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abate
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subside or moderate
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rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate
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aberrant
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abnormal or deviant
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given the aberrant nature of the data, we came to doubt the validity of the entire experiment
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abeyance
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suspended action
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the deal was held in abeyance until her arrival
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abscond
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depart secretly and hide
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the teller who absconded with the bonds went uncaptured until someone recognized him from his photograph on Americas most wanted
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abstemious
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sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
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concerned whether her vegetarian son's abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him
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admonish
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warn; reprove
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when her courtiers questioned her religious beliefs, Mary Stuart admonished them, declaring that she would worship as she pleased
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adulterate
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to make inpure
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aesthetic
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dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
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aggregate
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gather; accumulate
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alacrity
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cheerful promptness; eagerness
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Phil and dave were raring to get off the mountains, they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with alacrity
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alleviate
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relieve
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amalgamate
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combine; unite in one body
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ambiguous
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unclear or doubtful in meaning
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ambivalence
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state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
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torn between her loving parents one minute and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalance f her feelings
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ameliorate
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improve
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many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums
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anachronism
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something or someone misplaced in time
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analogous
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comparable
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she called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same
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anarchy
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absence of governing body; state of disorder
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anomalous
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abnormal; irregular
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she was placed in an anomalous position of seeming to approve procedures that she despised
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antipathy
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aversion; dislike
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apathy
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lack of caring
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appease
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pacify or soothe; relieve
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tom and jody tried to appease the crying baby by offering him one toy after another
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apprise
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inform
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approbation
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approval
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appropriate
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acquire; take possession of for one's own use
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arduous
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hard, strenuous
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her arduous efforts had sapped her energy
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artless
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without guile; open and honest
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ascetic
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practicing self denial(discipline); austere
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the wealthy self indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders
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assiduous
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diligent
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it took rembrandt weeks of assiduous labor before he was satisfied with his portrait of his son
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assuage
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ease or lessen(pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
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alleviate
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attenuate
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make thinner; weaken or lessen
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audacious
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daring; bold
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austere
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forbiddingly stern
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the headmasters austere demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students
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autonomous
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self governing
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cal berkely is autonomous, for it runs several of its programs that are not subject to outside control
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aver
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assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact
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banal
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trite; lacking originality
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the hack writers worn out cliches made his comic sketch seem banal
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belie
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contradict; give a false impression
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his coarse, hard bitten exterior belied his innate sensitivity
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beneficent
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kindly, doing good
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bolster
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support; reinforce
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bombastic
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pompous; using inflated language
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puffed up with conceit, the orator spoke in such a bombastic manner that we longed to deflate him
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boorish
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rude; insensitive
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burgeon
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growth forth; send out buds
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in the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come
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burnish
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make shiny by rubbing; polish
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buttress
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support; prop up
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cacophonous
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discordant, inharmonious
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do the students in the orchestra enjoy the cacophonous sounds they make when they are tuning up
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capricious
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unpredictable; fickle
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the storm was capricious
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castigation
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punishment; severe criticism
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catalyst
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agent that influences the pace of a chemical reaction while it remains unaffected and unchanged; person or thing that causes action
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caustic
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burning; sarcastically biting
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the critics caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm
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chicanery
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trickery; deception
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