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Dilatory
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Causing or characterized bydelay; tardy; slow.
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The reporter was so dilatory in completing his assignment that he missed the deadline.
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Discordant
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Inharmonious; conflicting.
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She tried to unite the discordant factions.
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Discursive
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Passing from one subject to another.
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The old man's conversation was so discursive that we could not follow it.
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Disinclination
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Unwillingness
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Some mornings I feel a great disinclination to get out of bed.
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Dissonance
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Discord; disagreement.
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Some contemporary musicians deliberately use dissonance to achieve certain effects.
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Dissuade
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Differing; deviating.
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The two witnesses presented the jury with remarkable divergent accounts of the same episode.
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Duplicity
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Double dealing;guile.
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People were shocked and dismayed when they learned of his duplicity in this affair, as he had always seemed honest and straightforward.
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Ebullient
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Happilyexcited; exuberant; bubbling or boiling up.
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Her ebullient spirits told us that she had won.
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enervate
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weaken
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She was slow to recover from her illness; even a short walk to the window left her enervated.
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Engender
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to cause to exist or to develop : PRODUCE
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Equivocal
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Having a double meaning; ambiguous; uncertain.
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He gave an equivocal reply to the question toavoid answering directly.
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Eradicate
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To completely erase; to wipeout.
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The mistake was easily eradicated on the word processor.
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Exonerate
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Acquit; free fromguilt or responsibility.
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I am sure this letter naming the actual culprit will exonerate you.
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Exorbitant
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Beyond reasonable limits; excessive.
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That is an exorbitant price to ask for that job.
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Expedient
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Suitable;practical; politic.
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A pragmatic politician, he was guided by what was expedient rather than by what was ethical.
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Extricate
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Free; disentangle.
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He found that he could not extricate himself from the trap.
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Fanaticism
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Excessive emotionfor an issue or cause.
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The leader of the group was held responsible even though he could not control the fanaticism of his followers.
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Fastidious
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Difficult to please;squeamish.
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The waitress disliked serving him dinner because of hisvery fastidious taste.
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Fiasco
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Complete or ridiculous failure.
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The meeting turned out to be a fiasco; no onecould agree on anything.
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Fortuitous
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Happening by chance;accidental.
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He didn't plan on getting rich; it was a fortuitous occurrence.
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Frivolity
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Lack of seriousness.
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We were distressed by his frivolity during therecent grave crisis.
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Gnarled
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Rough and weather worn; knotted;twisted.
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One or Rembrandt's paintings feature the gnarled hands of an old man.
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garble
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To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible
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She garbled all the historical facts.
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