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aesthete
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noun:
One having or affecting great sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature. |
esthete
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fulsome
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\FUL-sum\, adjective:
1. Offensive to the taste or sensibilities. 2. Insincere or excessively lavish; especially, offensive from excess of praise. |
buttery, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous, oily
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ostensible
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\ah-STEN-suh-bul\, adjective:
Represented or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so. |
His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.
-- seeming, apparent |
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militate
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\MIL-ih-tayt\, intransitive verb:
To have force or influence; bring about an effect or a change. |
"All these factors militated to a different targeting priority"
-- "Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed" |
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vertiginous
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vertiginous \vur-TIJ-uh-nuhs\, adjective:
1. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. 2. Causing or tending to cause dizziness. 3. Turning round; whirling; revolving. 4. Inclined to change quickly or frequently; inconstant. |
"my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown"
-- dizzy, giddy, woozy |
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stanch
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\STONCH; STANCH\, transitive verb:
1. To stop or check the flow of (blood or tears, for example). 2. To stop the flow of blood from (a wound). 3. To stop, check, or allay. |
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opprobrium
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\uh-PRO-bree-uhm\, noun:
1. Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt. 2. A cause or object of reproach or disgrace. |
obloquy, infamy
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solace
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\SOL-is\, noun:
1. Comfort in time of grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety. 2. That which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; a source of relief. transitive verb: 1. To comfort or cheer in grief or affliction; to console. 2. To allay; to soothe; as, "to solace grief." |
"But immediately afterwards he dispels the agony by finding his customary solace in tales of chivalry."
-- consolation, solacement |
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cataract
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\KAT-uh-rakt\, noun:
1. A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall. 2. A downpour; a flood. 3. A clouding or opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye, which obstructs the passage of light. |
"Niagara is no virgin. Today, its cataract can be stopped with the pull of a lever, and less than half its natural flow pours over the precipice."
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