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MAD/MAJ/MAX
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BIG
magnate: powerful of influential person magnanimous: a powerful or influential person maxim: expression of gen truth or principle |
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MAD/MAJ/MAX
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BIG
magnate: powerful of influential person magnanimous: a powerful or influential person maxim: expression of gen truth or principle |
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MAL/MALE:
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BAD, ILL, EVIL, WRONG
malicious: full of or showing malice malign: to speak harmful untruths maladroit: clumsy, tactless malapropism: humourous misuse of word malfeasance: misconduct or wrongdoing usu comitted by a pub. official malediction: curse |
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MAN:
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HAND
emancipate: to free from bondage manifest: readily perceived by the eye or the understanding mandate: authoritative order of command |
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MIN:
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SMALL
minutae: smll or trivial details diminution: act or process of diminishing |
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MIN:
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PROTECT; HANG OVER
eminent: towering above others, projecting immininet: about to occur; impending prominent: projecting outward preeminent: sup to or notable above all others minatory: menacing, threatening |
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MIS/MIT:
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TO SEND
emissary: a mesenger or agent sent to rep interests of another intermittent: stopping & starting at intervals remit: to send money remission: a lessening or intensity or degree |
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MISC:
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MIXED
miscellaneous: made up of variety of parts or ingredients miscegnation: interbreeding of races, esp. marriage between white and nonwhite persons promiscuous: consisting of diverse & unrelated parts of indivs |
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MON/MONIT
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TO REMIND; TO WARN
summon: to call together; convene admonish: to counsel against someting; caution remonstrate: to say or plead in protect, objection, or reproof premonition: forewarning, presentiment |
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MORPH
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SHAPE
amorphous: w/o definite form; lacking a specific shape anthropomorphism: attribution of huma characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or nat phenomena |
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MORT/MOR
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DEATH
morbid: susceptible to preoccupation w/unwholeshome matters moribund: dying, decaying |
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MUT
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CHANGE
commute: to substitute; x-change transmutation: act of changing form one form into another permutation: a complete change; transformation immutable: unchangeable, invariable |
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NAT/NAS/NAI
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TO BE BORN
cognate: related by blood; having a comon ancestor renaissance: rebirth, esp. referring to culture nascent: starting to develop naive: lacking worldliness and sophisticaiton, artless |
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NIC/NOC/NOX
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HARM
noxious: injurious or harmful to health or morals innocuous: having no adverse effect, harmless |
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NOM
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RULE, ORDER
gastronomy: art or science of good eating taxonomy: science, laws, or principles of classification |
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NOM/NYM/NOUN/NOWN
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NAME
nominal: existing in name only; negligible nomenclature: a system of names; systematic naming |
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NOUNC/NUNC
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TO ANNOUNCE
announce: to proclaim pronounce: to articulate renounce: to give up, esp by formal announcement |
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NOV/NEO/NOU
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NEW
novice: person new to field or activity renovate: to restore to an earlier condition innovate: to begin or introduce something new neologism: a newly coined word, phrase, or expression neophyte: a recent convert nouveau riche: one who has lately become rich |
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OB/OC/OF/OP
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TOWARD, TO, AGAINST, OVER
obstinate: stubbornly adhering to an idea, inflexible oblique: having a slanting or sloping direction obstreperous: noisily defiant, unruly obfuscate: to render indistince or dim; darken obsequious: overly submissive |
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OMNI
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ALL
omnibus: an anthology of the works of one author of writings on related subjects omnipresent: everywhere at one time omnipotent: all powerful omniscient: having infinite knowledge |
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PAC/PEAC
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PEACE
appese: to bring pease to pacify: ease anger or agitation |
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PAN
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ALL, EVERYONE
panegyric: formal or elaborate praise at an assembly panoply: wide-ranging & impressive array or display pantheon: pub building containg tombs or memorials of the illustrious dead of a nation pandemic: widespread, gen, universal |
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PAR
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EQUAL
par: an equality in value or standing parity: equally, as in amount, status, or charcter apartheid: any syst or caste that seperates ppl according to race, etc. disparge: to belittle, speak disprespecting about disparate: essentially different |
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PARA
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