English Vocab

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Allay

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s: reduce, alleviate, moderate
a: agravate, exacebate, intensfy

to calm or pacify, set to rest; lessen or relieve

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bestial

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s: animal, depraved, loathsome
a: human, humane,clemet, virtuous, upright

beastlke; beastly, brtal; subhuman in intelligence and sensibility

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convival

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s: fun-loving, jovial, merry
a: dour, grim, sullen, unsociable

festive, sociable, having fun togther, genial

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coterie

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s: clique, set

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counterpart

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s: match

closely resembling or correspondig to aother; a complement

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demur

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s: protest, object to
a: assent to, consent to, accept, agre to

to object or take exception to; an objection

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effrontery

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s: gall, chutzpah, nerve, impertinence, cheek
a: shyness, dfidence, timidity

shameless boldness, impudence

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embellish

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s: ornament garnish
a: strip, mar, disfigure

to decoate, adorn, touchup; to improve by adding details

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ephemeral

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s: fleeting, transient, evanescent, trasitory
a: durable, long-lasing, permanent, perpetual

lasting only a short time, short-lived

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felicitous

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s: fortunate well-put
a: inppoprite, inept, graceless, unhappy

appropriate, apt, well chosen, marked by well-bein or good fortune, happy

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furtive

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s: clandesine, covert, srreptitious
a: fothright, aboveboard, open

done slyly or steahily, sneak, secret, shifty, solen

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garish

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s: gaudy, flashy, tawdry
a: subdued, muted, understated, quiet

glaring; tastelessly sowy oroverdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way

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illusory

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s: specious, spurious, fanciful, imagnary
a: actual, real, factual, objective

misleading, decetive; lacking in or not based on reality

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indigent

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s: penniless, poverty-stricken, destitute
a: wealthy, aflent, prosperous

needy, impoverished

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inordinate

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s: exorbitant extravagant
a: moderate, reasonable, equitable

fr too great, exceeding reasoable limits, excessive

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jettison

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s: cast off discard, dump, junk, abandon
a: conserv, retain, hold on to,keep

to cast overboard, get rid of as unneccessary or burdensome

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misanthrope

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people-hater

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pertinacious

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s: stubbor, dogged, determined

very persistent,holding firmly to a course of action or a set of believs; ahrd to get id of, refusing to be put off or denied

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picayune

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s: incnsequential, piddlig, trifling
a: important, significant, huge, gigantic

of litte importance or value, paltry, measly,concerned with triflig matters, small minded

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raiment

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s: apparel,attire

clothing, garments

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allege

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s: claim, contend
a: prove, deny

to assert without proof or confirmation

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arrant

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s: egregious, unmitigated

thoroughgoig,out-and-out; shameless, blatant

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badinage

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s: banter, persiflage, repartee
a: sermon

light and playful conversation

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concliate

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s: placate, mollif, propitate
a: antagonize, alienate, estrange

to overcome the distrust of, wn oer; to appease, aciy; to reconcile, make consistent

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countermand

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s: recall, revoke
a: reaffirm, reassert

to cancl or revers one order or command with another thats contrary to the first

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echelon

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s: level, rank

on of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unitla steplik formation or arrangement

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exacerbate

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s: aggravate, intensify, worsen
a: alleviate, mitigate, ameliorate

to make more violent, see bitter, r painful

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fatuous

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s: silly, vapid, inane, doltish, vacuous
a: sensible, intlligent, perceptive, bright

stupid or foolish in a self-satisfed way

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irrefutable

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s: inisputable, incontrovertible, undeniable
a: disptable, indefensible, untenable

imposibe to disprove, beyond argument

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juggernaut

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a massive and inescapableforce or object that crushe whatever is n its path

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lackadaisical

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s: listless, indolent, indifferent, lax
a: entergetic, vigorous, whlehearted

lacking spirit or interest, halfhearted

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litany

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s: rigmaroler, catalog, megillah

a prayer consisting of short appeals to God

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macabre

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s: grotesque grim, ghoulish

grily, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as subject

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paucity

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s: lack
a: abundance, glut,plentitude, deluge

an inadeqate quantity, scarcity, dearth

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portend

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s: bode, fortll, foreshadow, sugest

to inicate beforehand thatsomethin is about to appen; to give advance warning of

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raze

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s: pull down, demolish, shave ff
a: build, construct, raise, erect

to tear don, destroy completely, to cut or scrape off or out

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recant

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s: repudiate, disavow
a: reaffirm, reassert

to withdraw a statement or belief towhich one has previously been committd, renounce, retract

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saturate

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s: permeate, drench, flood, imbue
a: drain

to sa thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully

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saturnine

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s: sullen, morose
a: lighthearted, cheerful, vivacious

of a gloomy or sury dispositio; cold or sluggish in mood

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slough

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s: shed, slog
a: take on, acquire, ssme

to cast off, discard; to get rid of something objectionable or unnecessary; to plod through as if through mud

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acclamation

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s: ovation, cheering, plaudits
a: booing, hissing, jeers, catcalls

a shout of welcome; an overwhealming verbal vote of approval

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bucolic

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s: rustic
a: urban, metropolitn

characterstic of the counryside; rural; relatingo shepherds and cowherds, pastoral

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calumniate

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s: defame, libel
a: flatter, whitwash, praise

to slandr; accue falsly and maliciously

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chary

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s: wary, skittish
a: hedless, reckless, incautous

extremely cautious, hesitant, or slow; reserved, diffident

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collusion

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s: conspiracy, plot, connivance, cahoots

secre agreemen or cooperation

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dilettante

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s: amateur, trifler
a: professional

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imperturbabel

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s: unflappable, unexcitbable, serene, unruffled

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increment:

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s: accrtion, gain
a: loss, reduction, decrease

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mandate

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s: directive
a: fori, ban, outlaw

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paltry

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s: measly, meagr, piddling, trivial
a: gigantic, immense, collasal

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paroxysm

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s: fit, seizure

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pedantry

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s: nit-picking, hairsplitting, pettifoggery

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peregrination

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s: journey, wandering, odyssey

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redolent

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s: evocative, remiiscent, aromatic

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redolent

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s: evocative, remiiscent, aromatic
a: unevocative, odorless

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refulgent

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s: luminous, splendid
a: dim, dark, obscue, dingy, dull, murky

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unremitting

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s: constant, incessant, unrelenting
a: desultory, intermittent

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vacillate

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s: seesaw, fluctuate, oscillate
a: persevere

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vituperative

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s: abusive, scurrilous, insluting
a: complimentary, ludatory, flattering