Unofficial Dictionary I

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Abash

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To make ashamed, to humiliate

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A-bash

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Abate

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To reduce

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"Ab-ate" to reduce weight

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Abbreviate

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To reduce to a shorter form

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(n) abbreviation

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Abduct

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To carry off a person, usually by force, to kidnap

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Abide

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To remain, continue, stay, endure

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Abet

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To help someone do something illegal or wrong

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Abjure

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To repudiate or renounce, to give up

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Abound

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To exist in large numbers, to be full, to teem

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Abstain

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To refrain from, denying oneself any action or practice

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Abstruse

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Hard to understand

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Can't be true! I can't understand.

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Acquit

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To decide officially someone is not guilty of a particular crime, to free from an obligation

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Adjourn

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To make a pause or rest, suspend until later

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Admonish

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To caution or warn, criticize or scold mildly but firmly

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(n) admonition

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Adroit

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Skillful, deft

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Adulation

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Extreme flattery or admiration

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Advent

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The arrival or beginning, coming

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Amend

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To alter, modify, improve, change for the better

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Annals

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Descriptive record, history

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Apprehensive

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Dreading or fearing coming adversity

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Aptitude

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Capacity for learning., natural ability

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Arbiter

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Judge, one who makes decisions

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(adj) arbitrary: decided by judgment rather than law or statute

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Arcane

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Unknown to the mass, mysterious

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Arraign

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To bring before a court of law, to respond to a charge, to accuse

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Ascend?

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To go up, to rise or move upward, succeed

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(n) ascent

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Assimilate

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To learn completely, to take in, to absorb

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Assiduous

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Hardworking, diligent, busy

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Atone

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To make amends 罪滅ぼし

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Atrophy

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To wither away, dry up, decline gradually, waste away

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Attenuate

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To make thin in consistency, to weaken

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Attrition

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A gradual reduction or weakening, a rubbing away

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Augment

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To make or become greater

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Auspicious

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Favorable, promising for the future

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↔suspicious

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Avail

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To be useful, be of value to, to serve

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(adj) available

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Avaerse

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Having a feeling of opposition, repugnance, or disinclination

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Avuncular

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Helpful, generous, understanding

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Bask

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To enjoy warmth or praise

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Benign

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Harmless, mild, kind

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Bequest

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The act of giving, something left to someone in a will

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(v) bequeath

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Bestow

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To give, as a gift or award, to confer

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Bleak

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Repressing, harsh, cold, barren

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Bristle

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To new spoke with anger, to be ready to fight back

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Burgeon

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To flourish, expand

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Capitulate

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To surrender under certain conditions, to give in

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Cardinal

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of great importance, chief

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Cede

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To withdraw, to give up, as by treaty

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Chagrin

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Humiliation, disappointment

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Chastise

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To discipline, punish

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(adj) chaste

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Chicanery

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Deceitfulness, trickery

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Churl

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A rude or vulgar person, a crude or illiterate peasant or yokel

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(adj) churlish

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Clairvoyant

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Having the ability to foresee things, having exceptional insight

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Future is clear to me!

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Clemency

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Forgiveness, mercy

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Clique

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A group bound together by a common interest

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Clinch

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To make final, to settle, embrace

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Coerce

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To force someone by threatening or physically overpowering him

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Commensurate

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Proportionate, equal

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Composure

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The state of being calm and not emotional, self possession, serenity

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Composers are composure! They're so composed!

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Condone

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To allow to happen, to purposely overlook

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Confer

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To give, grant, or bestow

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Confiscate

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To take or seize by authority, usually as punishment or penalty

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Configuration

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A particular arrangement or pattern of a group of related things

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Congruent

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Equivalent, compatible, of the same shape

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Conjecture

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To guess, figure out with little evidence

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Conjugal

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Connected with marriage or the relation ship between husband and wife

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Consternation

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A feeling of anxiety, shock or confusion, a state of dismay

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Stirred heart

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Construe

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To interpret

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Construct true

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Consummate

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(adj) perfectly skillful

(v) to complete or perfect

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Contrite

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Grieving and expressing remorse, feeling sorrow for sins or faults, penitent for shortcomings, apologetic

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Counsel

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Advice given as a result of consultation, a lawyer or group of lawyers representing a client

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Covet

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To desire, envy

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Coy

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Modest, demure, timid, shyly flirtatious

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Crass

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Stupid, without consideration for how other people might feel, lacking in sensitivity or refinement, crude

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Culminate

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To reach full climax

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Culpable

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Guilty, deserving blame

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Cumulative

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Increasing in size, scope or quantity by successive additions

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Curb

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To restraint or control

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Daunt

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To scare, to intimidate

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(adj) daunting: discouraging

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Decimate

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To kill, largely destroy

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(n) decimation: death

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Decorous

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In good taste, proper

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Decrepit

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Weakened by old age or illness, worn out

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Defunct

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Dead or inactive, having caused to exist

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No function

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Deign

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To believe something to be beneath one's dignity, to condescend

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Delineate

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To describe exactly, sketch out, depict

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Demur

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To object, to make exception

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Demure

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Well-behaved, quiet, shy, modest

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Denunciation

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A strong, public criticism, a verbal attack or condemn

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Deplete

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To reduce in size or amount, to lessen drastically, exhaust

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Deploy

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To arrange strategically

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Deprecate

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To express disapproval of

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Devoid

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Entirely without, lacking

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Completely avoid

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Dexterity

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Mental skill or adroitness, ease in use of body

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Didactic

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Intended to teach

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Diatribe

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A bitter verbal attack

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Dichotomy

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The division into two parts that are usually contradictory

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(adj) dichotomous

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Dictum

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Short saying expressing truth

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Dilatory

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Delay, slow, tardy

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Dilatory _delay

Dilatory _delay

tory _delay

tory _delay

tory _delay

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Dispatate

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Unequal, different, incompatible

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Disparage

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To belittle

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Dismal

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Sad, without hope, gloomy

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Disposition

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State of mind, a person's usual way of feeling

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Disseminate

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To spread, to scatter, to make widely-known

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Distend

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To swell, to enlarge, (to extend)

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Divulge

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To make something known, Ro disclose, to reveal

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Docile

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Easily taught, obedient, easy to handle

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Dormant

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Sleeping or inactive

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Drawl

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Speech with drawn-out vowels, slow speech

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Duplicity

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The act of deception, the act of duplicity

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(v) dupe

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Duress

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Hardship, restraint, confinement

confinement

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Edict

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A public order given by an authority

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Elucidate

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To make clear and explain fully

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Embellish

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To beautify by adding ornaments, actual or fanciful

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Embezzle

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To appropriate illegally

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Emulate

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To attempt to equal or surpass, especially through imitation

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Endow

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Bestow, grant, to give, especially a large gift

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Ennui

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Boredom and dissatisfaction, lack of interest

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Entourage

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One's attendants or associates

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Equivocate

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to avoid giving a direct answer, to deceive, to be shifty

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Eschew

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To avoid or shun

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Expedient

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Giving an immediate advantage, practical

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Expedite

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To speed up

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Facade

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The front of a building, outward appearance, especially if superficial or misleading

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Fanatic

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One extremely devoted to a cause or idea

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Fastidious

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Meticulous, picky

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Fathom

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To understand fully, to penetrate the meaning of

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Figment

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Something imaginary or invented, a fabrication

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Finagle

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Obtained by trickery, to use divious or dishonest methods

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Flamboyant

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Excessively showing, ornate, highly elaborate

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Flotsam

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Floating wreckage of a ship, debris

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Forfeit

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To give up something, especially as a penalty

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Formidable

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Exceptionally difficult, fearsome or intimidating

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Frugal

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Penny-pinching, stingy, careful with money

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Futile

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Useless, hopeless

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Gauche

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Unpolished, ill-bred, unsophisticated, inelegant, unmannerly