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temporary inactivity; a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested
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abeyance
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Let's hold that problem in abeyance for a while.
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agreeing without protest; submitting tacitly
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acquiescent
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The acquiescent girl became a strong, assertive woman.
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deeply/ violently bitter; sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor// acrimonious; rancorous
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acrid
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Thick, acrid smoke rose from the factory.
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bitter in temper, manner, and speech// caustic; biting; rancorous
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acrimonious
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He went through an acrimonious divorce.
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keenness; quickness of intellectual insight; depth of discernment or discrimination (especially in practical matters)
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acumen
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Her political acumen won her the election.
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a gentle reproof; friendly warning
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admintion
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An admonition to be careful
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to offend (as with a gesture); to insult by behavior or language
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affront
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I did not mean to affront you when I told you I didn't need your help.
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accounting to a whole; clustered into a dense mass or head
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aggregate
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An aggregate total
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to reduce the intensity of; palliate; mollify
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allay
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A gentle breeze would allay the heat.
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characterized by a state of self-denial, particularly in the area of food/ drink/// continent; self-abnegating
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abstemious
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Being abstemious eaters, they avoid buffets.
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cold and steady in mood; slow to act or change// plutonian; disconsolate; tenebrific; tenebrous
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Saturnine
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He is Saturnine in temperament.
A tenebrous night with no moon. (shut off from light) tenebrific shadows of the cave |
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inherent baseness; depravity// dissoluteness (laking restraint); rakishness; degeneration
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turpitude
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Have you ever been involved in an act of moral turpitude?
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lacking in energy/ vigor; sluggish; quiescent (marked by inactivity/ repose)
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torpid
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A torpid sloth refused to move off its tree branch.
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swollen; distended; tumid//
excessively embellished in style or langauge (bombastic/ pompous) |
turgid
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exhibiting turgor
Turgid leeches having had their fill of blood. |
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marked by swelling; protuberant; bulging; turgid
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tumid
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He'd just been a fight, and was nursing his tumid lip.
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thick/ opaque with roiled sediment//
foul, muddy; characterized by/ producing obscurity |
turbid
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an emotionally turbid response
turbid depths of degradation/ misery a turbid stream |
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parched with heat, esp. of the sun// ardent; passionate; scorching
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torrid
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torrid summers in arizona
torrid love affair |
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worthy of esteem
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estimable
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We owe thanks to our estimable colleague.
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devotion to the truth; integrity; probity (adherence to the higheest ideals)
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veracity
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We questioned the veracity of his statements.
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wasteful/ lavish///
spendthrift; thriftless; profligate; luxuriant |
prodigal
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prodigal son
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immense; strange, unusual, enormous
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prodigious
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prodigious building
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to ease without curing the underlying disease; moderate the intensity of ; cover by excuses or apologies
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palliate
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Don't try to palliate your constant lying by saying that everyone lies.
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living or located in the woods or forest
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sylvan
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Pennsylvania (Penn's woods)
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to clear from alleged fault or guilt
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exculpate
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I will present evidence that will exculpate my client.
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dry; humorous with a touch of irony
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droll
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droll one liners
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extremely careful; exacting; meticulous, painstaking,
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fastidious
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Many car owners are fastidious about keeping their cars spotless.
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sleep inducing
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soporofic
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Ben Stein's lecture in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was soporific
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hesitant due to lack of self-confidence; unassertive
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diffident; self-effacing
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Self-effacing is not what most people think of when they think Lady Gaga. Apparently even she feels insecure and diffident. Don't succumb! You can do it!
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practical; sensible
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pragmatic
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taking liberties; brashly overstepping one's place; impertinently bold
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presumptuous
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Kanye West actions of interrupting Taylor Swift were rather presumptuous.
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a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts
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precis
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Sparknotes provides students with an excellent precis.
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a harsh satire, usually direct against an individual
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lampoon
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Andy Samberg often lampoons Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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long narrative poem written in a grand style to celebrate the feats of a legendary hero
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epic
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long narrative story
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saga
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something that foreshadows a future event; omen; prognostication
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presage
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The robin is always a welcome presage of spring.
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to bring together; to fuse
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conflate
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Be careful not to conflate gossip with real news.
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expressive of suffering or woe; melancholy
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plaintive
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The puppy's plaintive cry of a wounded animal in the woods.
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extremely poisonous or venomous (esp. language)
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virulent
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She gave a virulent speech denouncing the president.
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to conceive or develop in the mind
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gestate
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framework or model of thought
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paradigm
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The geocentric paradigm
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excessive desire for wealth; greed; covetousness; avarice
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cupidity
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Consumed by cupidity, Harry Lime stole penicillin.
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a surplus or excess of something
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glut; surfeit
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There is a surfeit of e-waste.
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very poor, lacking basic resources
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indigent; destitute
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very rich, having abundant resources
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affluent, opulent
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excessively cheap with money; stingy
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parsimonious
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a formal concurrence, agreement, or harmony of minds
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accord
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The Camp David Accords provided a framework for establishing peaceful relations between Egypt and Israel.
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cleverness or skill
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artifice
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He spoke without artifice or pretense.
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persistent, unceasing (busy)
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assiduous
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The garden required assiduous tending.
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to avouch, justify, or prove (allege/ assert in pleading)
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aver
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He averred that he was innocent.
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using inflated language; pompous
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bombastic
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a bombastic speech intended to impress the voters in her congressional district
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to intimidate in an overbearring manner
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browbeat
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They would often browbeat the younger child until he cried.
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to avoid by preventing
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obviate
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The diet obviated the cardiac surgery.
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offensively self-assertive; pushy;
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bumptious
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A bumptious young man whose family wealth gave him a sense of entitlement.
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to make false and malicious statements about
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calumniate
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chicanery
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use of trickery to deceive
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quarrelsome
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contentious
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penitent
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contrite
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stubbornly disobedient; rebellious
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contumacious
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The judge threatened to charge the contumacious witness with contempt of court.
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willingness to behave or trust too readily
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credulity
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The quack was taking advantage of the people hoping for miracle cures.
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the practice of favoring one's friends, especially in political appointments
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cronyism
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to laugh at contemptuously; to subject to usually bitter or contemptuous ridicule
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deride (derision- ridicule)
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marked by lack of a definite plan, regularity, or purpose
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desultory
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A desultory discussion about the news of the day.
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a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing
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diatribe
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The article is a diatribe against mainstream media.
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lack of calm, peace, or ease
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disquiet
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to hide under a false appearance
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dissemble
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Children learn to dissemble at a surprisingly early age.
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to strip, to deprive; to take away from a person
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divest
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We may have to divest assets to raise capital.
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one that is easily deceived or cheated; fool
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dupe
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The stooge was a dupe.
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having or showing liveliness and enthusiasm
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ebullient
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The ebullient performers
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the power to produce an effect
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efficacy
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questioned the efficacy of the alarms in acually preventing auto theft
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shameless boldness; temerity; insolence
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effrontery
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The little squirt had the effrontery to deny eating any cookies, even with the crumbs still on his lips.
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exit
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egress
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The egress was a dark, narrow stairway.
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a poem lamenting the dead
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elegy
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imitate
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emulate
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to weaken
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enervate
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having or showing a slow and stolid temperament
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phlegmatic
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A strangely phlegmatic response to what should have been happy news.
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feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction; boredom
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ennui
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Ennui during the summer...
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marked by lack of variation or change
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equable
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an equable distance apart
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evenness of mind or temper
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equanimity
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It's best to settle in an area with an equable climate.
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ambiguous
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equivocal
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The experiment produced equivocal results.
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very learned
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erudite
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wine shop
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bodega
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pleasure felt at the misfortune of others
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schadenfreude
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full of complaints, complaining; carping; captious
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querulous
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to be copious in description or discussion
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expatiate
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to expatiate on a subject
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the means by which atonemnt or reparation is made
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expiation
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to expiate one's crimes
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to infer an unknown from something know
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extrapolation
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idiotic; inanely stupid
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fatuous
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ignoring the skull and crossbones, the fatuous skiers continued on their course
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to nurse to life; to encourage
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foment
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foment a rebellion
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to prevent by prior measures
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forestall
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negotiations failed to forestall a rebellion
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to cause to explode; to issue with violent denunciations
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fulminate
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politicians fulminated about the national debt
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