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accost (p)
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a cost'
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accost
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to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
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syn accost
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buttonhole, approach, confront
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buttonhole
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to accost
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accost ()
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v
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accost ant
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evade, avoid, shun
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animadversion (p)
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an e mad ver' sion
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animadversion ()
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n
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animadversion syn
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rebuke, reproof
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animadversion
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a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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reproof
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comment w/ disapproval
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animadversion ANT
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praise, compliment
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avid (p)
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av' id
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avid ()
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adj
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avid syn
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keen, enthusiastic, grasping
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avid
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desirious of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
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avid ant
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reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic
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brackish (p)
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brak' ish
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brackish ()
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adj
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brackish
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having a salty taste and unpleaant to drink
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brackish syn
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briny, saline
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brackish ant
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fresh, clear, sweet
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celerity
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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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celerity (p)
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se ler' e te
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celerety ()
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n
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celerety syn
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promptness, alacrity, spped
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alacrity
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speed
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celerity ant
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slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness
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dilatoriness
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slowness
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devious
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straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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devious ()
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adj
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devious (p)
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de' ve ous
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devious syn
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roundabout, indirect, tricky sly, artful
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devious ant
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direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard
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gambit ()
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n
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gambit (p)
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gam' bit
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gambit
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in chess, an opening move that involvfes risk or sacrifice of a minor piece to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
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gambit syn
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ploy, strategem, ruse, manuever
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halcyon ()
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n, adj
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halcyon
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a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful, happy golden; prosperous, affluent
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halcyon (p)
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hal' se an
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halcyon syn
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tranquil, serene, placid, palmy
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halcyon ant
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turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous
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histrionic
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pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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histrionic ()
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adj
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histrionic (p)
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his tre on' ic
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histrionic syn
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affected, stagy
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histrionic ant
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low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued
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incendiary
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deliberately setting orcausing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; on ehwo deliberately sets fires , arsonist; ones who causes strife
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incendiary ()
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adj, n
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incendiary (p)
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in sen' de er e
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incendiary syn
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inflammatory, provocative, firebrand
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incendiary ant
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soooting, quieting, peacemaker
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myopic ()
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adj
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myopic (p)
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my o' pic
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myopic
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nearsighted; lacking a braod, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
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myopic syn
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shortsighted
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myopic
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farsighted
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overt
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open,not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily reognized
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overt ()
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adj
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overt (p)
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o vert'
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overt syn
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clear, ovious, manifest, patent
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patent
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overt
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manifest
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overt
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overt ant
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secret, clandestine, covert, concealed
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clandestine
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secret
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pejorative
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tending to mak worse; expressig disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
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pejorative ()
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adj
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pejorative (p)
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pe jor' a tiv
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pejorative ant
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complimentary, ameliorative
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propriety
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the state of being proper, approriateness; standards of what is proper or socially aceptable
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propriety ()
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propriety (p)
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pri' e te
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propriety syn
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fitness, correctness, decorum
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decorum
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proper
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propriety ant
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unseemliness, inappropriteness
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sacrilege
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improper or disrespectful treatment or something held sacred
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sacrilege ()
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n
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sacrilege (p)
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sac' re lij
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sacrilege syn
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desecration, profanation, defilemnt
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summarily
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without delay or formality; briefly concisely
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summarily ()
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adv
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summarily (p)
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se mer' e le
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summarily syn
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promptly, peremptorily, abruptly
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peremptorily
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promptly
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suppliant
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asking humbly and earnestl; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a peitioner, suitor
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suppliant ()
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adj; n
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suppliant (p)
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sep' le ent
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talisman
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an object that serves as a harm or sis believed to confer magical powers, amulent, fetish
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talisman ()
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n
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talisman (p)
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tal' is men
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undulate
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to mov ein wave or with a waelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
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undulate ()
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undulate (p)
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un' dy lat
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undulate syn
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ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall
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maelstrom
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a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlool in violence and destruction
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maelstrom ()
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maelstrom (p)
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mal' strem
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maelstrom syn
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vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult
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