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| extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia) |
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| a person or artifact appearing after its own time or out of chronological order (adj: anachronistic) |
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| hostility toward, objection, or aversion to |
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| to make less severe; to appease or satisfy |
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| speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something |
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a lapse, gap or break. To break or break through
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highly critical capable of dissolving by chemical action
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| of the body: "corporal punishment." a non-commissioned officer ranked between a sergeant and a private |
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lack, scarcity The prosecutor complained about the dearth of concrete evidence against the suspect. |
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submission or courteous yielding He held his tongue in deference to his father. v. defer |
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the act of preying upon or plundering The depredations of the invaders demoralized the population. |
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| a bitter abusive denunciation. |
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| lacking self-confidence, modest |
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to free a person from falsehood or error We had to disabuse her of the notion that she was invited. |
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| to conceal one's real motive, to feign |
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stubborn or determined Her dogged pursuit of the degree eventually paid off. |
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| relying upon doctrine or dogma, as opposed to evidence |
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| the quality of flowing out. something that flows out, such as a stream from a river |
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| a formal eulogy or speech of praise (panegyric) |
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prevalent in or native to a certain region, locality, or people. The disease was endemic to the region. |
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| scholarly, displaying deep intensive learning |
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to increase the bitterness or violence of. to aggravate.
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to demonstrate or prove to be blameless. The evidence tended to exculpate the defendant. |
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measure of length (6ft) used in nautical settings. to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand it
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| to seek favor or attention; to act subserviantly |
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to give false appearance or impression. He feigned illness to avoid going to school. |
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highly emotional; hot The partisans displayed a fervent patriotism. |
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| a baby bird; an inexperienced person |
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| flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery: "florid prose." |
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| struggling: "We tried to save the floundering business." |
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| fine cobweb on foliage; fine gauzy fabric; very fine: "She wore a gossamer robe." |
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| skillful deceit: "He was well known for his guile." (v. bequile; adj: beguiling. Note, however, that these two words have an additional meaning: to charm (v.) or charming (adj:), while the word guile does not generally have any such positive connotations) |
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| headfirst; impulsive; hasty. impulsively; hastily; without forethought: "They rushed headlong into marriage." |
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| one who attacks traditional ideas or institutions or one who destroys sacred images |
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| insinuation or connotation |
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| to suggest indirectly; to entail: "She implied she didn't believe his story." |
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| an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events: "Their improvidence resulted in the loss of their home." |
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| in an initial or early stage; incomplete; disorganized: "The act of writing forces one to clarify incohate thoughts." |
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| not capable of being corrected: "The school board finally decided the James was incorrigible and expelled him from school." |
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| undescribable; inexpressible in words; unspeakable |
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| unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid: "Wilson's ingenuous response to the controversial calmed the suspicious listeners." |
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| clever: "She developed an ingenious method for testing her hypothesis."(n: ingenuity) |
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| numb; unconscious: "Wayne was rendered insensible by a blow to the head." unfeeling; insensitive. They were insensibile to the suffering of others. |
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| stubborn; immovable; unwilling to change: "She was so intransigent we finally gave up trying to convince her." |
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| weighty, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an excessive degree: "Jake's lugubrious monologues depressed his friends." |
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| one who hates people: "He was a true misanthrope and hated even himself." |
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| to make less forceful; to become more moderate; to make less harsh or undesirable: "He was trying to mitigate the damage he had done." (n: mitigation) |
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| to make less forceful; to become more moderate; to make less harsh or undesirable: "He was trying to mitigate the damage he had done." (n: mitigation) |
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| harmful, offensive, destructive: "The noisome odor of the dump carried for miles." |
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| hardened against influence or feeling; intractable |
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| to prevent by anticipatory measures; to make unnecessary |
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| turned to bone; hardened like bone; Inflexible: "The ossified culture failed to adapt to new economic conditions and died out." |
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| a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing |
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| showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one's own learning: "We quickly tired of his pedantic conversation." (n: pedant, pedantry) |
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| not easily excited; cool; sluggish |
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| related to being shaped or molded; capable of being molded. (n: plasticity n: plastic) |
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| cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical face; a dangerous place from which one is likely to fall; metaphorically, a very risky circumstance |
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| to fall; to fall downward suddenly and dramatically; to bring about or hasten the occurrence of something: "Old World diseases precipitated a massive decline in the American Indian population." |
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| to stray away from or evade the truth: "When we asked him what his intentions were, he prevaricated."(n: prevarication; prevaricator) |
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| rashly wasteful: "Americans' prodigal devotion to the automobile is unique." |
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| cowardly, timid, or irreselute; petty: "The pusillanimous leader soon lost the respect of his people." |
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| to make or become thin; to purify or refine (n: rarefaction, adj: rarefied) |
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| having a sharp or powerful intellect or discernment. (n: sagacity). |
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| cheerful; confident: "Her sanguine attitude put everyone at ease."(Sangfroid (noun) is a related French word meaning unflappibility. Literally, it means cold blood) |
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| to satisfy fully or to excess |
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| diligent; persevering; persistent: "Her sedulous devotion to overcoming her background impressed many." (n: sedulity; sedulousness; adv. sedulously) |
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| seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive: "Her argument, though specious, was readily accepted by many." |
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| only covering the surface: "A superficial treatment of the topic was all they wanted." |
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| unspoken: "Katie and carmella had a tacit agreement that they would not mention the dented fender to their parents." |
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| an angry speech: "His tirade had gone on long enough." |
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| twisted; excessively complicated: "Despite public complaints, tax laws and forms have become increasingly tortuous." Note: Don't confuse this with torturous. |
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| depravity; baseness: "Mr. Castor was fired for moral turpitude." |
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| beginner; person lacking experience in a specific endeavor: "They easily took advantage of the tyro." |
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| empty; without contents; without ideas or intelligence:: "She flashed a vacuous smile." |
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| to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length: "Franklin vexed his brother with his controversial writings." |
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| slow moving; highly resistant to flow: "Heintz commercials imply that their catsup is more viscous than others'." (n: viscosity) |
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| enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal (n: zealot; zealoutry. adj: zealous) |
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to bring into being, cause, give rise toHis slip of the tongue engendered much laughter. |
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