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to make less in amount degress to subside become less to nullify to deduct omit diminish decrease subside let up
anotonyms: intensify increase magnify wax |
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praise or flattery that is excessive adoration idolization hero worship
antonyms: ridicule derision scorn odium |
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an object of intense dislike a curse or strong word denunciation often use adjectively without the article malediction imprecation abomination
antonyms: benediction blessing |
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shrewd craft showing practical wisdom acute sagacious judicious wily
antonyms: obtuse doltish empty-headed dumb |
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| a greedy desire particularaly for wealth cupidity rapacity acquisitiveness |
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deserving blame worthy of condemnation gulity delinquent peccant blameworthy
antonyms: blameness innocent laudable meritorious |
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tending to delay or procastinate not prompt intended to delay or postpone stalling slow tardy laggard
antonyms: prompt punctual speedy expeditious |
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conspicuous, standing out from the mass, glaring, flagrant, blatant
antontyms: unnoticeable, paltry, piddling |
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to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation to be deliberately vague or ambiguous to talk out of both sides of ones mouth palter hedge
antonyms: to speak one's mind plainly |
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vanishing, soon passing away, light and airy, ephermeral, transient, transitory
antonyms: everlasting, immortal, imperishable |
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unable to make up ones mind hesitating, indecisivem vacillating wavering
antonyms: determined decisive unwavering |
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cloudlike resembling a cloud cloudy in color not transparent vague confused indistinct hazy fuzzy cloudy vague murky opaque indeterminate
antonyms: definite distinct clear shaply focused |
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one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience neophyte tyro trainee apprentice
antonyms: veteran past meter pro expert |
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extreme poverty barreness insufficiency destitution want indigence
antonyms: afluence abundance luxury opulence |
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done for show striving to make a big impression claiming merit or position unjustifiably making demands on ones skill of abilities ambitious inflated ostentatious affected
antonyms: unassuming unaffected modest |
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| to review a series of facts to sum up review summarize sum up go over |
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| to revive bring back to consciousness or existence revitalize reanimate restore reactivate |
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untidy dirty careless unkempt statternly slipshod lax
antonyms: neat tidy careful meticulous |
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