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Subside
Verb

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verb
1.
become less intense, violent, or severe.
"I'll wait a few minutes until the storm subsides"
synonyms: abate, let up, quiet down, calm, slacken (off), ease (up), relent, die down, recede, lessen, soften, diminish, decline, dwindle, weaken, fade, wane, ebb More
antonyms: intensify
lapse into silence or inactivity.
"Fred opened his mouth to protest again, then subsided"
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(of water) go down to a lower or the normal level.
"the floods subside almost as quickly as they arise"
synonyms: recede, ebb, fall, go down, get lower, abate More

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Exuberance
Noun

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noun
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the quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience.
"a sense of youthful exuberance"

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Substantiate
Verb

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verb
1.
provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.
"they had found nothing to substantiate the allegations"
synonyms: prove, show to be true, give substance to, support, uphold, bear out, justify, vindicate, validate, corroborate, verify, authenticate, confirm, endorse, give credence to More

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Fallacious
adj

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adjective
1.
based on a mistaken belief.
"fallacious arguments"
synonyms: erroneous, false, untrue, wrong, incorrect, flawed, inaccurate, mistaken, misinformed, misguided; More
antonyms: correct
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early 16th cent.: from Old French fallacieux, from Latin fallaciosus, from fallacia (see fallacy).
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Fastidious
adj

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adjective
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very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
"he chooses his words with fastidious care"
synonyms: scrupulous, punctilious, painstaking, meticulous; More
antonyms: lax
very concerned about matters of cleanliness.
"the child seemed fastidious about getting her fingers sticky or dirty"
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late Middle English: from Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium ‘loathing.’ The word originally meant ‘disagreeable, distasteful,’ later ‘disgusted’ Current senses date from the 17th cent.
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Succinct
adj

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adjective
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(esp. of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed.
"use short, succinct sentences"
synonyms: concise, short (and sweet), brief, compact, condensed, crisp, laconic, terse, to the point, pithy, epigrammatic, synoptic, gnomic; More
antonyms: verbose
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘encircled’): from Latin succinctus ‘tucked up,’ past participle of succingere, from sub- ‘from below’ + cingere ‘gird.’
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Feasible
adj

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adjective
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possible to do easily or conveniently.
"it is not feasible to put most finds from excavations on public display"
synonyms: practicable, practical, workable, achievable, attainable, realizable, viable, realistic, sensible, reasonable, within reason; More
antonyms: impractical
informal
likely; probable.
"the most feasible explanation"
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French faisible, from fais-, stem of faire ‘do, make,’ from Latin facere .
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Fervor
noun

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noun
1.
intense and passionate feeling.
"he talked with all the fervor of a new convert"
synonyms: passion, ardor, intensity, zeal, vehemence, emotion, warmth, earnestness, avidity, eagerness, keenness, enthusiasm, excitement, animation, vigor, energy, fire, spirit, zest, fervency More
antonyms: apathy
archaic
intense heat.
plural noun: fervours; plural noun: fervors
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Middle English: via Old French from Latin fervor, from fervere ‘to boil.’ Compare with fervent and fervid.
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Superfluous
adj

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adjective
1.
unnecessary, esp. through being more than enough.
"the purchaser should avoid asking for superfluous information"
synonyms: surplus (to requirements), nonessential, redundant, unneeded, excess, extra, (to) spare, remaining, unused, left over, in excess, waste More
unnecessary, unneeded, redundant, uncalled for, unwarranted
antonyms: necessary, essential
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late Middle English: from Latin superfluus, from super- ‘over’ + fluere ‘to flow.’
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Flagrant
adj

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adjective
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(of something considered wrong or immoral) conspicuously or obviously offensive.
"his flagrant bad taste"
synonyms: blatant, glaring, obvious, overt, conspicuous, barefaced, shameless, brazen, undisguised, unconcealed; More
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late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘blazing, resplendent’): from French, or from Latin flagrant- ‘blazing,’ from the verb flagrare .
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Frivolous
adj

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adjective
1.
not having any serious purpose or value.
"rules to stop frivolous lawsuits"
synonyms: flippant, glib, facetious, joking, jokey, lighthearted; More
time-wasting, pointless, trivial, trifling, minor, petty, insignificant, unimportant;
de minimis
antonyms: serious, important
(of a person) carefree and not serious.
synonyms: skittish, flighty, giddy, silly, foolish, superficial, shallow, irresponsible, thoughtless, featherbrained, empty-headed, pea-brained, birdbrained, vacuous, vapid; More
antonyms: sensible, serious
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late Middle English: from Latin frivolus ‘silly, trifling’ + -ous.
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Surreptitious
adj

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adjective
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kept secret, esp. because it would not be approved of.
"they carried on a surreptitious affair"
synonyms: secret, secretive, stealthy, clandestine, sneaky, sly, furtive; More
antonyms: blatant
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘obtained by suppression of the truth’): from Latin surreptitius (from the verb surripere, from sub- ‘secretly’ + rapere ‘seize’) + -ous.
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Furtive
adj

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adjective
1.
attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.
"they spent a furtive day together"
synonyms: secretive, secret, surreptitious, clandestine, hidden, covert, conspiratorial, cloak-and-dagger, backroom, backstairs, sly, sneaky, under-the-table; More

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Taciturn
adj

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adjective
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(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
synonyms: untalkative, uncommunicative, reticent, unforthcoming, quiet, secretive, tight-lipped, buttoned-up, close-mouthed; More
antonyms: talkative
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late 18th cent.: from Latin taciturnus, from tacitus (see tacit).
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Garrulous
adj

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adjective
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excessively talkative, esp. on trivial matters.
"Polonius is portrayed as a foolish, garrulous old man"
synonyms: talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, chatty, chattering, gossipy; More

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Terse
adj

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adjective
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sparing in the use of words; abrupt.
"a terse statement"
synonyms: brief, short, to the point, concise, succinct, crisp, pithy, incisive, trenchant, short and sweet, laconic, elliptical; More
antonyms: long-winded, polite
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early 17th cent.: from Latin tersus ‘wiped, polished,’ from the verb tergere . The original sense was ‘polished, trim, spruce,’ (relating to language) ‘polished, polite,’ hence ‘concise and to the point’ (late 18th cent).
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Double Standard
N

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noun
1.
a rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups.
"the smaller pay received by black soldiers demonstrated a double standard"

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Infatuation
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noun
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an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something.
"he had developed an infatuation with the girl"