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1.an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups: the antagonism between the liberal and the conservative parties. |
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1.opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong. |
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1.of doubtful authorship or authenticity. |
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requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
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requiring or using much energy and vigor; strenuous: making an arduous effort. |
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1.uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
3.using language easily and fluently; having facility with words: an articulate speaker. |
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verb (used with object), as·suaged, as·suag·ing.
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to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
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to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
3.to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger. |
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Also, a·tro·phi·a [uh-troh-fee-uh] Show IPA . Pathology . a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
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degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought. |
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to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance. |
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severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
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rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent.
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grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner.
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without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life.
5.severely simple; without ornament: austere writing. |
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favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom: authoritarian principles; authoritarian attitudes.
exercising complete or almost complete control over the will of another or of others: an authoritarian parent. |
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