Gre Vocab A-C

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abate

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to lessen in intensity or degree

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aberrant

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deviating from the nrom

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abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid.

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abrogate

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to abolish or annul by authority; put down.

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abscission

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(n) act of cutting off or removing

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abscond

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(v) to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide.

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abstain

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(v) to refrain from an activity

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accolade

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an expression of praise, an award.

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accretion

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growth, increase by successive addition, building up.

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acerbic

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(adj) having a sour or bitter taste or character.

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acumen

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(n) quick, keen or accurate knowledge or insight.

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admonish

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to reprove; to express warning or disapproval

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adroit

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(adj) adept, dexterous

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adulation

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(n) excessive praise; intense adoration

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adulterate

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to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

v

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adumbrate

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to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest or outline sketchily
V.

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advocate

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to argue for or support a cause.
V

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Aesthetic

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(adj) dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful.

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Aggrandize

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to increase in intensity, power or prestige; to make appear greater.

V.

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alacrity

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eager and enthusiastic willingness
N.

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alchemy

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a magical or wonderful transformation.
N.

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alloy

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to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

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amalgamate

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to combine several elements into a whole.
V.

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ambiguity

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uncertainty in meaning
N.

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ambivalence

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the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings.
N.

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ameliorate

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to make better or more tolerable.
V.

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Amenable

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agreeable; responsive to suggestion.
Adj.

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anachronism

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something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological content.
N.

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anathema

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a solemn or ecclesiastical curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
N.

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anodyne

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soothing (adj)
noun=something that assuages or allays pain, or comforts.

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anomaly

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deviation from the normal order, form or rule; abnormality.
N.

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anatagonize

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to irritate or cause hostility
(V)

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antipathy

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aversion, dislike
(N)

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antithetical

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diametrically opposed,as in antithesis.
adj.

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apathy

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lack of interest or feeling

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apocryphal

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of dubious authenticity or origin, spurious.
adj.

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apogee

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farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith.
N.

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apostate

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause.
N.

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apotheosis

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deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example.
N.

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apposite

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appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos
adj.

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apprise

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give notice to, to inform.
V.

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approbation

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an expression of approval or praise.
N.

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appropriate

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to take for one's own use, confiscate
V.

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arabesque

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complex, ornate design
N.

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arcane

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mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable of to initiates.
adj.

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archaic

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outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time.
adj.

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arduous

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strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort.
adj.

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arrant

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impudent; in every way being completely such.
bare faced, utter.
adj.

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arrest

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to suspend,to engage.
V.

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articulate

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to enunciate or pronounce clearly. to express oneself clearly.
V.

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artless

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completely without guile; natural, without artificiality.
adj.

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ascetic

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one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion.
N.

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asperity

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severity, rigor, roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability.
N.

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aspersion

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an acto f defamation or malgning
N.

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assiduous

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diligent, hard-working.
adj.

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assuage

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to ease or lessen. to appease or pacify.
V

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astringent

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having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe.
adj.

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attenuate

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to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen.
V.

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audacious

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daring and fearless, recklessly bold.
adj

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augury

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omen, portent, the reading of omens

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august

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majestic, venerable.
adj

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auspice

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protection or support, patronage.
N.

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auspicious

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favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous.
adj.

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austere

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without adornment; bare; severly simple; ascetic.
adj

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avarice

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greed, especially for wealth.
N.

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aver

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to state as a fact, to confirm or support.
V.

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axiom

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a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying.

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baleful

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sinister, pernicious,
(adj)

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pernicous

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causing great injury, destruction, or ruin; fatal; deadly.
(adj)

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bane

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(adj) cause of injury, source of harm; source of persistent frustration

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beatify

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to bless, make happy or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly.
V.

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beatitude

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state of bliss

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beatific

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having blissful appearance

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bedizen

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to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; caparison

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caparison

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noun
1. an ornamented covering for a horse; trappings
2. clothing, equipment, and ornaments; outfit

transitive verb
1. to cover (a horse) with trappings
2. to adorn with rich clothing; deck out

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belie

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to give a false impression of, to misrepresent.

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bellicose

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike. of a quarrelsome or hostile nature; eager to fight or quarrel

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pugnacious

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eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome; combative

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benign

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favorable, harmless.

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benediction

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a blessing

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bent

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leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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proclivity

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a natural or habitual tendency or inclination, esp. toward something discreditable

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blandish

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to coax with flattery; toady or fawn

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blandishment

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flattery intended to cajole or coax.

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brandish

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shake or wave menacingly.

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blithe

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carefree, merry.

adj

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boisterous

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loud, rough, lacking restraint.

adj

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bolster

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to provide support or reinforcement.

V

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bombastic

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pompous, grandiloquent.

adj

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grandiloquent

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using high-flown, pompous, bombastic words and expressions

Adj

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bombast

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self-important or pompous writing or speech.

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pompous

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characterized by exaggerated stateliness; pretentious, as in speech or manner; self-important

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boor

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rude or insensitive person; lout; yokel

N

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lout

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an awkward, ill-mannered person; boor.

N

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yokel

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a person living in a rural area; rustic; country bumpkin: a contemptuous term

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broach

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bring up, announce, begin to talk about.

V.

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brook

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to tolerate, endure, countenance (usually saying you wont brook "this craziness" any more)

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bucolic

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rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants.
adj

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burgeon

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to grow rapidly or flourish.

V

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Burnish

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to polish, rub to a shine

V.

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byzantine

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labrynthine, complex.
adj.

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cacaphony

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harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance.

N

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cadge

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to sponge, beg or mooch.

V.

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jar

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to make a harsh sound or a discord;
to have a harsh, irritating effect. jolt or shock.
verb or noun.

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cajole

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inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet-talk.
V

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inveigle

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to lead on with deception; entice or trick into doing or giving something, going somewhere.
V

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calumiate

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to slander, make a false accusation.
V

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Calumny

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slander,aspersion.

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aspersion

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the act of defaming.
a damaging or disparaging remark; slander; innuendo

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canon

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an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature.
N

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capricious

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inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic, unpredictable.

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erratic

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having no fixed course or purpose; irregular; random;
2- deviating from the normal, eccentric; queer

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having caprices

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having sudden changes of mind or action

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cardinal

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primary; of basic importance or consequence.
adj

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caret

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an insertion mark used by editors and proofreaders.
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N

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carnality

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something relating to the body or flesh.
N.

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carnage

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physical remains.

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castigation

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severe criticism or punishment.
N

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catalyst

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a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing.
2- a person or thing that causes change.
N.

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causality

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the relationship between cause and effect.
N.

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caustic

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burning or stinging; causing corrosion.
adj.

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corrode

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to eat or wear away.

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censure

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V- to criticize severely, to rebuke.
N- a judgment involving condemnation. the act of blaming or condemning.

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chaos

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a condition of confusion or unpredictablity.
N

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chary

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wary, cautious; sparing.
adj

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chasten

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to chastise or correct; subdue

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subdue

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1. to bring into subjection; conquer; vanquish
2. to overcome, as by persuasion or training; control
3. to make less intense; reduce; diminish; soften; allay
4. to repress (emotions, passions, etc.)
5. to bring (land) under cultivation

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chauvinist

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one blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member.
N

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chic

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stylish and fashionable; sophistication in dress.

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chicanery

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trickery or subterfuge.
N.

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subterfuge

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any plan, action, or device used to hide one's true objective, evade a difficult or unpleasant situation
N.

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chimera

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an illusion.
N.

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choleric

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tending towards anger.
adj.

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churlish

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boorish, vulgar, loutish; difficult and intractable.

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intractable

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1. hard to manage; unruly or stubborn
2. hard to work, manipulate, cure, treat, etc.

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coalesce

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to come together, to fuse or unite.
V.

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coda

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concluding section of musical or literacy piece. something that concludes or completes.
N.

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cogent

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appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing.
adj.

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color

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to change as if by dyeing, influence, distort, or gloss over.
V.

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commensurate

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matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount or other property.

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complaisance

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the willingness to comply with the wishes of others.
N.

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confound

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to cause to be confused.

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connoisseur

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an informed and astute judge in matters of taste, expert.
N.

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astute

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having or showing a clever or shrewd mind.
adj.

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consequential

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primary def- logically following; important.
likely def on gre- pompous, self-important.

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contemn

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to scorn or dispise
V.

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contentious

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argumentative; causing controversy or disagreement.

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contiguous

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sharing a border, touching, adjacent.
adj

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contrite

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regretful; penitent, seeking forgiveness.
adj

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contrition

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regret or remouse

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penitent

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truly sorry; repentant

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convention

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a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude.
N.

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convoluted

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complicated
adj.

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corrigible

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capable of being set right, correctable, reparable.
adj.

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corrigibility

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capacity to be set right.
N.

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incorrigible

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not reoformable, uncontrollable, recalcitrant.

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recalcitrant

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1. refusing to obey authority, custom, regulation, etc.; stubbornly defiant
2. hard to handle or deal with.
adj.

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countenance

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to approve of or tolerate.
V.

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cozen

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to deceive, beguile, hoodwink.

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craven

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contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage.
adj

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pusillanimous

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timid, cowardly, or irresolute; fainthearted

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crescendo

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a gradual increase in intensity, particularly in music.
N.

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culpable

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deserving blame.
adj.

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culpability

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blameworthiness

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cynicism

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an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness.

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venerable

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worthy of respect or reverence by reason of age, dignity or character etc...