Secondary Definitions

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alloy

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v. to commingle; to debase by mixxing with something inferior;
unalloyed means pure

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arrest, arresting

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v. adj. to suspend "arrested developement"; to engage; holding one's attention
"an arresting portrait"

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august

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adj majestic, venerable, regal
"she was in august company"

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bent

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n. leaning, inclination, proclivity
"He had a naturally artistic bent"
"He bent all his efforts toward his studies"

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brook

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v. to tolerate, endure, countenance
"I will not brook his intolerance"

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cardinal

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adj. major
"cardinal sin"

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chauvinist

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n. a blindly devoted patriot

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color

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to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first)
"yellow journalism colored the truth"

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consequential

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adj. pompous, self-important

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essay

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v. to test or try; attempt, experiment
"the toddler essayed a few wobbly steps"

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exact

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v. to demand, call for, require
'Voters exacted change'
'Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price'

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fell

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adj. inhumanly cruel
"fell beasts surrounded the explorers"

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flip

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adj. sarcastic; impertinent; flippant
"a flip remark"

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ford

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adj. to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse

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v. to grumble or complain

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guy

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v. to steady (with a guy)
n. a rope, cord or brace to support a guide

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intimate

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v. to imply or insinuate
"are you intimating that I cannot be trusted"

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list

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v. to tilt to one side
"the broken mast listed in the wind"

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lumber

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v. move heavily or clumsily

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meet

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adj. filling or proper
"It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the hall of fame"

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mince

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v. pronounce or speak affectedly, speak too carefully
"Don't mince words"

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nice

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adj. exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
"He made a nice distinction between the two cases"
"nice shot"

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obtain

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adj. to be established, accepted or customary.
"those standards are no longer obtain"

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occult

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adj. hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
"a weird occult sensation never felt before"

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pied

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adj. multicolored, usually in blotches
"the pied painter's coat"

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prize

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v. to pry, to press or force with a lever
"The information was prized from him"

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rent

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v/n. torn
"a large rent in the fabric"

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quail

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v. to lose courage

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qualify

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v. to limit
"qualify an endorsement"

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sap

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to enervate or weaken
"the race sapped my strength"

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scurvy

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adj. contemptible, despicable
"he was a scurvy old reprobate"

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stand

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n. a group of trees
"through the oak stand was a clearing"

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strut

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n. supporting structure of a wing

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table

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v. to remove from consideration
"we tabled the motion"

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tender

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v. to proffer or offer
"he tendered his resignation"

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wag

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n. joker, wit
"He was a well-known wag"

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abjure

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v. to renounce; to recant; to avoid
"he abjured the catholic faith"

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adumbrate

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v. to forshadow vaguely; "his manners adumbrated his eventual suicide"
to obscure and overshadow; "happy memories adumbrated by the bad"
indicate faintly "walls adumbrated by the meager light"

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anathema

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a curse

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anodyne

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n. something that assuages

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apostate vs. apotheosis

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apostate - abandons religion
apotheosis - exalted example; godliness

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asseverate

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v. to aver or assert
"he asseverated the truth"

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augury

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n. omen; portent

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calumniate/calumny

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to slander; make false accusations

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captious

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v. calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
"an captious argument"

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celerity

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n. speed, alacrity
"her celerity got her the promotion"

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contumacious

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adj. insubordinate, rebellious
syn. bellicose

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denouement

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n. an outcome or solution

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descry

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v. to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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n. disuse
"after years of desuetude, my french skills were finally put to use"

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desultory

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adj. random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose.
"her desultory performance impressed no one"

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expiate

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to atone or make amends
"She has expiated her movie career by good works and charity"

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extirpate

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v. to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
"extirpate unwanted roots"

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fatuous

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adj silly inane

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
"against accepted religion"

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insouciant

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adj. unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate

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adj. deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
"China's inveterate culture"

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mendicant

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n. a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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adj. cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, attracted by a false show

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minatory

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adj. menacing, threatening
"a minotaur is minatory"

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peroration

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n. the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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propitiate vs propitious

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propitiate- to appease, to conciliate
propitious- auspicious, favorable

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puissance/puissant

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power, strength
"The senator delivered a puissant speech"

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sanguine vs saturnine

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sanguine- cheerful, confident, optimistic, ruddy (in color)
saturnine- gloomy, morose

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sententious

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adj. aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
"he tried to encourage his men with sententious rhetoric"

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stentorian

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adj. extremely loud and powerful
"Obama had an stentorian announcement"

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stygian

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adj. gloomy, dark
-related to Styx (mythical underground river that carried souls)

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tendentious

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adj. biased; showing marked tendencies.

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tyro

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n. novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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check

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to impede the progress of something
"efforts were made to check the disease"

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perversion

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altering from its original course or meaning.
"the perversion of marxist theory to justify soviet policymaking"

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ferment

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to stir up trouble
"the politicians and warlords who are fermenting trouble"

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asunder

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apart, divide
"to be torn asunder"

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appropriate

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to take something, usually without permission
"his images have been appropriated by advertisers"

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imprimatur

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a person's acceptance or guarantee of good standards
"recieve the imprimatur of editorialists"

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sui generis

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unique
"the sui generis nature of animals"

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ferment n.

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agitation; excitement; commotion
"political ferment"

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posture v.

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to take a position
"white house postured itself against terrorists"

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whet

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1. sharpening
"whetting the knife"
2. excite or stimulate

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sybarite

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person who is into self-indulgence
ant. ascetic

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bungler

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n. mistake or failure, typically from mismanagement or confusion

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artifice

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device use to trick or decieve

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boon

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thing that is helpful or beneficial
"GPS is a boon to travellers"

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palpable

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1. tangible
2. obvious, clear to mind
"the answer was palpable"

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churl

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an impolite and mean-spirited person

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repose

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temporary rest.
syn. respite

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belie

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1. fail to give a true impression
"his lively manner belies his years"
2. fail to fullfill or justify; betray
"the notebooks belie Darwin's later recollections"

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dogged

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v. follow persistently
"dogged by paparazzi"

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untoward

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unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient
"untoward joke"
behave as if nothing untoward happened"