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matricide
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1. The act of killing one's mother.
2. One who kills one's mother. |
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fratricide
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1. The killing of one's brother or sister.
2. One who has killed one's brother or sister. |
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patricide
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1. The act of murdering one's father.
2. One who murders one's father. |
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regicide
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1. The killing of a king.
2. One who kills a king. |
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stricture
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1. A restraint, limit, or restriction.
2. An adverse remark or criticism; censure. 3. Pathology. An abnormal narrowing of a duct or passage. |
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stringent
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1. Imposing rigorous standards of performance; severe: stringent safety measures.
2. Constricted; tight: operating under a stringent time limit. 3. Characterized by scarcity of money, credit restrictions, or other financial strain: stringent economic policies. |
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voracious
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1. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
2. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader. |
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convivial
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1. Fond of feasting, drinking, and good company; sociable. See Synonyms at social.
2. Merry; festive: a convivial atmosphere at the reunion. |
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vivacious
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Full of animation and spirit; lively: a charming and vivacious host.
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vivacity
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The quality or condition of being vivacious; liveliness: “the light and vivacity that laugh in the eyes of a child”
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vivify
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1. To give or bring life to; animate: vivify a puppet; vivifying the brown grasslands.
2. To make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven: A smile may vivify a face. |
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vivisection
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The act or practice of cutting into or otherwise injuring living animals, especially for the purpose of scientific research.
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extort
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To obtain from another by coercion or intimidation.
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retort
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1. To reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner. See Synonyms at answer. 2. To present a counterargument to. 2. To return in kind; pay back. |
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evince
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To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest: evince distaste by grimacing.
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fractious
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1. Inclined to make trouble; unruly.
2. Having a peevish nature; cranky. |
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refract
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1. To deflect (light, for example) from a straight path by refraction.
2. To alter by viewing through a medium: “In the Quartet reality is refracted through a variety of eyes” (Elizabeth Kastor). 3. Medicine. To determine the refraction of (an eye, for example). |
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refractory
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1. Obstinately resistant to authority or control. See Synonyms at unruly.
2. Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat: a refractory material such as silica. 3. Resistant to treatment: a refractory case of acne. |
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omnipotent
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1. One having unlimited power or authority: the bureaucratic omnipotents.
2. Omnipotent God. Used with the. |
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omnipresent
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Present everywhere simultaneously.
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omniscient
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Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator.
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genuflect
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1. To bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor or ground, as in worship.
2. To be servilely respectful or deferential; grovel. |
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inflection
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1. The act of inflecting or the state of being inflected.
2. Alteration in pitch or tone of the voice. |
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pertinacious
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1. Holding tenaciously to a purpose, belief, opinion, or course of action.
2. Stubbornly or perversely persistent. See Synonyms at obstinate. |
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tenet
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An opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization. See Synonyms at doctrine.
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untenable
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1. Being such that defense or maintenance is impossible: an untenable position.
2. Being such that occupation or habitation is impossible: untenable quarters. |
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admonish
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1. To reprove gently but earnestly.
2. To counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution. 3. To remind of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility. |
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premonitory
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1. A presentiment of the future; a foreboding.
2. A warning in advance; a forewarning. |
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countermand
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1. To cancel or reverse (a previously issued command or order).
2. To recall by a contrary order: countermanded the air strikes. |
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remand
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1. To send or order back.
2. Law. 1. To send back to custody. 2. To send back (a case) to a lower court with instructions about further proceedings. |
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credence
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# Acceptance as true or valid; belief. See Synonyms at belief.
# Claim to acceptance; trustworthiness. # Recommendation; credentials: a letter of credence. |
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credulous
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1. Disposed to believe too readily; gullible.
2. Arising from or characterized by credulity. See Usage Note at credible. |
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creed
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1. A formal statement of religious belief; a confession of faith.
2. A system of belief, principles, or opinions: laws banning discrimination on the basis of race or creed; an architectural creed that demanded simple lines. |
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incredulity
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The state or quality of being incredulous; disbelief.
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affidavit
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a written declaration made under oath before a notary public or other authorized officer.
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bona fide
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1. Made or carried out in good faith; sincere: a bona fide offer.
2. Authentic; genuine: a bona fide Rembrandt. See Synonyms at authentic. |
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confidant
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1. One to whom secrets or private matters are disclosed.
2. A character in a drama or fiction, such as a trusted friend or servant, who serves as a device for revealing the inner thoughts or intentions of a main character. |
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diffident
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1. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid. See Synonyms at shy1.
2. Reserved in manner. |
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fidelity
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1. Faithfulness to obligations, duties, or observances.
2. Exact correspondence with fact or with a given quality, condition, or event; accuracy. 3. The degree to which an electronic system accurately reproduces the sound or image of its input signal. |
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infidel
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1. An unbeliever with respect to a particular religion, especially Christianity or Islam.
2. One who has no religious beliefs. 3. One who doubts or rejects a particular doctrine, system, or principle. |
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perfidious
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Of, relating to, or marked by perfidy; treacherous. See Synonyms at faithless.
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