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Baseless |
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Benign |
Gentle and kind |
His benign and firm manner |
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Interminable |
Endless |
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Mortify |
1.embarrass/ humiliate 2.subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self- denial or discipline. 3.(of florh) Become gangrenous, foater/ decay. |
1.Cause (sm1) to feel very embarrased or ashmed. 2.return to heaven by mortifying the flesh. 3. A scratch in henr's arm had mortified. |
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Plaintive |
Mournful and sad |
A plaintive cry |
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Cessation |
Ending |
Cessation of hostilities |
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1.Indifference 2.mediocrity |
1. Lack of interest, concern, or sympathy. 2. Avg.quality/ ordinary/ indifferat |
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Shrugged |
Dismiss smth as unimportant |
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Rhetonc |
1. Eloquence ( art of peisuasive speaking/ writing) Bombast |
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Heed |
Careful / pay attention |
He should have heed the warnings |
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Endunng |
Abiding |
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Rhetoric |
1. Eloquence ( art of peisuasive speaking/ writing) 2.Bombast |
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Dexterous |
Showing or having skill, wit hands |
A dexterous keyboard player |
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1.Precarious |
1.Iikely to collapise 2.uncertain(dependent on chance)
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1.A precious ladder 2.He made a precarisus living a painter |
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Replete |
Full or well stocked |
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Deficient |
Inadequate |
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Unencumbered |
1. Not having any burden or impedinent 2. Free of debt or other financial liability |
He needed to travel light and unencumberd |
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Rife: widespread/ general/ common |
(smth undesirable) of common occurebce |
Violence is rife in our cities |
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Eluciadated |
Make (smth) clear,explain |
Elucide the matter |
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Copious |
Abundant in supply or quantity |
Copious notes |
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Profuse |
1.(espically of smth offered or discharged) 2.extravagant (of person) |
1.very plentiful , abundant 2. They are profuse in hospitality |
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Furtive |
Secretive |
They spent furtive day together |
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Placate |
Make (smt) less angry or hostile |
They attempad to placate the student with promises |
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Aggravate |
1.Make (a problem, injury, sroffence) wore or more serious millitary actn. Would only aggravate the sitution 2. Annoy |
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Vilify |
Speak or write about in an abusively disparaging |
The media vilified several of the eletion candiate |
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Protracted |
Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual. |
A protracted and bitter dispute |
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Lumbering |
The wor or business of cutting down tree and preparing lumber moving heavily, clumsily or noisly. |
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Innocuocus |
1.Not harmful or offensive. 2.innocuous young man. |
An innocuocus question |
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Sedate/ calm/ tranquil/ imperturable/ unflappable |
Sedate pace |
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Berserk:frenzied |
Out of contro with anger or excitement |
He went berserk when he heared that his wife had left him |
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Untoward |
unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient |
both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened" |
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Unruly |
disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control. |
"a group of unruly children |
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Uncanny |
1.strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. 2.striking,remarkable |
1.an uncanny feeling that she was being watched 2."there was an uncanny resemblance between the two pictures" |
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manoeuvre|N| |
1.a movement or series of moves requiring skill and care. 2.a large-scale military exercise of troops, warships, and other forces. |
1.a tricky parking manoeuvre 2."the Russian vessel was on manoeuvres |
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Monoevure|v| |
1.move skilfully or carefully 2.carefully guide or manipulate (someone or something) in order to achieve an end. |
1."I manoeuvred the car into a parking space" 2.he began manoeuvring for the party leadership |
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expedite |
Speed up/accelerate |
Expedite economic reforms |
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conclave |
Private meeting |
Bussiness conclave |
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Picket |
Demonstrated at |
over 200 people picketed the factory" |
