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aesthetic-adj
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relating or pertaining to a sense of beauty or art he is considered to have aesthetic tastes because he loves beauty and the arts |
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aloof-adj
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apart, indifferent the woman remained aloof during the party, separating herself from everyone else |
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archaic-adj
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antiquated, old, out of use words such as "thou", which are no longer part of normal vocabulary, are archaic |
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assuage -verb
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to ease, to mitigate, to make less painful or burdensome, to calm your kind words should assuage her suffering. To medicine should assuage his pain |
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belie-verb
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to contradict , to give a false impression her first words appeared to belie all the wonderful things I had heard about her |
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contentious-adj
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quarrelsome, stirring controversy my contentious child will not listen to any form of reason |
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daunt-verb
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to intimidate, to dismay I am not daunted by your threats |
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debilitate-verb
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to weaken, to enfeeble I was debilitated by my bout with pneumonia |
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discord-noun
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lack of agreement, tension, strife there is a lot of discord in the nation over the issue of abortion |
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dissemination-noun
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the act of spreading widely; scattering the dissemination of these ideas can best be achieved through television |
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dogmatic-adj
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strongly opinionated in an unwarranted manner he was so dogmatic that having an intelligent discussion with him was impossible |
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duplicity-noun
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double-dealing, hypocrisy his duplicity was exposed when the girl he was seeing found out he was married |
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egocentric-adj
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self-centered, selfish egocentric people rarely show any concern for others |
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euphemism-noun
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substitution of an inoffensive term for one that its offensive people frequently use a euphemism for the word "died". they commonly say someone "passed away" |
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gluttonous-adj
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greedy for food and drink I am so gluttonous that I would have great difficulty dieting |
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mundane-adj
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ordinary, commonplace after I take care of these mundane matters, we can do something exciting |
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ominous-adj
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threatening the ominous clouds were harbingers of the tornado |
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petulance-noun
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unreasonable touchiness or irritably petulance is sometimes the trait of a child who is not getting his way |
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pompous-adj
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exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance it is very pompous of him to believe that his ideas should always receive the first consideration |
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precocious-adj
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exceptionally early in development or occurrence a child prodigy is a young person who is very precocious |
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slothful-adj
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lazy, indolent that student is so slothful that he has never done any of his homework assignments |
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trivia-noun
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insignificant matters the English teacher is looking for substance, not trivia, in themes |
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verbose-adj
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wordy, very talkative that professor is so verbose that it takes him an hour to cover material that should take fifteen minutes |
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virulent-adj |
extremely poisonous; hateful the doctor prescribed a lot of medication to arrest the virulent infection |
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volatile-adj
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quickly changeable, easily vaporized because of his volatile temper, one must use caution in dealing with him |
