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Abjure
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verb
to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid his refusal to abjure the Catholic faith. |
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Adumbrate
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verb
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow the walls were not more than adumbrated by the meager light what qualities in Christ are adumbrated by the vine? her happy reminiscences were adumbrated by consciousness of something else. |
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Anathema
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noun
A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing racial hatred was anathema to her. the sergeant clutched the ruined communicator, muttering anathemas. a nation viewed as a sponsor of terrorism, which is anathema in the West |
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Anodyne
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adj
not likely to provoke dissent or offense; uncontentious or inoffensive, often deliberately so anodyne new age music I attempted to keep the conversation as anodyne as possible. noun soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts an anodyne to the misery she had put him through. |
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Apogee
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noun
farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith the White House is considered the apogee of American achievement. |
