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| affiliated - associated, connected |
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SYN: attached, related, joined
ANT: dissociated, unconnected |
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| SYN: discover, determine, establish |
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| attainment - an accomplishment, the act of achieving |
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SYN: achievement, fulfillment
ANT: failure, defeat, frustration |
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| bequeath - to give or pass on as an inheritance |
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| SYN: transmit, bestow, hand down |
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| cogent - forceful, cinvincing; relevant, to the point |
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SYN: persuasive, compelling
ANT: weak, unconvincing, ineffective, irrelevant |
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| converge - to move toward one point, approach nearer together |
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SYN: meet, unite, intersect, merge
ANT: diverge, separate |
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| disperse - to scatter, spread far and wide |
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SYN: break up, dispel
ANT: collect, congregate, assemble, muster |
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| esteem - to regard highly; a highly favorable opinion or judgement |
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SYN: respect, admire, honor, revere
ANT: disdain, scorn, contempt |
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| expunge - to erase, obliterate, destroy |
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SYN: delete, efface, annihilate
ANT: insert, mark, imprint, impress |
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| finite - having limits; lasting for a limited time |
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SYN: bounded, measurable
ANT: unlimited, immeasurable, everlasting, eternal |
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| invulnerable - not able to be wounded or hurt; shielded against attack |
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SYN: impregnable, impervious, immune
ANT: exposed, unprotected, defenseless |
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| malevolent - spiteful, showing ill will |
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SYN: malicious, wiked, sinister, malignant
ANT: kind, benevolent, compassionate |
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| nonchalant - cool and confident, unconcerned |
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SYN: composed, unruffled, indifferent, blase
ANT: perturbed, agitated, disconcerted, abashed |
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| omniscient - knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding |
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SYN: wise, all-knowing
ANT: ignorant, unknowing |
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| panacea - a remedy for all ills; cure -all; an answer to all problems |
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| SYN: universal cure, easy solution |
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| scrupulous - exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details, having high moral standards, principled |
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SYN: painstaking, meticulous, conscientious
ANT: careless, negligent, remiss, dishonest |
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| skulk - to move about stealthily; to lie in hiding |
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| supercilious - proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority |
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SYN: snobbish, patronizing, overbearing
ANT: humble, meek, deferential, servile |
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| uncanny - strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation |
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| SYN: eerie, inexplicable, spooky |
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| venial - easily excused; pardonable |
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SYN: excusable, forgivable
ANT: inexcusable, unforgivable, unpardonable |
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