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| verb, to renounce or reject solemnly, to recant, to avoid |
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| verb, to foreshadow vaguely or intimate, to suggest or outline sketchily, to obscure or overshadow |
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| noun, a solemn or ecclesiastical curse, accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| adjective/noun, soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| noun, farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith |
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| noun, one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| noun, deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| noun, severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability |
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| verb, to aver, allege, assert |
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| adjective, diligent, hardworking, sedulous |
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| adjective, belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| verb, to slander, make a false accusation, calumny means slander, aspersion |
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| adjective, disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| verb, to find fault without good reason |
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| noun, speed, alacrity, think accelerate |
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| noun, an illusion, originally, an imaginary fire breathing she-monster |
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| adjective, insubordinate, rebellious, contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion |
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| noun, rout, fiasco, complete failure: my first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle. |
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| noun, an outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot |
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| verb, to discriminate or discern |
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| noun, disuse: after years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use. |
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| adjective, random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose: her desultory performance impressed no one |
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| adjective, transparent, gauzy |
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| adjective, reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self-confidence: surprisingly, the CEO of the corporation had been a diffident youth. |
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| noun, a song of grief or lamentation: we listened to teh slow funeral dirge. |
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| noun, glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| verb, to shun or avoid: she chose to eschew the movie theater, preferring to watch DVDs at home. |
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| verb, to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| verb, denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| noun, critical examination, explication |
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| verb, to atone or make amends for: Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity. |
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| verb, to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind |
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| adjective, silly, inanely foolish: I would ignore such a fatuous comment. |
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| adjective, quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| verb, to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| adjective, unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
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| noun, difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| adjective, not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged |
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| adjective, certain, inevitable |
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| adjective, one of a kind, peerless |
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| adjective, unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| adjective, deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| adjective, vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile |
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| adjective, lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| noun, a beggar supplicant |
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| adjective, cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show |
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| adjective, menacing, threatening |
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| adjective, baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think |
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| adjective, noisily and stubbornly defiant, agressively boisterous |
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| adjective, tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age, literally, turned into bone |
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| verb, to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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| noun, formal praise, eulogy, encomium, panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise |
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| adjective, cheap, miserly; a parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty. |
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| adjective, transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| noun, the concluding part of a speech, flower, rhetorical speech |
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| adjective, pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| adjective, long winded, verbose, prolixity means verbosity: Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity. |
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| verb, to appease, to conciliate, propitious means auspicious, favorable |
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| adjective, childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| noun, power, strength, puissant means powerful, strong: the senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention. |
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| adjective, cowardly, craven |
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| adjective, having sound judgment, perceptive, wise, like a sage |
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| adjective, lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| adjective, remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| adjective, cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| adjective, gloomy, dark, sullen, morose |
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| adjective, aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively |
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| adjective, extremely loud and powerful |
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| noun, toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer, parasite |
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| adjective, biased, showing marked tendencies |
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| adjective, timid, fearful, diffident |
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| noun, novice, greenhorn, rank amateur |
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| verb, to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| adjective, fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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