsely; lavish
- lavishly abundant; profuse
- a person who spends, or has spent, his or her money or substance with wasteful extravagance; spend thrift
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| She brought her typical ZEAL to the project, sparking enthusiasm in the other team members |
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| Fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor |
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| She ABSTAINED from choosing a mouth watering dessert from the tray. |
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- to hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy
- to refrain from casting one's vote
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| To debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of any professedly genuine article |
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- absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement
- lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting
- freedom from emotion of any kind
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- extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless
- extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive
- recklessly bold in defiance on convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen
- lively; unrestrained; unhibited
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- subject to, led by, or indicative or caprice or whim; erratic
- fanciful or witty
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- to produce, cause, or give rise to
- to beget; procreate
- to be produced or caused; come into existence
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- to sway to and fro; flutter
- to flicker or quiver, as light
- become unsteady; begin to fail or give away
- to shake or tremble, as the hands or voice
- to feel or show doubt, indecision, etc.
- to fluctuate or vary
- to totter or reel
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- lasting a very shot time; short-lived; transitory
- lasting but one day
- anything short-lived, as certain insects
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- a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form
- someone or something anomalous
- an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.
- an incongruity or inconsistency
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| Easily deceived or cheated |
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- to dry thoroughly; dry up
- to preserve (food) by removing moisture; dehydrate
- to become thoroughly dried or dried up
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| Corresponding in structure because of a common origin |
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- heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc.
- burning; glowing; intensely hot
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| Using few words; expressing much in few words; concise |
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| To make more certain; confirm |
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- deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable
- healthy; wholesome; not noxious
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- talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous
- characterized by excessive talk; wordy
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- to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate
- to make less severe
- to make (a person, one's state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease
- to become milder; lessen in severity
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- a person who makes an excussive or inappropriate display of learning
- a person who overemphasizes rules or minor details
- a person who adheres rigidly to book knowledge without regard to common sense
- a school master
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- of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations
- of or pertaining to pragmatism
- treating historical phenomena with special reference to their causes, antecedent conditions, and results
- of or pertaining to the affairs of state or community
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- conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners
- appropriateness to the purpose or circumstances; suitability
- rightness or justness
- the proprieties, the conventional standards of proper behavior; manners
- a property
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- to waver in mind or option; be indecisive or irresdute
- to sway unsteadily; waver; totter; stagger
- to oscillate or fluctuate
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- evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor
- tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive
- changeable; mercurial; flightly
- tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly
- fleeting; transient
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- to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly
- a person who speaks or writes in support or defense of a person, cause, etc.
- a person who pleads for or in behalf of another; intercessor
- a person who pleads the cause of another in a court of law
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- a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion
- an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling
- an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike
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- to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate
- to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve
- to soothe, calm, or mollify
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- a long, often cylindrical, cushion or pillow for a bed, sofa, etc.
- anything resembling this in form or in use as a support
- any pillow, cushion, or pad
- a structural member on which one end of a bridge truss rests
- to support with or as with a pillow or cushion
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- harsh discordance of sound; dissonance
- a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds
- frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand
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| To laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock |
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- in harmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony
- disagreement or incongruity
- a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of unrest and needing completion
- an unresolved, discordant chord or interval
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| To deprive of force or strenth; destroy the rigor of; weaken |
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- a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person
- high praise or commendation
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- excessively talkative in a rambling, round about manner, especially about trivial matters
- wordy or diffuse
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- free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere
- artless; innocent; naive
- honorable or noble
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- of, pertaining to, or affected with lethargy; drowsy; sluggish
- producing lethargy
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- capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers
- adaptable or tractable
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- unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding
- stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent
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- pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance; display intended to impress others
- the act of showing or exhibiting; display
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- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
- a self-condradictory and falst proposition
- any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature
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| Of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent |
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