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Kudos
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(noun)
Acclaim from noteworthy achievement |
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Lackadaisical
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(adjective)
Lacking in energy |
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Legacy
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(noun)
Something handed down from the past |
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Liability
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(noun)
[a] Financial debt [b] Hindrance or handicap |
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Libel
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(noun & verb)
[a] (n) Public false statement about someone else [b] (v) To slander publicly |
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Litigation
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(noun)
A lawsuit |
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Lucid
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(adjective)
Clear and intelligible |
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Lucrative
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(adjective)
Profitable |
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Lurk
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(verb)
To sneak or lie in wait |
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Lush
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(adjective)
[a] Luxurious [b] Overelaborate |
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Malapropism
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(noun)
Misuse of a word |
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Malice
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(noun)
Desire to cause harm |
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Mammoth
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(noun & adjective)
[a] (n) A giant [b] (adj) Gigantic in size |
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Mandatory
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(adjective)
Required |
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Medium
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(noun)
Means by which a goal is acheived or person through whom it was realized |
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Syn. or Ant.?
Lush - Opulent |
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Lackadaisical - Energetic |
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Libel - Slander |
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Skulk - Lurk |
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Liability - Asset |
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Channel - Medium |
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Litigation - Lawsuit |
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Lucrative - Unprofitable |
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Lucid - Unintellgible |
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Compulsory - Mandatory |
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Kudos - Acclaim |
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Benevolence - Malice |
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Legacy - Bequest |
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Dimunitive - Mammoth |
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T/F?
Kudos is plural. |
False
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Accolade
1. Middle Age Definition 2. Modern Day Definition |
1. King or overlord conferred knighthood upon a deserving subject
2. Formal bestowal of important honors and granting of praise |
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Litigious
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Quarrelsome
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Filthy Lucre
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Ill-gotten gains
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Irish Bull
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Contradictory statement
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Pun
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Intentional play on words
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History of "Colossal"
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Greeks and Romans called gigantic statues "kolossos"
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History of "Coliseum"
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Romans had a huge sports stadium called a "Colosseum"
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History of "Gargantuan"
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Title of famous novel, by Francois Rabelais
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History of "Lilliputian"
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From Jon Swift's novel, Gulliver's Travels, where he visits the kingdom of six inch tall people, called Lilliput
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History of "Brobdingnagian"
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Also in Gulliver's Travels, where he visits a land of giants, named Brobdingnag
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Use of "Mandate" in politics
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Authorization voters have given to public officials by electing them
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Use of "Mandate" worldwide
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One of victors of war gain conrol over a colonial territory from a defeated warring country
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Use of "medium" in the occult
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Person who can talk to the dead
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T/F?
Media is the plural form of medium |
True
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Drone
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One who feeds off of others
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Hand-me-down
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Something passed on to another person after being used
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Muckraker
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One who publicizes a scandal
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Stalking-horse
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Anything put forward to mask a plan
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Elective course
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Course that can be taken from other atlternatives
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Family heirloom
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Something passed down the generations of a family
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Defamation of character
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Ruining character
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Malice aforethought
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A thought to commit an unlawful act without a just cause
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Non compos mentis
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Not able to manage self
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De rigueur
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Strictly required by etiquette
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Spoonerism
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Transposition of sounds of two or more words
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Meaning of prefix "inter" and language(s) of origin
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Between or among
Latin |
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Meaning of root "mal(e)" and language(s) of origin
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Bad or evil
Latin and French |
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Interpose
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To come between
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Interject
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To thrust between
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Intermediary
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A go-between
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Interstice
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Space between two things
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Intersperse
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To scatter among other things
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Interrogate
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To question formally
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Intersect
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To cut across or through
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Intercept
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To stop the intended progress of
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Malefactor
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Criminal
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Malevolent
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Showing ill will
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Maladroit
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Clumsy
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Malodorous
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Foul smelling
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Malign
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To speak ill of
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Malaise
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Vague, undefined feeling of illness
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Malformation
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Abnormal structure or formation
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Meaning of root "ben(e)" and language(s) of origin
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Good or well
Latin |
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Benefactor
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One who performs good deed
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Benediction
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Blessing
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Benevolent
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Generous
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Benign
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Gentle
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Meaning of root "gen(e)" and language(s) of origin
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Give birth, born, and race or kind
Latin and Greek |
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Genesis
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Origin of something
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Generate
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To bring into being
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Genocide
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The destruction of a racial/cultural group
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Genealogy
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A record of the ancestry of a person of family
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Generic
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Characteristic of an entire group or class
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Progeny
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Descendants
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Intercede
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To interrupt
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Intercollegiate
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Between different colleges
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Interdenominational
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Between different religious groups
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Interlock
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To fit together
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Intermarry
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To marry in same family, race, or gender
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International
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Worldwide
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Intercession
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Act of going in between
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Intermittent
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Alternately starting and stopping
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Interloper
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Intrude without permission
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Interlude
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Period in between
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Interval
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Temporary pause
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Interpolate
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To introduce something new between other things
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Beneficiary
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An heir
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Beneficial
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Advantageous
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Engender
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To produce
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Degenerate
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Diminish in quality
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Homogenous
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Composed of elements of same kind
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Genus
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A kind or sort of
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Ingenuous
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Sincere
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Heterogeneous
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Composed of elements of different kind
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Congenial
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Agreeable in character
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Machiavellian (and origin)
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Characterized by deceptive leadership
ORIGIN: Deceitful Italian statesman |
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Lothario (and origin)
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Man who seduces women
ORIGIN: The play "The Fair Penitent" |
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Namby-pamby
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Weak or indecisive
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Tartuffe (and origin)
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Hypocrite of religious piety
ORIGIN: French play by Molire |
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Tilt at the windmills (and origin)
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To attack imaginary enemies
ORIGIN: "Don Quixote" by Cervantes |
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Rabelaisian (and origin)
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Characterized by broad humor and keen satire
ORIGIN: Francois Rabelais's work |
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Frankenstein (and origin)
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One who creates something destructive that cannot be controlled
ORIGIN: "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley |
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Pamphlet (and origin)
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Unbound publication
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Sherlock (and origin)
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One who is adept at solving mysteries
ORIGIN: "Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Simon Legree (and origin)
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Harsh and merciless master
ORIGIN: Slave dealer from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Barmecidal (and origin)
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Giving illusion of being plenty
ORIGIN: Nobleman from the Arabian Nights who served imaginary feast to a beggar |
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Pecksniffing (and origin)
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High moral principles
ORIGIN: "Martin Chuzzlewit" by Charles Dickens |
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Euphuism (and origin)
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Fancy style of writing or speaking
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Micawber (and origin)
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Eternal optimist
ORIGIN: Charles Dickens |
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Panjandrum (and origin)
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Self-important person
ORIGIN: Character in play by Samuel Foote |
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Pogrom
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Organized massacre of minority group
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Cossack
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Horsemen from southern Russia
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intelligentsia
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Intellectuals considered as class
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Ukase
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Order by absolute authority
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Steppe
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Extensive grasslands
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Tundra
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Frozen region
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Czar
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Autocratic ruler
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Samovar
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Metal urn for boiling water or tea
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Dacha
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Russian country house
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Commissar
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head of major governmental division of U.S.S.R.
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Perestroika
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Economic reform by Mikhail Gorbachev
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Kulak
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Prosperous peasant
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Gulag
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Forced-labor camp
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Apparatchik
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Loyal member of organization
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Tovarish
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Comrade
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Glasnost
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Openly discussing economic/political problems
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Soviet
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Elected legislative assemblies
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Kolkhoz
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Collective farm
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Addendum (Addenda)
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An addition
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Erratum (Errata)
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Error in print
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Agendum (Agenda)
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List of things to be done
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Datum (Data)
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Single piece of information
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Bacterium (Bacteria)
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One cell of bacteria
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Stratum (Strata)
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One of a number of layers
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"Odium" is an antonym of what?
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Kudos
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"Opprobrium" is an antonym of what?
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Kudos
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"Obloquy" is an antonym of what?
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Kudos
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"Torpid" is a synonym of what?
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Lackadaisical
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"Indolent" is a synonym of what?
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Lackadaisical
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"Supine" is a synonym of what?
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Lackadaisical
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"Blasé" is synonym of what?
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Lackadaisical
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"Nonchalant" is a synonym of what?
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Lackadaisical
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"Perfunctory" is a synonym of what?
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Lackadaisical
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"Dynamic" is an antonym of what?
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Lackadaisical
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"Bequest" is a synonym of what?
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Legacy
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"Inheritance" is a synonym of what?
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Legacy
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"Endowment" is a synonym of what?
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Legacy
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"Debit" is a synonym of what?
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Liability
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"Asset" is an antonym of what?
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Liability
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"Calumny" is a synonym of what?
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Libel
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"Traduce" is a synonym of what?
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Libel
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"Whitewash" is an antonym of what?
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Libel
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"Sane" is a synonym of what?
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Lucid
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"Equivocal" is an antonym of what?
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Lucid
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"Remunerative" is a synonym of what?
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Lucrative
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"Barren" is an antonym of what?
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Lucrative
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"Slink" is a synonym of what?
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Lurk
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"Dense" is a synonym of what?
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Lush
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"Profuse" is a synonym of what?
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Lush
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"Prodigal" is a synonym of what?
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Lush
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"Sumptuous" is a synonym of what?
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Lush
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"Restrained" is an antonym of what?
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Lush
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"Spartan" is an antonym of what?
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Lush
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"Flub" is a synonym of what?
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Malapropism
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"Gaffe" is a synonym of what?
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Malapropism
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"Solecism" is a synonym of what?
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Malapropism
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"Spite" is a synonym of what?
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Malice
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"Rancor" is a synonym of what?
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Malice
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"Vindictiveness" is a synonym of what?
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Malice
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"Enmity" is a synonym of what?
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Malice
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"Magnanimity" is an antonym of what?
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Malice
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"Mastodon" is a synonym of what?
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Mammoth
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"Behemoth" is a synonym of what?
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Mammoth
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"Titanic" is a synonym of what?
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Mammoth
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"Vast" is a synonym of what?
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Mammoth
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"Prodigious" is a synonym of what?
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Mammoth
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"Stupendous" is a synonym of what?
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Mammoth
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"Minute" is an antonym of what?
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Mammoth
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"Compulsory" is a synonym of what?
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Mandatory
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"Requisite" is a synonym of what?
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Mandatory
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"Imperative" is a synonym of what?
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Mandatory
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"Discretionary" is an antonym of what?
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Mandatory
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"Agency" is a synonym of what?
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Medium
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"Vehicle" is a synonym of what?
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Medium
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