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Define: the expression of apporval or favorable oppinion, praise; official approval
Sy: Commendation, sanction
Ay: disaproval, condemnation, censure
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Define: to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet,calm; to put ot an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
Sy: Mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
Ay: intensify, aggrivate, exacerbate
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Define: A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
Sy: alliance, league, federation, combine
Ay: splinter group
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Define: decline, decay, or deterioration; a period or condition of decline or decay, excessive self-indulgence
Sy: degeneration, corruption
Ay: rise, growth, development, maturation
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Define: to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
Sy: call forth, evoke, extract, educe
Ay: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
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Define: to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
Sy: protest, remonstraight, complain
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Define: used so often as to lack freshness or originality
Sy: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
Ay: new, fresh, novel, original
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Define: a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)
Sy: pause, lacuna
Ay: continuity, continuation
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Define:a hint, indirect suggestion, or referense (often in a derogatory sense)
Sy: insinuation, intimation
Ay: direct statement
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Define: to plead on behalf of someone else, to serve as a third party or a go-between in a disagreement
Sy: intervene, mediate
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Define: wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
Sy: sated, surfieted,cloyed
Ay: unspoiled, uncloyed
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Define: causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionete in intensity or lack of restraint
Sy: gruesome, gory, baleful, ghastly
ay: pleasent, attractive, appealing, wholesome
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Define: worthy, deserving recognition or praise
sy: praiseworthy, laudible, commendable
ay: blameworthy, reprehinsible, discreditable
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Define: peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
sy: irritable, testy, waspish
ay: even-tempered, placid, serene, aimiable
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Define: special right or privlage, a special quality showing excellence
Sy: prequisite, perk
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Define: -pertaining to an outlaying area, local, narrow-minded, countrified in the sense of being backwards or limited, of a simple design that originated in the countryside -person w/ a narrow point of view, person from outlaying area, soldier from province
Sy: narrow-minded, parochial, insular, niave
ay: cosmopolitan, catholic, broad-minded
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Define: to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of.
Sy: feign, pretend, affect
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Define: to rise above or beyond
Sy: surpass, outsrip
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define: shade cast by trees, foliage giving shade, an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment, a vague suspicion
sy: irritation, pique, annoyance
ay: pleasure, delight, satisfaction
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Define: excessively smooth or smug, trying to hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily, pliable
sy: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy
ay: gruff, blunt
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