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- to assert w/o proof
SYN: claim, contend |
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- thoroughgoing
- out and out
- shameless, blatant
SYN: egregious, unmitigated |
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- light and playful conversation
SYN: banter, persiflage, repartee |
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- to overcome the distrust of
- win over
- appease, pacity
- make consistent
SYN: placate, mollify, propitate |
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- to cancel or reverse one order/command with another that is contrary to the first
SYN: recall, revoke |
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- one of a series of grades in an organization
- organized military unit
- steplike formation or arrangement
SYN: level, rank |
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- to make more violent
- severe, bitter or painful
SYN: aggravate, intensify, worsen |
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- stupid or foolish in self satisfied way
SYN: silly, vapid, inane, doltish, vacuous |
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- impossible to disprove
- beyond arguement
SYN: indisputable, incrontrovertible, untenable |
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| - massive and inescapable force or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
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- lacking spirit or interest
- halfhearted
SYN: listless, indolent, indifferent, lax |
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- prayer consisting of short appeals to God recited by leader alternating responses from congregation
- chant
SYN: rigmarole, catalog, megillah |
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- grisly, gruesome, horrible, distressing
- having death as subject
SYN: grotesque, grim, ghoulish |
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- an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth
SYN: lack |
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- to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen
- advance warning
SYN: bode, foretell, foreshadow, suggest |
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- to tear down, destroy completely
- cut off
SYN: pull down, demolish, shave off |
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- to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed
- renounce, retract
SYN: repudiate, disavow |
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- to speak thoroughly
- fill capacity
- satisfy fully
SYN: permeate, drench, flood, imbue |
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- of gloomy or surly disposition
- cold or sluggish in mood
SYN: sullen, morose |
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- to cast off, discard
- to get rid of something objectionable
- plod through as if mud
- mire, a state of depression
SYN: shed, slog |
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