Gre Vocabulary

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Abate

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To lessen in intensity or degree.

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Eating chocolate? U r throwing your ab out of gate.

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Aberrant

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Deviating from norm.

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Apparently, she berrant.

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Abjure

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To renounce. To recant. To avoid.

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Ab no more jer.

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Abscission

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To cut off or remove.

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C section.

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Abrogate

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To abolish by authority. Put down.

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Eating more chocolate? You are really throwing your ab abroad and out of the gate.

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Abstain

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To refrain from.

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The art of abstinence.

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Abscond

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To steal off and hide. To depart clandestinely.

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Can I have your ab for a second? *grin*

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Accolade

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An expression of praise or award.

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Add French collar.

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Accretion

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Growth, increase by successive addition

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Add credit

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Acerbic

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Have a sour or bitter taste or character

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Ascorbic acid

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Acumen

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Quick, keen, accurate knowledge or insight

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Acupuncture men, sharp astute

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Admonish

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To reprove; to express warning or disapproval

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Abolish diminish

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Adroit

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To adept, dexterous

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Android

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Adulation

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Excessive praise, intense adoration

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Dreaming about being an adult

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Adulterate

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To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Making it adult

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Adumbrate

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To foreshadow vaguely, suggest or outline sketchily

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A dumb brake

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Advocate

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To argue for or support a cause

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Aesthetic

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Dealing with the art or the beautiful

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Aggrandize

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To increase in intensity, power or prestige. To make appear greater.

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Make it grand

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Alac city

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Alchemy

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A magical or wonderful transformation

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Alchemist

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Alloy

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To debase by mixing with something inferior

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Adulterate

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Amalgamate

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To combine several substances into a whole

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A mile gum at

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Ambiguous

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Have multiple meaning

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Ambiguity

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Uncertainty in meaning

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Ambivalence

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Having opposite or contradicting feelings or ideas

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Ambi variance

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Amenable

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Agreeable

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Amen

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Amenable

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Agreeable

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Amen

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Antagonize

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To irritate or cause hostility

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Antagonist

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Ameliorate

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To make it better or more tolerable

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Amelia deteriorate

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Anachronism

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Something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context

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Wrist watch in ancient Egypt movie

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Anomaly

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Deviating from norm, abnormality

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Aberrant

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Antipathy

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Aversion, dislike

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Anti sympathy. Antagonise

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Anathema

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An ecclesiastical curse. Thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anaconda the ma

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Anodyne

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Soothing

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An old dine

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Anathema

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An ecclesiastical curse. A thoroughly loathed person or thing.

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Anaconda the ma

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Anodyne

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Soothing

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An old dine

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Antithetical

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Diametrically opposed

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Antithesis

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Apathy

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Lack of interest or feeling

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A pathetic

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Apocryphal

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Dubious authenticity or origin

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A poor cry pho

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Apogee

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Peak. Farthest or highest point. Zenith

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Apogeeeeeeee

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Apostate

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One who abandons long-handled faith. Betrayer of a cause

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Ape old state

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Apotheosis

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Deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example.

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Apotheosis photosynthesis

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Apposite

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Appropriate, relevent

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Opposite

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Apprise

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Give notice to, inform

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You won a price!

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Similar to accolade but not as official

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Appropriate

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Confiscate

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Arabesque

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Complex design

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Arab is complex

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Arabesque

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Complex design

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Arab is complex

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Arcane

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Mysterious, abstruse, knowable only to initiates

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Arcanine mysterious creature

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Archaic

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Outdated. Associated with an earlier or more primitive time

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Archilles heel

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Arduous

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Effortful, strenuous

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The pronunciation is so effortful for this word

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Arrant

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Impudent, complete, utter

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十足的

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Arrest

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To suspend. To engage.

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Hold one's attention

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Articulate

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To pronounce clearly

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Artless

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Natural, without artificiality

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No art, just nature

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Ascetic

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Austere. Rigid self denial

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A sad tick

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Asperity

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Severity, harshness

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Desparity

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Aspersion

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An act of defamation

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散播谣言

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Assiduous

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Diligent, hard-working

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Duous

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen.

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Astringent

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Having a tightening effect on living tissue. Harsh, severe.

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Taste. Asperity.

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Attenuate

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To rarefy, weaken or make thinner.

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless. Recklessly bold.

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Vicious

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Augury

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Omen, the reading of omens

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August

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Majestic

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Auspice

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Protection or support

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Patronage

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Auspicious

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Favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous

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If u got auspices, u will be

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Austere

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Without adornment, bare, severely simple

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Ascetic

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Avarice

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Greed, especially for wealth

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Ate all rice

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Aver

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To state as a fact, confirm or support

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说明

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Axiom

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A universally recognised principle, a generally accepted or common saying.

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Earth rotates along the axis

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Baleful

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Sinister, pernicious. Usually describe look or glare. Deathly.

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Bane

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Cause of injury, source of harm. Source of persistent frustration

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Batman villain

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Beatify

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To bless, make happy, to regard as saintly

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Blissfully attitude comes in a state of bliss. Terrifically blissful appearance

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Bedizen

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Cheaply showy in a tasteless way. Adorn

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Bad in zen

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Belie

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Misrepresent. To give a false impression

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Let it be lie

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Belie

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Misrepresent. To give a false impression

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Let it be lie

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Bellicose

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Teddy belly closeup

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Benign

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Favorable, harmless

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Good tumor

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Bent

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Inclination, tendency, proclivity, leaning

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Bent towards

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Blandish

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To coax with flattery, toady or fawn

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拍马屁

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Blithe

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Carefree, merry

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Boisterous

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Loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint

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Boys stir us

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Bolster

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To provide support or reinforcement

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Bombastic

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Pompous, grandiloquent

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Boor

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A rude or insensitive person. Lout. Yokel

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Booooo

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Boor

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A rude or insensitive person. Lout. Yokel

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Booooo

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Broach

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Bring up, announce, begin to talk about

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Approach

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Brook

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To tolerate, endure, countenance

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Bucolic

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Rustic and pastoral. Characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Pleasant experience related to countryside life. Tasmania.

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Burgeon

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To grow rapidly or flourish

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Burnish

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To polish, rub to shine

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Rubbing

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Byzantine

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Labrynthine, complex

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Cacophony

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Discordant sound, disharmony

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Cadge

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To sponge, beg or mooch

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Cajole

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Coax, sweet-talk, wheedle

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哄

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Calumniate

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To slander, make false accusation

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Act of aspersion defamation

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Canon

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An established set of law, often religious in nature

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Religious law is like a cannon

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Capricious

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Sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior. Unpredictable, erratic

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Like capricorn

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Cardinal

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Primary

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Fundamental

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Caret

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Insertion mark

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^

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Carnality

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Something related to body or flesh

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Carnal whimsy

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Castigation

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Rebuke, severe criticism or punishment. Reprimand severely.

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Censure

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Catalyst

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Substance that accelerate rate of chemical reaction

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Causality

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Relationship between cause and effect

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Caustic

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Burning or stinging. Sarcastic in a scorching manner

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腐蚀，尖刻

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Censure

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Severe disapproval usually in an official statement

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Admonish castigate

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Chaos

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Condition of confusion or unpredictability

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Mess and disorder

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Chary

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Wary, cautious

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Chasten

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To chastise or correct. Have a restraining or moderating effect on.

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To reprimand, to admonish, to censure, to castigate, to rebuke

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Chauvinist

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One blindly devoted to a group which one is a member

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He is an ISIS chauvinist. Male Chauvinist Pig.

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Chic

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Fashionable

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Chicanery

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Trickery. Use of deception of subterfuge to achieve one's purpose.

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诡计，欺骗

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Chimera

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Illusion. Something that is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve.

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Prof chee perceive my will in persuing PhD as a chimera

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Peruse

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Read something carefully and thoroughly

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细读

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Choleric

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Tending towards anger. Irritable.

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Antonym, affable

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Churlish

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Boorish, vulgar, rude and mean spirited person

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Like a boor, a lout

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Coalesce

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To come together, fuse or unite

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Amalgamate

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Coda

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Concluding section to a musical or literary piece. Concluding passage, event, remark, section

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结尾

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Cogent

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Argument or case, logical and convincing

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Compelling, potent,

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Color

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To change as if by dyeing, influence, distort or gloss over

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有色眼镜

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Color

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To change as if by dyeing, influence, distort or gloss over

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有色眼镜

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Commensurate

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Matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount or other property

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Apposite

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Complaisance

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The willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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Yes man

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Confound

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To cause to be confused, to frustrate

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Connoisseur

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An informed and astute judge for the matter of taste.

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饕餮 epicure

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Consequential

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Pompous, self importance

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Conceited

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Contemn

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To scorn or despise

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Disgust, loathing, disrespect

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Contentious

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Argumentative, quarrelsome. Causing controversy or disagreement

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Eg sentence Lydia

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Contiguous

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Border, adjacent, touching

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Contrite

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Adj. Regretful, seeking forgiveness, penitent

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Contrition: remorse, regret

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Convention

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A generally agree-upon practice or attitude

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Convention

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A generally agree-upon practice or attitude

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Byzantine. Arabesque (design)

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Corrigible

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Correctable, reparable

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Able to be chasten

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Countenance

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To approve or tolerate

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Brook.

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Cozen

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To deceive, beguile, hoodwink. Guile. Crafty. Wily. Cunning.

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Deceive with artful coaxing cajole wheeling trickery chicanery

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Craven

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Contemptible fainthearted. Lacking any courage.

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胆小

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Credulous

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Gullible, tending to believe to readily

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See wei

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Crescendo

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A gradual increase in intensity/loudness, particularly in music

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Drum roll

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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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Liable, accountable

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Cynicism

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An attitude or quality of being cynical or being a cynic

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Damp

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To diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling

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Add mattresses and foam to damp out our noise from control room.

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Daunt

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To intimidate or dismay

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Daunting. Dismoralizing disheartening discouraging

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Dearth

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Scarcity, lack, smallness of quantity or number

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Debacle

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Rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Catastrophe

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Decorum

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Politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior

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Decorous. Sth decorum

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Deleterious

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Injurious, harmful

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Detrimental

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Demur

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To question or oppose

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Objection

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Denigrate

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Blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage

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Deprecate, cast aspersion, calumniate, defame

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Denouement

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An outcome or solution

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Outcome. End result.

Closing piece, coda

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Deprecate

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Belittle, disparage

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Denigrate, calumniate, cast aspersion

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Depredate

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To plunder, ravage or destroy, to exploit in a predatory manner

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Depredations:attack. Destruction, damage

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Categorically

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Unambiguously explicit and direct

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As clear as the category

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Sporadic

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On and off. Occurring at regular interval.

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Like sporing

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Arbitrary

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Random, without a purpose

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Arbitrary

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Random, without a purpose

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Desultory

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Rambling and unplanned

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Chaos

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Veritable

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Use for emphasis, often to qualify metaphor. True, genuine, actual.

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名副其实

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Cornucopia

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Plenty, abundant.

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myriad

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Incite

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Encourage or stir up

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扇动

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Thwart

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Prevent someone from accomplishing something

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阻扰

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Genial

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Diffusing warmth and friendliness

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Beauty pageant, congeniality

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Milieu

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Environment, context

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Social environment

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A modicum of

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A small amount of

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Strife

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Conflict

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Anger or bitter

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Cavil

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Complain about unnecessary issue. Carp.

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吹毛求疵

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Grovel

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Begging, adjective or verb

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Stop groveling!

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Garrulous

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Talk a lot

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Billy happy pizza

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Unwittingly

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Unintentionally

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Wit.

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Haphazard

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In a random manner

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Bumble

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Furtive

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Secretively

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Prevaricate

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Be deliberately ambiguous

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Evasive

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To avoid

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Cede

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Give way to

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Relinquish

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Subdue

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Quiet and brought under control

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Tempestousness

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A state of agitation

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Tempes is storm

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Fastidious

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Give attention to detail

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Meticulous Punctilious

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Sullen

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Sad and dark

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Sad

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Querulous

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Habitually complaining

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Petulant

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Moot

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Of little or no value, pointless. Debatable

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Diffidence

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Lack of self confidence

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Timidity

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Ebb

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Going down

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Ebb and flow

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Schmooze

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Networking, talk in a cosy and intimate manner

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Hobnob, intermingle

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Machinate

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Engage in plot

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Conspire

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Muckrake

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Explore and expose misconduct of famous people

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竭发丑闻

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Scrupulous

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Ethical

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand in speech

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Alyssa

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Verisimilitude

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Appearance of truth

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Verify/veritable

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Respite

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A short period of rest from something difficult

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Behoove

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Duty or responsibility for someone to do something

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It .. Me to do stg

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Derelict

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Very poor condition as result of disuse and neglect

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Inveterate

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Habitual

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Incorrigible

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Banal

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Lacking in originality, trite

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Litigious

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Tend to take legal action

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Litigation

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Besiege

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Siege, surround

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Harried

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Harassed, troubled by persistent pretty annoyances

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Vehement

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Showing strong feeling or opinion

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Forceful ardent

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Incendiary

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Tending to stir up conflict

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Incense

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Hitherto

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Up to now

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Hit the tooth

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Scathing

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Severely critical, devastating

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Perfunctory

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Action carried out without real interest, feeling or effort

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Erudite

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Shown profound knowledge

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Mawkish

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Sentimental in an exaggerated or false way

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Draconian

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Excessively harsh and severe, harsh,

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Germane

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Related

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Repercussion

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Unwelcome and unexpected consequences

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Penultimate

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Second last

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Heist

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Robbery

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Encumbered

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Restricted physically

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Breaking bad Walt chemo plays card with runaway man

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Kingpin

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1. Large or main bolt in central position.

2. A person or thing that is essential for the success of an organization or operation

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White is the kingpin of Fring's methamphetamine empire

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Quandary

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Dilemma, predicament

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Mike told Walt he is in a quandary as he needs to guard him but he has somewhere he got to be.

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Remnant

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A part of quantity that is left after greater part is used, removed or destroyed.

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Ted radio hour counting neurons

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Vex

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Make somebody annoyed frustrated or worried especially with trivial matter

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Ted radio hour Suzana vexing human brain is not largest

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Vex

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Make somebody annoyed frustrated or worried especially with trivial matter

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Ted radio hour Suzana vexing human brain is not largest

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Cadaverous

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Pale, thin, bony

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Californication, not only you are a _ lay

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Predilection

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Preference

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Californication, ruble, can we mention your predilection of unavailable woman

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Defile

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Destroy the purity and appearance of something

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Californication, defiled me

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Astute

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Acumen. Ability to precisely access a situation

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Commotion

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A state of confused and noisy disturbance