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Ameliorate
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Become better; make better; improve (ant. Worsen)
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Ameliorate
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Conserve
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Keep from waste, loss, or decay; save (ant. waste)
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Conserve
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Amelioration
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Improvement
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Amelioration
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Conservation
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Preservation from loss, injury, or waste
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Conservastion
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Conservationist
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One who advocates the conservation of natural resources
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Conservationist
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Detriment
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Injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage (ant. advantage)
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Detrimental
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Harmful damaging
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Exotic
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1. introduced from another country; Foreign (ant. Native)
2. Strikingly unusual; strange |
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Folly
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Lack of good sense; foolish action or undertaking (ant wids dom)
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Formerly
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In an earlier period; previously (ant. now)
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Former
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Preceding; previous (ant. latter)
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Harmony
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Peaceable or friendly relations; accord; agreement; tranquillity (ant. conflict; disharmony)
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Harmonious
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Friendly; Amicable
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Ignore
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Refuse to take notice of; disregard (ant. heed)
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Ignoramus
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Ignorant, stupid person; dunce
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Impediment
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Something that hinders or odstructs; hinderance; obstacle (ant. aid)
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Impede
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Interfere with or slow the progress of; hinder; obstruct
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Indolent
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Disposed to avoid exertion; lazy; idle; lethargic (ant. industrious)
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Indolence
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idleness; laziness
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Intact
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Untouched by anything that damages or diminishes; left complete or entire; uninjured
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Invalid
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not valid; having no force or effect; void (ant. valid, binding by law)
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Invalidate
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Abolish; Annul
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Invalid
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Sickly or disable person
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Noncarcinogenic
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not producing, or tending to produce, cancer (ant. carcinogenic)
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Parsimonious
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Unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy (ant. generous)
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Parsimonious
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Stinginess; parsimoniousness (ant. generosity)
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Raze
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destroy utterly by tearing down; demolish; leval to the ground (ant. erect)
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Reticent
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Inclined to be silenyt or secretive; uncommunicative (ant. Frank)
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