Dictionary

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Stickler

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voorstaander

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As•cet•ic
[uh-set-ik]
noun

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1.
a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
2.
a person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction.
3.
(in the early Christian church) a monk; hermit.

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Prudence

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As a layman, I offer no opinion on the prudence of such a regimen; but I insist that, whatever its merits, self-torture is quite a different thing from tribulation sent by God.

Versigtigheid/wysheid

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Pru•dent
[prood-nt] Show IPA
adjective

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1.
wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
2.
careful in providing for the future; provident: a prudent decision.

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Riven

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She describes him as ‘a dark vortex,’ desperately seeking stability and fulfillment through a variety of crackpot therapies and belief systems and RIVEN with insecurities borne of the fact he was adopted as a baby.

1.
to tear or rend apart: to RIVEmeat from a bone.
2.
to separate by striking; split; cleave.
3.
to rend, harrow, or distress (the feelings, heart, etc.).
4.
to split (wood) radially from a log.
verb (used without object)
5.
to become rent or split apart: stones that RIVE easily.

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Paltry

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At the time he was paying a paltry $500 a month in child support, while Chrisann struggled to raise Lisa on welfare. (skamele)

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Denigrate

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Even then he publicly denigrated the mother of his child, telling an interviewer for Time magazine in 1983 that, ’28 per cent of the male population in America could be the father. (afgekraak)

to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
2.
to treat or represent as lacking in value or importance; belittle; disparage: to denigrate someone's contributions to a project.
3.
to make black; blacken: rain clouds denigrating the sky.

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Excoriate

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In the excoriating account she recalls how Jobs aggressively denied paternity of their daughter, Lisa; how he involved attorneys to rubbish her reputation and even claimed infertility, until a DNA test in 1980 forced him to accept the truth. (afkraak)

to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally: He was excoriated for his mistakes.
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to strip off or remove the skin from: Her palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.

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Austere

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And this government has done very little to change this fact. Patriotic rich are not interested in the austerity meted out to us 'plebs' sober

severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher.
2.
rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent.
3.
grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner.
4.
without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life.
5.
severely simple; without ornament: austere writing.

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Cohort

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A cohort accompanied the reality television personality as he did his shopping

(groep)

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Sloven

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Slovenly people are probably the same in their personal hygiene too. slordige

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Implore

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We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
to beg urgently or piteously for (aid, mercy, pardon, etc.): implore forgiveness.

(smeek)

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Reconcile

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All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.
to compose or settle (a quarrel, dispute, etc.).

(Versoen)

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Incest

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Man, 56, is charged with rape and incest after fathering four children with female relative over two decades

(bloedskande)

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Inept

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They have some of the best brains in the world but successive men are elected president and they are mostly inept, ignorant and without merit. onbekwaam

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Decommission

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Site was decommissioned in 1992 and is one of the last surviving examples of its type of construction

(buite werking gestel)

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Amicable

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The actions we take now, the way we behave, will affect three little innocent people for the rest of their lives,' the Australian beauty told the magazine, insisting that she and her ex shall remain on amicable terms for the sake of their children.

(vriendskaplike)

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Feckless

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(lusteloos)

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Don (ning)

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verb (used with object), donned, don·ning.
to put on or dress in: to don one's clothes.


Donning strappy stilettos, Anne was slightly taller than her jewellery designer beau

(geklee)

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Reticent
adjective

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1.
disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
2.
reluctant or restrained.

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Winfrey thought that her help in 2008 would have helped get her special access to the White House but that has not been the case so she is reticent to help again

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Poignant

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1.
keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
2.
keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest.
3.
affecting or moving the emotions: a poignant scene.
4.
pungent to the smell: poignant cooking odors.

(aangrypende)

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Resolute
adjective

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1.
firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion.
2.
characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions, etc.

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I love William's resolute streak.
(vasberade)

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Infer

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verb (used with object)
1.
to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
2.
(of facts, circumstances, statements, etc.) to indicate or involve as a conclusion; lead to.
3.
to guess; speculate; surmise.
4.
to hint; imply; suggest.
verb (used without object)
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to draw a conclusion, as by reasoning.

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(aflei)

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Culminate

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verb (used without object)
1.
to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development (usually followed by in ).
2.
to end or arrive at a final stage (usually followed by in ): The argument culminated in a fistfight.
3.
to rise to or form an apex; terminate (usually followed by in ): The tower culminates in a tall spire.
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Astronomy . (of a celestial body) to be on the meridian, or reach the highest or the lowest altitude.
verb (used with object)
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to bring to a close; complete; climax: A rock song culminates the performance.

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Culminate (uitloop) Culmination (hoogtepunt)
Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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Profound

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adjective
1.
penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
2.
originating in or penetrating to the depths of one's being; profound grief.
3.
being or going far beneath what is superficial, external, or obvious: profound insight.
4.
of deep meaning; of great and broadly inclusive significance: a profound book.
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pervasive or intense; thorough; complete: a profound silence.

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(diepgaande)

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Dismal

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adjective
1.
causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
2.
characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful: Our team played a dismal game.
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Obsolete .
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disastrous; calamitous.
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unlucky; sinister.

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(droewige)