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ENTRENCH
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To fix firmly or securely:
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DESSICATE
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to dry thoroughly; dry up.
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SUMPTUOUS
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entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work,
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APOTHEOSIS
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the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.
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ENERVATE
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to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
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HEDGE
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to protect with qualifications that allow for unstated contingencies or for withdrawal from commitment
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ABROGATE
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to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal:
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INDUSTRY
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energetic, devoted activity at any work or task;
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ADMONITION
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Cautionary advice or warning.
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CHARY
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2. shy; timid.
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STUPEFY
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to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
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COGENT
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convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling.
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STILTED
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stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.
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RESTIVENESS
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impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
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HARBINGER
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a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald.
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MEALYMOUTHED
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avoiding the use of direct and plain language, as from timidity, excessive delicacy, or hypocrisy; inclined to mince words; insincere, devious, or compromising.
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PREVARICATE
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to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
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LUMINARY
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a body, object, etc., that gives light.
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CAVIL
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to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily
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RECALCITRANT
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resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
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PROTRACT
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to draw out or lengthen, esp. in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
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REPUGNANCE
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strong distaste, aversion, or objection; antipathy.
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NETTLE
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to irritate, annoy, or provoke.
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MOLLIFY
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to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease
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ASSUAGED
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to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease
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DISSUADE
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to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something
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EXHORT
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to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently
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SPLENETIC
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irritable; peevish; spiteful.
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ASPERITY
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roughness or sharpness of temper
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SLACK
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Lacking in activity; not busy
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PREDILECTION
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a predisposition, preference, or bias
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BOGGLE
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To hesitate as if in fear or doubt.
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HIDEBOUND
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Stubbornly prejudiced, narrow-minded, or inflexible.
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RAUCOUS
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Rough-sounding and harsh
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MELLIFLOUS
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Smooth and sweet
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VOUCHSAFE
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to give or grant or condescend to give or grant
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STOIC
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One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
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GAMELY
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in a brave or sporting manner
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DESULTORY
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passing or jumping from one thing to another, esp in a fitful way; unmethodical; disconnected
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PULCHRITUDE
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Great physical beauty and appeal.
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SHOAL
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A shallow place in a body of water.
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MENDACITY
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A lie; a falsehood.
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CRAVENESS
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Characterized by abject fear; cowardly.
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CELERITY
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Swiftness of action or motion;
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DIDACTIC
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Intended to instruct.
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HACKNEYED
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Overfamiliar through overuse; trite.
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APOSTATE
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One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause
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MENDICANT
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A beggar.
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IMPECUNIOUS
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Lacking money; penniless
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ENCOMIUM
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Warm, glowing praise
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LAUDITORY
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Expressing or conferring praise
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DETRITUS
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Loose fragments or grains that have been worn away from rock
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DESCRY
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To discover by careful observation or scrutiny; detect
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MASTHEAD
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The listing in a newspaper or periodical of information about its staff, operation, and circulation
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LACHRYMOSE
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Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful
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SKINFLINT
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One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
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PUGNACIOUS
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Combative in nature; belligerent
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LOQUACIOUS
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Very talkative; garrulous
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PERSPICACITY
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Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.
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PECCADILLO
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a petty sin or trifling fault
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TRIFLING
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Of slight worth or importance.
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CALUMNY
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a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
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APPROBATION
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approval; commendation.
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ASPERSIONS
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a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander:
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SERVILITY
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slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning:
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FASTIDIOUS
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excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
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EFFUSIVE
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pouring out; overflowing.
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CAROM
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any strike and rebound, as a ball striking a wall and glancing off.
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ABASE
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LOWER DEGRADE, HUMILIATE
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ABASH
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EMBARRASS
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ABET
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ASSIST
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ABEYANCE
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SUSPEND ACTION
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ABJURE
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RENOUNCE UPON OATH, DISAVOW
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ABLUTION
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WASHING
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ABNEGATION
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RENUNCIATION, SELF SACRIFICE
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ABORIGINAL
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BEING THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN A REGION, NATIVE
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ABROGATE
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ABOLISH
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ABSCISSION
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REMOVAL BY CUGGING OFF, SURGERY CUT OFF
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ABSETEMIOUS
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SPARING IN EATING AND DRINKING...HOLDING BACK ON CERTAIN FOODS
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ABSTRUSE
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OBSCUER PROFOUND DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
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ACCEDE
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AGREE
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ACCLIVITY
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SHARP UPSLOPE OF A HILL
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ACCOUTRE
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EQUIP (VERB)
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ACCRETION
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GROWTH, INCREASE
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ACERBITY
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BITTERNESS OF SPEECH AND TEMPER
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ACIDULOUS
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SLIGHTLY SOUR, SHARP, CAUSTIC
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ACME
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PEAK, PINNACLE, HIGHEST POINT
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ACROPHOBIA
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FEAR OF HEIGHTS
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ACTUATE
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MOTIVATE
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ACUITY
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SHARPNESS
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ACUMEN
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MENTAL KEENESS
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ADDLE
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BECOME ROTTEN, DRIVE CRAZY
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ADJUNCT
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SOMETHING ADDED ON OR ATTATCHED...GENERALLY NON-ESSENTIAL
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ADJURATION
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SOLEMN URGING.
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ADJUTANT
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STAFF OFFICER ASSISTING THE COMMANDER
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*ADMONISH
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WARN
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ADROIT
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SKILLFUL
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ADVENTITIOUS
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ACCIDENTAL, CASUAL
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ADVERT
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REFER
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AEGIS
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SHIELD DEFENSE
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AERIE
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NEST OF A LARGE BIRD OF PREY
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AFFECTED
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ARTIFICIAL, PRETEND, IN ORDER TO IMPRESS
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AGAPE
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OPEN MOUTHED
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AGGLOMERATION
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COLLECTION, HEAP
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*AGGREGATE
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GATHER, ACCUMULATE
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AGOG
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HIGHLY EXCITED, INTENSELY CURIOUS
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AGRARIAN
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PERTAINING TO LAND OR ITS CULTIVATION
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*ALACRITY
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CHEERFUL PROMPTNESS, EAGERNESS
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ALCHEMY
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MEDIEVAL FORM OF THOUGHT THAT AIMED TO TRANSFORM BASE METALS INTO SILVER AND GOLD...TO PROLONG LIFE
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ALIMENTARY
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SUPPLYING NOURISHMENT
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ALLOY
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(NOUN) A MIXTURE OF METALS
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ALLOY
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(VERB) MIX, MAKE LESS PURE, LESSEN OR MODERATE
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AMBROSIA
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FOOD OF THE GODS
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ALLUSION
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INDIRECT REFERENCE
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*AMELIORATE
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IMPROVE
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AMENABLE
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READILY MANAGED, OR WILLING TO BE LED
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AMITY
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FRIENDSHIP
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AMOROUS
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MOVED BY SEXUAL LOVE, LOVING
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AMULET
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CHARM, ON A BRACELET OR NECKLESS
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ANALGESIC
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CAUSING INSENSITIVITY TO PAIN
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ANATHEMA
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SOLEMN CURSE, SOMETHING SOMEONE REGARDED AS A CURSE
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ANCILARY
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SERVING AS AN AID OR ACCESSORY
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ANIMADVERSION
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CRITICAL REMARK
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ANIMUS
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HOSTILE FEELING OR INTENT
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ANNEAL
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REDUCE BITTERNESS
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ANNUITY
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YEARLY ALLOWANCE
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ANODYNE
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DRUG THAT RELIEVES PAIN...AN OPIATE
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ANTECEDE
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PRECEDE
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ANTECEDENTS
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PRECEDING EVENTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES THAT INFLUENCES WHAT COMES LATER
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ANTEDILUVIAN
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ANTIQUATED, EXTREMELY ANCIENT
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ANTHROPOID
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MANLIKE
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ANTHROPOMORPHIC
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HAVING A HUMAN FORM OR CHARACTERISTICS
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ANTIC
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EXTRAVAGANTLY ODD
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*ANTIPATHY
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AVERSION, DISLIKE
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APE
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IMITATE OR MIMIC
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APHASIA
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LOS OF SPEECH DUE TO INJURY OR ILLNESS
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APHORISM
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PITHY MAXIM OR SAYING
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APIARY
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PLACE WHERE BEES ARE KEPT
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APLOMB
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POISE ASSURANCE
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APOCRYPHAL
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NOT AUTHENTIC, INVENTED RATHER THAN TRUE
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APOGEE
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HIGHEST POINT
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APOTHEGM
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PITHY, COMPACT SAYING
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APOTHEOSIS
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ELEVATION TO GODHOOD. AN IDEAL EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING
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APPELLATION
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NAME OR TITLE
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APPOSITE
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APPROPRIATE OR FITTING
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*APPROBATION
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APPROVAL
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APPURTENANCES
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SUBORDINATE POSSESSIONS
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APROPOS
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TO THE POINT, TIMELY
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AQUILINE
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CURVED OR HOOKED
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ARABLE
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FIT FOR GROWING CROPS
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ARCANE
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SECRET, MYSTERIOUS, KNOWN ONLY TO THE INITIATED
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ARCHIPELAGO
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GROUP OF CLOSELY LOCATED ISLANDS
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ARDOR
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HEAT, PASSION, ZEAL
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ARGOT
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SLANG
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ARRAY
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CLOTHE OR ADORNE
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ARREARS
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BEING IN DEBT
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ARROYO
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GULLY
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ARTIFICE
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DECEPTION, TRICKERY
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ARTLESS
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WITHOUT GUILE, OPEN AND HONEST
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ASCENDANCY
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CONTROLLING INFLUENCE
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*ASCETIC
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PRACTICING SELF-DENIAL
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ASEPTIC
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PREVENTING INFECTION, HAVING A CLEANSING EFFECT
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ASKANCE
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WITH A SIDEWAYS OR INDERECT LOOK
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ASPERITY
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SHARPNESS OF TEMPER
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ASPIRANT
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SEEKER AFTER POSITION OR STATUS
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ASSAY
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ANALYZE, EVALUATE
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ASSENT
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AGREE, ACCEPT
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*ASSIDUOUS
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DILIGENT
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*ASSUAGE
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EASE OR LESSEN PAIN, SATISFY HUNGER, SOOTHE ANGER
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ASTRAL
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RELATING TO THE STARS
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ASTRINGENT
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BINDING, CAUSING CONTRACTION, HARSH OR SEVERE
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ASYMMETRIC
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NOT IDENTICAL ON BOTH SIDES OF A DIVIDING CENTRAL LINE
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ATAVISM
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RESEMBLANCE TO REMOTE ANCESTORS RATHER THAN PARENTS, A THROWBACK, REVERSION TO AN EARLIER TYPE
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ATTENUATE
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MAKE THINNER, WEAKEN OR LESSEN
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ATTRITION
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GRADUAL DECREASE IN NUMBERS
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AUGURY
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OMEN OR PROPHECY
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AUGUST
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IMPRESSIVE, MAJESTIC
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AUREOLE
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SUNS CORONA, HALO
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AUSPICIOUS
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FAVORING SUCCESS,
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*AUSTERE
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FORBIDDINGLY STERN
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AUTHORITARIAN
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SUBORDINATING THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE STATE, COMPLETELY DOMINATING ANOTHER'S WILL
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AUTOCRATIC
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HAVING ABSOLUTE UNCHECKED POWER, DICTATORIAL
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AVARICE
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GREEDINESS FOR WEALTH
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*AVER
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ASSERT CONFIDENTLY, OR DECLARE
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AVERSE
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RELUCTANT, DISINCLINED
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AVIARY
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ENCLOSURE FOR BIRDS
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AVOCATION
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SECONDARY OR MINOR OCCUPATION
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AVOW
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DECLARE OPENLY
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AVUNCULAR
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LIKE AN UNCLE
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AXIOM
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SELF EVIDENT TRUTH REQUIRING NO PROOF
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BACCHANALIAN
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DRUNKEN
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BADINAGE
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TEASING CONVERSATION
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BALEFUL
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THREATENING, MENACING, SINISTER
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BALK
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FOIL
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*BANAL
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HACKNEYED, COMMONPLACE, TRITE, LACKING ORIGINALITY
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BANDY
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DISCUSS LIGHTLY OR GLIBLY
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BARD
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POET
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BAREFACED
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SHAMELESS BOLD, UNCONCEALED
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BASTION
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STRONGHOLD, SOMETHING SEEN AS A SOURCE OF PROTECTION
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BATE
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LET DOWN, RESTRAIN
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BAWDY
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INDECENT, OBSCENE
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BEATIFIC
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SHOWING OR PRODUCING JOY, BLISSFUL
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BEATIFY
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BLESS OR SANCTIFY
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BEATITUDE
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BLESSEDNESS, OR STATE OF BLISS
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BEDIZEN
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DRESS WITH VULGAR FINERY
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BEDRAGGLE
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WET THOROUGHLY
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BELEAGUER
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BESIEGE OR ATTACK, HARASS
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*BELIE
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CONTRADICT, GIVE A FALSE IMPRESSION
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BELLICOSE
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WARLIKE, PUGNACIOUS, NATURALLY INCLINED TO FIGHT
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BEMUSED
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CONFUSED, LOST IN THOUGHT
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BENEDICTION
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BLESSING
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*BENEFICIENT
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KINDLY, DOING GOOD
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BENISON
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BLESSING
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BEREFT
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DEPRIVED OF, LACKING
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BESET
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HARASS, TROUBLE
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BESIEGE
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SURROUND WITH ARMED FORCES
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BESMIRCH
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SOIL DEFILE
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BESTIAL
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BEAST LIKE, BRUTAL INHUMAN
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BETOKEN
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SIGNIFY, INDICATE
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BIFURCATED
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DIVIDED INTO TWO BRANCHES
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BILIOUS
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SUFFERING FROM A LIVER COMPLAINT, PEEVISHLY ILL HUMORED
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BIVOUAC
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TEMPORARY ENCAMPMENT
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BLANCH
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BLEACH, WHITEN
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BLANDISH
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CAJOLE, COAX WITH FLATTERY
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BLANDISHMENT
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FLATTERY
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BOURGEOIS
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MIDDLE CLASS, SELFISHLY MATERIALISTIC, DULLY CONVENTIONAL
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BOVINE
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COWLIKE, PLACID AND DULL
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BOWDLERIZE
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EXPURGATE, TAKE OUT
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BRACKISH
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SOMEWHAT SALINE
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BRAGGADOCIO
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BOASTING
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BRAVADO
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SWAGGER, ASSUMED AIR OF DEFIANCE
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BRINDLED
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TAWNEY OR GRAYISH WITH STREAKS OR SPOTS
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BROACH
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INTRODUCE, OPEN UP
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BROCADE
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RICH, FIGURED FABRIC
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BROOK
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TOLERATE, ENDURE
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BRUSQUE
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BLUNT, ABRUPT
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BUCOLIC
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RUSTIC, PASTORAL
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BUGABOO
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OBJECT OF BASELINE TERROR
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BULWARK
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EARTHWORK, OR OTHER STRONG DEFENSE, PERSON WHO DEFENDS
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*BURGEON
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GROW FORTH, SEND OUT BUDS
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BURLESQUE
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GIVE AN IMITATION THAT RIDICULES
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*BURNISH
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MAKE SHINY BY RUBBING, POLISH
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CABAL
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SMALL GROUP OF PERSONS, SECRETLY UNITED TO PROMOTE THEIR OWN INTERESTS
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*CACOPHONOUS
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DISCORDANT, INHARMONIOUS
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CADGE
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BEG, MOOCH, PANHANDLE
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CALLOW
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YOUTHFUL, IMMATURE, INNEXPERIENCED
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CALORIFIC
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HEAT PRODUCING
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CALUMNY
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MALICIOUS MISREPRESENTATION, SLANDER
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CANARD
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FALSE OR UNFOUNDED STORY, FABRICATED REPORT
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CANNY
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SHREWD, THRIFTY
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CANON
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COLLECTION OF AUTHORITATIVE LIST OF BOOKS
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CANON
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RULE OF PRINCIPLE, FREQUENTLY RELIGIOUS
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CANT
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INSINCERE EXPRESSIONS OF PIETY, JARGON OF THIEVES
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CANTER
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SLOW GALLOP
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CANTO
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DIVISION OF A LONG POEM
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CAPACIOUS
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SPACIOUS
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CAPILLARY
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HAVING A VERY FINE BORE
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CAPITULATE
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SURRENDER
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*CAPRICIOUS
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UNPREDICTABLE, FICKLE
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CAPTIOUS
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FAULTFINDING
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CARAPACE
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SHELL COVERING THE BACK
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CARILLON
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SET OF BELLS CAPABLE OF BEING PLAYED
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CARNAL
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FLESHLY
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CAROUSAL
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DRUNKEN REVEL
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CARPING
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PETTY CRITICISM, FAULT FINDING
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CARRION
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ROTTING FLESH OF A DEAD BODY
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CASTE
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ONE OF THE HEREDITARY CLASSES IN HINDU SOCIETY
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*CASTIGATION
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PUNISHMENT, SEVERE CRITICISM
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CATARACT
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GREAT WATERFALL, EYEABNORMALITY
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CATEGORICAL
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WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS, UNQUALIFIED, ABSOLUTE
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CATHARSIS
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PURGING OR CLEANSING ANY PASSAGE OF THE BODY
|
|
|
CATHOLIC
|
UNIVERSAL, WIDE RANGING LIBERAL
|
|
|
CAVIL
|
MAKE FRIBOLOUS OBJECTIONS
|
|
|
CELERITY
|
SPEED, RAPIDITY
|
|
|
CENSORIOUS
|
CRITICAL
|
|
|
CENTAUR
|
MYTHICAL FIGURE, HALF MAN HALF HORSE
|
|
|
CENTRIFUGAL
|
RADIATING, DEPARTING FROM THE CENTER
|
|
|
CENTRIFUGE
|
MACHINE THAT SEPARATES SUBSTANCES BY WHIRLING THEM
|
|
|
CENTRIPETAL
|
TENDING TOWARD THE CENTER
|
|
|
CEREBRATION
|
THOUGHT
|
|
|
CESSATION
|
STOPPAGE
|
|
|
CESSION
|
YIELDING TO ANOTHER, CEDING
|
|
|
CHAFF
|
WORTHLESS PRODUCTS OF AN ENDEAVOR
|
|
|
CHAFFING
|
BANTERING, JOKING
|
|
|
CHAGRIN
|
VEXATION, DISSAPOINTMENT
|
|
|
CHARLTAN
|
QUACK, PRETENDER TO KNOWLEDGE
|
|
|
CHARY
|
CAUTIOUS, RESTRAINED ABOUT GIVING
|
|
|
CHASE
|
ORNAMENT A METAL SURFACE BY INDENTING
|
|
|
CHASTE
|
PURE VIRGINAL, MODEST
|
|
|
CHASTEN
|
CORRECT BY PUNISHMENT, SCOLDING, RESTRAIN
|
|
|
CHASTENED
|
HUMBLED, SUBDUED, REBUKED
|
|
|
CHASTISE
|
PUNISH OR SCOLD
|
|
|
*CHICANERY
|
TRICKERY OR DECEPTION
|
|
|
CHIMERICAL
|
FANTASTICALLY IMPROBABLE, HIGHLY UNREALISTIC
|
|
|
CHISEL
|
SWINDLE OR CHEAT, CUT WITH A CHISEL
|
|
|
CHOLERIC
|
HOT TEMPERED
|
|
|
CHURLISH
|
BOORISH, RUDE
|
|
|
CILIATED
|
HAVING MINUTE HAIRS
|
|
|
CIPHER
|
NONENTITY, WORTHLESS PERSON OR THING
|
|
|
CIRCUMLOCUTION
|
UNNECESSARILY WORDY, AND INDIRECT SPEECH, EVASIVE LANGUAGE
|
|
|
CIRCUMSCRIBE
|
LIMIT NARROWLY, CONFINE OR RESTRICT
|
|
|
CIRCUMSPECT
|
PRUDENT CAUTIOUS
|
|
|
CLAMBER
|
CLIMB BY CRAWLING
|
|
|
CIPHER
|
NONENTITY, WORTHLESS PERSON OR THING
|
|
|
CIRCUMLOCUTION
|
UNNECESSARILY WORDY, AND INDIRECT SPEECH, EVASIVE LANGUAGE
|
|
|
CIRCUMSCRIBE
|
LIMIT NARROWLY, CONFINE OR RESTRICT
|
|
|
CIRCUMSPECT
|
PRUDENT CAUTIOUS
|
|
|
CLAMBER
|
CLIMB BY CRAWLING
|
|
|
CLANDESTINE
|
SECRET
|
|
|
CLANGOR
|
LOUD, RESOUNDING NOISE
|
|
|
CLARION
|
SHRILL, TRUMPETLIKE SOUND
|
|
|
CLEAVE
|
SPLIT OR SEVER, CLING TO, REMAIN FAITHFUL TO
|
|
|
CLIME
|
REGION CLIMATE
|
|
|
CLOISTER
|
MONASTERY OR CONVENT
|
|
|
CLOYING
|
DISTASTFUL, EXCESSIVELY SWEET OR SENTIMENTAL
|
|
|
CODICIL
|
SUPPLEMENT TO THE BODY OF WILL
|
|
|
CODIFY
|
ARRANGE AS A CODE, CLASSIFY
|
|
|
COEVAL
|
LIVING AT THE SAME TIME AS
|
|
|
COGITATE
|
THINK OVER
|
|
|
COGNATE
|
RELATED LINGUISTICALLY, ALLIED BY BLOOD
|
|
|
COHERE
|
STICK TOGETHER
|
|
|
COHESION
|
TENDENCY TO KEEP TOGETHER
|
|
|
COLLATION
|
LIGHT MEAL
|
|
|
COLLOQUY
|
INFORMAL DISCUSSION
|
|
|
COMESTIBLE
|
SOMETHING FIT BE EATEN
|
|
|
COMEUPPANCE
|
REBUKE, JUST DESERTS
|
|
|
COMITY
|
COURTESY, CIVILITY
|
|
|
COMMODIOUS
|
SPACIOUS AND COMFORTABLE
|
|
|
*COMPENDIUM
|
BRIEF, COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY
|
|
|
COMPENSATORY
|
MAKING UP FOR, REPAYING
|
|
|
COMPORT
|
BEAR ONE'S SELF, BEHAVE
|
|
|
COMPUNCTION
|
REMORSE
|
|
|
CONCATENATE
|
LINK AS IN A CHAIN
|
|
|
CONCERTED
|
MUTUALLY AGREED ON
|
|
|
CONCOMITANT
|
THAT WHICH ACCOMPANIES
|
|
|
CONCORD
|
HARMONY
|
|
|
CONDIGN
|
APPROPRIATE, DESERVED
|
|
|
CONDOLE
|
EXPRESS SYMPATHETIC SORROW
|
|
|
CONFLAGRATION
|
GREAT FIRE
|
|
|
CONFLATE
|
MELD OR FUSE
|
|
|
CONFLUENCE
|
FLOWING TOGETHER, CROWD
|
|
|
CONGENITAL
|
EXISTING AT BIRTH
|
|
|
CONIFER
|
PINE TREE, CONE BEARING TREE
|
|
|
CONNIVANCE
|
PRETENSE OF IGNORANCE OF SOMETHING WRONG, ASSISTANCE PERMISSION TO OFFEND (CONNIVE)
|
|
|
CONNUBIAL
|
PERTAINING TO MARRIAGE OR THE MATRIMONIAL STATE
|
|
|
CONSANGUINITY
|
KINSHIP
|
|
|
CONSCRIPT
|
DRAFTEE, PERSON FORCED INTO MILITARY SERVICE
|
|
|
CONSEQUENTIAL
|
POMPOUS, SELF IMPORTANT
|
|
|
CONSONANCE
|
HARMONY, AGREEMENT
|
|
|
CONSORT
|
ASSOCIATE WITH
|
|
|
CONSORT
|
HUSBAND OR WIFE
|
|
|
CONTINENCE
|
SELF RESTRAINED, CHASTITY
|
|
|
CONTRAVENE
|
CONTRADICT OPPOSE
|
|
|
*CONTRITE
|
PENITENT
|
|
|
CONTROVERT
|
OPPOSE WITH ARGUMENTS, ATTEMPT TO REFUTE, CONTRADICT
|
|
|
CONTUMACIOUS
|
DISOBEDIENT, RESISTING AUTHORITY
|
|
|
CONVERSANT
|
FAMILIAR WITH
|
|
|
CONVERSE
|
OPPOSITE
|
|
|
CONVIVIAL
|
FESTIVE AND GAY, CHARACTERIZEDBY JOVIALITY
|
|
|
CONVOKE
|
CALL TOGETHER
|
|
|
COQUETTE
|
A FLIRT
|
|
|
CORNICE
|
PROJECTING MOLDING ON A BUILDING...USUALLY ABOVE COLUMNS
|
|
|
COROLLARY
|
CONSEQUENCE, ACCOMPANIMENT
|
|
|
CORPOREAL
|
BODILY, MATERIAL
|
|
|
CORPULENT
|
VERY FAT
|
|
|
COTERIE
|
GROUP THAT MEETS SOCIALLY, SELECT CIRCLE
|
|
|
COUNTENANCE
|
APPROVE, TOLERATE
|
|
|
COUNTENANCE
|
FACE
|
|
|
COVENANT
|
AGREEMENT
|
|
|
COVETOUS
|
AVARICIOUS, EAGERLY DESIROUS OF
|
|
|
COW
|
TERRORIZE, INTIMIDATE
|
|
|
COZEN
|
CHEAT, HOODWINK, SWINDLE
|
|
|
*CRAVEN
|
COWARDLY
|
|
|
CREDULITY
|
BELIEF ON SLIGHT EVIDENCE, GULLIBILITY, NAIVETE
|
|
|
CRONE
|
HAG
|
|
|
CULL
|
PICK OUT, REJECT
|
|
|
CUPIDITY
|
GREED
|
|
|
CURSORY
|
CASUAL, HASTILY DONE
|
|
|
CYNOSURE
|
OBJECT OF GENERAL ATTENTION
|
|
|
DALLY
|
TRIFLE WITH, PROCRASTINATE
|
|
|
DAPPLED
|
SPOTTED
|
|
|
DAUB
|
SMEAR...AS WITH PAINT
|
|
|
*DAUNT
|
INTIMIDATE, FRIGHTEN
|
|
|
DAUNTLESS
|
BOLD
|
|
|
DEARTH
|
SCARCITY
|
|
|
DEBASE
|
REDUCE THE QUALITY OR VALUE, LOWER IN ESTEEM, DEGRADE
|
|
|
DEBAUCH
|
CORRUPT, SEDUCE FROM VIRTUE
|
|
|
DECIDUOUS
|
FALLING OFF, AS OF LEAVES
|
|
|
DECLIVITY
|
DOWNWARD SLOPE
|
|
|
DECOLLETE
|
HAVING A LOW CUT, NECKLINE
|
|
|
DECREPITUDE
|
STATE OF COLLAPSE CAUSED BY ILLNESS OR OLD AGE
|
|
|
DEFOLIATE
|
DESTROY LEAVES
|
|
|
DEFROCK
|
TO STRIP A PRIEST OR MINISTER OF CHURCH AUTHORITY
|
|
|
DEIFY
|
TURN INTO A GOD, IDOLIZE
|
|
|
DEIGN
|
CONDESCEND, STOOP.
|
|
|
DELETERIOUS
|
HARMFUL
|
|
|
DELIRIUM
|
MENTAL DISORDER MARKED BY CONFUSION
|
|
|
DELUDE
|
DECEIVE
|
|
|
DELUSIVE
|
DECEPTIVE, RAISING VAIN HOPES
|
|
|
DEMAGOGUE
|
PERSON WHO APPEALS TO PEOPLES PREJUDICE, FALSE LEADER
|
|
|
DEMONIAC
|
FIENDISH
|
|
|
DEMOTIC
|
PERTAINING TO THE PEOPLE
|
|
|
DEMUR
|
OBJECTION, PROTEST
|
|
|
DEMUR
|
OBJECT, HESITATE
|
|
|
DEMURE
|
GRAVE, SERIOUS, COY.
|
|
|
*DENIGRATE
|
BLACKEN
|
|
|
DENIZEN
|
INHABITANT OR RESIDENT, REGULAR VISITOR
|
|
|
DENOTATION
|
MEANING, DISTINGUISHED BY NAME
|
|
|
DENOUEMENT
|
OUTCOME, FINAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT OF A PLAY OR OTHER LITERARY WORK.
|
|
|
DEPOSE
|
DETHRONE, REMOVE FROM OFFICE
|
|
|
DEPRAVITY
|
EXTREME CORRUPTION, WICKEDNESS
|
|
|
DEPREDATION
|
PLUNDERING
|
|
|
*DERIDE
|
RIDICULE, MAKE FUN OF
|
|
|
*DERIVATIVE
|
UNORIGINAL, OBTAINED FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
|
|
|
DESCRY
|
CATCH SIGHT OF
|
|
|
*DESICCATE
|
DRY UP
|
|
|
DESPOIL
|
STRIP OF VALUABLES, ROB
|
|
|
DESPOT
|
TYRANT, HARSH, AUTHORITARIAN RULER
|
|
|
DESUETUDE
|
STATE OF DISUSE
|
|
|
DESULTORY
|
AIMLESS, HAPHAZARD, DIGRESSING AT RANDOM
|
|
|
DEVOLVE
|
BE TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER, DELEGATE TO ANOTHER, GRADUALLY WORSEN
|
|
|
DIADEM
|
CROWN
|
|
|
DIALECTICAL
|
RELATING TO THE ART OF DEBATE, MUTUAL OR RECIPROCAL
|
|
|
DIAPHANOUS
|
SHEER TRANSPARENT
|
|
|
DICTUM
|
AUTHORITATIVE AND WEIGHTY STATEMENT, SAYING, MAXIM
|
|
|
DIDACTIC
|
TEACHING, INSTRUCTIONAL
|
|
|
*DIFFIDENCE
|
SHYNESS
|
|
|
*DIFFUSE
|
WORDY, RAMBLING, SPREAD (LIKE GAS)
|
|
|
DILATORY
|
TENDING TO DELAY, INTENTIONALLLY DELAYING
|
|
|
DILETTANTE
|
AIMLESS FOLLOWER OF THE ARTS, AMATEUR, DABBLER
|
|
|
DIMINUTINO
|
LESSENING, REDUCTION IN SIZE
|
|
|
DIN
|
CONTINUED LOUD NOISE
|
|
|
DINT
|
MEANS, EFFORT
|
|
|
*DISABUSE
|
CORRECT A FALSE IMPRESSION, UNDECEIVE
|
|
|
DISAFFECTED
|
DISLOYAL
|
|
|
DISAPPROBATION
|
DISAPPROVAL, CONDEMNATION
|
|
|
DISCOMFIT
|
PUT TO ROUT, DISCONCERT
|
|
|
DISCONSOLATE
|
SAD
|
|
|
*DISCORDANT
|
NOT HARMONIOUS, CONFLICTING
|
|
|
DISCURSIVE
|
DIGRESSING, RAMBLING
|
|
|
DISGORGE
|
SURRENDER SOMETHING, EJECT, VOMIT
|
|
|
DISINCLINATION
|
UNWILLINGNESS
|
|
|
DISINTER
|
DIG UP, UNEARTH
|
|
|
*DISINTERESTED
|
UNPREJUDICED
|
|
|
DISJUNCTION
|
ACT OR STATE OF SEPARATION, DISUNITY
|
|
|
DISPARATE
|
BASCIALLY DIFFERENT, UNRELATED
|
|
|
DISPORT
|
AMUSE
|
|
|
DISPUTATIOUS
|
ARGUMENTATIVE, FOND OF ARGUING
|
|
|
DISQUIETUDE
|
UNEASINESS, ANXIETY
|
|
|
DISQUISITION
|
A FORMAL SYSTEMATIC INQUIRY, AN EXPLANATION OF THE RESULTS OF FORMAL INQUIRY
|
|
|
*DISSMEBLE
|
DISGUISE, PRETEND
|
|
|
DISSIMULATE
|
PRETEND, CONCEAL BY FEIGNING
|
|
|
*DISSOLUTION
|
DISINTEGRATION, LOOSENESS IN MORALS
|
|
|
*DISTILL
|
PURIFY, REFINE, CONCENTRATE
|
|
|
DISTRAIT
|
INATTENTIVE, DISTRACTED, OFTEN BY ANXIETY
|
|
|
DOCTRINAIRE
|
UNABLE TO COMPROMISE ABOUT POINTS OF A DOCTRINE, DOGMATIC, UNYIELDING
|
|
|
DODDERING
|
SHAKY, INFIRM FROM OLD AGE
|
|
|
DOFF
|
TAKE OFF
|
|
|
DOGGED
|
DETERMINED, STUBBORN
|
|
|
DOGGEREL
|
POOR VERSE
|
|
|
*DOGMATIC
|
OPINIONATED, ARBITRARY, DOCTRINAL
|
|
|
DOLOROUS
|
SORROWFUL
|
|
|
DORMER
|
WINDOW PROJECTING FROM ROOF
|
|
|
DOTAGE
|
SENILITY
|
|
|
DOUR
|
SULLEN, STUBBORN
|
|
|
DROSS
|
WASTE MATTER, WORTHLESS IMPURITIES
|
|
|
DRUDGERY
|
MENIAL WORK
|
|
|
DUCTILE
|
MALLEABLE, FLEXIBLE, PLIABLE
|
|
|
DULCET
|
SWEET SOUNDING
|
|
|
DYSPEPTIC
|
SUFFERING FROM INDIGESTION
|
|
|
EBULLIENT
|
SHOWING EXCITEMENT, OVERFLOWING WITH ENTHUSIASM
|
|
|
ECCLESIASTIC
|
PERTAINING TO THE CHURCH
|
|
|
EDIFY
|
INSTRUCT, CORRECT MORALLY
|
|
|
EFFACE
|
RUB OUT
|
|
|
EFFECTUAL
|
ABLE TO PRODUCE A DESIRED EFFECT, VALID
|
|
|
EFFEMINATE
|
HAVING WOMANLY TRAITS
|
|
|
EFFETE
|
LACKING VIGOR, WORN OUT, STERILE
|
|
|
*EFFICACY
|
POWER TO PRODUCE DESIRED EFFECT.
|
|
|
EFFIGY
|
DUMMY (MANEQUIN)
|
|
|
EFFLUVIUM
|
NOXIOUS SMELL
|
|
|
*EFFRONTERY
|
IMPUDENCE, SHAMELESS BOLDNESS, SHEER NERVE, PRESUMPTUOUSNESS
|
|
|
EFFUSION
|
POURING FORTH
|
|
|
EFFUSIVE
|
POURING FORTH, GUSHING
|
|
|
ELLIPSIS
|
OMISSION OF WORDS FROM A TEXT
|
|
|
ELUCIDATE
|
EXPLAIN, ENLIGHTEN
|
|
|
ELYSIAN
|
RELATING TO PARADISE, BLISSFUL
|
|
|
EMBROIL
|
THROW INTO CONFUSION
|
|
|
EMEND
|
CORRECT, USUALLY A TEXT
|
|
|
EMENDATION
|
CORRECTION OF ERRORS, IMPROVEMENT
|
|
|
EMETIC
|
SUBSTANCE CAUSING VOMITING
|
|
|
EMOLLIENT
|
SOOTHING OR SOFTENING REMEDY
|
|
|
EMOLUMENT
|
SALARY, COMPENSATION
|
|
|
*EMULATE
|
IMITATE, RIVAL
|
|
|
ENCIPHER
|
ENCODE, CONVERT A MESSAGE INTO CODE
|
|
|
ENCOMIASTIC
|
PRAISING, EULOGISTIC
|
|
|
ENCOMIUM
|
HIGH PRAISE, EULOGY
|
|
|
ENDUE
|
PROVIDE WITH SOME QUALITY, ENDOW
|
|
|
*ENERVATE
|
WEAKEN
|
|
|
ENJOIN
|
COMMANC, ORDER, FORBID
|
|
|
ENMITY
|
ILL WILL, HATRED
|
|
|
ENNUI
|
BOREDOM
|
|
|
ENRAPTURE
|
PLEASE INTENSELY
|
|
|
ENTOMOLOGY
|
STUDY OF INSECTS
|
|
|
ENTREAT
|
PLEAD, ASK EARNESTLY
|
|
|
ENUMERATE
|
LIST, MENTION ONE BY ONE
|
|
|
EPAULET
|
ORNAMENT, WORN ON THE SHOULDER...OF A UNIFORM
|
|
|
*EPHEMERAL
|
SHORT LIVED, FLEETING
|
|
|
EPIGRAM
|
WITTY THOUGHT OR SAYING, USUALLY SHORT
|
|
|
EPISTEMOLOGIST
|
PHILOSOPHER WHO STUDIES THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE
|
|
|
EPITAPH
|
INSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF A DEAD PERSON
|
|
|
EPOCH
|
PERIOD OF TIME
|
|
|
EQUABLE
|
TRANQUIL, STEADY, UNIFORM
|
|
|
*EQUANIMITY
|
CALMNESS TEMPERAMENT, COMPOSURE
|
|
|
EQUIPOSE
|
BALANCE, BALANCING FORCE, EQUILIBRIUM
|
|
|
EQUIVOCAL
|
AMBIGUOUS, INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING
|
|
|
*EQUIVOCATE
|
LIE, MISLEAD, ATTEMPT TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH
|
|
|
*ERUDITE
|
LEARNED, SCHOLARLY
|
|
|
ESPOUSE
|
ADOPT, SUPPORT
|
|
|
ETHNOLOGY
|
STUDY OF HUMANKIND
|
|
|
ETYMOLOGY
|
STUDY OF WORD PARTS
|
|
|
EUGENIC
|
PERTAINING TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF RACE
|
|
|
*EUPHEMISM
|
MILD EXPRESSION IN PLACE OF A PLEASANT ONE
|
|
|
EVANESCENT
|
FLEETING, VANISHING
|
|
|
EVINCE
|
SHOW CLEARLY
|
|
|
EXCORIATE
|
SCOLD WITH BITING HARSHNESS, STRIP THE SKIN OFF
|
|
|
*EXCULPATE
|
CLEAR FROM BLAME
|
|
|
EXECRABLE
|
VERY BAD
|
|
|
EXECRATE
|
CURSE, EXPRESS ABHORRENCE FOR
|
|
|
EXEGESIS
|
EXPLANATION, ESPECIALLY OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES
|
|
|
EXHORT
|
URGE
|
|
|
EXIGENCY
|
URGENT SITUATION
|
|
|
EXIGOUS
|
SMALL, MINUTE
|
|
|
EXPATIATE
|
TALK AT LENGTH
|
|
|
EXPIATE
|
MAKE AMENDS FOR A SIN
|
|
|
EXPLICATE
|
EXPLAIN, INTERPRET, CLARIFY
|
|
|
EXPOSITORY
|
EXPLANATORY, SERVING TO EXPLAIN
|
|
|
EXPOSTULATION
|
PROTEST, REMONSTRANCE
|
|
|
EXPURGATE
|
CLEAN, REMOVE OFFENSIVE PARTS OF A BOOK
|
|
|
EXTANT
|
STILL IN EXISTENCE
|
|
|
EXTIRPATE
|
ROOT UP
|
|
|
EXTOL
|
PRAISE, GLORIFY
|
|
|
EXTORT
|
WRING FROM, GET MONEY BY THREATS
|
|
|
EXTRINSIC
|
EXTERNAL, NOT ESSENTIAL, EXTRANEOUS
|
|
|
FACET
|
SMALL PLANE SURFACE OF A GEM, A SIDE
|
|
|
*FACETIOUS
|
JOKING, HUMOROUS
|
|
|
FACILE
|
EASILY ACCOMPLISHED, READY OR FLUENT
|
|
|
FACTIOUS
|
INCLINED TO FORM FACTIONS, CAUSING DISENSION
|
|
|
FACTOTUM
|
HANDYMAN, PERSON WHO DOES ALL KINDS OF WORK
|
|
|
FALLACIOUS
|
FALSE, MISLEADING
|
|
|
FALLOW
|
PLOWED BUT NOT SOWED, UNCULTIVATED
|
|
|
FANCIER
|
BREEDER OR DEALER OF ANIMALS
|
|
|
FASTIDIOUS
|
DIFFICULT TO PLEASE, SQUEAMISH
|
|
|
*FATUOUS
|
BRAINLESS, INANE, FOOLISH
|
|
|
FEBRILE
|
FEVERISH
|
|
|
FECKLESS
|
FEEBLE AND INEFFECTIVE
|
|
|
FECUNDITY
|
FERTILITY, FRUITLESSNESS
|
|
|
FEINT
|
TRICK, SHIFT, SHAM
|
|
|
*FELICITOUS
|
APT, SUITABLY EXPRESSED, WELL CHOSEN
|
|
|
FERMENT
|
AGITATION, COMMOTION
|
|
|
FERRET
|
DRIVE OR HUNT OUT OF HIDING
|
|
|
*FERVOR
|
GLOWING ARDOR, INTENSITY OF FEELING
|
|
|
FETE
|
HONOR AT FESTIVAL
|
|
|
FETID
|
MALODOROUS, FOUL SMELLING
|
|
|
FETTER
|
SHACKLE
|
|
|
FIAT
|
COMMAND, AUTHORIZATION
|
|
|
FILCH
|
STEAL
|
|
|
FILIAL
|
PERTAINING TO A SON OR DAUGHTER
|
|
|
FILIGREE
|
DELICATE, LACELIKE METALWORK
|
|
|
FITFUL
|
SPASMODIC, INTERMITTENT
|
|
|
FLIT
|
FLY, DART LIGHTLY, PASS SWIFTLY BY
|
|
|
FLOE
|
MASS OF FLOATING ICE
|
|
|
FLORID
|
RUDDY, REDDISH, FLOWERY
|
|
|
FLOTSAM
|
DRIFTING WRECKAGE
|
|
|
*FLOUT
|
REJECT, MOCK, SHOW CONTEMPT FOR
|
|
|
FLUTED
|
HAVING VERTICAL PARALLEL GROOVES
|
|
|
FOIBLE
|
WEAKNESS, SLIGHT FAULT
|
|
|
FOIST
|
INSERT IMPROPERLY, PALM OFF
|
|
|
*FOMENT
|
STIR UP, INSTIGATE
|
|
|
FOP
|
DANDY, MAN EXCESSIFLY PREOCCUPIED WITH HIS CLOTHES
|
|
|
FORD
|
PLACE WHERE A RIVER CAN BE CROSSED ON FOOT
|
|
|
*FORESTALL
|
PREVENT BY TAKING ACTION IN ADVANCE
|
|
|
FORMIDABLE
|
INSPIRING FEAR OR APPREHENSION, DIFFICULT, AWE INSPIRING
|
|
|
FORSWEAR
|
RENOUNCE, ABANDON
|
|
|
FORTUITOUS
|
ACCIDENTAL, BY CHANCE
|
|
|
FOUNDER
|
FAIL COMPLETELY, SINK
|
|
|
FRACAS
|
BRAWL, MELEE
|
|
|
FRACTIOUS
|
UNRULY, DISOBEDIENT, IRRITABLE
|
|
|
FRIEZE
|
ORNAMENTAL BAND ON A WALL
|
|
|
FROND
|
FERN LEAF
|
|
|
FROWARD
|
STUBBORNLY CONTRARY, OBSTINATELY DISOBEDIENT
|
|
|
FRUCTIFY
|
BEAR FRUIT
|
|
|
FULMINATE
|
DENOUNCE THUNEROUSLY, EXPLODE
|
|
|
FULSOME
|
DISGUSTINGLY EXCESSIVE
|
|
|
FUNCTIONARY
|
OFFICIAL
|
|
|
FUNEREAL
|
SAD SOLEMN
|
|
|
FURTIVE
|
STEALTHY, SNEAKY
|
|
|
FUSILLADE
|
SIMULTANEOUS FIRING OR OUTBURST
|
|
|
GADFLY
|
ANIMAL BITING FLY, AN IRRITATING PERSON
|
|
|
GAINSAY
|
DENY
|
|
|
GALLEON
|
LARGE SAILING SHIP
|
|
|
GAMBOL
|
ROMP, SKIP ABOUT, LEAP PLAYFULLY
|
|
|
*GARRULOUS
|
LOQUACIOUS, WORDY TALKITIVE
|
|
|
GAUNT
|
LEAN AND ANGULAR, BARREN
|
|
|
GENTRY
|
PEOPLE OF STANDING, CLASS OF PEOPLE JUST BELOW NOBILITY
|
|
|
GERMINAL
|
PERTAINING TO A GERM, CREATIVE
|
|
|
GERONTOCRACY
|
GOVERNMENT RULED BY OLD PEOPLE
|
|
|
GESTATE
|
EVOLVE
|
|
|
GESTICULATION
|
MOTION GESTURE
|
|
|
GIBE
|
MOCK
|
|
|
GLEAN
|
GATHER LEAVINGS
|
|
|
GLOWER
|
SCOWL
|
|
|
*GOAD
|
URGE ON
|
|
|
GOSSAMER
|
SHEER, LIKE COBWEBS
|
|
|
GOURMAND
|
EPICURE, PERSON WHO TAKES EXCESSIVE PLEASURE IN FOOD AND DRINK
|
|
|
GRANARY
|
STOREHOUSE FOR GRAIN
|
|
|
*GRANDILOQUENT
|
POMPOUS, BOMBASTIC, USING HIGH SOUNDING LANGUAGE
|
|
|
GROUSE
|
COMPLAIN, FUSS
|
|
|
GUILE
|
DECEIT, DUPLICITY, CUNNING
|
|
|
*GUILELESS
|
WITHOUT DECEIT
|
|
|
GULL
|
TRICK, HOODWINK
|
|
|
GUSTATORY
|
AFFECTING THE SENSE OF TASTE
|
|
|
GUY
|
CABLE OR CHAIN ATTATCHED TO SOMETHING THAT IS BRACED OR STEADIED
|
|
|
HABITUATE
|
ACCUSTOM OR FAMILIARIZE
|
|
|
HACKLES
|
HAIRS ON THE BACK AND NECK...ESPECIALLY A DOG
|
|
|
HALCYON
|
CALM, PEACEFUL
|
|
|
HALE
|
HEALTHY
|
|
|
HAP
|
CHANCE, LUCK
|
|
|
HAPLESS
|
UNFORTUNATE
|
|
|
HACKLES
|
HAIRS ON THE BACK AND NECK...ESPECIALLY A DOG
|
|
|
HALCYON
|
CALM, PEACEFUL
|
|
|
HALE
|
HEALTHY
|
|
|
HAP
|
CHANCE, LUCK
|
|
|
HAPLESS
|
UNFORTUNATE
|
|
|
*HARANGUE
|
LONG PASSIONATE AND VEHMENT SPEECH
|
|
|
HARRY
|
HARASS, ANNOY, TORMENT, RAID
|
|
|
HAUGHTINESS
|
PRIDE, ARROGANCE
|
|
|
HEEDLESS
|
NOTICING, DISREGARDING
|
|
|
HEGEMONY
|
DOMINANCE, ESPECIALLY ONE NATION OVER OTHERS
|
|
|
HEREMETIC
|
OBSCUER, MYSTERIOUS
|
|
|
HERPETOLOGIST
|
ONE WHO STUDIES REPTILES
|
|
|
HETERODOX
|
UNORTHODOX, UNCONVENTIONAL
|
|
|
NEW
|
CUT TO PIECES WITH AX OR SWORD
|
|
|
HIBERNAL
|
WINTRY
|
|
|
HIRELING
|
ONE WHO SERVES FOR HIRE
|
|
|
HIRSUTE
|
HAIRY
|
|
|
HISTRIONIC
|
THEATRICAL
|
|
|
HOARY
|
WHITE WITH AGE
|
|
|
HOMILY
|
SERMON, SERIOUS WARNING
|
|
|
HORTATORY
|
ENCOURAGING
|
|
|
HUBRIS
|
ARROGANCE, EXCESSIVE SELF CONCEIT
|
|
|
HUMMOCK
|
SMALL HILL
|
|
|
HUMUS
|
SUBSTANCE FORMED BY DECAYING VEGETABLE MATTER
|
|
|
HUSBAND
|
USE SPARINGLY, CONSERVE, SAVE
|
|
|
HUSBANDRY
|
FRUGALITY, THRIFT, AGRICULTURE
|
|
|
*HYPERBOLE
|
EXAGGERATION, OVERSTATEMENT
|
|
|
ICTHYOLOGY
|
STUDY OF FISH
|
|
|
*ICONOCLASTIC
|
ATTACKING CHERISHED TRADITIONS
|
|
|
IDIOM
|
EXPRESSION WHOSE MEANING AS A WHOLE DIFFERS FROM THE MEANINGS OF ITS INDIVIDUAL WORDS
|
|
|
IGNOBLE
|
UNWORTHY, NOT NOBLE
|
|
|
IGNOMINY
|
DEEP DISGRACE, SHAME OR DISHONER
|
|
|
ILLIMITABLE
|
INFINITE
|
|
|
ILLUSORY
|
DECEPTIVE, NOT REAL
|
|
|
IMBECILITY
|
WEAKNESS OF MIND
|
|
|
IMBROGLIO
|
COMPLICATED STIUATION, PAINFUL OR COMPLEX MISUNDERSTANDING, ENTANGLMENT
|
|
|
IMMOLATE
|
OFFER AS A SACRIFICE
|
|
|
IMMURE
|
IMPRISON, SHUT UP IN CONFINEMENT
|
|
|
*IMMUTABLE
|
UNCHANGEABLE
|
|
|
IMPALPABLE
|
IMPERCEPTIBLE, INTANGIBLE
|
|
|
*IMPASSIVE
|
WITHOUT FEELING
|
|
|
IMPECUNIOUS
|
WITHOUT MONEY
|
|
|
IMPEDIMENT
|
HINDRINCE, STUMBLING BLOCK
|
|
|
IMPEL
|
DRIVE OR FORCE ONWARD
|
|
|
IMPENITENT
|
NOT REPENTANT
|
|
|
IMPERATIVE
|
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
|
|
|
IMPERIOUS
|
DOMINEERING HAUGHTY
|
|
|
IMPERTINENT
|
INSOLENT, RUDE
|
|
|
*IMPERTURBABLE
|
CALM PLACID
|
|
|
IMPETUOUS
|
VIOLENT, HASTY, RASH
|
|
|
IMPIETY
|
IRREVERENCE, LACK OF RESPECT FOR GOD
|
|
|
IMPIOUS
|
IRREVERENT
|
|
|
IMPLACABLE
|
INCAPABLE OF BEING PACIFIED
|
|
|
IMPOLITIC
|
NOT WISE
|
|
|
IMPONDERABLE
|
WEIGHTLESS
|
|
|
IMPORT
|
SIGNIFICANCE
|
|
|
IMPORTUNATE
|
URGING, DEMANDING
|
|
|
IMPORTUNE
|
BEG PERSISTENTLY
|
|
|
IMPRECATION
|
CURSE
|
|
|
IMPROVIDENT
|
THRIFTLESS
|
|
|
IMPUGN
|
DISPUTE OR CONTRADICT
|
|
|
IMPUISSANCE
|
POWERLESSNESS, FEEBLENESS
|
|
|
IMPUNITY
|
FREEDOM FROM PUNISHMENT OR HARM
|
|
|
IMPUTE
|
ATTRIBUTE, ASCRIBE
|
|
|
INCANTATION
|
SINGING OR CHANTING OF MAGIC SPELLS, MAGICAL FORMULA
|
|
|
INCHOATE
|
RECENTLY BEGUN, RUDIMENTARY, ELEMENTARY
|
|
|
INCIPIENT
|
BEGINNING, IN AN EARLY STAGE
|
|
|
INCOMMODIOUS
|
NOT SPACIOUS, INCONVENIENT
|
|
|
INCONTINENT
|
LACKING SELF RESTRAINT, LICENTIOUS
|
|
|
INCORPOREAL
|
LACKING A MATERIAL BODY, INSUBSTANTIAL
|
|
|
INCREDULITY
|
TENDENCY TO DISBELIEF
|
|
|
INCREDULOUS
|
WITHHOLDING BELIEF, SKEPTICAL
|
|
|
INCRUSTATION
|
HARD COATING OR CRUST
|
|
|
INCUBUS
|
BURDEN, MENTAL CARE, NIGHTMARE
|
|
|
INCULCATE
|
TEACH
|
|
|
INCUR
|
BRING UPON ONESELF
|
|
|
INDEFATIGABLE
|
TIRELESS
|
|
|
INDELIBLE
|
NOT ABLE TO BE ERASED
|
|
|
INDEMNIFY
|
MAKE SECURE AGAINST LOSS
|
|
|
INDENTURE
|
BIND AS SERVANT OR APPRENTICE TO MASTER
|
|
|
*INDIGENCE
|
POVERTY
|
|
|
INDIGENT
|
POOR DESTITUTE
|
|
|
INDISSOLUBLE
|
PERMANENT
|
|
|
INDITE
|
WRITE, COMPOSE
|
|
|
*INDOLENT
|
LAZY
|
|
|
INDOMITABLE
|
UNCONQUERABLE, UNYIELDING
|
|
|
INDUBITABLE
|
UNABLE TO BE DOUBTED, UNQUESTIONABLE
|
|
|
INEFFIBLE
|
UNUTTERABLE, CANNOT BE EXPRESSED IN SPEECH
|
|
|
INEFFECTUAL
|
NOT EFFECTIVE, WEAK
|
|
|
INELUCTABLE
|
IRRESISTIBLE NOT TO BE ESCAPED
|
|
|
INERRANCY
|
INFALLIBILITY
|
|
|
*INERT
|
INACTIVE, LACKING POWER TO MOVE
|
|
|
INEXORABLE
|
RELENTLESS, UNYEILDING, IPLACABLE
|
|
|
INFIDEL
|
UNBELIEVER
|
|
|
INFIRMITY
|
WEAKNESS
|
|
|
INGENUOUS
|
NAIVE AND TRUSTING, YOUJNG UNSOPHISTICATED
|
|
|
INGRATIATE
|
BECOME POPULAR WITH
|
|
|
INIMICAL
|
UNFRIENDLY, HOSTILE, HARMFUL
|
|
|
INIMITABLE
|
MATCHLESS, NOT ABLE TO BE IMITATED
|
|
|
INIQUITOUS
|
WICKED, IMMORAL
|
|
|
INSALUBRIOUS
|
UNWHOLESOME, NOT HEALTHFUL
|
|
|
INSENSATE
|
WITHOUT FEELING
|
|
|
*INSENSIBLE
|
UNCONSCIOUS, UNRESPONSIVE
|
|
|
*INSIPID
|
LACKING IN FLAVOR, DULL
|
|
|
INSOLVENT
|
BANKRUPT, LACKING MONEY TO PAY
|
|
|
INSOUCIANT
|
INDIFFERENT, WITHOUT CONCERN OR CARE
|
|
|
INSULARITY
|
NARROW-MINDEDNESS, ISOLATION
|
|
|
INSUPERABLE
|
INSURMOUNTABLE, UNBEATABLE
|
|
|
INTELLIGENTSIA
|
INTELLECTUALS, MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATED ELITE
|
|
|
INTERDICT
|
PROHIBIT, FORBID
|
|
|
INTERMINABLE
|
ENDLESS
|
|
|
INTERNECINE
|
MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE
|
|
|
INTERREGNUM
|
PERIOD BETWEEN TWO REIGNS
|
|
|
*INTRACTABLE
|
UNRULY, STUBBORN, UNYIELDING
|
|
|
*INTRANSIGENCE
|
REFUSAL OF ANY COMPROMISE, STUBBORNESS
|
|
|
INURED
|
ACCUSTOMED, HARDENED
|
|
|
INVECTIVE
|
ABUSE
|
|
|
INVEIGH
|
DENOUNCE, UTTER CENSURE OR INVECTIVE
|
|
|
INVEIGLE
|
LEAD ASTRAY, WHEEDLE
|
|
|
INVETERATE
|
DEEP-ROOTED, HABITUAL
|
|
|
INVIDIOUS
|
DESIGNED TO CREATE ILL WILL OR ENVY
|
|
|
INVIOLABLE
|
SECURE FROM CORRUPTION, ATTACK, OR VIOLATION, UNASSAILABLE
|
|
|
*IRASCIBLE
|
IRRITABLE, EASILY ANGERED
|
|
|
IRIDESCENT
|
EXHIBITING RAINBOWLIKE COLORS
|
|
|
IRREMEDIABLE
|
INCURABLE, UNCORRECTABLE
|
|
|
*IRRESOLUTE
|
UNCERTAIN HOW TO ACT, WEAK
|
|
|
ISTHMUS
|
NARROW NECK OF LAND CONNECTING TWO LARGER BODIES OF LAND
|
|
|
ITINERANT
|
WANDERING, TRAVELING
|
|
|
JAUNTY
|
LIGHTHEARTED, ANIMATED, EASY AND CAREFREE
|
|
|
JIBE
|
AGREE, BE IN HARMONY WITH
|
|
|
JINGOIST
|
EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE AND MILITANT PATRIOT
|
|
|
JOCOSE
|
GIVEN TO JOKING
|
|
|
JOCUND
|
MERRY
|
|
|
JOLLITY
|
GAIETY, CHEERFULNESS
|
|
|
JUNKET
|
TRIP, ESPECIALLY ONE TAKEN FOR PLEASURE BY AN OFFICIAL AT PUBLIC EXPENSE
|
|
|
JUNTA
|
GROUP OF PERONS JOINED IN POLITICAL INTRIGUE
|
|
|
KEN
|
RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE
|
|
|
KNAVE
|
UNTRUSTWORTHY PERSON, ROGUE, SCOUNDREL
|
|
|
KENLL
|
TOLLING OF A BELL
|
|
|
KNIT
|
CONTRACT INTO WRINKLES, GROW TOGETHER
|
|
|
KNOTTY
|
INTRICATE, DIFFICULT, TANGLED
|
|
|
LABILE
|
LIKELY TO CHANGE, UNSTABLE
|
|
|
LACHRYMOSE
|
PRODUCING TEARS
|
|
|
*LACONIC
|
BRIEF AND TO THE POINT
|
|
|
LAGGARD
|
SLOW, SLUGGISH
|
|
|
LAITY
|
LAYPERSON, PERSONS NOT CONNECTED WITH CLERGY
|
|
|
LANCET
|
SMALL SURGICAL TOOL FOR MAKING INCISIONS
|
|
|
LANGUID
|
WEARY, SLUGGISH, LISTLESS
|
|
|
LANGUOR
|
LASSITUDE, DEPRESSION
|
|
|
LARDER
|
PANTRY, PLACE WHERE FOOD IS KEPT
|
|
|
LARGESS
|
GENEROUS GIFT
|
|
|
*LASSITUDE
|
LANGUOR, WEARINESS
|
|
|
LEGERDEMAIN
|
SLEIGHT OF HAND
|
|
|
LEONINE
|
LIKE A LION
|
|
|
LEXICOGRAPHER
|
COMPILER OF A DICTIONARY
|
|
|
LIBERTINE
|
DEBAUCHED PERSON, ROUE
|
|
|
LICENTIOUS
|
AMORAL
|
|
|
LIGNEOUS
|
LIKE WOOD
|
|
|
LILLIPUTIAN
|
EXTREMELY SMALL
|
|
|
LIMN
|
DRAW OUTLINE, DESCRIBE
|
|
|
LIMPID
|
CLEAR
|
|
|
LINEAGE
|
DESCENT, ANCESTRY
|
|
|
LINEAMENTS
|
FEATURES
|
|
|
LIONIZE
|
TREAT AS A CELEBRITY
|
|
|
LITANY
|
SUPPLICATORY PRAYER
|
|
|
LITHE
|
FLEXIBLE, SUPPLE
|
|
|
LITOTES
|
UNDERSTATEMENT FOR EMPHASIS
|
|
|
LIVID
|
LEAD COLORED, BLACK AND BLUE, ASHEN, ENRAGED
|
|
|
LOATH
|
RELUCTANT, DISINCLINED
|
|
|
LOATHE
|
DETEST, BOOING AND HISSING
|
|
|
LODE
|
METAL BEARING VEIN
|
|
|
LOLL
|
LOUNGE ABOUT
|
|
|
LOPE
|
GALLOP SLOWLY
|
|
|
*LOQUACIOUS
|
TALKATIVE
|
|
|
LOUT
|
CLUMSY PERSON
|
|
|
LOW
|
MOO
|
|
|
LUCRE
|
MONEY
|
|
|
LUGUBRIOUS
|
MOURNFUL
|
|
|
LURID
|
WILD, ESNATIONAL, GRAPHIC, GRUESOME
|
|
|
MACABRE
|
GRUESOME, GRISLY
|
|
|
MACE
|
CEREMONIAL STAFF, CLUBLIKE MEDIEVAL WEAPON
|
|
|
MACERATE
|
SOFTEN BY SOAKING IN LIQUID, WASTE AWAY
|
|
|
MACULATED
|
SPOTTED, STAINED
|
|
|
MAELSTROM
|
WHIRLPOOL
|
|
|
MAGISTERIAL
|
AUTHORITATIVE, IMPERIOUS
|
|
|
*MAGNANIMITY
|
GENEROSITY
|
|
|
MAGNILOQUENT
|
BOASTFUL, POMPOUS
|
|
|
MALADROIT
|
BLUMSY, BUNGLING
|
|
|
MALAPROPISM
|
COMIC MISUSE OF A WORD
|
|
|
MALEDICTION
|
CURSE
|
|
|
MALEFACTOR
|
EVILDOER, CRIMINAL
|
|
|
MALEVOLENT
|
WISHING EVIL
|
|
|
*MALINGERER
|
ONE WHO FEIGNS ILLNESS TO ESCAPE DUTY
|
|
|
MALODOROUS
|
FOUL SMELLING.
|
|
|
MANIFOLD
|
NUMEROUS, VARIED
|
|
|
MANUMIT
|
EMANCIPATE, FREE FROM BONDAGE
|
|
|
MARTINET
|
NO TALKING AT MEALS
|
|
|
MASTICATE
|
CHEW
|
|
|
MATRIX
|
POINT OF ORIGIN, ARRAY OF NUMBER OR ALGEBRAIC SYMBOLS, MOLD OR DIE
|
|
|
MANIFOLD
|
NUMEROUS, VARIED
|
|
|
MANUMIT
|
EMANCIPATE, FREE FROM BONDAGE
|
|
|
MARTINET
|
NO TALKING AT MEALS
|
|
|
MASTICATE
|
CHEW
|
|
|
MATRIX
|
POINT OF ORIGIN, ARRAY OF NUMBER OR ALGEBRAIC SYMBOLS, MOLD OR DIE
|
|
|
MAUDLIN
|
EFFUSIVELY SENTIMENTAL
|
|
|
MAWKISH
|
MUSH AND GUSHY
|
|
|
MEGALOMANIA
|
MANI FOR DOING GRANDIOSE THINGS
|
|
|
MELLIFLUOUS
|
SWEETLY OR SMOOTHLY FLOWING, MELODIOUS
|
|
|
*MENDACIOUS
|
LYING, HABITUALLY DISHONEST
|
|
|
MENDICANT
|
BEGGAR
|
|
|
MERCURIAL
|
CAPRICIOUS, CHANGING, FICKLE
|
|
|
MERETRICIOUS
|
FLASHY, TAWDRY
|
|
|
METE
|
MEASURE, DISTRIBUTE
|
|
|
METTLE
|
COURAGE, SPIRIT
|
|
|
METTLE
|
COURAGE, SPIRIT
|
|
|
MIASMA
|
SWAMP GAS, HEAVY, VAPOROUS ATMOSPHERE...OFTEN EMANATING FROM DECAYING MATTER
|
|
|
MILIEU
|
ENVIRONMENT, MEANS OF EXPRESSION
|
|
|
MILITATE
|
WORK AGAINST
|
|
|
MINATORY
|
MENACING, THREATENING
|
|
|
MINCING
|
AFFECTEDLY DAINTY
|
|
|
MINION
|
SERVILE DEPENDENT
|
|
|
*MISANTHROPE
|
ONE WHO HATES MANKIND
|
|
|
MISCELLANY
|
MIXTURE OF WRITINGS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS
|
|
|
MISCHANCE
|
ILL LUCK.
|
|
|
MISCREANT
|
WRETCH, VILLIAN
|
|
|
MISGIVINGS
|
DOUBTS
|
|
|
MISOGAMY
|
HATRED OF MARRIAGE
|
|
|
MISOGYNIST
|
HATER OF WOMEN
|
|
|
MISSIVE
|
LETTER
|
|
|
*MITIGATE
|
LESSEN IN INTENSITY, MODERATE, APPEASE
|
|
|
MNEMONIC
|
PERTAINING TO MEMORY
|
|
|
MODISH
|
FASHIONABLE
|
|
|
*MOLLIFY
|
SOOTHE
|
|
|
MOLLYCODDLE
|
PAMPER, INDULGE EXCESSIVELY
|
|
|
MONASTIC
|
RELATED TO MONKS OR MONASTERIES, REMOVED FROM WORLDY CONCERNS
|
|
|
MORDANT
|
BITING, SARCASTIC STINGING
|
|
|
MORES
|
CONVENTIONS, MORAL STANDARDS, CUSTOMS
|
|
|
MORIBUND
|
DYING
|
|
|
MOTE
|
SMALL SPECK
|
|
|
MOTILITY
|
ABILITY TO MOVE SPONTANEOUSLY
|
|
|
MOTTLED
|
BLOTCHED IN COLORING SPOTTED
|
|
|
MOUNTEBANK
|
CHARLATAN
|
|
|
MULCT
|
DEFRAUD A PERSON OF SOMETHING
|
|
|
MULTIFARIOUS
|
VARIED, GREATLY DIVERSIFIED
|
|
|
MULTIFORM
|
HAVING MANY FORMS
|
|
|
MULTIPLICITY
|
STATE OF BEING NUMEROUS
|
|
|
*MUNDANE
|
WORLDY AS OPPOSED TO SPIRITUAL, EVERY DAY
|
|
|
MUNIFICENT
|
VERY GENEROUS
|
|
|
MUTABILITY
|
ABILITY TO CHANGE FORM
|
|
|
NADIR
|
LOWEST POINT
|
|
|
NASCENT
|
INCIPIENT, COMING INTO BEING
|
|
|
NATATION
|
SWIMMING
|
|
|
NATTY
|
NEATLY OR SMARTLY DRESSED
|
|
|
NECROMANCY
|
BLACK MAGIC
|
|
|
NEOLOGISM
|
NEW OR NEWLY COINED WORD OR PHRASE
|
|
|
NETHER
|
LOWER
|
|
|
NETTLE
|
ANNOY, VEX
|
|
|
NEXUS
|
CONNECTION
|
|
|
NIB
|
BEAK, PEN POINT
|
|
|
NIGGARDLY
|
MEANLY STINGY, PARSIMONIOUS
|
|
|
NIGGLE
|
SPENT TOO MUCH TIME ON MINOR POINTS
|
|
|
NIHILIST
|
ONE WHO CONSIDERS TRADITIONAL BELIEFS GROUNDLESS...AND EXISTENCE MEANINGLESS
|
|
|
NIGGARDLY
|
MEANLY STINGY, PARSIMONIOUS
|
|
|
NOISOME
|
FOUL SMELLING, UNWHOLESOME
|
|
|
NIGGLE
|
SPENT TOO MUCH TIME ON MINOR POINTS
|
|
|
NONPLUS
|
BRING TO A HALT BY CONFUSION, PERPLEX
|
|
|
NIHILIST
|
ONE WHO CONSIDERS TRADITIONAL BELIEFS GROUNDLESS...AND EXISTENCE MEANINGLESS
|
|
|
NOISOME
|
FOUL SMELLING, UNWHOLESOME
|
|
|
NONPLUS
|
BRING TO A HALT BY CONFUSION, PERPLEX
|
|
|
NOSTRUM
|
QUESTIONABLE MEDICINE
|
|
|
NUBILE
|
MARRIAGEABLE
|
|
|
NUGATORY
|
FUTILE WORTHLESS
|
|
|
NUMISMATIST
|
PERSON WHO COLLECTS COINS
|
|
|
OBDURATE
|
STUBBORN
|
|
|
NOSTRUM
|
QUESTIONABLE MEDICINE
|
|
|
NUBILE
|
MARRIAGEABLE
|
|
|
NUGATORY
|
FUTILE WORTHLESS
|
|
|
NUMISMATIST
|
PERSON WHO COLLECTS COINS
|
|
|
*OBDURATE
|
STUBBORN
|
|
|
OBEISANCE
|
BOW
|
|
|
OBELISK
|
TALL COLUMN TAPERING AND ENDING IN A PYRAMID
|
|
|
OBFUSCATE
|
CONFUSE, MUDDLE, CAUSE CONFUSION
|
|
|
OBLIQUE
|
INDIRECT, SLANTING
|
|
|
OBLOQUY
|
SLANDER, DISGRACE, INFAMY
|
|
|
*OBSEQUIOUS
|
SLAVISHLY ATTENTIVE, SERVILE, SYCOPHANTIC
|
|
|
OBSEQUY
|
FUNERAL CEREMONY
|
|
|
OBSTINATE
|
STUBBORN, HARD TO CONTROL OR TREAT
|
|
|
OBSTREPEROUS
|
BOISTEROUS, NOISY
|
|
|
OBTRUDE
|
PUSH ONESELF FORWARD OR INTRUDE, BUTT IN, STICK OUT OR EXTRUDE
|
|
|
*OBVIATE
|
MAKE UNNECESSARY, GET RID OF
|
|
|
OCCIDENT
|
THE WEST
|
|
|
OCULIST
|
PHYSICIAN WHO SPECIALIZES IN TREATMENT OF THE EYES
|
|
|
ODIOUS
|
HATEFUL, VILE
|
|
|
ODIUM
|
DETESTATION, HATEFULNESS, DISREPUTE
|
|
|
*OFFICIOUS
|
MEDDLESOME, EXCESSIVELY PUSHY IN OFFERING ONES SERVICES
|
|
|
OLIGARCHY
|
GOVERNMENT BY PRIVILEGED FEW
|
|
|
ENOMATOPOEIA
|
WORDS FORMED IN IMITATION OF NATURAL SOUNDS "RUSTLE" "GARGLE" "BUZZ"
|
|
|
OPALESCENT
|
IRIDESCENT, LUSTROUS
|
|
|
*OPPROBRIUM
|
INFAMY, VILIFICATION
|
|
|
ORACULAR
|
PROPHETIC, UTTERED AS IF WITH DIVINE AUTHORITY
|
|
|
ORATORIO
|
DRAMATIC POEM SET TO MUSIC
|
|
|
ORDINATION
|
CEREMONY CONFERRING HOLY ORDERS
|
|
|
ORNITHOLOGIST
|
SCIENTIFIC STUDENT OF BIRDS
|
|
|
ORTHOGRAPHY
|
CORRECT SPELLING
|
|
|
OSSEOUS
|
MADE OF BONE, BONY
|
|
|
OSSIFY
|
CHANGE OR HARDEN INTO BONE
|
|
|
OSTENSIBLE
|
APPARENT, PROFESSED, PRETENDED
|
|
|
OUTMODED
|
NO LONGER STYLISH, OLD FASHIONED
|
|
|
OUTSTRIP
|
SURPASS, OUTDO
|
|
|
OVERWEENING
|
PRESUMPTUOUS, ARROGANT
|
|
|
OVOID
|
EGG SHAPED
|
|
|
PAEAN
|
SONG OF PRAISE OR JOY
|
|
|
PALIMPSEST
|
PARCHMENT USED FOR SECOND TIME AFTER ORIGINAL WRITING HAS BEEN ERASED
|
|
|
PALL
|
GROW TIRESOME
|
|
|
PALLIATE
|
EASE PAIN, MAKE LESS SEVERE OR OFFENSIVE
|
|
|
PALLID
|
PALE WAN
|
|
|
PAN
|
CRITICIZE HARSHLY
|
|
|
PANEGYRIC
|
FORMAL PRAISE
|
|
|
PARAMOUR
|
ILLICIT LOVER
|
|
|
PARLANCE
|
LANGUAGE, IDIOM
|
|
|
PARLEY
|
CONFERENCE
|
|
|
PAROCHIAL
|
NARROW IN OUTLOOK, PROVINCIAL, RELATED TO PARISHES
|
|
|
PAROXYSM
|
FIT OR ATTACK OF PAIN, LAUGHTER, RAGE
|
|
|
PARRY
|
WARD OFF A BLOW, DEFLECT
|
|
|
PARSIMONY
|
STINGINESS, EXCESSIVE FRUGALITY
|
|
|
PASTICHE
|
IMITATION OF ANOTHER'S STYLE...IN MUSICAL COMPOSITION OR WRITING.
|
|
|
PATINA
|
GREEN CRUST ON OLD BRONZE WORKS,
|
|
|
PATOIS
|
LOCAL OR PROVINCIAL DIALECT
|
|
|
PATRICIAN
|
NOBLE, ARISTOCRATIC
|
|
|
*PAUCITY
|
SCARCITY
|
|
|
PECCADILLO
|
SLIGHT OFFENSE
|
|
|
PECUNIARY
|
PERTAINING TO MONEY
|
|
|
PEDAGOGUE
|
TEACHER
|
|
|
PEDAGOGY
|
TEACHING...ART OF EDUCATION
|
|
|
PEDANT
|
SCHOLAR WHO OVEREMPHASIZES BOK LEARNING OR TECHNICALITIES
|
|
|
*PEDANTIC
|
SHOWING OFF LEARNING
|
|
|
PEERLESS
|
HAVING NO EQUAL, INCOMPARABLE
|
|
|
PEJORATIVE
|
NEGATIVE IN CONNOTATION, HAVING A BELITTLING EFFECT
|
|
|
PELL-MELL
|
IN CONFUSION, DISORDERLY
|
|
|
PELLUCID
|
TRANSPARENT, LIMPID, EASY TO UNDERSTAND
|
|
|
PENANCE
|
SELF-IMPOSED PUNISHMENT FOR SIN
|
|
|
PENITENT
|
REPENTANT
|
|
|
PENUMBRA
|
PARTIAL SHADOW
|
|
|
*PENURY
|
SEVERE POVERTY, STINGINESS
|
|
|
PERDITION
|
DAMNATION, COMPLETE RUIN
|
|
|
PEREGRINATION
|
JOURNEY
|
|
|
PEREMPTORY
|
DEMANDING AND LEAVING NO CHOICE
|
|
|
*PERFIDIOUS
|
TREACHEROUS, DISLOYAL
|
|
|
*PERFUNCTORY
|
SUPERFICIAL, NOT THOROUGH
|
|
|
PERIGEE
|
POINT OF MOON'S ORBIT WHEN IT IS NEAREST THE EARTH
|
|
|
PERPATETIC
|
WALKING ABOUT, MOVING
|
|
|
PERNICIOUS
|
VERY DESTRUCTIVE
|
|
|
PERORATION
|
CONCLUSION OF AN ORATION
|
|
|
PERPETRATE
|
COMMIT AN OFFENSE
|
|
|
PERQUISITE
|
ANY GAIN ABOVE STIPULATED SALARY
|
|
|
PERSPICACIOUS
|
HAVING INSIGHT, PENETRATING
|
|
|
PERSPICUITY
|
CLEARNESS OF EXPRESSION
|
|
|
PERSPICUOUS
|
PAINLY EXPRESSED
|
|
|
PERT
|
IMPERTINENT, FORWARD
|
|
|
PERTINACIOUS
|
STUBBORN, PERSISTENT
|
|
|
PESTLE
|
TOOL FOR MASHING OR GINDING SUBSTANCES IN A HARD BOWL
|
|
|
PETULANT
|
TOUCHY PEEVISH
|
|
|
PHARISAICAL
|
PERTAINING TO THE PHARISEES, WHO PAID ATTENTION TO TRADITION, SELF RIGHTEOUS
|
|
|
PILATELIST
|
STAMP COLLECTOR
|
|
|
PHILISTINE
|
NARROW MINDED PERSON
|
|
|
PHILOLOGY
|
STUDY OF LANGUAGE
|
|
|
*PHLEGMATIC
|
CALM, NOT EASILY DISTURBED
|
|
|
PHYLUM
|
MAJOR CLASSIFICATION, SECOND TO KINGDOM
|
|
|
PHYIOGNOMY
|
FACE
|
|
|
PIEBALD
|
OF DIFFERENT COLORS, MOTTLED, SPOTTED
|
|
|
PIED
|
VERIEGATED, MULTICOLORED
|
|
|
PILLORY
|
PUNISH BY PLACING IN A WOODEN FRAM, SUBJECT TO CRITICISM AND RIDICULE
|
|
|
PINION
|
RESTRAIN
|
|
|
PIQUANT
|
PLEASANTLY TART TASTING, STIMULATING
|
|
|
PISCATORIAL
|
PERTAINING TO FISHING
|
|
|
PITH
|
CORE OR MARROW, ESSENCE, SUBSTANCE
|
|
|
PITTANCE
|
SMALL ALLOWANCE OR WAGE
|
|
|
PLAINTIVE
|
MOURNFUL
|
|
|
PLAIT
|
BRAID, INTERTWINE
|
|
|
*PLATITUDE
|
TRITE REMARK, COMMONPLACE STATEMENT
|
|
|
PLAUDIT
|
ENTHUSIASTIC APPROVAL, ROUND OF APPLAUSE
|
|
|
PLENARY
|
COMPLETE, FULL
|
|
|
PLENITUDE
|
ABUNDANCE, COMPLETENESS
|
|
|
PLUCK
|
COURAGE
|
|
|
PLUMAGE
|
FEATHERS OF A BIRD
|
|
|
PLUMB
|
EXAMINE CRITICALLY IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND
|
|
|
PLUTOCRACY
|
SOCIETY RULED BY THE WEALTHY
|
|
|
POLEMIC
|
CONTROVERSY, ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF VIEW
|
|
|
PLEMICAL
|
AGGRESSIVE IN VERBAL ATTACK,
|
|
|
POLITY
|
FORM OF GOVERNMENT, NATION OR STATE
|
|
|
POLYGLOT
|
SPEAKING SEVERAL LANGUAGES
|
|
|
PLUTOCRACY
|
SOCIETY RULED BY THE WEALTHY
|
|
|
POLEMIC
|
CONTROVERSY, ARGUMENT IN SUPPORT OF VIEW
|
|
|
PLEMICAL
|
AGGRESSIVE IN VERBAL ATTACK,
|
|
|
POLITY
|
FORM OF GOVERNMENT, NATION OR STATE
|
|
|
POLYGLOT
|
SPEAKING SEVERAL LANGUAGES
|
|
|
POMPOSITY
|
SELF IMPORTANT BEHAVIOR, ACTING LIKE A STUFFED SHIRT
|
|
|
PONTIFICAL
|
PERTAINING TO A BISHOP OR POPE, POMPOUS OR PRETENTIOUS
|
|
|
PORE
|
STUDY INDUSTRIOUSLY, PONDER, SCRUTINIZE
|
|
|
PORTEND
|
FORETELL, PRESAGE
|
|
|
PORTENT
|
SIGN, OMEN, FORWARNING
|
|
|
POSEUR
|
PERSON WHO PRETENDS TO BE SOPHISTICATED, ELEGANT
|
|
|
POSTERITY
|
DESCENDANTS, FUTURE GENERATIONS
|
|
|
POSTULATE
|
SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH
|
|
|
POTABLE
|
SUITABLE FOR DRINKING
|
|
|
POULTICE
|
SOOTHING APPLICATION
|
|
|
PRATE
|
SPEAK FOOLISHLY, BOAST IDLY
|
|
|
PRATTLE
|
BABBLE
|
|
|
PRECEPT
|
PRACTICAL RULE GUIDING CONDUCT
|
|
|
PRECIPICE
|
CLIFF, DANGEROUS POSITION
|
|
|
PRECIPANT
|
SOMETHING THAT CAUSES A SUBSTANCE IN A CHEMICAL SOLUTION TO SEPARATE OUT INTO A SOLID FORM
|
|
|
PRECIPITOUS
|
STEEP, OVERHASTY
|
|
|
PRECIS
|
CONCISE SUMMING UP THE MAIN POINTS
|
|
|
PREDILECTION
|
PARTIALITY, PREFERENCE
|
|
|
PREFACTORY
|
INTRODUCTORY
|
|
|
PREHENSILE
|
CAPABLE OF GRASPING OR HOLDING
|
|
|
PRELATE
|
CHURCH DIGNITARY
|
|
|
PREMONITORY
|
SERVING TO WARN
|
|
|
PRESAGE
|
FORETELL
|
|
|
PRESCIENCE
|
ABILITY TO FORETELL THE FUTURE
|
|
|
PRESENTIMENT
|
FEELING SMOETHING WILL HAPPEN
|
|
|
PRETERNATURAL
|
BEYOND THAT WHICH IS NORMAL IN NATURE
|
|
|
PRETEXT
|
EXCUSE
|
|
|
*PREVARICATE
|
LIE
|
|
|
PRIM
|
VERY PRECISE AND FORMAL, EXCEEDINGLY PROPER
|
|
|
PRIMOGENITURE
|
SENIORITY BY BIRTH
|
|
|
PRIMORDIAL
|
EXISTING AT THE BEGINNING, RUDIMENTARY
|
|
|
PRIVATION
|
HARDSHIP WANT
|
|
|
*PROBITY
|
UPRIGHTNESS, INCORRUPTIBILITY
|
|
|
PROCLIVITY
|
INCLINATION, NATURAL TENDENCY
|
|
|
*PRODIGAL
|
WASTEFUL, RECLESS WITH MONEY
|
|
|
PROFANE
|
VIOLATE, DESECRATE, TREAT UNWORTHILY
|
|
|
PROFLIGATE
|
DISSIPATED, WASTEFUL, WILDLY IMMORAL
|
|
|
PROFUSION
|
OVERABUNDANCE, LAVISH EXPENDITURE, EXCESS
|
|
|
PROTGENITOR
|
ANCESTOR
|
|
|
PROLETARIAN
|
MEMBER OF THE WORKING CLASS
|
|
|
PROLIXITY
|
TEDIOUS WORDINESS VEROBOSITY
|
|
|
PROMONTORY
|
HEADLAND
|
|
|
PROMULGATE
|
PROCLAIM A DOCTRINE OR LAW, MAKE KNOWN BY OFFICIAL PUBLICATION
|
|
|
PROPAGATE
|
MULTIPLY, SPREAD
|
|
|
PROPINQUITY
|
NEARNESS KINSHIP
|
|
|
PROPITIATE
|
APPEASE
|
|
|
PROPITIUOS
|
FAVORABLE, FORTUNATE, ADVANTAGEOUS
|
|
|
PROPOUND
|
PUT FORTH FOR ANALYSIS
|
|
|
*PROPRIETY
|
FITNESS, CORRECT CONDUCT
|
|
|
*PROSCRIBE
|
OSTRACIZE, BANISH, OUTLAW
|
|
|
PROSODY
|
THE ART OF VERSIFICATION
|
|
|
PROSTRATE
|
STRETCH OUT FULL ON GROUND
|
|
|
PROTEAN
|
VERSATILE, ABLE TO TAKE MANY FORMS
|
|
|
PROTRACT
|
PROLONG
|
|
|
PROVENANCE
|
ORIGIN OR SOURCE OF SOMETHING
|
|
|
PROVENDER
|
DRY FOOD, FODDER
|
|
|
PROVIDENT
|
DISPLAYING FORESIGHT, THRIFTY, PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES
|
|
|
PROVISO
|
STIPULATION
|
|
|
PRURIENT
|
HAVING OR CAUSING LUSTFUL THOUGHTS AND DESIRES
|
|
|
What are muscle cramps caused by?
|
-involuntary release of calcium ions
-from dehydration, overexertion |
|
|
PUERILE
|
CHILDISH
|
|
|
PUGILIST
|
BOXER
|
|
|
PUGNACITY
|
COMBATIVENESS, DISPOSITION TO FIGHT
|
|
|
PUISSANT
|
POWERFUL STRONG POTENT
|
|
|
PULCHRITUDE
|
BEAUTY, COMELINESS
|
|
|
PUNCTILIOUS
|
STRESSING NICETIES OF CONDUCT OR FORM
|
|
|
PURCHASE
|
FIRM GRASP OR FOOTING
|
|
|
PURPORT
|
INTENTION MEANING
|
|
|
PURPORTED
|
ALLEGED, CLAIMED, REPUTED OR RUMORED
|
|
|
PURVEYOR
|
FURNISHER OF FOODSTUFFS, CATERER
|
|
|
PUSILLANIMOUS
|
COWARDLY, FAINTHEARTED
|
|
|
QUAFF
|
DRINK WITH RELISH
|
|
|
QUAIL
|
COWER, LOSE HEART
|
|
|
QUARRY
|
VICTIM, OBJECT OF A HUNT
|
|
|
QUAY
|
DOCK, LANDING PLACE
|
|
|
QUERULOUS
|
FRETFUL, WHINING
|
|
|
*QUIESCENT
|
AT REST, DORMANT, TEMPORARILY INACTIVE
|
|
|
QUINTESSENCE
|
PUREST AND HIGHEST EMBODIMENT
|
|
|
QUISLING
|
TRAITOR WHO AIDS INVADERS
|
|
|
What is Mycorrhizae? What does it help?
|
-symbiotic relationship b/wn plant roots and fungi
-helps absorb nutrients from ground |
|
|
QUOTIDIAN
|
DAILY COMMONPLACE, CUSTOMARY
|
|
|
RACONTEUR
|
STORY TELLER
|
|
|
RAGAMUFFIN
|
PERSON WEARING TATTERED CLOTHES
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RAIL
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SCOLD, RANT
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RAIMENT
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CLOTHING
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What are Prions? What are they resistant to?
|
-misfolded proteins make others misfold, accumulate in brain tissue
-boiling, baking, radiation, disinfectants |
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RAMIFY
|
DIVIDE INTO BRANCHES OR SUBDIVISIONS
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RAMPART
|
DEFENSIVE MOUND OF EARTH
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RAMSHACKLE
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RICKETY FAILING APART
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RANCOR
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BITTERNESS HATRED
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RANKLE
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IRRITATE, FESTER
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RAPACIOUS
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EXCESSIVELY GRASPING, PLUNDERING
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RAPT
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ABSORBED, ENCHANTED
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*RAREFIED
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MADE LESS DENSE (OF GAS)
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RATIOCINATION
|
REASONING, ACT OF DRAWING CONCLUSIONS FROM PREMISES
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RAVEL
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FALL APART INTO TANGLES, UNRAVEL OR UNTWIST
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REBUFF
|
SNUB, BEAT BACK
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REBUS
|
PUZZLE IN WHICH PICTURES STAND FOR WORDS
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*RECALCITRANT
|
OBSTINATELY STUBBORN, DETERMINED TO RESIST AUTHORITY, UNRULY
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RECAPITULATE
|
SUMMARIZE
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RECAST
|
RECONSTRUCT, FASHION AGAIN
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RECIDIVISM
|
HABITUAL RETURN TO CRIME
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RECONDITE
|
ABSTRUSE, PROFOUND, SECRET
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RECRIMINATION
|
COUNTERCHARGES
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RECTITUDE
|
UPRIGHTNESS, MORAL VIRTUE, CORRECTNESS OF JUDGEMENT
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RECUMBENT
|
RECLINING, LYING DOWN COMPLETELY OR IN PART
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REDOLENT
|
FRAGRANT, ODOROUS, SUGGESTIVE OF AN ODOR
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REDOUBTABLE
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FORMIDABLE, CAUSING FEAR
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REDRESS
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REMEDY, COMPENSATION
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REFECTORY
|
DINING HALL
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*REFRACTORY
|
STUBBORN, UNMANAGEABLE
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REFULGENT
|
BRIGHTLY SHINING GLEAMING
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REGICIDE
|
MURDER OF A KING OR QUEEN
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REJOINDER
|
RETORT, COMBACK, REPLY
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*RELEGATE
|
BANISH TO AN INFERIOR POSITION, DELEGATE ASSIGN
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RELENT
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GIVE IN
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REMEDIABLE
|
REPARABLE
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REMISS
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NEGLIGENT
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REMONSTRANCE
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PROTEST, OBJECTION
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REMUNERATIVE
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COMPENSATING, REWARDING
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REND
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SPLIT, TEAR APART
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RENEGE
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DENY, GO BACK ON
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RENT
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RIP SPLIT
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REPARTEE
|
CLEVER REPLY
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REPAST
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MEAL FEAST, BANQUET
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REPINE
|
FRET, COMPLAIN
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REPLETE
|
FILLED TO THE BRIM, OR POINT OF BEING STUFFED, ABUNDENTLY SUPPLIED
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REPOSITORY
|
STOREHOUSE
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REPREHENSIBLE
|
DESERVING BLAME
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REPRISAL
|
RETALIATION
|
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*REPROACH
|
EXPRESS DISAPPROVAL OR DISAPPOINTMENT
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REPROBATE
|
PERSON HARDENED IN SIN, DEVOID OF A SENSE OF DECENCY
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REPROVE
|
CENSURE, REBUKE
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*REPUDIATE
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DISOWN, DISAVOW
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REQUITE
|
REPAY, REVENGE
|
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RESPLENDENT
|
DAZZLING, GLORIOUS, BRILLIANT
|
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RESTIVE
|
RESTLESSLY IMPATIENT, OBSTINATELY RESISTING CONTROL
|
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RESUMPTION
|
TAKING UP AGAIN, RECOMMENCEMENT
|
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*RETICENT
|
RESERVED, UNCOMMUNICATIVE, INCLINED TO SILENCE
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RETINUE
|
FOLLOWING ATTENDANTS
|
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|
RETIRING
|
MODEST, SHY
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RETRENCH
|
CUT DOWN, ECONOMIZE
|
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RHAPSODIZE
|
TO SPEAK OR WRITE IN AN EXAGGERATEDLY ENTHUSIASTIC MANNER
|
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RIBALD
|
WANTON PROFANE
|
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|
RIFE
|
ABUNDANT, CURRENT
|
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RIGOR
|
SEVERITY
|
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RILE
|
VEX, IRRITATE, MUDDY
|
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RIVULET
|
SMALL STREAM
|
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ROCOCO
|
ORNATE, HIGHLY DECORATED
|
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ROIL
|
TO MAKE LIQUIDS MURKY BY STIRRING UP SEDIMENT, TO DISTURB
|
|
|
What is Myocardial Ischemia?
|
tissue not dead, saved if oxygen (blood supply) restored
|
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|
ROSTRUM
|
PLATFORM FOR SPEECH MAKING, PULPIT
|
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|
ROTUNDITY
|
ROUNDNESS, SONOROUSNESS OF SPEECH
|
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|
RUBRIC
|
TITLE OR HEADING, DIRECTIONS FOR A RELIGOUS CEREMONY, PROTOCOL
|
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RUDDY
|
REDDISH HEALTHY LOOKING
|
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RUFFIAN
|
BULLY SCOUNDREL
|
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|
RUNIC
|
MYSTERIOUS, SET DOWN IN AN ANCIENT ALPHABET
|
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|
RUSTICATE
|
BANISH TO THE COUNTRY, DWELL IN THE COUNTRY
|
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SACROSANCT
|
MOST SACRED, INVIOLABLE
|
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|
SAGACIOUS
|
PERCEPTIVE, SHREWD, HAVING INSIGHT
|
|
|
*SAGE
|
PERSON CELEBRATED FOR WISDOM
|
|
|
SALIENT
|
PROMINENT
|
|
|
*SALUBRIOUS
|
HEALTHFUL
|
|
|
SALUTARY
|
TENDING TO IMPROVE, BENEFICIAL, WHOLESOME
|
|
|
SANCTIMONIOUS
|
DISPLAYING OSTENATIOUS OR HYPOCRITICAL DEVOUTNESS
|
|
|
SANGUINARY
|
BLOODY
|
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|
SANGUINE
|
CHEERFUL, HOPEFUL
|
|
|
SARDONIC
|
DISDAINFUL, SARCASTIC, CYNICAL
|
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|
SARTORIAL
|
PERTAINING TO TAILORS
|
|
|
SATURNINE
|
GLOOMY
|
|
|
SCABBARD
|
CASE FOR A SWORD BLADE, SHEATH
|
|
|
SCAD
|
GREAT QUANTITY
|
|
|
SCINTILLA
|
SHRED, LEAST BIT
|
|
|
SCOFF
|
MOCK, RIDICULE
|
|
|
SCOTCH
|
STAMP OUT, THWART, HINDER
|
|
|
SCOURGE
|
LASH, WHIP, SEVERE PUNISHMENT
|
|
|
SCRUPULOUS
|
CONSCIENTIOUS, EXTREMELY THOROUGH
|
|
|
SCURRILOUS
|
OBSCENE, INDECENT
|
|
|
SCURVY
|
DESPICABLE, CONTEMPTIBLE
|
|
|
SEAMY
|
SORDID, UNWHOLESOME
|
|
|
SEDENTARY
|
REQUIRING SITTING
|
|
|
SEDITION
|
RESISTANCE TO AUTHORITY, INSUBORDINATION
|
|
|
SEDULOUS
|
DILIGENT
|
|
|
SEEMLY
|
PROPER, APPROPRIATES
|
|
|
SEINE
|
NET FOR CATCHING FISH
|
|
|
SEMBLANCE
|
OUTWARD, APPEARANCE, GUISE
|
|
|
SEMINAL
|
GERMINAL, INFLUENCING FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS, RELATED TO SEED SEMEN
|
|
|
SENTENTIOUS
|
TERSE, CONCISE, APHORISTIC
|
|
|
SENTIENT
|
CAPABLE OF SENSATION, AWARE, SENSITIVE
|
|
|
SERE
|
PARCHED, DRY
|
|
|
SERVILE
|
SLAVISH, CRINGING
|
|
|
SEXTANT
|
NAVIGATION TOOL USED TO DETERMINE SHIPS LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
|
|
|
SHEAF
|
BUNDLE OF STALKS OF GRAIN, ANY BUNDLE OF THINGS TIED TOGETHER
|
|
|
SHEATHE
|
PLACE INTO A CASE
|
|
|
SHUNT
|
TURN ASIDE, DIVERT, SIDETRACK
|
|
|
SIBYLLINE
|
PROPHETIC, ORACULAR
|
|
|
SIDEREAL
|
RELATING TO THE STARS
|
|
|
SIMILE
|
COMPARISON OF ONE THING WITH ANOTHER, USING THE WORD LIKE OR AS
|
|
|
SIMPER
|
SMIRK, SMILE AFFECTEDLY
|
|
|
SERE
|
PARCHED, DRY
|
|
|
SERVILE
|
SLAVISH, CRINGING
|
|
|
SEXTANT
|
NAVIGATION TOOL USED TO DETERMINE SHIPS LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
|
|
|
SHEAF
|
BUNDLE OF STALKS OF GRAIN, ANY BUNDLE OF THINGS TIED TOGETHER
|
|
|
SHEATHE
|
PLACE INTO A CASE
|
|
|
SHUNT
|
TURN ASIDE, DIVERT, SIDETRACK
|
|
|
SIBYLLINE
|
PROPHETIC, ORACULAR
|
|
|
SIDEREAL
|
RELATING TO THE STARS
|
|
|
SIMILE
|
COMPARISON OF ONE THING WITH ANOTHER, USING THE WORD LIKE OR AS
|
|
|
SIMPER
|
SMIRK, SMILE AFFECTEDLY
|
|
|
SINECURE
|
WELL PAID POSITION WITH LITTLE RESPONSIBILITY
|
|
|
SINUOUS
|
WINDING, BENDING IN AND OUT, NOT MORALLY HONEST
|
|
|
SKIFF
|
SMALL LIGHT SAILBOAT, OR ROWBOAT
|
|
|
SKINFLINT
|
STINGY PERSON, MISER
|
|
|
SKULDUGGERY
|
DISHONEST BEHAVIOR
|
|
|
SLAG
|
RESIDUE FROM SMELTING METAL, DROSS, WASTE MATTER
|
|
|
SLAKE
|
QUENCH SATE
|
|
|
SLAPDASH
|
HAPHAZARD, CARELESS, SLOPPY
|
|
|
SLEIGHT
|
DEXTERITY
|
|
|
SLEW
|
LARGE QUANTITY OR NUMBER
|
|
|
SLIPSHOD
|
UNTIDY OR SLOVENLY, SHABBY
|
|
|
SLUGGARD
|
LAZY PERSON
|
|
|
SLUICE
|
ARTIFICIAL CHANNEL FOR DIRECTING OR CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF WATER
|
|
|
SODDEN
|
SOAKED, DULL AS IF FROM DRINK
|
|
|
SOJOURN
|
TEMPORARY STAY
|
|
|
SOLACE
|
COMFORT IN TROUBLE
|
|
|
SOLDER
|
REPAIR OR MAKE WHOLE BY USING A METAL ALLOY
|
|
|
SOLECISM
|
CONSTRUCTION THAT IS FLAGRANTLY INCORRECT GRAMATICALLY
|
|
|
SOLEMNITY
|
SERIOUSNESS, GRAVITY
|
|
|
*SOLICITOUS
|
WORRIED, CONCERNED
|
|
|
SOMATIC
|
PERTAINING TO THE BODY, PHYSICAL
|
|
|
SOMNAMBULIST
|
SLEEPWALKER
|
|
|
SOMNOLENT
|
HALF ASLEEP
|
|
|
SONOROUS
|
RESONANT
|
|
|
SOPHIST
|
TEACHER OF PHILOSOPHY, QUIBBLER, EMPLOYER OF FALLACIOUS REASONING
|
|
|
SOPHISTRY
|
SEEMINGLY PLAUSIBLE BUT FALLACIOUS REASONING
|
|
|
*SOPORIFIC
|
SLEEP CAUSING, MARKED BY SLEEPINESS
|
|
|
SPANGLE
|
SMALL METALLIC PIECE SEWN TO CLOTHING FOR ORNAMENTATION
|
|
|
SPARTAN
|
LACKING LUXURY AND COMFORT, STERNLY DISCIPLINED
|
|
|
SPASMODIC
|
FITFUL PERIODIC
|
|
|
SPATE
|
SUDDEN FLOOD
|
|
|
*SPECIOUS
|
SEEMINGLY REASONABLE BUT INCORRECT, MISLEADING
|
|
|
SPECTRAL
|
GHOSTLY
|
|
|
SPENDTHRIFT
|
SOMEONE WHO WASTES MONEY
|
|
|
SPHINX-LIKE
|
ENIGMATIC, MYSTERIOUS
|
|
|
SPOONERISM
|
ACCIDENTAL TRANSPOSITION OF SOUNDS IN SUCCESSIVE WORDS
|
|
|
SPURIOUS
|
FALSE, COUNTERFEIT, FORGED, ILLOGICAL
|
|
|
SPURN
|
REJECT, SCORN
|
|
|
STAID
|
SOBER, SEDATE
|
|
|
STANCH
|
CHECK FLOW OF BLOOD
|
|
|
STENTORIAN
|
EXTREMELY LOUD
|
|
|
*STIGMA
|
TOKEN OF DISGRACE
|
|
|
STILTED
|
BOMBASTIC, STIFFLY, POMPOUS
|
|
|
STIPPLE
|
PAINT OR DRAW WITH DOTS
|
|
|
STOLID
|
DULL, IMPASSIVE
|
|
|
STRATAGEM
|
CLEVER TRICK, DECEPTIVE SCHEME
|
|
|
STRATUM
|
LAYER OF EARTH'S SURFACE, LAYER OF SOCIETY
|
|
|
STREW
|
SPREAD RANDOMLY, SPRINKLE, SCATTER
|
|
|
*STRIATED
|
MARKED WITH PARALLEL BANDS, GROOVED
|
|
|
STRICTURE
|
CRITICAL COMMENTS, SEVERE AND ADVERSE CRITICISM
|
|
|
STUDIED
|
UNSPONTANEOUS, DELIBERATE, THOUGHTFUL
|
|
|
STULTIFY
|
CAUSE TO APPEAR OR BECOME STUPID OR INCONSISTENT, FRUSTRATE OR HINDER
|
|
|
STUPEFY
|
MAKE NUMB, STUN, AMAZE
|
|
|
STYGIAN
|
GLOOMY, HELLISH, DEATHLY
|
|
|
SUBALTERN
|
SUBORDINATE
|
|
|
SUBJUGATE
|
CONQUER, BRING UNDER CONTROL
|
|
|
SUBLIMATE
|
REFINE, PURIFY
|
|
|
SUBLIMINAL
|
BELOW THE THRESHOLD
|
|
|
SUBORN
|
PERSUADE
|
|
|
SUCCINCT
|
BRIEF, TERSE, COMPACT
|
|
|
SUCCOR
|
AID, ASSIST, COMFORT
|
|
|
SUFFRAGIST
|
ADVOCATE OF VOTING RIGHTS (FOR WOMEN)
|
|
|
SUFFUSE
|
SPREAD OVER
|
|
|
SULTRY
|
SWEALTERING
|
|
|
SUMPTUOUS
|
LAVISH, RICH
|
|
|
SUNDRY
|
VARIOUS, SEVERAL
|
|
|
SUPERANNUATED
|
RETIRED OR DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE OF AGE
|
|
|
SUPERCILIOUS
|
ARROGANT, CONDESCENDING, PATRONIZING
|
|
|
SUPEREROGATORY
|
SUPERFLUOUS, MORE THAN NEEDED OR DEMANDED
|
|
|
SUPERNUMERARY
|
PERSON OR THING IN EXCESS OF WHAT IS NECESSARY, EXTRA
|
|
|
SUCCOR
|
AID, ASSIST, COMFORT
|
|
|
SUFFRAGIST
|
ADVOCATE OF VOTING RIGHTS (FOR WOMEN)
|
|
|
SUFFUSE
|
SPREAD OVER
|
|
|
SULTRY
|
SWEALTERING
|
|
|
SUMPTUOUS
|
LAVISH, RICH
|
|
|
SUNDRY
|
VARIOUS, SEVERAL
|
|
|
SUPERANNUATED
|
RETIRED OR DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE OF AGE
|
|
|
SUPERCILIOUS
|
ARROGANT, CONDESCENDING, PATRONIZING
|
|
|
SUPEREROGATORY
|
SUPERFLUOUS, MORE THAN NEEDED OR DEMANDED
|
|
|
SUPERNUMERARY
|
PERSON OR THING IN EXCESS OF WHAT IS NECESSARY, EXTRA
|
|
|
SUPINE
|
LYING ON BACK
|
|
|
SUPPLIANT
|
ENTREATING, BESEECHING, UNABLE TO RESIST
|
|
|
SUPPLICATE
|
PETITION HUMBLY, PRAY TO GRANT A FAVOR
|
|
|
*SUPPOSITION
|
HYPOTHESIS, SURMISE
|
|
|
Heterochromatin or Euchromatin: Which is more condensed?
|
Heterochromatin. Euchromatin is less condensed.
think HC = heterochromatin = highly condensed |
|
|
SURMOUNT
|
OVERCOME
|
|
|
SURREPTITIOUS
|
SECRET, FURTIVE, SNEAKY, HIDDEN
|
|
|
SWARTHY
|
DARK, DUSKY
|
|
|
SYBARITE
|
LOVER OF LUXURY
|
|
|
SYLLOGISM
|
LOGICAL FORMULA CONSISTING OF A MAJOR PREMISE, A MINOR PREMISE, AND A CONCLUSION
|
|
|
SYLVAN
|
PERTAINING TO THE WOODS, RUSTIC
|
|
|
TACITURN
|
HABITUALLY SILENT, TAKING LITTLE
|
|
|
TALISMAN
|
CHARM
|
|
|
*TANGENTIAL
|
PERIPHERAL, ONLY SLIGHTLY CONNECTED DIGRESSSING
|
|
|
TANNER
|
PERSON WHO TURNS ANIMAL HIDES INTO LEATHER
|
|
|
TANTAMOUNT
|
EQUIVALENT IN EFFECT OR VALUE
|
|
|
TAPER
|
CANDLE
|
|
|
TARRY
|
DELAY, DAWDLE
|
|
|
TATTY
|
WORN AND SHABBY, BEDRAGGLED
|
|
|
TAUTOLOGICAL
|
NEEDLESSLY REPETITIOUST
|
|
|
TAXONOMIST
|
SPECIALIST IN CLASSIFYING...ANIMALS
|
|
|
TEETOTALISM
|
PRACTICE OF ABSTAINING TOTALLY FROM ALCOHOLIC DRINKS
|
|
|
TEMERITY
|
BOLDNESS, RASHNESS
|
|
|
TEMPORIZE
|
ACT EVASIVELY TO GAIN TIME, AVOID COMMITTING ONESELF
|
|
|
TENDENTIOUS
|
HAVING AN AIM, BIASED, DESIGNED TO FURTHER A CAUSE
|
|
|
TENET
|
DOCTRINE, DOGMA
|
|
|
TENSILE
|
CAPABLE OF BEING STRETCHED
|
|
|
TESSELATED
|
INLAID, MOSAIC
|
|
|
TESTATOR
|
MAKER OF A WILL
|
|
|
THRALL
|
SLAVE BONDAGE
|
|
|
TAXONOMIST
|
SPECIALIST IN CLASSIFYING...ANIMALS
|
|
|
TEETOTALISM
|
PRACTICE OF ABSTAINING TOTALLY FROM ALCOHOLIC DRINKS
|
|
|
TEMERITY
|
BOLDNESS, RASHNESS
|
|
|
TEMPORIZE
|
ACT EVASIVELY TO GAIN TIME, AVOID COMMITTING ONESELF
|
|
|
TENDENTIOUS
|
HAVING AN AIM, BIASED, DESIGNED TO FURTHER A CAUSE
|
|
|
TENET
|
DOCTRINE, DOGMA
|
|
|
TENSILE
|
CAPABLE OF BEING STRETCHED
|
|
|
TESSELATED
|
INLAID, MOSAIC
|
|
|
TESTATOR
|
MAKER OF A WILL
|
|
|
George W Bush
|
43
2001-2009 |
|
|
THREADBARE
|
WORN THROUGH TIL THE THREADS SHOW SHABBY AND POOR
|
|
|
TILLER
|
HANDLE USED TO MOVE BOAT'S RUDDER (TO STEER)
|
|
|
TIMOROUS
|
FEARFUL, DEMONSTRATING FEAR
|
|
|
TIPPLE
|
DRINK (ALCOHOL BEVERAGES) FREQUENTLY
|
|
|
TITTER
|
NERVOUS LAUGH
|
|
|
TITULAR
|
HAVING THE TITLE OF AN OFFICE WITHOUT THE OBLIGATION
|
|
|
TOADY
|
SERVILE FLATTERER, YES MAN
|
|
|
TONSURE
|
SHAVING OF THE HEAD, ESPECIALLY BY PERSON IN A RELIGIOUS ORDER
|
|
|
*TORPOR
|
LETHARGY, SLUGGISHNESS, DORMANCY
|
|
|
TOTTER
|
MOVE UNSTEADILY SWAY, AS IF ABOUT TO FALL
|
|
|
*TRACTABLE
|
DOCILE EASILU MANAGED
|
|
|
TRADUCE
|
EXPOSE TO SLANDER
|
|
|
TRANSLUCENT
|
PARTLY TRANSPARENT
|
|
|
TRANSMUTE
|
CHANGE, CONVERT TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT
|
|
|
TRAVAIL
|
PAINFUL PHYSICAL OR MENTAL LABOR
|
|
|
TRIDENT
|
THREE PRONGED SPEAR
|
|
|
TROTH
|
PLEDGE OF GOOD FAITH ESPECIALLY IN BETROTHAL
|
|
|
TRUCULENCE
|
AGGRESSIVENESS, FEROCITY
|
|
|
TRUNCATE
|
CUT THE TOP OFF
|
|
|
TURBID
|
HAVING THE SEDIMENT DISTURBED, MUDDY
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TURPITUDE
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DEPRAVITY
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TUTELARY
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PROTECTIVE, PERTAINING TO A GUARDIANSHIP
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UMBRAGE
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RESENTMENT, ANGER, SENSE OF INJURY OR INSULT
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UNASSUAGED
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UNSATISFIED, NOT SOOTHED
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UNBRIDLED
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VIOLENT
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UNCOUTH
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OUTLANDISH, CLUMSY, BOORISHU
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UNCTION
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IN THE ACT OF ANOINTING WITH OIL
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UNCTUOUS
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OILY, BLAND, INSINCERELY SUAVE
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UNEQUIVOCAL
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PLAIN, OBVIOUS
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UNERRINGLY
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INFALLIBLY
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UNFEIGNED
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GENUINE, REAL
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UNFLEDGED
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IMMATURE
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UNFROCK
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TO STRIP A PRIEST OR MINISTER OF CHURCH AUTHORITY
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UNGAINLY
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AWKWARD, CLUMSY, UNWIELDY
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UNGUENT
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OINTMENT
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UNPALATABLE
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DISTASTEFUL,DIAGREEABLE
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UNPREPOSSESSING
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UNUNATTRACTIVE
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UNREQUITED
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NOT RECIPROCATED
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UNTENABLE
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INDEFENSIBLE
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UNTOWARD
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UNFORTUNATE OR UNLUCKY ADVERSE, UNEXPECTED
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UNTRAMMELED
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WITHOUT LIMITS OR RESTRICTIONS
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UNWIELDY
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AWKWARD, CUMBERSOME, UNMANAGEABLE
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UNWONTED
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UNACCUSTOMED
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UPBRAID
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SEVERELY SCOLD REPRIMAND
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UPROARIOUS
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MARKED BY COMMOTION, EXTREMELY FUNNY, VERY NOISY
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UPSHOT
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OUTCOMEUR
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URBANE
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SUAVE, REFINED, ELEGANT
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URSINE
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BEARLIKE, PERTAINING TO A BEAR
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USURY
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LENDING MONEY AT ILLEGAL RATES OF INTEREST
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UXORIOUS
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EXCESSIVELY DEVOTED TO ONE'S WIFE
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VAGARY
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CAPRICE, WHIM
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VAINGLORIOUS
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BOASTFUL, EXCESSIVELY CONCEITED
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VANGUARD
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FORERUNNERS, ADVANCE FORCES
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VARIEGATED
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MANY COLORED
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VASSAL
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FEUDALISM, ONE WHO HELD LAND OF A SUPERIOR LORD
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VAUNTED
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BOASTED BRAGGED, HIGHLY PUBLICIZED
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VENAL
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CAPABLE OF BEING BRIBED
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*VENERATE
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REVERE
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VENIAL
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FORGIVABLE, TRIVIAL
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VENTRAL
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ABDOMINAL
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*VERACIOUS
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TRUTHFUL
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VERACITY
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TRUTHFULNESS
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VERDIGRIS
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GREEN COATING ON COPPER THAT HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO WEATHER
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VERISIMILAR
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PROBABLE OR LIKELY
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VERISIMILITUDE
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APPEARANCE OF TRUTH, LIKELIHOOD
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VERITY
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QUALITY OF BEING TRUE, LASTING TRUTH OR PRINCIPLE
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VERNAL
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PERTAINING TO SPRING
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VERTEX
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SUMMIT
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VESTIGE
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TRACE, REMAINS
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VEX
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ANNOY, DISTRESS
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VIAND
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FOOD
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VERACITY
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TRUTHFULNESS
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VERDIGRIS
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GREEN COATING ON COPPER THAT HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO WEATHER
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VERISIMILAR
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PROBABLE OR LIKELY
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VERISIMILITUDE
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APPEARANCE OF TRUTH, LIKELIHOOD
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VERITY
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QUALITY OF BEING TRUE, LASTING TRUTH OR PRINCIPLE
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VERNAL
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PERTAINING TO SPRING
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VERTEX
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SUMMIT
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VESTIGE
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TRACE, REMAINS
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VEX
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ANNOY, DISTRESS
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VIAND
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FOOD
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VICISSITUDE
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CHANGE OF FORTUNE
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VICTUALS
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FOOD
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VINTNER
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WINEMAKER, SELLER OF WINE
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VIRULENT
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EXTREMELY POISONOUS, HOSTILE, BITTER
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VISAGE
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FACE APPEARANCE
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VISCID
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ADHESIVE GLUEY
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*VISCOUS
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STICKY, GLUEY
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VITIATE
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SPOIL THE EFFECT OF, MAKE INOPERATIVE
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VITREOUS
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PERTAINING TO OR RESEMBLING GLASS
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VITRIOLIC
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CORROSIVE, SARCASTIC
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*VITUPERATIVE
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ABUSIVE, SCOLDING
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VIVISECTION
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ACT OF DISSECTING LIVING ANIMALS
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VIVISECTION
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ACT OF DISSECTING LIVING ANIMALS
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VOCIFEROUS
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CLAMOROUS, NOISY
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VOLITION
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ACT OF MAKING A CONSCIOUS CHOICE
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VOLUBLE
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FLUENT, GLIB, TALKATIVE
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VOLUBLE
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FLUENT, GLIB, TALKATIVE
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VOUCHSAFE
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GRANT CONDESCENDINGLY, GUARANTEE
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VOUCHSAFE
|
GRANT CONDESCENDINGLY, GUARANTEE
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VULPINE
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LIKE A FOX, CRAFTY
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|
|
an ______occurs when body tissues are invaded by disease causing bacteria
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infection
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WAGGISH
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MISCHIEVOUS, HUMOROUS, TRICKY
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WAGGISH
|
MISCHIEVOUS, HUMOROUS, TRICKY
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WAIF
|
HOMELESS CHILD OR ANIMAL
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WAIF
|
HOMELESS CHILD OR ANIMAL
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WAN
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HAVING A SICKLY COLOR, PALLID
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WAN
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HAVING A SICKLY COLOR, PALLID
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WANDERLUST
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STRONG LONGING TO TRAVEL
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WANGLE
|
WIGGLE OUT, FAKE
|
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WAN
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HAVING A SICKLY COLOR, PALLID
|
|
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WANDERLUST
|
STRONG LONGING TO TRAVEL
|
|
|
*VITUPERATIVE
|
ABUSIVE, SCOLDING
|
|
|
WANDERLUST
|
STRONG LONGING TO TRAVEL
|
|
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WANGLE
|
WIGGLE OUT, FAKE
|
|
|
WARBLE
|
SING, BABBLE
|
|
|
WARBLE
|
SING, BABBLE
|
|
|
VIVISECTION
|
ACT OF DISSECTING LIVING ANIMALS
|
|
|
WARREN
|
TUNNELS IN WHICH RABBITS LIVE, CROWDED CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE LIVE
|
|
|
WANGLE
|
WIGGLE OUT, FAKE
|
|
|
WARBLE
|
SING, BABBLE
|
|
|
VIVISECTION
|
ACT OF DISSECTING LIVING ANIMALS
|
|
|
WARREN
|
TUNNELS IN WHICH RABBITS LIVE, CROWDED CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE LIVE
|
|
|
VOCIFEROUS
|
CLAMOROUS, NOISY
|
|
|
WARREN
|
TUNNELS IN WHICH RABBITS LIVE, CROWDED CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE LIVE
|
|
|
VOLITION
|
ACT OF MAKING A CONSCIOUS CHOICE
|
|
|
*WARY
|
VERY CAUTIOUS
|
|
|
WASTREL
|
PROFLIGATE
|
|
|
WAYLAY
|
AMBUSH, LIE IN WAIT
|
|
|
*WELTER
|
TURMOIL, BEWILDERING JUMBLE
|
|
|
WELTER
|
WALLOW
|
|
|
WHEEDLE
|
CAJOLE, COAX, DECEIVE BY FLATTERY
|
|
|
WHELP
|
YOUNG WOLF, DOG, TIGER, ETC.
|
|
|
WHET
|
SHARPEN, STIMULATE
|
|
|
WHIT
|
SMALLEST PECK, SHRED, TINY BIT
|
|
|
WHITTLE
|
PARE, CUT OFF BITS
|
|
|
WHORL
|
RING OF LEAVES AROUND STEM, RING
|
|
|
WINNOW
|
SIFT, SEPARATE GOOD PARTS FROM BAD
|
|
|
WINSOME
|
AGREEABLE, GRACIOUS, ENGAGING
|
|
|
WIZENED
|
WITHERED, SHRIVELED
|
|
|
WONT
|
CUSTOM, HABITUAL PROCEDURE
|
|
|
WREST
|
PULL AWAY, TAKE BY VIOLENCE
|
|
|
XENOPHOBIA
|
FEAR OF OR HATRED FOR FOREIGNERS
|
|
|
YEN
|
LONGING, URGE
|
|
|
YEOMAN
|
MAN OWNING SMALL ESTATE, MIDDLE CLASS FARMER
|
|
|
YOKE
|
JOIN TOGETHER, UNITE
|
|
|
ZEPHYR
|
GENTLE BREEZE, WEST WIND
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