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blight
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n. potato blight: disease, canker, infestation, fungus mildew, mold.
n. the blight of aircraft nose: scourge, bane, curse, plague, menace, misfortune, woe, trouble, ordeal, nuisance, pest antonym: blessing. v. a tree blighted by leaf curl:infect, kill, destroy. v. scandal blighted the careers of several politicians: ruin, destroy, wreck, spoil, devastate, shatter, demolish. |
Gorky Park, Russia 's urban blight.
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verdant
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adj. the verdant spring mosses: green, leafy, grassy; lush, rich, verdurous
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Soviet recreational paradise, they once verdant park feel into decay
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barren
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adj. barren land: infertile, unfruitful, sterile, arid, desert.
adj. a barren woman: infertile, childless adj. a barren exchange of courtesies: pointless, futile, worthless, profitless, valueless, unrewarding, hollow, aimless, vacuous, vapid |
a verdant park and it's barren fields scattered with broken carnival rides and roamed by drug dealers
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unprecedented
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adj. unheard of, unknown, new, novel, groundbreaking, revolutionary, pioneering, epoch-making, unparalleled, unusual, exceptional, unique, formal unexampled
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early contemporary art shows were unprecedented for Russian
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