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a person who knowingly helps another in a crime or wrongdoing, often as a subordinate.
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1. a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display of disrespect; intentional slight; insult: an ________ to human dignity.
2. an offense to one's dignity or self-respect.
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3. to offend by an open manifestation of disrespect or insolence: His speech _______ed all of us.
4. to make ashamed or confused; embarrass.
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1. a state of society without government or law.
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of _______.
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1. a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.
2. an instinctive contrariety or opposition in feeling.
3. an object of natural aversion or habitual dislike.
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1. continued from, resembling, or adhering to the past; old-fashioned: _______ attitudes.
2. no longer used; obsolete or obsolescent: The spinning wheel is an _______ machine.
3. aged; old.
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1. to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment.
2. to accuse or charge in general; criticize adversely; censure.
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1. the quality or state of being extremely or shockingly wicked, cruel, or brutal
2. a shockingly bad or tasteless; dreadful act, thing, or circumstance.
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1. quality; severity of manner, life, etc.; sternness.
2. strict economy.
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stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
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1. the act of granting or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument: He made no _______ to caution.
2. the thing or point yielded: Management offered a shorter workweek as a ________.
3. something granted by a government or a controlling authority, as a grant of land, a privilege, or a franchise.
4. a space or privilege within certain premises for a subsidiary business or service: the refreshment ________ at a movie theater.
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1. to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to _______ a new church building.
2. to make (something) an object of honor or veneration; hallow: a custom ________d by time.
3. to devote or dedicate to some purpose: a life consecrated to science.
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1. tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome
2. causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy
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1. to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author ________ a clever plot.
2. to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage
3. to plot (evil, treachery, etc.).
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1. to accompany or escort, usually for protection: A destroyer ______ed the merchant ship.
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3. the protection provided by an escort.
4. a ship, fleet, group of vehicles, etc., accompanied by a protecting escort.
5. an armed force, warship, etc., that escorts, especially for protection.
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1. to play and splash in or as if in water, especially with the hands.
2. to work at anything in an irregular or superficial manner: to ______ in literature.
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one of the values of a variable that divides the distribution of the variable into ten groups having equal frequencies: 1/10
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1. death or decease.
2. termination of existence or operation: the ______ of the empire.
3. Law.
a. a death or decease occasioning the transfer of an estate.
b. a conveyance or transfer of an estate.
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1. to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not _______ good manners.
2. to bring reproach or discredit upon; lower the estimation of: Your behavior will _______ the whole family.
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to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that _____ the viewer.
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1. approval or sanction: The program for supporting the arts won the government's _______.
2. the placing of one's signature, instructions, etc., on a document.
3. the signature, instructions, etc., placed on the reverse of a commercial document, for the purpose of assigning the interest therein to another.
Legal terms:
1 : the act or process of endorsing
2 : an inscription (as a signature or notation) on a document or instrument; especially : an inscription usually on the back of a negotiable instrument that transfers or guarantees the instrument
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1. to settle securely or snugly: I found her in the library, _______d in an armchair.
2. to cover or shelter; hide securely: He _______d himself in the closet in order to eavesdrop.
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to conceal; to cover or obscure something. Towers _______ed in mist.
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1. to contemplate; visualize: He _______ an era of great scientific discoveries.
2. Archaic . to look in the face of; face.
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1. picture, imagine, conceive, envision.
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1. to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.
2. to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate.
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1. to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not ______ at the prospect of hardship.
2. to speak hesitatingly or brokenly.
3. to move unsteadily; stumble.
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1. of or pertaining to the public treasury or revenues: _____ policies.
2. of or pertaining to financial matters in general.
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1. affectedly grand or important; pompous: ________ words.
2. more complicated or elaborate than necessary; overblown: a ________ scheme.
3. Psychiatry . having an exaggerated belief in one's importance, sometimes reaching delusional proportions, and occurring as a common symptom of mental illnesses, as manic disorder.
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1. an unconverted individual of a people that do not acknowledge the god of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim; pagan.
2. an irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized person.
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3. irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized.
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not biased; fair; just: an ______ judge.
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1. to shut up in a pound or other enclosure, as a stray animal.
2. to confine within an enclosure or within limits: water _______ed in a reservoir.
3. to seize and retain in custody of the law, as a document for evidence.
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Logic.
a. the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.
b. the process of arriving at some conclusion that, though it is not logically derivable from the assumed premises, possesses some degree of probability relative to the premises.
c. a proposition reached by a process of inference.
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1. a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
2. a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party.
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3. of or characteristic of an insurgent or insurgents.
4. surging or rushing in: The ________ waves battered the shore.
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1. Psychology.
a. the act of directing one's interest inward or to things within the self.
b. the state of being concerned primarily with one's own thoughts and feelings rather than with the external environment.
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1. not strict or severe; careless or negligent: _____ morals; a _____ attitude toward discipline.
2. loose or slack; not tense, rigid, or firm: a _____ rope; a _____ handshake.
3. not rigidly exact or precise; vague: _____ ideas.
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1. a liquid state or quality.
2. the ability or ease with which assets can be converted into cash.
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1. a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
2. a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness, lethargy, or discomfort.
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a public declaration of intent, policy, aims, etc, as issued by a political party, government, or movement
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1. a contrived, complicated, and possibly deceptive plan or action: political __________s
2. a movement or action requiring dexterity and skill
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3. ( tr ) to contrive or accomplish with skill or cunning
4. ( intr ) to manipulate situations, etc, in order to gain some end: to ________ for the leadership
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1. a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
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to secure a strategic advantage over by skilful manoeuvre
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to surpass or exceed, as in speed, development, or performance: a company that has consistently _____d the competition in sales.
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1. a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a _____ of remorse; a ____ of desire.
2. a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm: hunger _____ .
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1. concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question.
2. Anatomy . near the surface or outside of; external.
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1. the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, especially wife, at one time.
2. Zoology . the habit or system of mating with more than one individual, either simultaneously or successively.
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The doctrin of, or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
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1. to date before the actual time: He ______d the check by three days.
2. to precede in date: a house that ______s the civil war.
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to put back or establish again, as in a former position or state.
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1. to excite, stir up, or rouse anew: efforts to rekindle their romance; comments that ______ed her anger.
2. to cause to begin burning again; ignite again: Never use gasoline to rekindle a fire.
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3. to begin to burn again; ignite again: She is worried about a fire _______ing.
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Law.
a. to send back (a case) to a lower court from which it was appealed, with instructions as to what further proceedings should be had.
b. (of a court or magistrate) to send back (a prisoner or accused person) into custody, as to await further proceedings.
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1. a re-echoed sound.
2. the fact of being reflected.
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1. (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
2. the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech.
3. the study of the effective use of language.
4. the ability to use language effectively.
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1. a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
2. something that covers or conceals like a garment: a _____ of rain.
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7. to wrap or clothe for burial.
8. to cover; hide from view.
9. to veil, as in obscurity or mystery: They _____ed their past lives in an effort to forget.
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1. to speak (a language, words, etc.) with superficial knowledge or understanding.
2. to dabble in.
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3. slight or superficial knowledge; ______ing
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1. to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
2. to extinguish or deaden (fire, coals, etc.) by covering so as to exclude air.
3. to cover closely or thickly; envelop: to ______ a steak with mushrooms.
4. to suppress or repress
5. Cookery . to steam (food) slowly in a heavy, tightly closed vessel with a minimum of liquid: ______ed chicken and onions.
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1. union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote _______ among union members.
2. community of feelings, purposes, etc.
3. community of responsibilities and interests.
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1. a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
2. a person who has complete power or authority.
3. a group or body of persons or a state having complete authority.
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6. having supreme rank, power, or authority.
7. supreme; preeminent; indisputable: a ______ right.
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a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring: a _____ of angry words.
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1. to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
2. to make submissive or subservient; enslave.
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4. having independent existence; independent.
5. belonging to the real nature or essential part of a thing; ssential.
6. real or actual.
7. of considerable amount or quantity.
8. possessing substance; having practical importance, value, or effect: _______ issues under discussion.
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1. to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
2. to bring (a case, instance, etc.) under a rule.
3. to take up into a more inclusive classification.
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1. to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
2. to frustrate or baffle (a plan, purpose, etc.).
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slang chiefly ( US ), ( Canadian ) a stingy person; miser
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1. A strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
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3. to fish with a net that drags along the sea bottom to catch the fish living there.
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1. to sign one's name, as to a document.
2. to show agreemen with or to support by or as if by signing one's name to, as a statement or decision.
3. to bind oneself to contribute a sum of money to (an undertaking): Wealthy music lovers _________ the experimental concerts.
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1. not returned or reciprocated: _______ love.
2. not avenged or retaliated
3. not repaid or satisfied.
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1. wakefulness maintained for any reason during the normal hours for sleeping.
2. a watch or a period of watchful attention maintained at night or at other times: The nurse kept her _____ at the bedside of the dying man.
3. a period of wakefulness from inability to sleep.
4. Ecclesiastical
a. A devotional watching, or keeping awake, during the customary hours of sleep.
b. A nocturnal devotional exercise or service, especially on the eve before a church festival.
c. The eve, or day and night, before a church festival, especially an eve that is a fast.
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1. evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a ______ solvent.
2. tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a ______ political situation.
3. changeable; mercurial; flighty: a ______ disposition.
4. (of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: ______ market conditions.
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a book of the Bible, composed of 150 songs, hymns, and prayers.
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1.the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
2. a rapid and often excessive spread or increase: nuclear ______.
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adjective Chiefly British Informal .
1. somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit ______.
2. rather irritable: He's always a bit ______ after his nap.
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( often lowercase [image]) rigorous; unusually severe or cruel: _________ forms of punishment.
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