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Abusive

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Adj
1. characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment

"Abusive punishment"

2. expressing offensive reproach

Hint 1

opprobrious, scurrilous

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Advent

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Noun
1. arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

Hint 2

Coming

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Advert

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Verb
1. make reference to

2. make a more or less disguised reference to

3. give heed (to)

Noun
1. a public promotion of some product or service

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Sense 1:
attend, hang, advert, pay heed, give ear, listen

Sense 2:
allude, touch, advert
hint, suggest

Sense 3:
mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer, think of, have in mind, mean

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Allocate

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Verb

1. distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose

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allocate, apportion
assign, allot, portion

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Alloy

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Verb
1. make an alloy of

2. lower in value by increasing the base-metal content

Noun
1. the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

2. a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten

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Sense 1:
debase, devalue

Sense 2
blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge

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Amnesty

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Noun
1. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

2. the formal act of liberating someone

3. a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment

Verb
1. grant a pardon to (a group of people)

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pardon

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analogous

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Adj
1. similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

"Brains and computers are often considered analogous"

2. corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin

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correspondent,
similar (vs. dissimilar)

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Anthology

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Noun
1. a collection of selected literary passages

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Aperture

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Noun
1. a device that controls amount of light admitted

2. a hole or opening

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Apex

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Noun
1. the highest point (of something)

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vertex, peak, acme

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Archaeology

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Noun
1. the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures

Hint 11

archeology

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Aspire

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Verb

1. have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal

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draw a bead on, aim, shoot for

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Autonomous

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Adj
1. existing as an independent entity

2. (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment

3. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

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independent, self-governing, sovereign, free (vs. unfree)

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Auxiliary

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Adj
1. functioning in a supporting capacity

2. furnishing added support

Noun
1. someone who acts as assistant

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Sense 1:
subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary
secondary (vs. primary)

Sense 2:
accessory, adjunct, ancillary, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary
supportive (vs. unsupportive)

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Canto

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Noun
1. a major division of a long poem

2. the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music

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Cardinal

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Adj
1. serving as an essential component

2. being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order [ant: ordinal]

Noun
3. a variable color averaging a vivid red

4. the number of elements in a mathematical set

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central, fundamental, key, primal
important (vs. unimportant), of import

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Clarion

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Adj
1. loud and clear

Verb
1. proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion

2. blow the clarion

Noun
1. a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone

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Sense 1:
play

Sense 2:
proclaim, exclaim, promulgate

Similarity of adj clarion
loud (vs. soft)

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Collaborate

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Verb
1. work together on a common enterprise of project

2. cooperate as a traitor

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join forces, cooperate, get together, work

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Compulsory

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Adj

1. required by rule

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mandatory, required

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Conduit

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Noun

1. a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass

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Conformity

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Noun
1. acting according to certain accepted standards [ant: nonconformity]

2. correspondence in form or appearance

3. orthodoxy in thoughts and belief [ant: nonconformity]

4. hardened conventionality

5. concurrence of opinion

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ossification, conformation, compliance, abidance, conformance, conformism, accord, accordance

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Contingent

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Adj
1. determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

2. uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances

3. possible but not certain to occur

Noun
1. a gathering of persons representative of some larger group

2. a temporary military unit

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Sense 1:
contingent
possible (vs. impossible)

Sense 2:
contingent, contingent on(predicate), contingent upon(predicate), dependent on(predicate), dependant on(predicate), dependent upon(predicate), dependant upon(predicate), depending on(predicate)
conditional (vs. unconditional)

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Correlate

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Verb
1. to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation

2. bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation

Adj
1. mutually related

Noun
1. either of two or more related or complementary variables

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match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree

Sense 2:
associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect

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Cosmic

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Adj
1. of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe

"Cosmic laws"
"Cosmic catastrophe"

2. inconceivably extended in space or time

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large (vs. small), big (vs. little)

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Cosmos

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Noun
1. everything that exists anywhere

2. any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves