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embellish v.
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add bells and whistles; adorn; amplify; array; beautify; bedeck; color; deck; dress up; elaborate; emblaze; embroider; enhance; enrich; exaggerate; festoon; fix up; fudge; garnish; gild; give details; grace; gussy up; magnify; ornament; overstate; spiff up; spruce up; trim
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embroil v.
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cause trouble; compromise; confound; confuse; derange; disorder; disturb; disunite; encumber; enmesh; ensnare; entangle; implicate; incriminate; involve; mire; mix up; muddle; perplex; snarl; tangle; trouble
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emulate v.
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challenge; compete; compete with; contend; contend with; ditto; do like; do; follow; follow in footsteps; follow suit; follow the example of; go like; imitate; make like; mimic; mirror; outvie; pattern after; rival; rivalize; take after; vie with
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enervate v.
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debilitate; devitalize; disable; enfeeble; exhaust; fatigue; incapacitate; jade; paralyze; sap; unnerve; vitiate; weaken; weary
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engender v.
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arouse; beget; breed; bring about; bring forth; create; develop; excite; foment; generate; give birth to; give rise to; hatch; incite; induce; instigate; lead to; make; muster; occasion; precipitate; procreate; produce; propagate; provoke; quicken; rouse; spawn; stimulate; stir; work up
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enhance v.
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add to; adorn; aggrandize; amplify; appreciate; augment; beautify; boom; boost; build up; complement; elevate; embroider; enlarge; exaggerate; exalt; flesh out; heighten; increase; intensify; lift; magnify; pad; pyramid; raise; reinforce; strengthen; swell; upgrade
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enigma n.
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Gordian knot; bewilderment; cliffhanger; conundrum; crux; cryptogram; grabber; knot; mind-boggler; mind-twister; mystification; parable; perplexity; problem; puzzle; puzzlement; puzzler; question; question mark; riddle; secret; sixty-four dollar question; sphinx; sticker; stickler; stumper; teaser; tough nut to crack; twister
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ephemeral adj.
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brief; episodic; evanescent; fleeting; flitting; fugacious; fugitive; impermanent; short; short-lived; temporary; transient; transitory; unenduring; volatile
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equanimity n.
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aplomb; assurance; ataraxia; ataraxy; calm; calmness; composure; confidence; cool; coolness; detachment; equability; imperturbability; patience; peace; phlegm; placidity; poise; presence of mind; sangfroid; self-possession; serenity; steadiness; tranquillity
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equivocate v.
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cavil; con; cop out; cover up; dodge; double-talk; elude; escape; eschew; evade; falsify; fence; fib; fudge; hedge, hem and haw; jive; lie; mince words; palter; parry; pass the buck; prevaricate; pussyfoot; quibble; run around; shuck; shuffle; sidestep; stonewall; tell white lie; tergiversate; tergiverse; waffle; weasel
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