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fickle
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adjective DISAPPROVING
1 likely to change your opinion or your feelings suddenly and without a good reason: She's so fickle - she's never been interested in the same man for more than a week! The world of popular music is notoriously fickle. 2 describes conditions that tend to change suddenly and without warning: Fickle winds made sailing conditions difficult. |
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idle
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not working or being used:
without any particular purpose: lazy and not willing to work: |
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rancor
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a feeling of hate and continuing anger about something in the past
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presage
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to show or suggest that something, often something unpleasant, will happen
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inauspicious
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showing signs that something will not be successful or positive
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sepulcher
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a stone structure where someone is buried
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adversary
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an enemy
involving opposition or disagreement |
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disposition
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the particular type of character which a person naturally has
a natural tendency to do something, or to have or develop something |
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languish
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to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time
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purge
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to get rid of people from an organization because you do not agree with them
to make someone or something free of something evil or harmful |