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abeyance
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temporary suppression or withdrawl;
(Similar to abjure, abnegation,abortive,abrogate,decamp,demur,recant,recidivism,remission,renege,rescind,retrograde |
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abase
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to humble; disgrace
(similar to expurgate) |
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abdicate
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to give up position or right
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aberrant
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deviating from what is normal or expected; unusual
(similar to anomaly, icnonoclast, and idiosyncrasy) |
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abjure
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withdrawl or to reject formally
(similar to abeyance,abnegation,abortive,abrogate,decamp,demur,recant,recidivism,remission,renege,rescind,retrograde |
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abstemious
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moderate in appetite
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acidulous
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aci- sharp, biting
(similar words are acerbic, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant |
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aerie
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a nest built high in the air
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affected
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phony;artificial
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alacrity
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speed or quickness
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amortize
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to diminish by installment payments
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amulet
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luck
(similar to auspicious, fortuitous) |
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analgesia
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a lessing of pain without loss of consciousness
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analogous
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similar or alike in some way
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anodyne
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something that calms or soothes pain
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aprocryphal
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apo- falsehood
(similar terms like chicanery, dissembe,equivocate, ersats, guil, mendacity, prevaricate, specious) |
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apostate
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one who renounces a religious faith
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approbation
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approval and praise
(similar to acclaim, aggrandize, encomium fawn, laud, venerate) |
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arbitrary
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determined by chance or impulse
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arrogate
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to claim for oneself without right
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assail
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to attack; assault
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augury
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to predict
(similar to harbinger, prescient, portentous, presage, auspice) |
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axiom
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wisdom
(similar to aphorism, epigram) |
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bevy
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be- to have a particular quality to exit; it means group
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bifurcate
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to divide into parts
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bilk
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to cheat
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blight
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to afflict; to destroy
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blithe
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joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought
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bonhomie
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good-natured geniality; atmosphere of good cheer
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boor
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crude person, one lacking manners or tatse
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burgeon
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the beginning/young
(similar terms like engender, ichoate, nascent) |
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burnish
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to polish
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cabal
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a secret group seeking to overturn something
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calumny
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criticize/criticism
(similar to berate, aspersion, castigate, defamation,denounce,deride, diatribe, disparage, impugn) |
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canard
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falsehood
(similar to aprocryphal, chicanery, dissemble, equiviocate, ersats guile, specious) |
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capricious
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changing quickly
(similar to mercurial, volatile) |
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circumspect
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cautious; aware of potential consequences
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cloying
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sickly sweet; excessive
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coaslesce
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to grow together to form a single whole
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coffer
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strong box
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collusion
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collaboration; complicity; conspiracy
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connoisseur
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con- is with or together; a person with expert knowledge or discriminating tastes
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contrite
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deeply sorrowful or repentant for a wrong
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contumacious
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rebellious
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cosset
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to pamper; treat with great care
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coterie
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an intimate group of persons with a similar purpose
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craven
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timid
(similar words are diffident, pulsillanimous, and trepidation) |
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cupidity
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greed
(similar words like avaricious, covetous, venal) |
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curmudgeon
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HOSTILE
(Irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive) |
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debutante
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young woman making debut in high position
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declivity
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downward slope
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deface
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to mar the appearance of
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deference
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respect; courtesy
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deletrious
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HARMFUL
(inimical, insidiuous, perfidious, pernicious) |
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demagogue
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a leader or rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice
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demur
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dem- people; to express doubts or objection
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Diaphanous
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dia- part or through
allowing light to show through |
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dictum
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dic- to say or use words
authoritative statement |
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distaff
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Family
(conjugal, endogamous,scion) |
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distend
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to swell, inflate, or bloat
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diurnal
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existing during the day
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dither
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HESISTATE
(oscillate, vacillate, waver) |
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divine
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to foretell or know by inspiration
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doctrinaire
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FAVORING/NOT IMPARTIAL
(ardor, ardent, fervid, zealot) |
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droll
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FUNNY
(facetious, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, ripose, simper) |
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ebullient
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exhilarated; full of enthusiasm
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edify
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to instruct morally and spiritiually
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effigy
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studded doll; likeness of a person
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effrontery
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impudent boldness; audacity
(audacious, dauntless) |
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embellish
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to add ornamental or fictitiuous details
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encomium
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PRAISE
(acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, eulogize,exol fauwn, laud, venerate) |
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endemic
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belonging to a particular area;inherent
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epicure
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epi-upon
(one who is refined in taste in food and wine) |
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ersatz
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FALSEHOOD
(apocryphal,canard, chicnery, dissemble, equivocate, specious fallacious, etc,) |
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eschew
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to shun; to avoid
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ethos
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beliefs or character of a group
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euphony
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PLEASANT-SOUNDING
(harmonious, sonorous) |
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exponent
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one who champion or advocates
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expurgate
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to censor
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fallow
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dormant; unused
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fatuous
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BORING
(Banal,insipid, quotidian, trite) |
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fecund
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fertile, fruitful, productive
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fetid
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DISGUSTING/ OFFENSIVE/ NASTY
(putrid, pungent) |
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Flag
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to decline in vigor, stretngth, or interest
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Ford
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to cross a body of water by wading
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Forestall
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PREVENT/ OBSTRUCT
(forefend, occlude, inhibit, hinder) |
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foretuitious
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LUCK
(amulet, auspicious, optimum) |
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fractious
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unruly rebellious
(contumacious) |
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frenetic
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frantic,frenzied
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furtive
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secret, stealthy
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gambol
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to dance or skip around playfully
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garner
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to gather and store
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gestation
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growth process form conception to birth
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Glib
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fluent in insincere manner
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glower
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to gare or stare angrily and intensely
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gradation
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grad- to step
process occurring by regular degrees or stages |
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gregarious
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outgoing sociable
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grievous
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SORROW
(doleful, elegiac, lamen, lugubrious, morose, threnody) |
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grovel
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to humble oneself in a demeanding way
(abase) |
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Hapless
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unfortuanate; having bad luck
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hegemony
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DICTATORIAL
(the domination of one state or group over its allies; dogmatic, despotic, peremptory) |
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hermetic
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her- to stick;tightly sealed
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hoary
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very old; whtitish or gray from age
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husband
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to manage economically; to use sparingly
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hyperbole
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purposeful exaggeraion for effect
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idiosyncrasy
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idio-ones own; UNUSUAL
(aberration, iconoclast, anomaly) |
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ignoble
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having low moral standards
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imbue
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to infuse, dye ,wet, or moisten
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impasse
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blocked path; dilemma with no solution
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impecunious
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POOR
(indigent, esrient,destitute) |
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impious
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not devout in religion
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implacable
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STUBBORN
(inexorable,intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, renitent, vex) |
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imprecation
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a curse
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impugn
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CRITICIZE/ CRITICISM
(berate, calumy, castigate, defamation disparage, diatribe) |
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inculcate
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to teach; impressin the mind
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indolent
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LAZY/ SLUGGISH
(inert, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic torpid) |
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inexorable
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STUBBORN
(implacable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, vex) |
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ingrate (grat) grat means pleasing
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ungrateful person
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ingratiate (grat) grat means pleasing
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to gain favor with another by deliberate effort
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Iniquity
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CAROUSAL
(debauchery, dissipated, licentious, reprobate, salacious) |
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inquest
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INVESTIGATE
(appraise, ascertain, descry, peruse) |
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insurrection
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rebellion
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interregnum
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GAPS/ OPENING
(hiatus, fissure, lull, orifice) |
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intrepid
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fearless, reslolutely courageous
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inure
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to harden
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invective
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CRITICIZE/ CRITICISM
(inveigh, diatribe, calumy, castigate, disparage,deride, opprobrium) |
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Invidious
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DISGUSTING/ OFFENSIVE
(fetid, pungent,odius, rebarbative) |
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itinerant
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WANDERING
(expatiate, peripatetic, sojourner,peregrinate) |
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jargon
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nonsensical talk; specialized language
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jettison
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to discard; to get rid of as unnecessary or encumbering
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jingoism
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belligerent support of one's country
(supportive, gambol) |
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jocular
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FUNNY
(droll, flippant, levity ludicrous) |
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Knell
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DEATH/ MORNING
(bereave, cadaver, demise, elegy, lament, macabre) |
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kudos
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fame, glory, and honor
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lachrymose
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tearful
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lampoon
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to ridicule with satire
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Languid
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LAZY/ SLUGGISH
(indolent, lethargic, inert, lassitude, phelgmatic, toripid) |
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lapidary
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relating to preicous stones or ways to cut them
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Largess
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GENEROUS/ KIND
(altruistic,magnanimous, clement, philanthropic) |
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latent
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potentioal that is not readily apparent
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legerdemain
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FASLEHOOD
(chicanery, apocryphal, canard, equivocate, ersatz prevericate, specious) |
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leery
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suspsicious
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liberal
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tolerant or broadminded/ giving
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libertine
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CAROUSAL
(iniquity, debauchery, licentious, sordid) |
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limpid
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EASY TO UNDERSTAND
(articulate, cogent,eloquent, evident, lucid) |
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lionize
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to treat as a celebrity
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lissome
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easily flexed; limber; agile
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listless
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LAZY/ SLUGGISH
(lethargic, inert, indolent, languid, lassitude,phlegmatic, torpid) |
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livid
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discolrored froma bruise; reddened with anger
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lumber
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to move slowly and awkwardly
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machination
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plot or scheme
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maelstrom
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whirlpool;turmoil; agitated state of mind
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magnate
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powerful or influential person
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malediction
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a curse
(imprecation, iniquity,) |
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manered
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artificial or stilted in character
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mar
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to damage or deface
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martinet
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NAG
(admonish, cavil, enjoin, exhort hector, reproof) |
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maudlin
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overly sentimental
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mendacious
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FALSEHOOD
(chicanery, apocryphal, prevaricate, fallacious, specious, ersatz dissemble, canard) |
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mendicant
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beggar
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meretricious
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FALSEHOOD (attractive)
(canard, apocryphal, fallacious, dissemble, mendacious) |
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militate
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to operate against
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mirth
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frivolity ; FUNNY
(ludicrous, droll, gibe,jocular, levity) |
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missive
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a written note or letter
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molt
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to shed hair, skin, or an outler layer periodically
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monastic
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extremely painful
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mores
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fixed customs or manners
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multifarious
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diverse
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myopic
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lacking foresight; having a narrow view or perspective
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Noisome
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DISGUSTING/ OFFENSIVE
(stinking,putird) |
