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validate v.
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John Hancock; approve; authenticate; authorize; certify, confirm; constitute; corroborate; endorse; justify; legalize; legitimize; okay; ratify; sanction; substantiate; verify
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venerate v.
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admire; adore; apotheosize; appreciate; cherish; deify; esteem; exalt; hallow; honor; idolize; look up to; love; regard; respect; reverence; treasure; value; worship
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verbose adj.
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bombastic; circumlocutory; diffuse; flowery; fustian; gabby; garrulous; grandiloquent; involved; loquacious; magniloquent; palaverous; periphrastic; pleonastic; prolix; redundant; repeating; repetitious; repetitive; rhetorical; talkative; talky; tautological; tautologous; tedious; tortuous; windy; yacking
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viable adj.
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applicable; doable; feasible; operable; possible; usable; workable
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vicarious adj.
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commissioned; delegated; deputed; empathetic; eventual; imagined; indirect; pretended; secondary; substituted; substitutional; surrogate; sympathetic
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vilify v.
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abuse; asperse; assail; attack; berate; blister; caluminate; censure; curse; cuss; damn; debase; decry; defame; denigrate; denounce; dig; disparage; jinx; knock; libel; malign; mistreat; mudsling; pan; rap; revile; roast; scorch; slam; slander; slur; smear; traduce; vituperate; voodoo
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vindictive adj.
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avenging; cruel; grim; grudging; implacable; malicious; malignant; merciless; rancorous; relentless; resentful; retaliatory; ruthless; spiteful; unforgiving; unrelenting; vengeful; venomous; wreakful
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virtuoso n.
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ace; adept; artist; artiste; authority; brain; celebrity; champ; champion; crackerjack; dillettante; egghead; genius; hot stuff; hotshot; intelligent; magician; musician; natural; performer; pro; prodigy; professional; pundit; sharp; star; superstar; whiz; wizard
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vitriolic adj.
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antagonistic; biting; bitter; burning; caustic; corrosive; cuttin; harsh; sharp
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volatile adj.
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airy; buoyant; capricious; effervescent; elastic; elusive; ephemeral; erratic; expansive; fickle; fleeting; flighty; flippant; frivolous; fugacious; fugitive; gaseous; gay; giddy; impermanent; imponderable; inconsistent; inconstant; light; lively; lubricious; mercurial; momentary; playful; resilient; sprightly; subtle; temperamental; ticklish; transient; transitory; unsettled; unstable; unsteady; vaporous; variable; whimsical
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