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(n.) The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval
S: commendation, sanction |
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(v.) To make easier or milder, releive; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
S: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay |
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(n.) A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
S: alliance, league, federation, combine |
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(n.) Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
S: degeneration, corruption |
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(v.) To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
S: call forth, evoke, extract, educe |
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(v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
S: protest, remonstrate, complain |
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(adj.) used so ofter as to lack freshness or originality
S: banal, trite, commonplace, corny |
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(n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)
S: pause, lacuna |
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(n.) a hint, inderect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
S: insinuation, intimation |
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(v.) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
S: intervene, mediate |
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(adj.) Wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satisfied by excessive indulgence)
S: sated, surifeited, cloyed |
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(adj.) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
S:gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly |
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(adj.) worthy, deserving recognition and praise
S: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable |
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(adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
S: irritable, testy, waspish |
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(n.) a special right or privelege; a special quality showing excellence
S: Perquisite, perk |
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(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a privince or country
S: (adj.) narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive |
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(v.) to make pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of
S: feign, pretend, affect |
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(v.) to rise above or beyond, exceed
S: surpass, outstrip |
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(n.) shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence of power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion
S: irritation, pique, annoyance |
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(adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
S: mealymouthed servile, fawning, greasy |
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