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an enthusiastic vigor and liveliness, spirit; a flair
Syns: verve, dash |
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To cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure.
Syns: To disperse; strew |
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To deny responsibility for or connnection with.
Syns: To disown, disclaim |
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tending to promote or assist, helpful, favorable
Syns: Beneficial, conributive |
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To remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify.
Syns: To purge, censor |
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Impartial; calm, free from emotion.
Syns: Unbiased, disinterested. |
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Dismay, confusion
Syns: Shock, amazement |
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Disagreement, sharp difference of opinion.
Syns: Strife, discord |
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Resembling a cow or ox; sluggish, unresponsive.
Syns: Stolid, dull |
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Stinging, bitter in temper or tone.
Syns: Biting, caustic |
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Fat; having a large, bulky body.
Syns: Overweight, heavy |
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Subordinate in capacity or role; serving to promote some end; submissively obedient.
Syns: Secondary; useful |
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Faithlessness, treachery
Syns:Betrayal, disloyalty |
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Based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation.
Syns: Assumed, supposed. |
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To call into question; attack as false
Syns: to challenge, deny |
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Hatred, contempt; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct.
Syns: Abhorrence, opprobrium. |
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Immoderate, lacking in self-control; inclement.
Syns: Excessive, extreme |
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mean, low, base
Syns: Inferior, unworthy |
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Inclined to nausea; easily shocked or upset; excessively fastidious or refined.
Syns: Nausous, queasy |
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Open to; easily influenced; lacking in resistance.
Syns: Vulnerable to, receptive |
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An armored or protective glove; a challenge to combat; two lines of men armed with weapons with which to beat a person forced to run between them; an ordeal.
Syns: A dare, provocation |
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To place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish
Syns: To transfer, consign |
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