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austere
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stern, as in manner without excess, severely pain
ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh |
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ornate
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elaborately or excessively decorated
adorned, aureate, baroque, beautiful, bedecked, bright, brilliant, busy, colored, convoluted, dazzling, elaborate, elegant, embroidered, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, florid, |
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cerebral
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of or relating to the brain; intellectual in nature
analytical, brainy, deep, erudite, intellectual, intelligent, recondite, scholarly, smart |
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incommodious
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lacking space; uncomfortable
unhandy, unmanageable, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, unwieldy, vexatious |
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noisome
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offensive; disgusting
baneful, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, disgusting, fetid, foul, harmful, horrid, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, insalutary, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, mischievous, nauseating, noxious, pernicious, |
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cacophony
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harsh sounds; disturbing noise
discord, harshness, noise |
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veritable
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unquestionable; actual; true
actual, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, indubitable, kosher*, legit, real, true, undoubted, unquestionable, very |
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verbatim
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using exacatly the same words, word for word
accurately, direct, directly, literally, literatim, precisely, sic, to the letter, |
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concurrent
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at the same time; acting in conjunction
circumstantial, coeval, coexisting, coincident, concerted, concomitant, contemporaneous, in sync, incidental, parallel, synchronal, synchronous |
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evade
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to elude or avoid by cunning; to flee from a pursuer
avoid, baffle, balk, beat around bush, beg the question, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, |
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impede
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to obstruct or interfere with; to delay
bar, block, blow whistle on, brake, check, clog, close off, cramp one's style, curb, cut off, dam, delay, deter, discomfit, disconcert, disrupt, embarrass, faze, |
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askew
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to one side; crooked
askance, askant, aslant, awry, bent, buckled, catawampus, cockeyed, crookedly, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, |
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queue
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to form or wait in line; a (waiting) line
chain, concatenation, echelon, file, line, order, progression, rank, row, series, string |
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accolade
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award or honor
approval, award, badge, decoration, distinction, honor, kudos*, laurels |
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torrid
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parched by the sun; hot, burning
arid, austral, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, dried, dry, fiery, heated, parched, parching, red-hot, scalding, |
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trepidation
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fear; state of anxiety or fear that makes you tremble
agitation, alarm, apprehension, blue funk, butterflies, cold feet, cold sweat, consternation, creeps, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, dread, emotion, excitement, fear, fright, goose bumps, |
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fraught
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teeming with; laden; full; causing emotional distress
abounding, attended, bristling, charged, filled, heavy, laden, replete, stuffed |
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wane
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to decrease gradually
abate, atrophy, decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, dim, draw to a close, drop, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fade, |
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oust
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to eject; to force; to banish
banish, bereave, boot out, bounce*, bundle off, cast out, chase, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, disinherit, dislodge, displace, dispossess, divest, drive out, eject, evict, |
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temerity
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recklessness; wild craziness; disregard for danger
assurance, boldness, brass, carelessness, daring, effrontery, foolhardiness, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, impertinence, impetuosity, imprudence, |