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| # To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe, o satisfy or appease, To pacify or calm |
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| To make or become better; improve. |
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| To urge with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery; wheedle |
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| To cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant, especially something rich or sweet; surfeit. |
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# Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma.
# Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles. |
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# A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something.
# A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization |
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| One that lacks sense or substance |
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1. Having no adverse effect; harmless.
2. Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid. |
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| An acknowledgment of a personal error or fault. |
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1. Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
2. Contemptuous in speech or behavior. |
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1. Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
2. Holding together firmly; cohesive: a tenacious material.
3. Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive: tenacious lint.
4. Tending to retain; retentive: a tenacious memory. |
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1. The act or an instance of making a conscious choice or decision.
2. A conscious choice or decision.
3. The power or faculty of choosing; the will. |
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1. Cheerful willingness; eagerness.
2. Speed or quickness; celerity. |
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1. An unfavorable or damaging remark; slander: Don't cast aspersions on my honesty.
2. The act of defaming or slandering.
2. A sprinkling, especially with holy water. |
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1. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout.
2. A total, often ludicrous failure.
3. The breaking up of ice in a river.
4. A violent flood. |
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Happening by accident or chance.
1. Happening by a fortunate accident or chance.
2. Lucky or fortunate. |
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1. Not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church doctrine or dogma.
2. Holding unorthodox opinions. |
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A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution,
To ridicule or satirize in or as if in a lampoon. |
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| Infamous by way of being extremely wicked. |
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| Represented or appearing as such; ostensive |
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1. Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding: “The present aspect of society is portentous of great change” (Edward Bellamy).
2. Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe: “Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity” (Herman Melville).
3. Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty. |
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1. To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
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1. To disown (a child, for example).
2. To refuse to have any dealings with. |
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| Polite, refined, and often elegant in manner. |
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# Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation.
# Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: |
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Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit
# Free of artificiality; natural: artless charm.
# Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
# Poorly made or done; crude. |
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| To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class. |
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| To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement. |
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1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate.
2. To execute quickly and efficiently: was trusted to expedite the directives of the board.
3. To issue officially; dispatch. |
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A means of connection; a link or tie,
A connected series or group.
The core or center. |
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| Seeming to be coolly unconcerned or indifferent. |
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| Having total knowledge; knowing everything |
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| Complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness: |
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To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in.
To die. |
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Lacking intelligence; stupid.
Devoid of substance or meaning; inane.
Devoid of expression; vacant.
Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle. |
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1. Full of wishful yearning.
2. Pensively sad; melancholy. |
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# The point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer.
# The upper region of the sky.
# The highest point above the observer's horizon attained by a celestial body.
# The point of culmination; the peak |
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1. Defiant or swaggering behavior: strove to prevent our courage from turning into bravado.
2. A pretense of courage; a false show of bravery.
2. A disposition toward showy defiance or false expressions of courage. |
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1. A warning or caution: “A final caveat: Most experts feel that clients get unsatisfactory results when they don't specify clearly what they want” (Savvy).
2. A qualification or explanation.
2. Law. A formal notice filed by an interested party with a court or officer, requesting the postponement of a proceeding until the filer is heard. |
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1. Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech.
2. An instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing.
2. The quality or state of being twofold or double. |
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1. Lasting for a markedly brief time: “There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the cold pages of a court transcript” (Irving R. Kaufman).
2. Living or lasting only for a day, as certain plants or insects do. |
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| Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless |
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| Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty |
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| To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
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Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness; stubbornly impenitent.
Hardened against feeling; hardhearted.
Not giving in to persuasion; intractable. |
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1. Fundamental reasons; the basis.
2. An exposition of principles or reasons. |
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1. In widespread existence, practice, or use; increasingly prevalent.
2. Abundant or numerous.
(used with negative connotations) |
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Conscientious and exact; painstaking.
Having scruples; principled. |
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| An opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization. |
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| Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight. |
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Demanding great effort or labor; difficult.
Testing severely the powers of endurance; strenuous.
Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount. |
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1. Deception by trickery or sophistry.
2. A trick; a subterfuge. |
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Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
Reserved in manner. |
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| Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic. |
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# To gather and store in or as if in a granary.
# To amass; acquire. |
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| To bring (oneself, for example) into the favor or good graces of another, especially by deliberate effort. |
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Suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome.
Constituting or including a representation of death. |
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1. An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence.
2. A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it. |
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| Feeling or showing haughty disdain |
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Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another.
Endured or done by one person substituting for another.
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1. Acting or serving in place of someone or something else; substituted.
2. Committed or entrusted to another, as powers or authority; delegated. |
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| A delusive or misleading hope. |
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1. To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.
2. To relinquish formally a high office or responsibility. |
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| A departure from the normal or typical, unsoundness of the mind |
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| Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or agressive |
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| of no danger to health; not malignant, gentle |
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| to inflict severe punishment on |
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| heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent |
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| inclined to be lenient or mercyful |
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| To Destroy or kill a large part of (a group) |
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| courageously noble in mind and heart |
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1. To cause to be bewildered; confuse.
2.To cause to be engrossed in thought. |
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1. Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance: heard a cacophony of horns during the traffic jam.
2. The use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect. |
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1. Incapable of erring: an infallible guide; an infallible source of information.
2. Incapable of failing; certain: an infallible antidote; an infallible rule.
3. Roman Catholic Church. Incapable of error in expounding doctrine on faith or morals. |
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| Very talkative; garrulous. |
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1. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
2. Restrained or reserved in style.
3. Reluctant; unwilling. |
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1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making such a discovery. |
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| characterized by clear, precise expression in few words (adj.) |
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| to excite (another) by exposing something desireable while keeping it out of reach (v.) |
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| timid or fearful; timorous (adj.) |
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| marked by or possessing great personal bravery; valiant (adj.) |
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| tending to vary often or widely as in price; light hearted (adj.) |
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| to regard with horror or loathing |
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| to pronounce clear of guilt or blame |
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| a person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline as an act of religious devotion |
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| abrupt and curt manner in speech; discourteously blunt |
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| characterized by or exhibiting decorum; proper |
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| submission or courteous yeilding to the opinion, wishes, or judgement of another |
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| of or resembling an enigma; puzzling |
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1. incapable of being penetrated
2. not capable of being affected or disturbed by |
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| 1. tending to make or become worse(insults and belittleing) |
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| splended or dazzling in appearance; brilliant |
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1. not favorable; unpropitous
2. troublesome; adverse
3. undecorous |
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| self confident assurance; poise |
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| a keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarassment caused by failure |
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1. boorish or vulgar
2. difficult to work with |
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| not subject or susceptable to change |
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| lacking in harmony; incompatible |
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1. lacking in quickness of mind or intellect
2. dull; insensitive |
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| smallness of number; fewness |
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1. touching, to the point
2. neat, skillful, and to the point |
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| caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality |
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| or, relating to, or consisting of stars |
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| being such that defense or maintenance is impossible |
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| the foremost position in an army or fleet advancing into battle; forefront position |
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| a small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently |
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| conspicuously bad or offensive |
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| to take another's possessions or rights gradually or stealthily |
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| having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality. |
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| easily understood; intelligible |
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| having many colours; variegated; parti-coloured |
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| to allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease |
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| undisturbed by tumult or disorder; calm or quiet. |
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| a natural propensity or inclination; predisposition. (used with "for" and is usually used negativly) |
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| to make known (a decree, for example) by public declaration; announce officially. |
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| a change or variation; fluctuation (used in plural) |
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