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Moderate; sparing(as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline
S: temperate, sober, moderate
A: indulgent, immoderate, intemperate |
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Deserving blame or correction
S: blameworthy, discreditable, reprehensible
A: commendale, laudable, meritorious |
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Likely, but not certain to happen, possible; dependent on uncertain events or conditions; happening by chance; a representative group forming part of a larger body
S: conditional, dependent, a detachment
A: independent of, unconnected with, certain |
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to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify
S: refute, contradict, undermine, discredit |
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An inhibitant, resident,one who frequents a place
S: resident, dweller, habitue
A: alien, outsider, stranger, foreigner |
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Passing aimlessly from one subject or place to another, rambling, roving, nomadic
S: digressive, diffuse, wandering, episodic
A: short and to the point, succinct |
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To scatter widely
S: disperse, publicize, broadcast, circulate, hide
A: bring together, concentrate, muster, conceal, hide |
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Poorly dressed, shabby, lacking good taste
S: frumpy, tacky, frowsy, drab
A: chic, stylish, elegant, fashionable |
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Highly colored, excessively ornate, showy
S: flushed, ruddy, flowery, frilly. flamboyant
A: pale, ashen, pallid, sallow, austere, stark |
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To impose or force another to accept by fraud. to bring in by stelth
S: to impose by fraug; to pass off as worhty or genuine; to bring about by stealth, dishonesty, or coercion
S: pass off, palm off, fob off |
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Awkward, lacking social graces, tactless, clumsy
S: inept, uncouth, maladroit
A: adroit, tactful, diplomatic, politic |
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An opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred
S: unorthodox belief, heterodoxy
A: orthodoxy |
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To impress on the mind by repitition, teach persistently and earnestly
S:instill, implant, infuse,ingrain, imbue
A: efface, extirpate, root out |
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Capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized
S: tangible, plain, obvious, manifest
A: intangible, insubstantial, incorporeal |
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Having sympathestic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation
S: insightful, discerning, observant
A: dense, thick, obtuse, dim-witted |
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Extremely harmful, fatal or deadly
S: injurious, deleterious, baleful, noxious
A: harmless, innocuous, salutary, salubrious |
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Leaping, jumping, springing forth, prominent, standing out, conspisuous; a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward
A: inconspicuous, recessive |
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Satisfy completely (hunger,desire) fill to excess; full, satisfied
S: gratify, cloy, surfeit, gorge
A: starve, deprive entirely of |
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| To make or become dry and withered, to char or scorch the surface of; to harden or make unfeeling; to parch, dessicate |
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