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| irregularity or deviation from the norm |
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| clear and easily understood |
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| to throw violently or bring about abruptly; rash, premature, hasty or sudden; lacking deliberation. |
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| to make less severe; ease, relieve, alleviate |
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| learned, scholarly, bookish |
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| dark, not transparent; impossible to see through |
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| wasteful, reckless with money; lavish |
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| ardent, intensely emotional, feverish, passionate |
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| to pacify, to conciliate; to soothe |
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| eager enthusiasm, passion, excitement |
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| synonym: aberrance, deviance, preternaturalness, aberration, deviation, abnormality, irregularity |
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| synonyms: ambivalent, ambiguous, dubious, fuzzy, obscure, oblique, tenebrous, unclear. |
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| synonyms: clear, inteligible, coherent, limpid, explicit. |
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| abrupt, hurried, impulsive, reckless, hasty, ill-considered, prompt, sudden, headlong, impetuous, rash |
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| allay, comfort, lighten, pacify, propitiate, sweeten, alleviate, conciliate, mitigate, palliate, relieve, appease, ease, mollify, placate, soothe. |
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| scholastic, learned, wise |
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| extravagant, spendthrift, lavish, wasteful, profligate |
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| burning, vehement, impassioned, zealous, passionate |
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| appease, conciliate, mollify |
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| ardency, passion, fervor, fire |
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| to choose not to do something |
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| extremely bold and daring. |
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| to sway physically; to be indecisive |
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| to debase or to make impure |
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| changing one's mind quickly and often |
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| to dry out thoroughly; dehydrate |
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| easily deceived or cheated. |
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laudable (adj)
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| deserving praise; praiseworthy; commendable. |
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| practical or realistic as opposed to idealistic |
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| easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive |
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| lack of interest or emotion; indifference |
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| to make more certain or confirm |
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| to produce, cause, or bring about; develop |
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| a person who shows off learning |
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| proper behavior or manners; obedience to rules and customs |
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| forbear, refrain, withhold |
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| adventuresome, bold, daring, fearless, heroic, plucky, unafraid, valorous, aggressive, brave, dauntless, gallant, intrepid, stout, undaunted, venturesome, asssertive, courageous, doughty, game, mettelsome, stouthearted, valiant, and venturous. |
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| evanescent, fleeting, momentary, transient |
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| concise, terse, curt, taciturn, pithy |
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| allay, lessen, mollify, alleviate, lighten, palliate, assuage, moderate, temper |
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| dither, oscillate, falter, waver, fluctuate |
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| arbitrary, erratic, mercurial, willful, chance, fickle, random, changeable, inconstant, whimsical. |
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| credulous, exploitable, naive |
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| acclaim, compliment, hail, applaud, exalt, praise, commend, extol |
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| capricious, inconsistent, temperamental, erratic, inconstant, fickle, murcurial |
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| coolness, impassivity, lassitude, phlegm, unresponsiveness, disinterest, indifference, lethargy, stoldity, disregard, insensibility, listlessness, unconcern. |
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| authenticate, buttress, validate, back, confirm, verify, bear out, substantiate |
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| beget,proliferate, generate, reproduce, procreate, spawn |
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| bluestocking, bookworm, doctrinaire, dogmatist, egghead, methodologist, pedagogue, waling encyclopedia |
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| effusive, garrulous, verbose |
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| decency, seemiless, decorum, modesty |
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| to speak in favor of ; support idea or cause public |
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| discord, noise, chaos, clamor, disharmony, din |
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| to reduce in strength, tire or wear out |
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| debilitate, weaken, enfeeble, sap, weary |
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| showing innocence, or childlike simplicity |
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| artless, guileless, simple, naive, innocent, unaffected, childlike |
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| a person who dislikes others |
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cynic, isolate, loner, recluse, skeptic
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| a contradiction or dilemma or puzzle |
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| adore, revere, honor, idolize |
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| animosity, aversion, repellence, animus, enmity, antagonism, hostility |
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| sparing in eating and drinking |
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| retrained, temperate, moderate, ascetic,austere |
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aesthetic (adj)
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| artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful |
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| inventive, artistic, creative, artful |
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| conglomerate, agglomerate, amalgamate, assemble, |
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| to warn, reprove or scold |
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| reprimand, counsel, advise, berate, censure |
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| cheerful readiness, promptness or willingness; eagerness |
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| ethusiasm, avidity, liveliness |
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| to mix or merge so as to make combination |
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| blend, coalesce, consolidate, compound, combine |
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| state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes |
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| muddle, doubt, confusion, dilemma, fluctuation, uncertainty, ambiguity, quandary |
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| to make or become better, more bearable, more satisfactory. |
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something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare. |
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| mistiming or misdating, postdate |
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| corresponding, comparable, similar, |
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a state of society without government or law; state of disorder
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| revolution, confusion, nihilism, disorder |
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| to inform, notify, advise |
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| approval, commendation, praise, recognition |
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| acquire, take possession of for one's own use |
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| hard; strenuous, troublesome (met nhoc, vat va), burdensome, laborious |
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practicing self-denial, austere.
a person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction. |
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| to ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger). |
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| to make thiner; weaken or lessen (in density, force or degree). |
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| lack of caring; indifference |
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| assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact |
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| hackneyed, commonplace, trite, lacking originality |
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| contradict; give false impression ; misrepresent |
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