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| aberrant |
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| deviating from the norm |
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| alacrity |
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| eager and enthusiastic willingness |
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| anomaly |
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| deviating from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
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| approbation |
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| an expression of approval or praise |
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| assuage |
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| to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
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| audacious |
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| daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
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| capricious |
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| inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable |
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| censure |
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| to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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| chicanery |
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| trickery or subterfuge |
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| connoisseur |
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| an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; an expert |
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| discordant |
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| conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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| disparate |
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| fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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| eloquent |
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| well-spoken; expressive; articulate |
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| enervate |
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| to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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| ennui |
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| dissatisfaction or restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| equivocate |
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| to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
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| exculpate |
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| to exonerate; to free from blame |
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| exigent |
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| urgent; pressing,; requiring immediate action or attention |
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| filibuster |
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| intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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| ingenuous |
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| artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
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| inured |
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| accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| irascible |
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| easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
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| laud |
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| to praise highly |
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| magnanimity |
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| the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart |
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| martial |
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| associated with war and the armed forces |
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| mundane |
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| worldly; typical or concerned with the ordinary |
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| nascent |
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| coming into being; in early developmental stages |
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| nebulous |
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| vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
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| neologism |
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| a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new wrods or senses |
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| noxious |
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| harmful; injurious |
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| obtuse |
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| lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression |
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| obviate |
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| to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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| onerous |
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| troubling; burdensome |
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| parody |
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| a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, especially in literature and art |
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| perennial |
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| recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
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| perfunctory |
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| cursory; done without care or interest |
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| prattle |
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| to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| prescience |
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| foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring |
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| prevaricate |
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| to deliberately avoid the truth; tomislead |
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| refute |
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| to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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| relegate |
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| to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position |
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| solicitous |
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| concerned and attentive; eager |
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| sporadic |
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| occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| static |
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| not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| stupefy |
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| to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| tortuous |
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| winding, twisting; excessively complicated |
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| truculent |
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| fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| voracious |
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| having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| waver |
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| to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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| abscond |
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| to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
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| ameliorate |
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| to make better or more tolerable |
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| arduous |
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| strenuous, taxing, or requiring significant effort |
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| ascetic |
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| one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion |
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| austere |
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| without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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| axiom |
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| a universally recognized principle |
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| axiomatic |
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| taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
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| bucolic |
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| rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
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| canonical |
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| following in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
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| contentious |
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| argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| convoluted |
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| complex or complicated |
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| culpable |
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| deserving blame |
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| disabuse |
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| to undeceive; to set right |
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| eclectic |
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| composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| effrontery |
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| extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| ephemeral |
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| brief; fleeting |
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| erudite |
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| very learned; scholarly |
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| eulogy |
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| a speech honoring the dead |
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| extemporaneous |
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| improvised; done without preparation |
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| facetious |
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| playful; humorous |
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| fulminate |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| hyperbole |
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| an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| lucid |
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| clear; easily understood |
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| oscillation |
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| the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm |
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| paean |
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| a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| penurious |
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| penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
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| perfidy |
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| intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| pernicious |
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| extremely armful; potentially causing death |
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| perspicacious |
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| acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| pious |
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| extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| precipitate |
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| acting with excessive haste or impulse; also: to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| precursor |
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| one that precedes and indicates or announces another |
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| predilection |
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| a disposition in favor of soemthing; preference |
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| prolific |
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| producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| qualms |
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| misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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| quiescence |
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| stillness; motionlessness; the quality of being at rest |
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| recant |
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| to retract, especially a previously held belief |
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| redoubtable |
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| awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| reticent |
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| quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| satire |
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| a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| sordid |
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| characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| squalid |
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| sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
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| squander |
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| to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| stoic |
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| indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
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| supplant |
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| to take the place of; supersede |
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| synthesis |
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| the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| torpid |
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| lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
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| torque |
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| a force that causes rotation |
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| ubiquitous |
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| existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
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| veracity |
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| truthfulness; honesty |
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| vilify |
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| to defame; to characterize harshly |
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| virulent |
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| extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| abate |
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| to lessen in intensity or degree |
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| accolade |
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| an expression of praise |
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| adulation |
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| excessive praise; intense adoration |
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| aesthetic |
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| dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| avarice |
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| greed, especially for wealth |
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| burgeon |
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| to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| cacophony |
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| harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
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| canon |
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| an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| castigation |
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| severe criticism or punishment |
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| catalyst |
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| a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without changing itself: OR: a person or thing that causes change |
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| caustic |
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| burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| chary |
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| wary; cautious; sparing |
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| cogent |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| complaisance |
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| the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| contrite |
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| regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| dearth |
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| smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| demur |
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| to question or oppose |
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| didactic |
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| intended to teach or instruct |
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| discretion |
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| cautious reserve in speech; the ability to make responsible decisions |
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| disinterested |
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| indifferent; free from self-interest |
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| dogmatic |
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| stubbornly opinionated |
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| ebullience |
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| the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings |
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| elegy |
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| a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead |
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| emollient |
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| soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh |
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| empirical |
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| based on observation or experiment |
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| enigmatic |
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| mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| esoteric |
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| intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| exonerate |
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| to remove from blame |
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| fallacy |
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| an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| furtive |
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| marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| gregarious |
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| sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
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| harrangue |
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| to deliver a pompous speech or tirade |
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| heretical |
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| violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| impecunious |
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| lacking funds; without money |
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| incipient |
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| beginning to come into being, or to become apparent |
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| inert |
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| unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| innocuous |
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| harmless; causing no damage |
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| intransigent |
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| refusing to compromise |
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| inveigle |
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| to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| morose |
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| sad; sullen; melancholy |
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| odious |
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| evoking intense aversion or dislike |
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| opaque |
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| impenetrable by light; not reflecting light |
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| peruse |
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| to examine with great care |
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| preen |
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| to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| prodigious |
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| abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary |
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| putrefy |
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| to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor |
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| quaff |
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| to drink deeply |
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| sanction |
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| authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
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| urbane |
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| sophisticated; refined; elegant |
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| viscous |
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| thick; sticky |
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| acerbic |
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| having a sour or bitter taste or character |
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| amalgamate |
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| to combine several elements into a whole |
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| amenable |
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| agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| bolster |
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| to provide support or reinforcement |
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| bombast |
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| self-important or pompous writing or speech |
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| bombastic |
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| pompous; grandiloquent |
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| credulous |
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| tending to believe to readily; gullible |
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| diatribe |
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| a harsh denunciation |
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| fawn |
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| to flatter or praise excessively |
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| fervent |
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| greatly emotional or zealous |
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| flout |
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| to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| fortuitous |
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| happening by fortunate accident or chance |
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| garrulous |
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| pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
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| germane |
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| relevant to the subject matter at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| glib |
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| marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| halcyon |
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| calm and peaceful |
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| hubris |
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| arrogant presumption or pride |
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| idolatrous |
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| given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| imminent |
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| about to happen; impending |
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| imperturbable |
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| marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| impetuous |
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| hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
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| implacable |
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| not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| indifferent |
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| having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| intrepid |
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| steadfast and courageous |
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| laconic |
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| using few words; terse |
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| malleable |
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| capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| maverick |
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| an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| mendacity |
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| the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| mercurial |
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| characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| meticulous |
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| characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| mollify |
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| to calm or sooth; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| obdurate |
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| unyielding; hardhearted; intractable |
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| obfuscate |
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| to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
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| obsequious |
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| exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
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| obstinate |
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| stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising |
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| opprobrium |
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| disgrace; contempt; scorn |
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| ostentatious |
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| characterized by or given to pretentiousness |
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| pendatic |
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| the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules. |
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| pervade |
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| to permeate throughout |
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| pervasive |
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| having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout |
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| phlegmatic |
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| calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| pirate |
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| to illegally use or reproduce |
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| plethora |
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| an overabundance; a surplus |
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| polemical |
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| controversial; argumentative |
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| pragmatic |
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| practical rather than idealistic |
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| rancorous |
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| characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| rhetoric |
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| the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| salubrious |
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| promoting health or well-being |
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| sedulous |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| solvent |
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| able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance |
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| soporific |
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| causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
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| aggrandize |
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| to increase in intensity, power, or prestige |
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| alchemy |
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| a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially into gold |
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| anachronism |
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| something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
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| astringent |
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| having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe |
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| contiguous |
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| sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| convention |
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| a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| cynicism |
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| an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| decorum |
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| polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| derision |
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| scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment |
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| desiccate |
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| to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| ambrosia |
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| buffalo wings and beer [[the food of the gods]] |
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| dilettante |
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| one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| disparage |
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| to slight or belittle |
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| divulge |
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| to disclose something secret |
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| immutable |
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| not capable of change |
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| inimical |
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| damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| intractable |
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| not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| neophyte |
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| a recent convert; a beginner; a novice |
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| presumptuous |
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| overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties |
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| pristine |
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| pure; uncorrupted; clean |
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| probity |
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| adherence to the highest principles; uprightness |
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| proclivity |
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| a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| profligate |
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| excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
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| propensity |
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| a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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| prosaic |
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| dull; unimaginative |
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| pungent |
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| characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
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| quixotic |
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| foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| quotidian |
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| occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| rarefy |
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| to make or become thin, less dense; to refine |
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| recondite |
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| hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| refulgent |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| renege |
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| to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| shard |
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| a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| sparse |
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| thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
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| spendthrift |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| subtle |
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| not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern |
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| tacit |
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| implied; not explicitly stated |
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| terse |
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| brief and concise in wording |
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| tout |
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| to publicly praise or promote |
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| trenchant |
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| sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating |
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| unfeigned |
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| genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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| untenable |
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| indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
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| vacillate |
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| to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to waver |
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| variegated |
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| multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
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| vexation |
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| annoyance; irritation |
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| vigilant |
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| alertly watchful |
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| vituperate |
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| to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate |
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| volatile |
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| readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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| acumen |
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| quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight |
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| adulterate |
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| to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients |
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| archaic |
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| outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time |
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| aver |
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| to state as fact; to confirm or support |
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| dissemble |
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| to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| eccentric |
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| departing from norms or convention |
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| endemic |
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| characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people |
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| evanescent |
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| tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| exacerbate |
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| to make worse or more severe |
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| grandiloquence |
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| pompous speech or expression |
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| hackneyed |
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| rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| hedonism |
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| devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially to the pleasures of the senses |
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| hegemony |
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| the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| iconoclast |
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| one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
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| impassive |
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| revealing no emotion |
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| impunity |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| inchoate |
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| in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| infelicitous |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| insipid |
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| without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| loquacious |
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| extremely talkative |
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| luminous |
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| characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| malevolent |
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| having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred see: girlfriend |
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| misanthrope |
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| one who hates all other humans |
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| mitigate |
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| to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| occlude |
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| to obstruct or block |
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| pedagogy |
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| the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing |
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| penury |
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| poverty; destitution |
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| pine |
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| to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
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| pith |
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| the essential or central part |
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| pithy |
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| precise and brief |
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| placate |
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| to appease; to calm by making concessions |
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| lpatitude |
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| a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
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| platitude |
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| a superficial remark, especially one offered as meaningful |
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| plummet |
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| to plunge or drop straight down |
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| prodigal |
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| recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| profuse |
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| given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
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| proliferate |
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| to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly |
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| queries |
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| questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations |
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| querulous |
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| prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome |
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| recalcitrant |
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| obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| repudiate |
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| to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown |
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| rescind |
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| to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| reverent |
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| marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| specious |
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| seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
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| spurious |
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| lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| subpoena |
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| a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
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| succinct |
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| brief, concise |
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| superfluous |
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| exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
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| surfeit |
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| excess; overindulgence |
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| tenacity |
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| the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued |
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| tenuous |
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| having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
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| tirade |
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| a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
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| transient |
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| fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
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| zealous |
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| fervent; ardent; impassioned |
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| alloy |
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| to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
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| appropriate |
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| to take for one's own use; confiscate |
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| arrest |
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| to suspend; to engage; to hold one's attention |
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| august |
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| majestic; venerable |
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| bent |
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| leaning; inclination; proclivity; tendency |
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| broach |
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| to bring up or announce; to begin to talk about |
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| brook |
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| to tolerate, endure, or countenance |
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| cardinal |
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| of great importance |
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| color |
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| to change as if by dyeing, i.e. to distort, gloss, or affect |
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| damp |
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| to diminish in intensity or check the vibrations of a sound, etc |
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| die |
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| a part of a machine that punches shaped holes or cuts |
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| essay |
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| to test or try; to attempt or experiment |
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| exact |
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| to demand, call for, require, or take |
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| flag |
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| to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
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| flip |
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| sarcastic, impertinent |
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| ford |
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| to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| grouse |
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| to complain or grumble |
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| guy |
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| a cord or cable used to steady or guide something |
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| intimate |
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| to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
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| list |
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| to tilt or lean to oen side |
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| lumber |
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| to move heavily and clumsily |
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| milk |
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| to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
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| mince |
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| to pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefuly; also, to take tiny s teps or tiptoe |
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| nice |
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| exacting; fastidious; extremely, even excessively precise |
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| obtain |
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| to be established, accepted, or customary |
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| occult |
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| hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension |
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| pedestrian |
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| commonplace; trite; unremarkable; quotidian |
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| pied |
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| multicolored, usually in blotches or patches |
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| pine |
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| to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
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| plastic |
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| moldable; pliable; not rigid |
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| prize |
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| to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils |
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| rail |
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| to complain about bitterly |
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| rent |
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| torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such |
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| quail |
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| to lose courage; to become frightened |
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| qualify |
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| to limit |
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| sap |
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| to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
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| scurvy |
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| contemptible; despicable |
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| singular |
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| exceptional; unusual; odd |
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| steep |
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| to saturate or completely soak |
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| strut |
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| the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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| table |
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| to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
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| tender |
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| to proffer or offer; to give |
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| waffle |
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| to equivocate; to change one's position |
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| wag |
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| wit; joker |
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| abjure |
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| to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid |
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| abrogate |
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| to abolish or annul by authority; to put down |
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| abscission |
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| the act of cutting off or removing |
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| acarpous |
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| effete; no longer fertile; worn out |
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| accretion |
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| growth; increase by successive addition; building up |
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| admonish |
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| to reprove; to express warning or disapproval |
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| adroit |
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| adept; dexterous |
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| adumbrate |
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| to foreshadow or intimate; to suggest sketchily; to obscure |
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| anathema |
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| a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| anodyne |
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| soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| antipathy |
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| aversion; dislike |
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| antithetical |
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| diametrically opposed; as in antithesis |
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| apocryphal |
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| of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious |
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| apogee |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (anonym: perigee) |
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| apostate |
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| one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| apotheosis |
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| deification; glorification to godliness |
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| apposite |
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| appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos |
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| apprise |
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| to give notice to; to inform |
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| arabesque |
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| a complex, ornate design; also to a dance position |
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| arcane |
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| mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to intimates |
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| arrant |
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| impudent |
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| artless |
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| completely without guile; natural; without artificiality |
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| ascetic |
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| someone practicing self-denial; austere stark |
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| asperity |
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| severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability |
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| aspersion |
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| an act of defamation or maligning; animadversion |
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| assay |
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| an analysis; examination; test; to put to a test |
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| asseverate |
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| to aver; to allege; to assert |
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| assiduous |
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| diligent; hard-working; sedulous |
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| attenuate |
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| to rarefy; to weaken or make thinner |
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| augury |
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| omen; portent |
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| auspice |
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| protection or support; patronage |
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| auspicious |
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| favorable; propitious; successful; prosperous |
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| aver |
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| to affirm; to assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate |
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| baleful |
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| sinister; pernicious; ominous |
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| bane |
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| cause of injury; poison; source of harm |
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| beatify |
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| to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly |
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| bedizen |
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| to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner; to festoon |
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| belie |
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| to give a false impression of; to misrepresent |
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| bellicose |
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| belligerent; pugnacious; warlike |
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| bilge |
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| bulge; the protuberance of a cask |
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| blandish |
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| to toady or fawn |
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| blithe |
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| carefree; merry |
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| boisterous |
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| loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint |
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| boor |
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| a rude or insensitive person; lout |
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| burnish |
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| to polish; to rub to a shine |
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| byzantine |
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| labyrinthine; complex |
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| cabal |
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| a scheme or plot; a group of plotters |
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| cachinnate |
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| to laugh loudly |
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| cadge |
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| to sponge or mooch |
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| cajole |
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| to inveigle, coax, or wheedle |
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| calumniate |
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| to slander; to make a false accusation |
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| calumny |
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| slander; aspersion |
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| caparison |
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| to adorn or bedizen |
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| captious |
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| calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling |
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| caret |
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| an insertion mark (^) used by editors and proof-readers |
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| cavil |
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| to find fault without good reason |
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| celerity |
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| speed; alacrity |
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| chasten |
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| to chastise or correct |
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| chauvinist |
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| a blindly devoted patriot |
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| chimera |
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| an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| churlish |
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| boorish; vulgar; difficult and intractable |
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| coalesce |
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| to come together; to fuse; to unite |
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| coda |
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| concluding section of a musical or literary piece |
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| coeval |
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| of the same period; coexisting |
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| commensurate |
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| matching; corresponding or proportionate in degree, size, or amount |
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| contemn |
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| to scorn or despise |
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| contumacious |
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| insubordinate; rebellious |
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| corrigible |
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| capable of being set right; correctable; reparable |
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| countenance |
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| to approve of or tolerate; face; composure |
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| cozen |
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| to deceive, beguile, or hoodwink |
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| craven |
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| contemptible fainthearted; lacking any courage |
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| curmudgeon |
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| a crusty, ill-tempered coot; a misanthrope |
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| daunt |
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| to cow or dismay |
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| debacle |
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| rout; fiasco; complete failure |
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| decorous |
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| correct; formal; marked by decorum |
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| defalcate |
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| to embezzle or misappropriate |
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| denigrate |
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| to blacken; to belittle; to sully; to defame; to disparage |
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| denouement |
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| an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
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| deposition |
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| accretion; depositing; building up layer by layer; official testimony |
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| deprecate |
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| to disparage or belittle; to put down |
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| depredate |
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| to plunder, pillage, ravage, or destroy; or exploit in a predatory manner |
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| derivative |
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| unoriginal; obtained from another source |
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| descant |
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| to comment at length |
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| descry |
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| to discriminate or discern |
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| desuetude |
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| disuse |
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| desultory |
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| random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| detraction |
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| slandering; verbal attack; aspersion |
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| diaphanous |
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| transparent; gauzy |
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| diffident |
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| reserved, shy, or unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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| digress |
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| to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent |
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| dilatory |
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| causing delay; procrastinating |
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| din |
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| loud, sustained noise |
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| dirge |
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| a song of grief or lamentation |
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| disaffect |
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| to estrange or alienate the affection of |
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| discomfit |
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| to defeat; to put down |
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| discursive |
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| digressive; passing from one topic to another |
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| dissolution |
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| disintegration; looseness in morals |
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| distention |
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| the state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape |
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| distrait |
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| distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety |
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| doggerel |
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| trivial, poorly constructed verse |
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| dross |
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| slag, waste, or foreign matter; impurity; surface scum |
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| dulcet |
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| melodious;harmonious; mellifluous |
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| dynamo |
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| generator; forceful, energetic person |
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| eclectic |
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| culled from many sources |
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| edacious |
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| voracious; devouring |
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| edifying |
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| enlightening |
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| effluvia |
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| outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor |
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| effrontery |
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| boldness; impudence; arrogance |
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| effusive |
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| gushing; excessively demonstrative |
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| egress |
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| exit |
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| encomium |
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| glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric; tribute; eulogy |
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| endemic |
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| restricted or peculiar to a particular region; indigenous |
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| engender |
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| to cause; to produce; to give rise to |
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| enormity |
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| excessive wickedness; evilness (do not confuse with enormousness) |
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| ephemeral |
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| evanescent; fleeting; short-lived |
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| epicure |
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| one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand; sybarite |
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| episodic |
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| loosely connected; not flowing logically |
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| epithet |
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| disparaging word or phrase |
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| epitome |
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| embodiment; quintessence |
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| equanimity |
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| composure; self-possession |
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| equipoise |
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| equal distribution of weight; equilibrium |
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| errant |
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| traveling; itinerant; peripatetic |
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| eschew |
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| to shun or avoid |
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| estimable |
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| worthy; formidable |
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| evince |
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| to show clearly; to indicate |
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| excoriate |
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| to censure scathingly; to upbraid |
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| exegesis |
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| critical examination; explication |
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| exemplar |
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| typical or standard specimen; paradigm; model |
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| expatiate |
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| to descant; to discourse; to discuss or write about at length |
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| expiate |
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| to atone or make amends for |
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| expostulate |
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| to argue earnestly in order to dissuade, correct, or protest |
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| expurgate |
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| to remove obscenity; to purify; to censor |
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| exscind |
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| to cut out or extirpate |
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| extant |
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| existing; not destroyed or lost |
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| extirpate |
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| to destroy; to exterminate; to cut out; to exscind |
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| fallow |
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| untilled; inactive; dormant |
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| fatuous |
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| silly; inanely foolish |
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| feckless |
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| ineffectual; irresponsible |
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| felicitous |
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| apt; suitably expressed; well-chosen; apropos |
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| fetid |
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| stinking; smelly; malodorous |
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| fetter |
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| to shackle; to put in chains |
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| filigree |
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| an ornamental work, especially of delicate lacelike patterns |
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| florid |
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| flowery; ruddy; ornate |
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| foment |
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| to incite; to rouse |
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| forbearance |
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| patience; willingness to wait |
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| forestall |
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| to act in a way to hinder; to exclude or prevent an action; to avert |
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| forswear |
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| to renounce; to disallow; to repudiate |
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| fracas |
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| noisy quarrel; imbroglio; brawl |
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| fractious |
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| quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; refractory; irritable |
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| frieze |
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| a semi-sculptural, raised-surface ornamental facade to a building |
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| froward |
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| intractable; not willing to yield or comply; recalcitrant |
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| gainsay |
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| to deny, dispute, contradict; to oppose |
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| gambol |
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| to skip about playfully |
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| garner |
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| to gather and save; to store up |
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| gauche |
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| crude; awkward; tasteless |
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| gossamer |
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| delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; insincere |
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| guile |
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| artfulness; trickery; chicanery; duplicity |
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| hallow |
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| to make holy; to consecrate |
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| harrow |
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| to distress; to create stress; to torment |
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| heretical |
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| unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma |
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| hermetic |
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| sealed by fusion; airtight |
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| heterodox |
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| unorthodox; heretical; iconoclastic |
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| hirsute |
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| hairy; shaggy |
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| homiletics |
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| the art of preaching |
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| homily |
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| a sermon or morally instructive lecture |
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| iconoclastic |
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| attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heretodox |
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| idyll |
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| a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode; a literary or musical piece describing such |
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| ignominious |
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| shameful; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified |
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| imbroglio |
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| difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| impassive |
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| expressionless; stoic; stolid; insusceptible to emotion; apathetic; plegmatic |
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| imperious |
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| commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty |
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| importune |
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| to ask incessantly; to beg; to nag |
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| impugn |
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| to attack or assail verbally; to censure; to execrate |
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| indefatigable |
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| doggedness; tirelessness |
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| indolent |
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| lazy; listless; torpid |
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| ineluctable |
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| certain; inevitable |
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| ingenuous |
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| guileless; trusting; naive; credulous |
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| inherent |
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| ingrained within one's nature; intrinsic; innate; firmly established |
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| inimical |
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| hostile; adverse; unfriendly |
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| inimitable |
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| one of a kind; peerless |
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| iniquity |
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| gross injustice; wickedness |
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| innervate |
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| to supply with nerves; to embolden; to energize |
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| inscrutable |
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| incapable of being discovered or understood |
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| insensible |
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| unconscious; unresponsive; unaffected; numb |
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| insouciant |
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| unconcerned; carefree; heedless |
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| insular |
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| parochial; narrow-minded |
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| interdict |
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| to prohibit; to forbid; to ban; to halt |
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| inveigh |
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| to attack verbally; to denounce; to deprecate |
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| inveterate |
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| deep-rooted; ingrained; habitual |
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| involute |
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| intricate; complex; convoluted |
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| itinerate |
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| to travel from place to place; to peregrinate |
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| jejune |
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| vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile |
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| jibe |
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| to agree; to be in accord |
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| jocose, jocular |
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| humorous; gay; blithe |
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| labile |
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| readily open to change; unstable |
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| lachrymose |
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| causing tears; tearful |
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| lambaste |
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| to censure; to excoriate; to berate |
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| lassitude |
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| listlessnses; languor; weariness |
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| libertine |
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| someone unrestrained by morality or convention |
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| limn |
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| to draw; to outline in detail; to delineate; to describe |
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| limpid |
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| transparent; serene; clear; untroubled; pellucid |
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| lubricious |
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| lewd; wanton; greasy; slippery |
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| luculent |
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| easily understood; lucid; clear |
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| macerate |
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| to waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or by excessive steeping |
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| maculate |
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| marked with spots or blotches; besmirched; impure |
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| malinger |
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| to feign illness so as to avoid work; to avoid work |
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| maunder |
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| to digress; to meander; to stray from the topic or path |
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| mellifluous |
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| sweetly flowing, usually used to describe the use of words |
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| mendicant |
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| beggar; supplicant |
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| meretricious |
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| cheap; gaudy; tawdry; flashy; showy |
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| metamorphose |
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| to transform; to change utterly |
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| mettle |
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| strength of spirit; courage; stamina |
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| mettlesome |
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| courageous; high-spirited |
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| militate |
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| to have weight; to bear on; to argue against |
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| minatory |
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| menacing; threatening |
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| misogynist |
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| one who hates women/females |
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| multifarious |
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| varied; motley; greatly diversified |
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| nadir |
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| low point; perigee |
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| natty |
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| trimly neat and tidy; smart |
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| nexus |
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| a connection, tie, or link |
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| noisome |
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| offensive, especially to one's sense of smell; fetid |
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| nonplused |
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| baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do |
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| nostrum |
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| panacea; cure-all; placebo; questionable remedy; palliative |
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| nugatory |
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| trifling; inconsequential |
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| obloquy |
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| abusively detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation; calumny |
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| obstreperous |
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| noisy; loud |
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| officious |
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| meddlesome; pushy in one's services |
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| ossified |
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| tending to become more rigid; conventional; sterile and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone |
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| ostensible |
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| seeming; appearing as such; professed |
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| palliate |
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| to make something appear less serious; to gloss over |
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| panegyric |
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| formal praise; eulogy; encomium |
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| paradigm |
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| a model, example, or pattern; exemplar |
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| pariah |
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| an outcast; a rejected and despised person |
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| parry |
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| to block; to evade or ward off, as a blow |
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| parsimonious |
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| cheap; miserly |
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| partisan |
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| committed to a party; biased or prejudiced; supporter; adherent |
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| paucity |
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| scarcity; a lacking of |
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| peccadillo |
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| a slight offense; literally, a minor sin |
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| pellucid |
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| transparent; easy to understand; limpid |
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| penchant |
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| a strong inclination; a liking |
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| peregrination |
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| traveling about; wandering |
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| peremptory |
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| admitting of no contradiction; haughty; imperious |
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| perigree |
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| closest or lowest point in an orbit; nadir |
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| peripatetic |
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| itinerant; traveling; nomadic |
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| peroration |
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| the concluding part of a speech; grandiloquent speech |
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| personable |
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| pleasing in appearance; attractive |
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| petrous |
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| like a rock; hard; stony |
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| petulant |
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| impatient; irritable |
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| philistine |
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| a crass individual guided by material rather than by intellectual or artistic values |
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| phlegmatic |
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| impassive; stoical; lethargic; sluggish |
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| picaresque |
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| involving clever rogues or adventurers |
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| pillory |
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| to punish; to hold up to public scorn |
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| piquant |
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| agreeably pungent; stimulating |
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| pique |
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| resentment; to annoy; to irritate or offend; to excite, provoke, or arouse |
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| placebo |
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| inactive pill prescribed for mental relief rather than for physical effect; something tending to soothe |
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| plangent |
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| pounding; thundering; resounding |
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| plumb |
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| to measure the depth; to examine critically |
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| poignant |
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| distressing; pertinent; touching; stimulating; emotional |
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| poseur |
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| affected or insincere person; literally, a poser |
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| prate |
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| to chatter; to babble, as in to to prattle |
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| precarious |
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| uncertain; risky; dangerous |
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| precept |
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| rule establishing standards of conduct |
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| precis |
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| concise summary of essential opints |
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| preempt |
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| to replace; to supersede; to appropriate |
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| profligate |
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| spendthrift; prodigal; wildly extravagant |
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| prolix |
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| long-winded; verbose |
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| propinquity |
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| nearness in time or place; affinity of nature |
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| propitiate |
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| to appease; to concilliate |
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| proscribe |
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| to ostracize; to banish; to outlaw |
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| provident |
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| frugal; looking to the future |
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| puerile |
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| childish; immature |
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| pugnacious |
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| contentious; quarrelsome; contumacious; given to fighting; belligerent |
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| puissance |
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| power; strength |
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| punctilious |
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| precise; paying attention to trivialities, especially in regard to etiquette |
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| pundit |
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| an authority on a subject; one who gives opinions |
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| pusillanimous |
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| cowardly; craven |
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| querulous |
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| habitually complaining; whining |
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| raffish |
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| tawdry; flashy; meretricious; low; vulgar; base |
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| ramify |
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| to be divided or subdivided; to branch out |
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| rapacious |
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| voracious; greedy; plundering |
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| rebus |
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| riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols |
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| recidivism |
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| relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
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| recondite |
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| abstruse; profound; arcane |
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| reconnaissance |
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| preliminary survey to gain information, especially of an enemy |
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| reconnoiter |
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| to engage in reconnaissance |
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| recreant |
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| coward; cowardly; craven; pusillanimous |
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| recumbent |
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| leaning; resting; prone |
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| redolent |
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| fragrant; suggestive or evocative |
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| refractory |
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| stubborn; unmanageable; intractable; unruly; fractious |
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| regale |
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| to delight or entertain; to feast |
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| remonstrate |
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| to protest; to object |
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| repine |
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| to feel or express dejection or discontent; to long for |
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| repudiate |
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| to disown; to disavow; to reject as untrue |
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| resolute |
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| adamant; steadfast; determined; irresolute |
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| rubric |
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| heading, title or category |
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| rue |
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| to regret; to feel remorse or sorrow |
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| runic |
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| mysterious; magical |
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| sagacious |
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| having sound judgment; perceptive; wise |
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| salacious |
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| obscene |
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| salient |
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| prominent; protruding; conspicious; relevant |
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| salutary |
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| wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health |
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| sanctimony |
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| self-righteousness |
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| sanguine |
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| cheerful; confident; optimistic |
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| satiate |
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| to surfeit; to overindulge |
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| saturnine |
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| gloomy; dark; sullen; morose |
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| seine |
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| a large net dragged to catch fish |
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| seminal |
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| like a seed; constituting a source; originative |
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| setentious |
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| aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| sidereal |
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| astral; relating to stars or consetllations |
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| simper |
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| to smirk; a silly smile |
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| sinecure |
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| position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income |
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| sinuous |
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| winding; undulating; serpentine |
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| slake |
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| to satisfy or quench |
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| sodden |
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| soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull |
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| solder |
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| to weld, fuse, or join |
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| sophistry |
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| fallacious reasoning; faulty logic |
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| sophomoric |
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| self-assured though immature; affected; bombastic; lacking maturity |
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| splenetic |
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| bad-tempered; irritable |
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| stanch |
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| to stop the flow of a fluid |
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| stentorian |
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| extremely loud and powerful |
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| stint |
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| to restrain; to be sparing or frugal |
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| striated |
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| striped; grooved; banded |
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| stygian |
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| gloomy; dark |
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| succor |
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| assistance; relief in time of distress |
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| sundry |
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| various; miscellaneous; separate |
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| supercilious |
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| disdainful; arrogant; haughty |
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| supine |
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| mentally or morally slack; literally, lying on one's back; prone |
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| suppliant |
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| supplicant; asking humbly; beseeching |
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| tamp |
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| to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows |
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| tautology |
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| a repetition; a redundancy |
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| tawdry |
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| cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious |
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| tendentious |
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| biased; showing marked tendencies |
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| timorous |
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| timid; fearful; diffident |
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| toady |
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| sycophant; flatterer |
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| torrid |
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| scorching; ardent; passionate |
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| tractable |
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| docile; obedient; easily led |
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| travesty |
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| mockery; caricature; parody |
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| tumid |
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| swollen |
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| turbid |
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| roiled; muddy; clouded to the point of being opaque |
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| turgid |
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| swollen; tumid; pompous; bombastic |
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| turpitude |
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| depravity; prurience |
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| tyro |
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| novice; greenhorn; rank amateur |
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| umbrage |
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| offense; resentment; pique |
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| undulate |
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| to move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate |
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| untoward |
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| perverse; unruly; unseemly |
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| upbraid |
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| to scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise |
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| usury |
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| the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest |
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| vaunt |
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| to brag or boast |
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| venal |
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| capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary; purchasable |
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| venerate |
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| to revere; to worship |
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| verisimilitude |
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| appearance of truth or reality |
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| veritable |
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| authentic; honest-to-goodness |
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| virago |
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| a loud, domineering woman; a scold or a nag |
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| vitiate |
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| to pervert; to debase; to spoil; to make ineffective |
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| volubility |
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| fluency; verbosity; easy use of spoken language |
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| waft |
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| to cause to move as if by a light breeze |
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| welter |
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| to writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil |
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| wend |
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| to go; to proceed; to walk |
