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| (adj) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsibility |
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| syn: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand |
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| (n) large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
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| syn: butchery, bloodbath, massacre |
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| (adj) too ready to believe, easily deceived |
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| (n) a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation |
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| syn: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon |
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| (v) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly |
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| syn: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt |
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| (v) to expand on, write or talk at length in detail; to move about freely |
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| syn: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam |
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| ant: sketch roughly, summarize, condense, adumbrate |
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| (adj) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
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| syn: incidental, extrinsic |
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| (n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. |
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| syn: commencement, inauguration, outset |
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| (n)a weakness, or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) |
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| syn: affliction, malady, defect |
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| (adj) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile |
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| (adj) stubborn, unyielding |
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| (n) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general misture petals mixed with spices for scent |
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| syn: hodgepodge, mélange, farrago, medley |
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| (adj) showing unusually early development ( especially in talent and mental capacity) |
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| syn: forward, gifted, advanced |
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| (adj) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
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| syn:brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish |
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| ant: masochistic, clement, humane, merciful |
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| (adj) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy |
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| syn: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic |
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| ant: discursive, diffuse, episodic |
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| (v) to beg earnestly and humbly |
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| syn: plead, petition, implore, entreat |
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| (n) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v) to feed or supply with anything to excess |
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| syn: (n) excess, glut; (v) cloy, satiate |
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| (adj) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious |
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| syn: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine |
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| (adj) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language |
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| syn: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown |
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