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serrated
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notched at the edge, grooved
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sidle
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to move sideways
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sinuous
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having many curves, winding
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vortex
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a whirling mass
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bombastic
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high-sounding, pretentous speaking/writing
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circumloquution
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a roudabout way of writing or speaking, using more words than necessary
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garrulous
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excessively talkative
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grandiloquent
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speaking or expressing in a lofty style, being bombastic
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loquatious
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talkative
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periphrastic
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roundabout, excessively wordy (circumloquatious)
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prolix
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long and wordy, tediously long
It was a cumbersome book, widely criticized for being prolix in style and maddeningly circular in argument. |
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rhetoric
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(in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
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turgid
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bombastic
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verbose
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wordy
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ameliorate
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to make better/more satisfactory
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appease
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to bring to a state of peace
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assuage
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to make milder/less severe, to mitigate
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defer
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to yield respectfully in judgement or opinion
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mitigate
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to make less severe
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mollify
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to soften in feeling or temper, to calm
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placate
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to appease or pacify
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propitiate
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to make favorably inclined, appease
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satiate
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to satisfy, to supply in excess
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slake
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to allay by satisfying, to become less intense
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sooth
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soothing, soft
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euphonious
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pleasing in sound, agreeable to ear
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harmonious
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marked by agreement, pleasant consistency
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sonorous
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rich and full in sound
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esurient
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hungry, voracioius, greedy
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impecunious
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having little, penniless
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indigent
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needy, impoverished, lacking necessities because poor
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acclaim
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applaud
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accolade
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any award, honor, or laudatory role
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aggrandize
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to make something seem greater
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encomium
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a formal expression of praise
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eulogize
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to praise highly
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extol
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to praise highly
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fawn
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to seek favor by servile behavior
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laud/laudatory
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a song or hym of praise
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venerate
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to regard or treat with reverence
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augur
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to serve as an omen of
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auspice
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favorable signs or promising circumstances
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fey
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fated to die
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harbinger
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anything that forshadows a future event. a person sent in advance to herald something
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portentous
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momentous, ominously significant
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presage
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something that forshadows a future event
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prescient
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knowing things before they exist
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prognosticate
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to forcast or predict something future.
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encumber
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to weigh down, to impede or hinder
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fetter
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anything that confines or restrains
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forfend
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to fend off, avert, prevent
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hinder
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to prevent from doing something/acting
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impede
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to restrict in movement by obstacles, hinder
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inhibit
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to restrain, hinder, check
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occlude
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to stop op. to shut in.
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astute
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keen, sagacious, clever
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canny
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careful, prudent, astute, shrewd
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erudite
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characterized by great knowledge
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perspicacioius
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having keen mental perception and undrstanding. discerning
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disconsolate
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unable to be consoled
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doleful
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sorroful, melancholy
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dolor
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sorow, grief
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elegiac
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expressing sorror or lamentation
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forlorn
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desolate or dreary, unhappy
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lament
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to feel or express sorrow or regret for
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lugubrioius
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mournful in a way that seems feigned.
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plaintive
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expressing sorror or melancholy
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threnody
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a poem or song of lamentation, a funeral song
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implacable
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not to be appeased, inexorable
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inexorable
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unyielding, unaffectable
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intractable
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not easily controlled or directed, not docile
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intransigent
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refusing to agree or compromise
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obdurate
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unmoved by persuasion/pity/feelings, stuborn
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obstinate
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stubbornly adhering to one's own purpose
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recalcitrant
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resisting authority or control
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refractory
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hard or impossible to manage
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renitent
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resisting pressure
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untoward
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unfavorable or unfortunate, hard to guide or control
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compendious
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succinct
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curt
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rudely brief
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laconic
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using few words, brief and to the point
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pithy
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precicely meaningful, meaningful in few words
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succinct
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expressed in few words
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taciturn
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inclined to silence. reserved in speech
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antecede
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to go before
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antedate
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to be of older date than, preceed in time
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anterior
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situated before, going before in sequence
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archaic
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marked by characteristics of an earlier period
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diurnal
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daily
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eon
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an indefinately long period of time
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epoch
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a period of time marked by distinctive events
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fortnight
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2 wks (14 nights)
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millenium
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a thousand years
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penultimate
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next to last
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synchronous
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occuring at the same time
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temporal
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pertaining to the present time
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craven
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cowardly/timid
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diffident
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lacking self-confidence. shy, timid
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pusillanimous
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laacking courage or resolution, contemptibly fearful, cowardly
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recreant
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cowardly or craven
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timorous
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ful of fear, fearful
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trepidation
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tremulous fear
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candor/candid
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the state of being very frank and honest
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fealty
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fidelity
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frankness
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plainness of speach, candor
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indisputable
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that cannot be disputed or questioned
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indubitable
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cannot be doubted
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probity
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integrity and uprightnes, honesty
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veracious
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honest
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verity
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the truth
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anomaly
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deviation from the common rule
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ambulatory
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capable of wlaking
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itinerant
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traveling from place to place, esp for work
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peripatetic
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traveling about, itinerant
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discursive
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rambling, passing aimlessly from one subject to the next
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expatiate
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to be copious in description, to move or wander intellectually (to expatiate upon a theme)
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forage
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to wander in search of provision
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peregrination
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traveling from one place to another, esp on foot
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sojourn
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a temporal stay
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adulterate
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to weaken or make less pure by adding inferior elements
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enervate
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to weaken
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exacerbate
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to increase the severity of, to make more aggravated
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inhibit
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to restrain, to hinder
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obviate
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to anticipate and prevent by effective means, to render unnecessary
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stultify
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to render futile and ineffective
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undermine
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to injure insiduously
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vitiate
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to impaire quality or effectiveness
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adage
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a traditional saying or proverb
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aphorism
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a short saying that embodies a general truth
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apothegm
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a shorty, witty, instructional saying
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axiom
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a self-evident truth that requires no proof
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bromide
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a platitude or trite saying
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dictum
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a saying/notion
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platitude
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a dull or trite remark
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sententious
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abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book
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abeyance
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emporary cessation or suspension
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abjure
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to renounce or give up under oath;
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abnegation
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to refuse or deny oneself, to give up
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abrogate
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To annul or abolish by an authoritative act.
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decamp
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to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously
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demur
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to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples
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recant
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to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion, etc.), esp. formall
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recidivism
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A tendency to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of behavior; especially, a falling back or relapse into prior criminal habits
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remission
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abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.
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renege
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to go back on one's word
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rescind
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to take back, annul; revoke; repeal.
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retrograde
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moving backward. reversed order
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