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Fetid |
adj. stinking, having a heavy bad smell |
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Fervent |
adj. greatly emotional or zealous |
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Fell |
n. a barren or stony hill; an animal's hide |
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Feicitious |
adj. apt; suitable expressed, well chosen, apropos; delightful |
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Feckless |
adj. ineffectual; irresponsible |
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Fawn |
v. to flatter or praise excessively |
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Fatuous |
adj. silly, inanely foolish |
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Fanatical |
adj. zealous; single-minded obsessed with one thing |
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Fallow |
Adj. untilled, inactive, dormant |
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Fallacy |
n. an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
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Facetious |
adj. playful; humorous; not serious |
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Extirpate |
v. to destroy, exterminate, cut out, pull out by the roots |
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Extemporaneous |
adj. improvised; done without preparation |
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Expurgate |
v. to remove obscenity, purify, censor |
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Expiate |
v. to atone or make amends for |
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Expatiate |
v. to discuss or write about at length; to range freely |
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Exonerate |
v. to remove blame |
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Exigent |
adj. urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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Exhort |
v. to incite, to make urgent appeals |
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Exemplar |
n. typical or standard specimen; paradigm, model |
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Exculpate |
v. exonerate; to clear of blame |
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Excoriate |
V. to censure scathingly, to upbraid |
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Exact |
v. to demand, call for, require, take |
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Evince |
v. to show clearly, to indicate |
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Evanescent |
adj. tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing |
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Estimable |
adj. worthy, formidable |
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Essay |
v. to test or try; attempt, experiment |
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Esoteric |
adj. intended for or understood by a small, specific group |
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Eschew |
v. to shun or avoid |
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Erudite |
adj. very learned; scholarly |
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Equivocate |
v. to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent. |
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Equable |
adj. level; not able to be easily disturbed |
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Equanimity |
n. composure, self-possession |
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Epithet |
n. disparaging word or phrase |
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Epicure |
n. one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand, sybarite. |
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Ephemeral |
adj. brief, fleeting, short-lived |
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Enormity |
n. excessive wickedness, evilness |
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Enigmatic |
adj. mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand |
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Engender |
v. to cause, produce, give rise to |
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Enervate |
v. to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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Endemic |
adj. characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people; restricted to or peculiar to that region; indigenous |
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Encomium |
n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy |
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Empirical |
adj. based on observation or experiment |
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Emollient |
adj. soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying |
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Effusive |
adj. gushing; excessively demonstrative |
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Efficacy |
n. the ability to produce an intended result |
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Edifying |
adj. enlightening, informative |
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Ebullience |
adj. the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
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Dynamo |
n. generator; forceful, energetic person |
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Dulcet |
adj. melodious, harmonious, melliflous |
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Dross |
n. slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum |
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Dogmatic |
adj. authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated |
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Doggeral |
n. trivial, poorly constructed verse |
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Divulge |
v. to disclose something secret |
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Dissonance |
n. lack of harmony; conflict |
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Dissolution |
n. disintegration, looseness in morals |
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Dissemble |
v. to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
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Disparate |
adj. fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
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Diparage |
v. to slight or belittle |
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Disinterested |
adj. free from self-interest; unbiased |
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Discretion |
n. cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
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Discordant |
adj. conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
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Discomfit |
v. to defeat, put down |
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Disabuse |
v. to undeceive; to set right |
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Din |
n. loud sustained noise |
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Dilettante |
n. one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
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Dilatory |
adj. causing delay, procrastinating |
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Diffident |
adj. reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
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Die |
n. a tool used for shaping |
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Didactic |
adj. intended to teach or instruct |
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Diatribe |
n. a harsh denunciation |
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Diaphanous |
adj. transparent, gauzy |
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Detraction |
n. slandering, verbal attack, aspersion |
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Desultory |
adj. random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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Desuetude |
n. disuse |
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Desiccate |
v. to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
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Derivative |
adj. unoriginal, obtained from another source |