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(adj.) peacable, friendly
SYN: congenial, neighborly, cordial
ANT: favorably disposed, eager, keen |
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(adj.) skillful, expert in the use of the hands or mind
SYN: clever, deft, dexterous, slick
ANT: clumsy, inept, all thumbs |
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(adj.) having a deep-seated distaste, opposed, unwilling
SYN: assertive, truculent, pugnacious
ANT: peaceful. conciliatory, placid |
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(adj.) kindly, charitable
SYN: benign, well-meaning
ANT: malicious, spiteful, malevolent |
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(adj.) hasty, not thorough
SYN: quick, superficial, perfunctory
ANT: thorough, painstaking, careful |
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(n.) treachery, deceitfulness
SYN: fraud, double-dealing, chicanery |
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(v.) to praise extravagantly
SYN: glorify, applaud, acclaim, hail
ANT: criticize, belittle, disparage |
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(adj.) given to fighting, warlike, combative, aggressive
(n.) one at war, one engaged in war
SYN: assertive, truculent, pugnacious
ANT: peaceful, conciliatory, placid |
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(adj.) possible, able to be done
SYN: workable, practicable, viable
ANT: unworkable, impractical |
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(n.) a wry face, facial distortion (v.) to make a wry face
SYN: pained expression, facial contortion
ANT: smile, grin;beam |
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(n)large-scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering
SYN: conflagration, devastation, annihilation
ANT: deluge, inundation |
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(adj.) not affected or hurt by; admitting of no passage or entrance
SYN: impenetrable, resistant, proof against
ANT: porous, permeable, vulnerable |
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(n.) a moving force, impulse, stimulus
SYN: impulse, incentive, spur
ANT: curb, hindrance,impediment,constraint |
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(n.) danger
SYN: risk, hazard, peril
Ant: safety, security |
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(adj.) extremely careful; particular about details
SYN: fastidious, painstaking, fussy
ANT: careless, negligent, sloppy |
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| (n.) a longong for something past; homesickness |
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(n.) the purest essence or form of something; the most typical example
SYN: paragon, exemplar |
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(v.)to move backward; to return to an earlier condition
SYN: revert, degenerate, decline
ANT: advance, evolve, progress |
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(v.) to examine closely
SYN: inspect, pore oever
ANT: Skim, scan, glance at |
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(adj.) lukewarm; unenthusiastic, mrked by an abscence of interest
SYN: insipid, halfhearted, wishy-washy
ANT: heated, excited, enthusiastic |
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