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| berate |
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criticize hatefully |
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| verb |
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criticize hatefully |
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bawl out, blister, call down, castigate, censure, chew out, chew*, chide, cuss out, eat out, give one hell, give what for, jaw, jump all over, railat, rake over the coals,rate, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove,revile, scold, scorch, tell off, tongue-lash, upbraid,vituperate |
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| bereft |
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lacking; missing |
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beggared, bereaved, cut off, deprived, destitute, devoid, dispossessed, divested, fleeced, impoverished, left without,minus,naked, partedfrom, robbed, shorn, stripped,wanting, without |
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| bestow |
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| give,allot |
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accord, apportion, award, bequeath, come through, commit, confer, devote, donate, entrust, favor, gift, give away, grant, hand out, honor with, impart, kick in, lavish, offer, present, put out, renderto |
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| bewail |
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| cry over, lament |
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bemoan, deplore, eat heart out, express sorrow, grieve for, moan, mourn, regret, repent, rue, sing the blues,take on, wail, weep over |
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| beveled |
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| slanted |
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chamfered,diagonal,oblique, slanting,sloping |
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| bicker [image] [image] |
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| nastily argue |
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altercate,brawl, caterwaul, cause a scene, cavil, dig, disagree, dispute, fall out, fight, hassle, pick at, quarrel, quibble, row, scrap, scrape, spar, spat, squabble, tiff, trade zingers, wrangle |
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| biennial
1 adj occurring every second year
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big-bang theory
1n (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature
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bigot
Part of Speech: noun |
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intolerant, prejudiced person
Synonyms: chauvinist, diehard, doctrinaire, dogmatist, enthusiast, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, monomaniac, opinionated person, partisan, persecutor, puritan, racist, sectarian, segregationist, sexist, stickler, superpatriot, zealot |
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