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pulverize
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v to grind or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome as though by smashing in o fragment.
syn crush demolish |
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promontory
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n a high point of land exterending into wateer
syn; sliff headland |
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deplore
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v to feel or express regret or disapproval
syn; lament, bemoan, bewail ant; approve, commend, extol |
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obsess
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v to trouble haunt or fill the mind
syn; preoccupy |
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muster
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v to bring together for service or battle; to gther or summon; to amount to, comprimse, iclude; n a list of men for military service, a gathering or accumilation
syn; v mobilize marshal roster inventory ant; disband dismiss disperse |
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qualm
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n a pang of consicece uneasininess misgiving ordoubt feeling of faintness or nausea
syn; regret second thought scruple |
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staid
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adj serious and dignified, quiet or subdued in charactar or conduct
syn; sedate, sober, prim ant; gaudy,jaunty, unconventional |
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annul
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v to reduce to nothing to make ineffective or inoperative; to declare laegally invalid or void
syn; cancel, abolish, invalidat, nullify ant; validate, authorize, ratify |
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volatile
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adj; highly changevbal fickle tending to become violent or explosive changing readily from the liquid to the gaseous state
syn; unstable erratic ant; stable static inert dormant |
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ample
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adj more than enough, large, spacious
syn; sufficent, adequate considerable ant; insuffient inaduquate |
