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| aberrant, (n. form: aberration) |
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| (adj) deviation from the norm |
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| (n) an expression of praise |
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| (v) to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow |
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| (adj.) dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful |
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| (n) eager and enthusiastic willingness (like Michelle!) |
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| (n) a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold (an alchemist is one who practices alchemy) |
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| (v) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior-unalloyed means pure |
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| amalgamate (n. form: amalgamation) |
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| (v) to combine several elements into a whole |
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| (adj.) agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
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| (n) a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
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| (adj./n) soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comfort |
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| anomaly, (adj. form: anomalous) |
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| (n) deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality |
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| (n) farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| (n) one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
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| (n) deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection |
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| (n) an expression of approval or praise |
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| (v) to take for one's own, confiscate |
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| (adj.) outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time |
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| (adj.) strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort |
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| (v./adj.) to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait |
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| (n) one who practice rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion |
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| (n) severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability |
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| (v) to aver, allege, assert |
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| (adj.) diligent, hard-working, sedulous |
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| (v) to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
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| (adj./n) having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe; something with a tightening effect on tissue |
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| audacious (n. form: audacity) |
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| (adj.) daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
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| (adj.) majestic, venerable |
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| austere (n. form: austerity) |
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| (adj.) without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
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| avarice (adj. form: avaricious) |
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| (n) greed, esp. for wealth |
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| (v) to state as a fact; to declare or assert |
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| axiom (adj. form; axiomatic) |
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| (n) a universally recognized principle |
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| axiomatic (n. form: axiom) |
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| (adj) taken as a given; posessing self-evident truth |
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| (adj.) belligerent, pugnacious, warlike |
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| (n) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency [He had a naturally artistic bent] |
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| (v) to provide support or reinforcement |
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| bombastic (n. form: bombast) |
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| (adj.) pompous; grandiloquent |
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| (v) bring up, announce, begin to talk about |
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| (v) to tolerate, endure, countenance |
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| (adj.) rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural ares and their inhabitants |
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| (v) to grow rapidly or flourish |
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| cacophony (adj. form: cacophonous) |
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| (n) harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
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| (v) to slander, make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion |
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| canon (adj. form: canonical) |
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| (n) an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature |
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| canonical (n. form: canon) |
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| (adj) forllowing or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards |
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| (adj.) inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable |
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| (adj.) disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument |
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| (adj.) major, as in cardinal sin |
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| castigation (v. form: castigate) |
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| (n) severe criticism or punishment |
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| (n) a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that cause change |
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| (adj) burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
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| (v) to find fault without good reason |
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| (n) speed, alacrity-[think accelerate] |
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| (v) to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
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| (adj.) wary, cautious, sparing |
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| (n) a blindly devoted patriot |
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| (n) trickery or subterfuge |
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| (n) an illusion; originally an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster |
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| (adj.) appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
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| (v) to change as if by dyeing, e.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first)-[Yellow journalism covered the truth] |
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| complaisance (adj. form: complaisant) |
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| (n) the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
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| (n) an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
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| (adj.) pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important) |
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| (adj.) argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
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| (adj.) sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
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| contrite (n. form: contrition) |
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| (adj.) regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
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| (adj.) insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion |
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| (n) a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
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| (adj.) complex or complicated |
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| credulous (n. form: credulity) |
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| (adj.) tending to believe too readily; gullible |
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| culpable (n. form: culpability) |
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| cynicism (adj. form: cynical) |
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| (n) an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| (v) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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| (n) smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack |
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| (n) rout, fiasco, complete failure-[My first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle] |
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| decorum (adj. form: decorous) |
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| (n) polite or appropriate conduct or behavior |
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| (v) to question or oppose |
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| (n) an outcome or solution, the unraveling of a plot |
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| derision (adj. form: derisive; v. form: deride) |
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| (n) scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
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| (v) to discriminate or discern |
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| (v) to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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| (n) disuse-[After years of of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use] |
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| (adj.) random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose-[Her desultory performance impressed no one] |
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| (adj.) transparent, gauzy |
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| (adj.) intended to teach or instruct |
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| (n) a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
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| (adj.) reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence-[Surprisingly, the CEO of the corporation had been a diffident youth] |
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| (n) one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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| (n) a song of grief or lamentation-[We listened to the slow, funeral dirge] |
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| (v) to undeceive; to set right |
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| (adj) conflicting; dissonant or harsh sounding |
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| discretion (adj. form: discreet) |
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| (n) cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
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| (adj.) free of bias or self-interest; impartial |
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| (v) to slight or belittle |
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| (adj.) fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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| (v) to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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| (v) to disclose something secret |
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| dogmatic (n. form: dogma) |
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| (adj.) expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or unprovable principles |
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| ebullience (adj. form: ebullient) |
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| (n) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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| (adj.) departing from norms or conventions |
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| (adj.) composed of elements drawn from various sources |
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| (n) extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
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| elegy (adj. form: elegiac) |
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| (n) a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead |
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| eloquent (n. form: eloquence) |
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| (adj.) well-spoken, expressive, articulate |
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| (adj./n.) soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying; an agent that softens or smooths the skin |
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| (adj.) based on observation or experiment |
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| (n) glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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| (adj.) characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, of people |
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| (v) to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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| enigmatic (n. form: enigma) |
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| (adj.) mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
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| (n) dissatisfaction from restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
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| equivocate (adj. form: equivocal) |
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| (v) to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
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| erudite (n. form: erudition) |
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| (adj.) very learned; scholarly |
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| (v) to shun or avoid-[She chose to eschew the movie theater, preferring to watch DVDs at home] |
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| (adj.) intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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| (v) to test or try; attempt, experiment-[The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps] |
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| eulogy (v. form: eulogize) |
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| (n) a speech honoring the dead |
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| (adj.) tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
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| (v) to make worse or more severe |
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| (v) to demand, call for, require, take [Even a various war exacts a heavy price] |
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| (v) to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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| (v) exonerate; to clear of blame |
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| (v) denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil |
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| (n) critical examination, explication |
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| (adj.) urgent, pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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| (v) to atone or make amends for-[Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity] |
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| (adj.) improvised; done without preparation |
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| (v) to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind |
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| fallacy (adj. form: fallacious) |
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| (n) an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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| (adj.) silly, inanely foolish-[I would ignore such a fatuous comment] |
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| (v) to flatter or praise excessively |
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| (adj.) inhumanely cruel-[Fell beats surrounded the explorer] |
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| (v) to cause to fall by striking-[The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees] |
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| fervent (n. form: fervor) |
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| (adj.) greatly emotional or zealous |
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| (n) intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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| (v) to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits |
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| (adj.) sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant-[a flip remark] |
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| (v) to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
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| (v) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
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| (adj.) happening by accident or chance |
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| (adj.) quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
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| (v) to loudly attack or denounce |
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| (adj.) marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
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| (v) to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose |
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| (adj.) pointlessly talkative, talking too much (not like Michelle! :P) |
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| (adj.) relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
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| (adj.) marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
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| grandiloquence (adj. form: grandiloquent) |
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| (n) pompous speech or expression |
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| (adj.) sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
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| (v) to complain or grumble |
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| (n/v) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide |
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| (adj.) rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
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| (v./n.) to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech |
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| (n) devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasure of the senses (a hedonist is someone who pursue pleasure) |
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| (n) the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others |
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| heretical (n. form: heresy) |
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| (adj.) violating accepted dogma or convention |
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| (adj.) unorthodox, heretical, iconoclast |
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| (n) overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
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| hyperbole (adj. form: hyperbolic) |
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| (n) an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech |
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| (n) one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institution |
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| idolatrous (n. form: idolatry) |
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| (adj.) given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
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| (n) difficult or embarrassing situation |
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| (adj.) about to happen; impending |
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| (adj.) not capable of change |
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| (adj.) revealing no emotion |
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| (adj.) lacking funds; without money |
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| (adj.) marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness |
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| (adj.) not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
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| (n) immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| (adj.) in an initial stage; not fully formed |
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| (adj.) beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
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| (adj.) not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged |
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| (adj.) having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice |
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| (adj.) certain, inevitable |
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| (adj.) unmoving; lethargic; sluggish |
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| (adj.) unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| (adj.) artless; frank and candid; lacking in a sophistication |
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| (adj.) damaging; harmful; injurious |
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| (adj.) one of a kind, peerless |
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| (adj.) harmless; causing no damage |
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| (adj.) without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland |
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| (adj.) unconcerned, carefree, heedless |
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| (v) to imply, suggest or insinuate-[Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?] |
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| (adj.) not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
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| intransigent (n. form: intransigence) |
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| (adj.) refusing to compromise |
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| (adj.) steadfast and courageous |
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| (adj.) accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| (v) to obtain by deception or flattery |
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| (adj.) deep rooted, ingrained, habitual |
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| (adj.) easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
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| (adj.) vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile |
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| (adj.) using few words; terse |
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| laud (adj. form; laudatory) |
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| (v) to tilt or lean on one side-[The ship's broken mass listed helplessly in the wind] |
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| loquacious (n. form: loquacity) |
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| (adj.) extremely talkative (like Michelle!) |
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| (adj.) lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| (adj.) clear; easily understood |
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| (v) to move heavily and clumsily-[Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers] |
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| (adj.) characterized by brightness and the emission of light |
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| magnanimity (adj. form: magnanimous) |
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| (n) the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart esp. in forgiving |
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| malevolent (n. form: malevolence) |
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| (adj.) having or showing often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
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| (adj.) capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable |
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| (adj) associated with war and the armed forces |
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| (n) an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
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| (adj.) fitting, proper-[It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame.] |
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| mendacity (adj. form: mendacious) |
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| (n) the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
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| (adj.) characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
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| (adj.) cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show |
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| (adj.) characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
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| (v) to exploit, to squeeze every ounce of-[I milked the position for all it was worth] |
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| (adj.) menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed) |
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| (v) pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully-[Don't mince words.[ Also, to take tiny steps, tiptoe |
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| misanthrope (adj. form: misanthropic) |
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| (n) one who hates all other humans |
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| (v) to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate |
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| (v) to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity |
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| (adj.) to be established, accepted, or customary-[Those standards no longer obtain] |
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| oscillation (v. form: oscillate) |
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| (n) a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| (n) formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise |
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| (n) a humorous imitation intended for ridicule of comic effect, esp. in literature and art |
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| (adj.) cheap, miserly-[A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficult] |
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| (n) the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing |
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| (adj.) recurrent throughout the years or many years; happening repeatedly |
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| perfidy (adj. form: perfidious) |
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| (n) intentional breach of faith; treachery |
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| (n) the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| perspicacious (n. form: perspicacity) |
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| (adj.) acutely perceptive; having keen discernment |
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| (adj.) calm; sluggish; unemotional |
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| (adj.) multicolored, usually in blotches-[The Pied Piper of Hamlin was co called because of his multicolored coat.] |
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| (v) to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
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| (adj.) extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion |
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| (v) to illegally use or produce |
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| (n) the essential or central part |
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| (v) to appease; to clam by making concessions |
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| (adj.) pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| (n) a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful |
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| (n) an overabundance; a surplus |
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| (n) courage, spunk, fortitude-[Churchill's speeches inspired a pluck of his countrymen during the war.] |
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| (v) to plunge or drop straight down |
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| (adj.) practical rather than idealistic |
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| (v) to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| (adj.) acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| (v) to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| (n) a disposition in favor of something; preference |
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| (v) to dress; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care |
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| prescience (adj. form: prescient) |
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| (adj.) over stepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties |
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| (v) to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| (adj.) pure; uncorrupted; clean |
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| (v) to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils-[The information was prized from him.] |
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| (n) adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness |
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| (n) a natural predisposition or inclination |
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| (adj.) recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
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| profligate (n. form: profligacy) |
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| (adj.) producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
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| (adj.) long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity-[Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity] |
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| (n) a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
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| (v) to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable |
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| (adj.) dull; lacking in spirit or imagination |
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| (adj.) childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| (n) power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong-[The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention] |
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| (adj.) characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste |
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| (v) to lose courage, turn frightened |
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| (v) to limit-[Let me qualify that statement] |
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| (adj.) prone to complaining or grumbling; peevish |
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| quiescence (adj. form: quiescent) |
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| (n) stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
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| (adj.) foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals |
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| (adj.) occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
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| (v) to complain about bitterly-[Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons.] |
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| rancorous (n. form: rancor) |
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| (adj.) characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| (v) to make or become thing, less dense; to refine |
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| (adj.) obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
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| (v) to retract, esp. a previously held belief |
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| (adj.) hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
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| (adj.) awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
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| (adj.) radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| (v) to disprove; to successfully urge against |
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| (v) to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise |
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| (v/n) torn, past or rend-[He rent his garments]; an opening tear caused by such-[a large rent in the fabric] |
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| (v) to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
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| (v) to invalidate; to repeal; to retract |
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| (adj.) quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts or feelings |
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| reverent (n. form: reverence) |
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| (adj.) marked by, feeling or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
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| (n) the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
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| (adj.) having sound judgement; perceptive, wise, like a sage |
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| (adj.) lustful, lascivious, bawdy |
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| (adj.) promoting health or well-being |
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| (n/v) authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance; to give permission or authority to |
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| (adj.) cheerful, confident, optimistic |
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| (adj.) a fool or nitwit-[Don't be a sap] |
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| (v) to enervate or weaken the vitality of-[The race sapped my strength] |
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| satire (adj. form: satirical) |
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| (n) a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
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| (adj.) contemptible, despicable-[He was a scurvy old reprobate.] |
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| (adj.) diligent; persistent; hardworking (like nerds!) |
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| (adj.) aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| (n) a piece of broken pottery or glass |
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| (adj.) exceptional, unusual, odd-[He was singularly well-suited for the job] |
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| (adj.) causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep (like Turkey!) |
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| (adj.) seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive; plausible but false |
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| (n) one who spends money wastefully (like people who buy golden toilets! haha) |
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| (adj.) lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
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| (v) to saturate or completely soak, as a in to let a tea bag steep-[She was steeped in esoteric knowledge] |
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| stoic (n. form: stoicism) |
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| synthesis (v. form: synthesize) |
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| (n) the combination of parts to make a whole |
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| (v) to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration-[They tabled the motion and will consider it again later] |
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| tenacity adj. form: tenacious) |
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| (v) to proffer or offer-[He tended his resignation] |
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| (v) to publicly praise or promote |
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| (adj.) existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; wide-spread |
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| (adj.) genuine; not false or hypocritical |
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| urbane (n. form: urbanity) |
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| (v) to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver |
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| (adj.) multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different colors |
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| (v) to use harsh, condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; berate |
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| volatile (n. form: volatility) |
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| (adj.) readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
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| (adj.) having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| (v) to equivocate; to change one's position [His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind] |
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| (n) wit, joke [Groucho Max was a well-known wag] |
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| (v) to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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| (adj.) fervent; ardent; impassioned; devoted to a cause (a zealot is a zealous person) |
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