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a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof |
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1.to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently. 2.to give urgent advice, recommendations, or warnings. |
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1. | implied, rather than expressly stated: implicit agreement. | 2. | unquestioning or unreserved; absolute: implicit trust; implicit obedience; implicit confidence. | 3. | potentially contained (usually fol. by in): to bring out the drama implicit in the occasion. |
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1. | to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually fol. by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge. | 2. | to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods (usually fol. by from or away): to inveigle a theater pass from a person. |
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1. | of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color. | 2. | undistinguished or uninteresting; dull or insipid: The private detective deliberately wore nondescript clothes. |
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1. | a person or thing of no importance. |
2. | something that does not exist or exists only in imagination. | |
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characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy. |
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1. | grossly or obscenely abusive: a scurrilous attack on the mayor. | 2. | characterized by or using low buffoonery; coarsely jocular or derisive: a scurrilous jest. |
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1.various or diverse: sundry persons. 2.all and sundry, everybody, collectively and individually: Free samples were given to all and sundry. |
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1. | crying out noisily; clamorous. |
2. | characterized by or uttered with vociferation: a vociferous manner of expression. |
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1. | to free from guilt or blame or their consequences: The court absolved her of guilt in his death. | 2. | to set free or release, as from some duty, obligation, or responsibility (usually fol. by from): to be absolved from one's oath. | |
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1. | a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion. | 2. | an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling. | 3. | an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike. |
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1. | places diametrically opposite each other on the globe. | |
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1. | lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished. | 2. | Archaic. a. | deficient in what is requisite. | b. | destitute (usually fol. by of). |
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1.to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule. 2.to encroach or trespass (usually fol. by on or upon): Don't infringe on his privacy. |
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1. | any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family. | 2. | any of various allied or similar plants. |
3. | to irritate, annoy, or provoke. | 4. | to sting as a nettle does. |
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1. | outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended: an ostensible cheerfulness concealing sadness. | 2. | apparent, evident, or conspicuous: the ostensible truth of their theories. |
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1. | operative with respect to past occurrences, as a statute; retrospective: a retroactive law. | 2. | pertaining to a pay raise effective as of a past date. |
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1. | apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments. | 2. | pleasing to the eye but deceptive. | 3. | Obsolete. pleasing to the eye; fair. |
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1. | to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master. | 2. | to make submissive or subservient; enslave. |
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1. | to refuse or deny oneself (some rights, conveniences, etc.); reject; renounce. | 2. | to relinquish; give up. |
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1. | large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful: copious amounts of food. | 2. | having or yielding an abundant supply: a copious larder; a copious harvest. | 3. | exhibiting abundance or fullness, as of thoughts or words. |
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1. | a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person. | 2. | high praise or commendation. |
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agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, esp. a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words: the majestic euphony of Milton's poetry. |
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1. | introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign: extraneous substances in our water. | 2. | not pertinent; irrelevant: an extraneous remark; extraneous decoration. |
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1. | of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly: mundane affairs. | 2. | common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative. | 3. | of or pertaining to the world, universe, or earth. |
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1. | keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret. | 2. | keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest. | 3. | affecting or moving the emotions: a poignant scene. | 4. | pungent to the smell: poignant cooking odors. |
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1. | a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal. | 2. | such descendants or offspring collectively. | 3. | something that originates or results from something else; outcome; issue. |
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1. | giving out or capable of giving out a sound, esp. a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place: a sonorous cavern. | 2. | loud, deep, or resonant, as a sound. | 3. | rich and full in sound, as language or verse. | 4. | high-flown; grandiloquent: a sonorous speech. |
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1. | the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office. | 2. | the holding of property, esp. real property, of a superior in return for services to be rendered. | 3. | the period or term of holding something. | |
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