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reduce brittleness and improve toughness by
heating and cooling (metal or glass) |
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drug that relieves pain or trouble; opiate;
ADJ. Ex. anodyne statement |
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| antiquated; extremely ancient |
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hostile feeling or intent; animosity; hostility;
disposition |
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drug that relieves pain or trouble; opiate;
ADJ. Ex. anodyne statement |
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| imitate or mimic (a person’s behavior or manner) |
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opening; hole; adjustable opening in a camera
that limits the amount of light |
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| loss of speech due to injury or illness |
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| a place where bees are kept |
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poise; composure in difficult situations; assurance;
self-confidence |
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| highest point; the point farthest from the earth |
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one who writes in defense of a cause or institution;
N. apologia |
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stroke; loss of consciousness caused by too
much blood in the brain |
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elevation to godhood; an ideal example of
something |
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subordinate possessions; something
added to a more important thing |
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with reference to; regarding; Ex. remarks apropos
(of) the present situation; ADJ. ADV. |
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curved; hooked; of or like an eagle; Ex.
aquiline nose |
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unreasonable or capricious; random; tyrannical;
Ex. arbitrary ruler |
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esoteric; secret; mysterious; known only to the
initiated; Ex. arcane ritual; Ex. arcane process closed to
the uninitiated listener |
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| group of closely located islands |
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| heat; passion; zeal; ADJ. ardent |
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| hard; strenuous; Ex. arduous work |
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slang; speech spoken by only a small group of
people |
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marshal; draw up in order; arrange in order;
clothe splendidly; adorn; N: fine clothes; ordered group;
Ex. in battle array |
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| lacking rhythm or regularity; N. arrhythmia |
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| gully; narrow channel formed by rainwater |
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| without guile; open and honest |
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practicing self-denial; avoiding physical pleasures
and comforts; austere; Ex. ascetic life of Buddhist
monks; N. asceticism |
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| stupid; Ex. asinine remarks |
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with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval
or distruct); Ex. look askance at |
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| crookedly; slanted; at an angle |
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sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or
weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter |
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analyze (to discover what materials are present);
evaluate (soil or ore) |
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mak less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy
(hunger); soothe (anger) |
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binding; causing contraction (stopping
bleeding); harsh or severe; stringent; Ex. astringent
criticism |
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| into parts; apart; V. sunder |
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wasting away; V: weaken and lose flesh and
muscle (through lack of blood or lack of use) |
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omen; prophecy; sign of coming events; V. augur:
predict; foretell; be a sign of (something in future) |
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favoring success; giving signs of future success;
Cf. auspices |
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forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or
enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; Ex. a
monk’s austere life; Ex. austere grandeur of the cathedral;
N. austerity |
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| state confidently; declare as true |
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reluctant; disinclined; not liking or opposed; Ex.
averse to cats/doing the house work |
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| enclosure for birds; large cage |
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greedy; extremely eager for; Ex. avid learner; N.
avidity |
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| pointed tool used for piercing |
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distorted; crooked; bent; Ex. Our plans have gone
awry. |
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chatter idly or foolishly; make continuous
sounds like water running gently over rounded stone;
N. |
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pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade
by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered
me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of
mountain animal |
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| blessedness; state of great happiness |
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| wet thoroughly; ADJ. bedraggled: draggled |
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make stupid or confused as with alcholic drink;
N. in a fuddle: confused |
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deceive; mislead or delude; cheat; pass time
pleasantly; charm or attract; Ex. beguiling smile |
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obligated; indebted; owing thanks; obliged or
indebted from gratitude |
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be suited to; be incumbent upon; be
right and necessary; Ex. It behooves one to do |
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harp on; dwell on tediously; explain or go over
excessively or to a ridiculous degree; assail verbally;
beat severely; attack physically |
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| besiege or attack (with an army); harass; beset |
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contradict; give a false impression; disguise; Ex.
The poor sales belied our high hopes; Ex. Her smile belies
her true feeling of displeasure |
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| confused; lost in thought; preoccupied |
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kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); Ex.
benign tumor |
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leave to someone by means of a will; hand
down in his will; N. bequest |
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| deprived of (someone beloved through death) |
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| deprived of (something valuable); lacking |
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| mad with violent anger; frenzied; madly excited |
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| harass or trouble from all directions; hem in |
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| signify; indicate; be a sign of |
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| large group; Ex. a bevy of starlets |
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| divided into two branches; forked |
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suffering from indigestion; sick from having too
much bile; irritable; easily irritated |
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| temporary encampment; camp without tents;V. |
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| bleach; whiten; make white or pale |
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soothing or mild (food); agreeable; causing no
trouble or offence |
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bored with pleasure or dissipation; uninterested
or bored |
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| club; heavy-headed weapon; V. |
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| utter impulsively from nervousness or excitement |
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blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully;
speak in a noisy or bullying manner; CF. breeze, gust,
gale |
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| unconventional (in an artistic way) |
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| move or throw suddenly and quickly |
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| pompous; using inflated language |
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swagger; assumed air of defiance; false show
of bravery |
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| walk or behave with an over-confident manner |
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| human muscle; muscular strength; sturdiness |
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insolent; without shame; bold; Ex. brazen lie; V:
face with bold self-assurance or with unshamed confidence |
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| conciseness; shortness of duration |
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| rising like bristles; showing irritation |
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| introduce as a subject; moot; open up |
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| rich, figured(patterned) fabric |
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tolerate; endure; Ex. brook no interference; N:
small stream |
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main impact or shock (of an attack or blow); Ex.
brunt of the argument |
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blunt; abrupt; curt; not wanting to waste time
being nice |
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mismanage; blunder; botch; blow; spoil by
clumsy behavior |
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able to float; cheerful and optimistic; N. buoyancy;
Ex. buoyancy of wood/water/American market |
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grow rapidly; grow forth; send out buds; Ex.
burgeoning computer industry; CF. bludgeon |
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| make shiny by rubbing; polish |
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| full-bosomed; plump; jolly |
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small group of persons secretly united to promote
their own interests |
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discordant; inharmonious; N. cacophony:
unpleasant mixture of loud sounds |
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rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds);
beat; regular beat of sound; rhythm |
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| persuade by praise or false promise; coax; wheedle |
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hardened; unfeeling; without sympathy for the
sufferings of others; unkind |
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| youthful; immature; inexperienced |
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| heat-producing; N. calorie |
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| malicious misrepresentation; slander |
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shell or jewel carved in relief; star’s special appearance
in a minor role in a film |
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| unfounded false rumor; exaggerated false report |
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| frankness; open honesty; ADJ. candid |
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insincere speech or expression of piety; jargon of
thieves; special words used by a particular group of
people |
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having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine
and slender; Ex. capillary attraction; N: very fine hairlike
tube; CF. capillarity |
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| surrender; give up all resistance |
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whim; sudden change of mind without any real
cause |
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| faultfinding; too critical |
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lurch; sway from side to side; move with irregular
swinging movement; stagger |
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a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being
played |
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destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large
numbers of people or animals |
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| drunken revel; V. carouse |
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petty criticism; fault-finding; fretful complaining;
quibble |
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| rotting flesh of a dead body; CF. vulture |
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deluge; upheaval; earthquake; violent and
sudden event or change |
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great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a
gradual loss of eyesight) |
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shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the
theater or a sports match); boo; V. |
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make watertight (by blocking up cracks as
in a ship) |
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burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot
iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent
infection |
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procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages;
parade; CF. cavalry |
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| casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
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| quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
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yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war);
surrender formally; N. cession |
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| mythical figure, half man and half horse |
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| radiating; departing from the center |
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machine that separates substances by
whirling them |
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| tending toward the center |
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pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual
rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum |
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| thought; working of the brain |
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| yielding to another; ceding |
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| warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; N. |
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annoyance and disappointment; vexation
(caused by humiliation or injured pride) |
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cautious; unwilling to take risks; sparing or restrained
about giving; OP. bold |
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ornament a metal surface by indenting; follow
rapidly to catch |
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framework and working parts of an automobile;
framework to which components are attached |
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blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of
a group, cause, or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism;
Nicolas Chauvin |
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| scold; rebuke (someone who has done wrong) |
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fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic;
N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature |
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| courteous; faithful; brave; N. chivalry |
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| boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo |
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nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret
code; V |
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indirect or roundabout expression (by
using an uncecessarily large number of words esp.
when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly) |
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| limit; confine; draw a line around |
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prudent; cautious; acting after careful
thought |
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outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly;
outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around |
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| having foresight; fortuneteller; N. clairvoyance |
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| climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble |
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loud resounding noise; sound of repeated
clanging |
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| striker (tongue) of a bell |
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shrill, trumpetlike sound; kind of trumpet used
in former times |
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| disorderly fight between two or more people |
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| small exclusive group of people |
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great influence (especially political or social); hard
blow with fist |
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distasteful (because excessive); excessively
sweet or sentimental; V. cloy: become unpleasant
through too much sweetness or excess |
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| congeal; thicken; clot; N. coagulant |
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| combine; fuse; N. coalescence |
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treat gently; indulge excessively; pamper; mollycoddle;
baby; cook in water just below boiling point;
Ex. coddled eggs |
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supplement to the body of a will; later addition
to a will |
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living at the same time as; existing during the
same period of time; contemporary; of the same age |
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having a common origin; related linguistically;
allied by blood; similar or akin in nature; Ex. cognate
languages; N. |
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| utensil with perforated bottom used for straining |
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| work of art put together from fragments |
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examine and compare in order to verify authenticity;
arrange in order (the sheets of a book before they
are bound) |
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conspiring in a fraudulent scheme to cheat or
deceive others; V. collude |
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| in a coma; extremely sleepy |
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| attractive; agreeable; having a pleasing appearance |
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| something fit to be eaten |
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deserts; well-deserved punishment or
misfortune; rebuke |
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| courtesy; civility; Ex. comity of nations |
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take (private property) for military use
without needing permission or giving payment; draft
for military purposes |
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| equal in extent; of the same size |
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| feel or express pity or sympathy for |
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brief, comprehensive summary; ADJ.
compendious |
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| self-satisfied; complacent |
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trying to please; obliging; willing to please
others |
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participation; involvement (in a questionable
act or a crime) |
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remorse; strong uneasiness caused by
guilt |
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| hollow; curved inwards; OP. convex |
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vanity or self-love; too high opinion of one’s
own value; extravagant metaphor (in poetry) |
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mutually agreed on; done together by agreement;
Ex. concerted effort; CF. in concert: working together |
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an act of yielding; conceding; something
conceded; point, right, etc. given unwillingly; privilege
of maintaining a business in a certain place; Ex. oil concessions
in the North sea; CF. concessionaire |
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prepare by mixing or combining; make up in
concert; devise (something false) so as to deceive; Ex.
concoct an elaborate excuse for being late; N. concoction |
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that which accompanies; Ex. Deafnes is a
frequent concommitant of old age; ADJ: existing or happening
together with something else |
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(derog.) bestow courtesies with a superior
air; descend to the level of one considered inferior |
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| adequate; (of punishment) severe and well deserved |
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express condolences; N. condolence: sympathy
for someone who has experienced great sorrow |
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| aqueduct; passageway for fluids |
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flowing together; the place where two rivers
flow together; crowd; gathering together |
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pleasant; friendly; in agreement with one’s
tastes and nature; Ex. congenial weather |
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| mass of material sticking together |
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corporation made up of several different
companies in diversified fields; mass of various material
gathered together; rock consisting of small stones held
together by clay; V. |
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pine tree (usu. evergreen); cone-bearing tree;
ADJ. coniferous; CF. deciduous; CF. evergreen |
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pretense of ignorance of something wrong;
assistance; permission to offend; V. connive: feign ignorance
(of a wrong); cooperate secretly in an illegal action;
conspire |
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person competent to act as a judge of art,
etc. (whose judgments are respected); a lover of an art |
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pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial
state |
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| kinship; relationship by birth |
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scrupulous; through and careful; Ex.
conscientious worker |
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| draftee; person forced into military service; V. |
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dedicate; sanctify; declare as sacred; Ex. consecrate
one’s life to helping the poor |
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self-important; significant; consequent;
following as a result; Ex. consequential air; CF. subsequent |
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send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially;
entrust; put into the care of another; set apart
(for a special purpose); N. consignment; CF. consignor,
consignee |
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associate with; keep company; N: husband or
wife (or a ruler) |
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infection (by contact); ADJ. contagious; CF.
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| adjacent to; touching upon |
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self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence;
voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions;
ADJ. continent |
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illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods;
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unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous;
Ex. The ending was rather contrived |
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invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation);
manage; Ex. contrive to attract his attention |
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something contrived; machine or apparatus;
clever deceitful plan; scheme |
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oppose with arguments; attempt to refute;
contradict; ADJ. controversial; N. controversy |
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stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority
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| riddle; difficult problem |
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| approach; tend to meet; come together |
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pleasantly merry; festive; joyous; gay; characterized
by joviality; jovial |
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| call together; Ex. convoke Parliament; N. convocation |
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coiled around; twisted; involved; complicated;
intricate; complex; N. convolution: twist; one of
the convex folds of the surface of the brain |
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flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to
attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings;
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projecting molding on building (usually above
columns or pillars) |
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horn (or horn-shaped container) overflowing
with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance; horn of
plenty |
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natural consequence (which naturally follows
from something else) |
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bodily (rather than spiritual); of a bodily
form; material; tangible |
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collection (of writings or information); Ex. the
corpus of Shakespear’s works; Cf. corpse |
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| confirm; support; strengthen |
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destroy or wear away gradually by chemical action
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eating away by chemicals or disease; (of language)
fierce |
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small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth);
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group that meets socially; select circle; close
group of people with shared interests |
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approve; support; tolerate; Ex. countenance
his rude behavior; N: face; appearance |
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