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Any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever.
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Morally objectionable behavior.
Synonyms: evil, wickedness, immorality
Usage: Each member of the congregation, the most innocent girl, and the man of hardened breast, felt as if the preacher had crept upon them ... and discovered their hoarded iniquity of deed or thought. |
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An abject coward.
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Usage: What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days. |
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1.contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly.
"a craven abdication of his moral duty"
synonyms: cowardly, lily-livered, faint-hearted, chicken-hearted, spineless, timid, timorous, fearful, pusillanimous, weak, feeble
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noun archaic: craven; plural noun: cravens
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1. Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause: "Consider the man who stands by his duty and goes to the stake rather than be recreant to it" (Mark Twain).
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1. an error in writing or printing
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b. Marked by a rapid varying between pitches or tones: a tremulous voice.
2. Timid or fearful: "the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house" (Margo Jefferson).
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A small three-wheeled vehicle having a seat, pedals, and handlebars for the operator and a usually hooded cab for passengers. |
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v: move out of or away from something and come into view.
become apparent, important, or prominent.
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(noun) Strong dislike, contempt, or aversion.
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1. The act of cursing.
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abhorrence, detestation, loathing, odium, abomination
disgust - strong feelings of dislike
hate, hatred - the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
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curse, condemnation
denouncement, denunciation - a public act of denouncing
anathema - a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
imprecation, malediction - the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult);"he suffered the imprecations of the mob"
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object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
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(noun) Pathological obsession with one idea or subject.
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(noun) A nook or corner beside an open fireplace.
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(noun) A toroidal shape.
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a. A surface generated by a closed curve rotating about, but not intersecting or containing, an axis in its own plane.
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(noun) A small, flat, pigmented spot on the skin.
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(noun) A socially awkward or tactless act.
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Definition: (noun) A state of peace and quiet.
Synonyms: tranquility, quietness
Usage: Who can tell how scenes of peace and quietude sink into the minds of pain-worn dwellers in close and noisy places. |
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Definition: (noun) A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt.
Synonyms: remorse, self-reproach
Usage: This child had taken and lost her treasured amethyst brooch and now sat there calmly without the least apparent compunction or repentance. |
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Definition: (noun) A sense that something is about to occur; a premonition.
Synonyms: boding, foreboding, premonition
Usage: We've gone and lost your father's flat, Diana, and I have a presentiment that we'll not be allowed to row on the pond any more. |
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Definition: (adjective) Easily managed or controlled; governable.
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Usage: I felt him become suddenly tractable again like an animal, like a good-tempered horse when the object that scares him is removed. |
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Definition: (noun) A usually dense, cylindrical, often drooping cluster of unisexual apetalous flowers found in willows, birches, and oaks.
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Usage: Walking some forty paces away, Sergey Ivanovitch, knowing he was out of sight, stood still behind a bushy spindle-tree in full flower with its rosy red catkins. |
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(noun) A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing.
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Definition: (noun) A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge).
Synonyms: decree, edict, rescript, order
Usage: The judge issued a fiat that was met with widespread protest. |
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Definition: (noun) A stock or supply of foods.
Synonyms: provisions, viands, victuals, provender
Usage: During the war with Spain he was employed in the commissariat of the French army, and made a fortune |
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(noun) A studio especially for an artist or designer.
Synonyms: artist's workroom
Usage: Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered to discuss chiaroscuro, Wagner, music, wall paper, Chopin, and Oolong.. |
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N: a flight to escape danger
Syn: exodus
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Calm, peaceful
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n: a minute amount: an iota or trace
Use: When the party was over, not a scintilla of food remained |
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Definition: playful banter
Example: The light badinage on the group chat always brightens my day. |
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| (noun) A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats. |
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A person who testifies or gives a deposition.
depose: testify to or give (evidence) on oath, typically in a written statement. |
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| A method of betting, as on a horse race, in which the bettor must correctly pick those finishing in the first and second places in precisely that sequence. |
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(adjective) Persisting in an ingrained habit.
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| immoderate desire for wealth. |
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| (noun) The quality of being discerning, sound in judgment, and farsighted; wisdom |
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