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adulterate
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s: contaminate, pollute, sully
a:purify, purge, expurgate |
(v.) to corrupt to make worse by + something of lesser value
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ambidextrous
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s:versatile, facile
a:clumsy, all thumbs, maladroit |
adj. skill with using both hands and very skillfull and deceitful and hypocritical
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augment
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s:enlarge, supplement, amplify
a:decrease, diminish |
v- to make larger increase
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bereft
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s: bereaved
a:replete well provided |
adj- deprived of, made unhappy of by a loss
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deploy
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s: station, organize
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v: to position to arrange to form up
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dour
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s:harsh bleak forbidding saturnine
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stern unyielding gloomy and ill humored
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fortitude
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s:resolve, steadfastness mettle
a: fearfulness timidity fainthearted |
n- courage in facing difficulties
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gape
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a:gawk, ogle
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v- to stare with open mouth, to open the mouth to open wide
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gibe
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s:ridicule mock deride jeer
a:compliment praise |
v- to utter taunting words n- an expression of scorn
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guise
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s:costume, semblance, pretense
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n an external appearance cover mask
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insidious
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s:cunning, underhanded, perfidious
a:frank ingenuous aboveboard |
adj- intended to decieve or entrap sly treacherous
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intimation
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s:clue, indication, inkling
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n- a hint indirect suggestion
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opulent
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s:rich lavish plentiful abundant
a:poverty stricken, wretched destitute |
adj- wealthy luxurious ample grandiose
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pliable
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s:supple adaptable resilient
a:rigid inflexible recalcitrant |
adj- easily bent flexible easily influenced
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reiterate
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s:restte rehash recapitulate
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v- to say again repeat
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stolid
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s:impassive phlegmatic
a:emotional oversensitive high strung |
adj- not easily moved mentally or emotionally dull unresponsive
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tentative
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s:provisional inconclusive
a:definite conclusive confirmed |
adj- experimental in nature uncertain hesitant
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unkempt
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s:sloppy disheveled disordered rough
a:well groomed tidy neat natty |
adj- not combed untidy not properly maintained unpolished rude
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verbatim
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s: exact precisely
a:paraphrased |
word for word exactly as written
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warily
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s:carefully prudently gingerly
a:recklessly heedlessly incautiously |
adj- cautiously with great care
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