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Abate |
Become less in amount or intensity |
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Chicanery |
The use of tricks to deceive someone |
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Disemminate |
Cause to become widely known |
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Gainsay |
Take exception to |
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Latent |
Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized |
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Aberrant |
Markedly different from an accepted form |
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Coagulate |
Change from a liquid to a thickened solid state |
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Dissolution |
Separation into component parts |
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Garrulous |
Full of trivial conversation |
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Laud |
Praise, glorify |
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Abeyance |
Temporary cessation or suspension |
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Coda |
The closing section of a musical composition |
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Dissonance |
Disagreeable sounds |
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Goad |
Stab or urge on (like with a pointed stick) |
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Lethargic |
Deficient in alertness or activity |
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Abscond |
Run away |
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Cogent |
Powerful and persuasive |
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Distend |
Cause to expand by internal pressure |
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Gouge |
An impression in a surface |
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Levee |
An embankment built to prevent a river from overflowing |
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Abstemious |
Marked by avoiding indulgence |
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Commensurate |
Corresponding in size or degree or extent |
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Distill |
Undergo condensation |
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Grandiloquent |
Lofty in style |
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Levity |
A manner lacking seriousness |
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Admonish |
Scold or reprimand |
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Compendium |
A publication containing a variety of works |
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Diverge |
Move or draw apart |
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Gregarious |
Temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others |
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Log |
A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches |
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Adulterate |
Make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance |
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Complaisant |
Showing a cheerful willingness to do favour for others |
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Divest |
Take away possessions from someone |
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Guileless |
Innocent and free of deceit |
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Loquacious |
Full of trivial conversation |
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Aesthetic |
Characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste |
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Compliant |
Disposed to act in accordance with someone's wishes |
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Document |
A representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks |
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Gullible |
Naive and easily deceived or tricked |
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Lucid |
Transparent clear, easily understandable |
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Aggregate |
A sum total of many heterogeneous things |
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Conciliatory |
Making or willing to make conversation |
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Dogmatic |
Pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative |
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Harangue |
A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion |
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Luminous |
Softly bright or radiant |
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Alacrity |
Liveliness and eagerness |
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Condone |
Excuse, overlook, or allow |
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Dormant |
Inactive but capable of becoming active |
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Homogeneous |
All of the same or similar kind or nature |
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Magnanimity |
Nobility and generosity of spirit |
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Alleviate |
Provide physical relief or from pain |
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Confound |
Be confusing or perplexing to |
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Dupe |
Fool or hoax |
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Hyperbole |
Extravagant exaggeration |
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Malingerer |
Someone shirking duty by feigning illness or capacity |
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Amalgamate |
Bring or combine together or with something else |
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Connoisseur |
An expert able to appreciate a field |
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Ebullient |
Joyously unrestrained |
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Iconoclastic |
Characterized by attack on established beliefs |
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Malleable |
Capable of being shaped or bent |
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Ambiguous |
Having more than one possible meaning |
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Contention |
The act of competing as for profit of a prize |
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Eclectic |
Selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas |
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Idolatry |
The worship of idols or images that are not God |
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Maverick |
Someone who exhibits independence in thought or action |
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Ambivalence |
Mixed feelings or emotions |
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Contentious |
Showing an inclination to disagree |
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Efficacy |
Capacity or power to produce a desired result |
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Immutable |
Not subject or susceptible to change or variation |
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Mendacious |
Given to lying |
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Ameliorate |
Make better |
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Contrite |
Feeling or expressing pain or sorrows for sins or offenses |
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Effrontery |
Audacious behaviour that you have to right to Insolent or ******* behaviour |
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Impair |
Make worse or less effective |
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Metamorphosis |
Striking change in appearance or character or circumstances |
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Anachronism |
Locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed |
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Conundrum |
A difficult problem |
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Elegy |
A mournful poem, a lament for the dead |
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Impassive |
Having or revealing little emotion or sensitivity |
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Meticulous |
Marked by precise accordance to details |
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Analogous |
Similar or equivalent in some respects |
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Converge |
Be adjacent or come together |
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Elicit |
Call forth, as an emotion |
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Impede |
Be a hindrance or obstacle to |
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Misanthrope |
Someone who dislikes people in general |
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Anarchy |
A state of lawlessness and disorder |
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Convoluted |
Highly complex or intricate |
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Embellish |
Make more attractive by adding something else |
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Impermeable |
Preventing something to pass through |
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Mitigate |
Lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of |
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Anomalous |
Deviating from the general or common order or type |
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Craven |
Lacking even the rudiments of courage |
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Empirical |
Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory |
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Imperturbable |
Marked by extreme calm and composure |
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Mollify |
Cause to be more favourable inclined |
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Antipathy |
A feeling of intense dislike |
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Daunt |
Cause to lose courage |
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Emulate |
Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating |
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Impervious |
Not admitting of passage or capable of being affected |
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Morose |
Showing a brooding ill humour |
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Apathy |
An absence of emotion or enthusiasm |
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Decorum |
Propriety in manners and conduct |
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Endemic |
Native to or confined to a certain region |
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Implacable |
Incapable of being appeased or pacified |
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Mundane |
Found in the ordinary course of events |
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Appease |
Make peace with |
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Default |
An option that is selected automatically |
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Enervate |
Weaken mentally or morally |
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Implicit |
Suggested though not directly expressed |
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Negate |
Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of |
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Apprise |
Inform somebody of something |
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Deference |
Courteous regard for people's feelings |
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Engender |
Bring about, call forth |
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Implode |
Burst inward |
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Neophyte |
A new participant (newbie) |
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Approbation |
Official acceptance or agreement (not probation) |
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Delineate |
Represented accurately or precisely |
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Enhance |
Increase |
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Inadvertently |
Without knowledge or intention (without advent of something new) |
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Obdurate |
Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
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Appropriate |
Suitable for a particular person |
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Denigrate |
Charge falsely or with malicious intent |
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Ephemeral |
Anything short-lived |
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Inchoate |
Only partly in existence, rudimentary |
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Obsequious |
Attempting to win favour from influential people by flattery |
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Arduous |
Characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion |
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Deride |
Treat or speak with contempt |
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Equanimity |
Steadiness of mind under stress |
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Incongruity |
The quality of disagreeing |
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Obviate |
Do destroy |
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Artless |
Simple and natural, without cunning or deceit |
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Derivative |
A compound obtained from another compound |
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Equivocate |
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear |
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Inconsequential |
Lacking worth or importance |
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Occlude |
Block passages through |
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Ascetic |
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline |
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Dessicate |
Lacking vitality or spirit, lifeless |
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Erudite |
Having or showing profound knowledge |
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Incorporate |
Make into a whole or make part of a whole |
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Officious |
Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner |
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Assiduous |
Marked by care and persistent effort |
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Desultory |
Marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose |
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Esoteric |
Understandable only be few |
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Indeterminate |
Not fixed or known in advance |
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Onerous |
Burdensome or difficult to endure |
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Assuage |
Provide physical relief |
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Deterrent |
Something immaterial that interferes with action or progress |
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Eulogy |
A formal expression of praise for someone who has died |
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Indigence |
A state of extreme poverty or destitution |
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Opprobium |
A state of extreme dishonour |
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Attenuate |
Become weaker in strength, value |
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Diatribe |
Thunderous verbal attack |
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Euphemism |
An inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one |
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Indolent |
Lazy |
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Oscillate |
Move or swing from side to side regularly |
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Audacious |
Disposed to venture or take risks |
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Dichotomy |
A classification into two opposed parts or subclasses |
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Exacerbate |
Makes worse |
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Inert |
Unable to move or resist motion |
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Ostentatious |
Intended to attract notice and impress others |
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Austere |
Of a Stern or strict bearing or demeanour |
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Diffidence |
Lack of self-assurance |
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Exculpate |
Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges |
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Pate |
Liver or meat or fowl finely minced and ground |
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Ingenuous |
Lacking in sophistication or worldliness |
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Paragon |
A perfect embodiment of a concept |
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Autonomous |
Existing as an independent entity |
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Diffuse |
Spread out, not concentrated in one place |
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Exigency |
A pressing or urgent situation (emergency) |
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Inherent |
Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic |
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Aver |
To make aware |
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Digression |
A message that departs from the main subject |
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Extrapolation |
An inference about the future based on known facts |
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Innocuous |
Not injurious to physical or mental health |
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Pathological |
Relating to the study of diseases |
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Banal |
Repeated too often, boring |
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Dirge |
A song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person |
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Facetious |
Cleverly amusing in tone |
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Insensible |
Barely able to be perceived |
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Paucity |
An insufficient quantity (like a pauper) |
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Belie |
Be in contradiction with, fail to give a true impression of |
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Disabuse |
Free somebody from an erroneous belief |
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Facilitate |
Make easier |
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Insinuate |
Suggest in an indirect or covert way |
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Pedantic |
Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning |
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Beneficient |
Doing or producing good |
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Discerning |
Having or revealing keen insight and good judgement |
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Fallacious |
Containing or based on incorrect reasoning |
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Insipid |
Lacking interest or significance |
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Penchant |
A strong liking |
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Bolster |
Support and strengthen |
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Discordant |
Not in agreement or harmony |
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Fatuous |
Devoid of intelligence |
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Insularity |
The state of being isolated or detached |
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Penury |
A state of extreme poverty or destitution |
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Bombastic |
Ostentatiously lofty in style |
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Discredit |
The state of being held in low esteem |
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Fawning |
Attempting to win favour by flattery |
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Intractable |
Difficult to manage or mold |
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Perennial |
Lasting an indefinitely long time |
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Boorish |
Ill-mannered and coarse in behaviour or appearance |
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Discrepancy |
A difference between conflicting facts ot claims or opinions |
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Felicitous |
Exhibiting an agreeable appropriate manner or style |
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Intransigence |
Stubborn refusal to compromise or change |
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Perfidious |
Tending to betray |
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Burgeon |
Grow and flourish |
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Discrete |
Constituting a separate entity or part |
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Fervor |
Feelings of great warmth and intensity |
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Inundate |
Fill or cover completely, usually with water |
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Perfunctory |
Hasty and without attention to detail |
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Burnish |
Polish and make shiny |
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Disingenuous |
Not straightforward or candid |
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Flag |
A rectangular piece of clothing of distinctive design |
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Inured |
Made tough by habitual exposure |
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Permeable |
Allowing fluids or gases to pass through |
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Buttress |
A support usually of stone or brick |
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Disinterested |
Unaffected by something |
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Fledgling |
Young and inexperienced |
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Invective |
Abusive language used to express blame |
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Pervasive |
Spreading or spread throughout |
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Cacophonous |
Having an unpleasant sound |
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Disjointed |
Taken apart at the points of connection |
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Flout |
Treat with contemptuous disregard |
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Irascible |
Quickly aroused to anger |
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Phlegmatic |
Showing little emotion |
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Capricious |
Determined by chance or impulse than by necessity |
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Dismiss |
Stop associating with |
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Foment |
Try to stir up |
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Irresolute |
Uncertain how to act or proceed |
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Piety |
Righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout |
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Castigation |
Verbal punishment |
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Disparage |
Express a negative opinion of |
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Forestall |
Keen from happening or arising |
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Itinerary |
An established line of travel or access |
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Placate |
Cause to be more favorably inclined |
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Catalyst |
Substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction |
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Disparate |
Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind |
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Frugality |
Prudence in avoiding waste |
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Laconic |
Brief and to the point |
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Plasticity |
The property of being physically malleable |
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Caustic |
Capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action |
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Dissemble |
Behave unnaturally or affectedly |
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Futile |
Producing no result or effect |
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Lassitude |
A feeling of lack of interest or energy |
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Platitude |
A trite or obvious remark |
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Plethora |
Extreme excess |
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Propitiate |
Make peace with |
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Rescind |
Cancel officially |
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Sporadic |
Recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances |
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Tractable |
Easily managed |
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Plummet |
Drop sharply |
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Propriety |
Correct behaviour |
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Resolution |
A decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner |
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Stigma |
A symbol of disgrace or infamy |
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Transgression |
The violation of a law or a duty or moral principle |
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Porous |
Full of holes |
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Proscribe |
Command against |
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Resolve |
Find a solution or answer |
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Stint |
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities |
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Truculent |
Defiant aggression |
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Pragmatic |
Concerned with practical matters |
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Pungent |
Strong and sharp to the sense of taste |
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Reticent |
Reluctant to draw attention to yourself |
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Stipulate |
Make an express demand or provision in an agreement |
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Vacillate |
Be undecided about something |
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Preamble |
A preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution |
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Qualified |
Meeting the proper standards and requirements for a task |
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Reverent |
Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration |
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Stolid |
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility |
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Venerate |
Regard with feelings of respect and reverence |
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Precarious |
Not secure, beset with difficulties |
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Quibble |
Evade the truth of a point by raising irrelevant objections |
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Sage |
A mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics |
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Striate |
Marked with stripes |
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Veracious |
Habitually speaking the truth |
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Precipitate |
Bring about abruptly |
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Quiescent |
Being quite or still or inactive |
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Salubrious |
Promoting health |
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Strut |
Walk with a lofty proud gait |
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Verbose |
Using or containing too many words |
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Precursor |
Something indicating the approach of something or someone |
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Rarefied |
Of high more or intellectual value, esoteric |
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Sanction |
Official permission or approval |
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Subpoena |
A written issued to compel the attendance of a witness |
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Viable |
Capable of life or normal growth and development |
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Presumptuous |
Going beyond what is appropriate, permitted or courteous |
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Recalcitrant |
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control |
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Satiate |
Fill to satisfaction |
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Subside |
Wear off or die down |
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Viscous |
Having relatively high resistance to flow |
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Prevaricate |
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear |
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Recant |
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief |
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Saturate |
Infuse or fill completely |
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Substantiate |
Establish or strenghtnen as with new evidence or facts |
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Vituperative |
Marked by harshly abusive criticism |
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Pristine |
Immaculately clean and unused |
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Recluse |
One who lives in solitude |
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Savor |
A particular taste or smell, especially an appealing one |
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Supersede |
Take the place or move into the position of |
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Volatile |
Liable to lead to sudden change or violence |
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Probity |
Complete and confirmed integrity |
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Recondite |
Difficult to penetrate |
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Secrete |
Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids |
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Supposition |
The cognitive process of conjecturing |
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Unwarranted |
Incapable of being justified or explained |
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Problematic |
Making great mental demands |
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Refractory |
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control |
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Shard |
A broken piece of a brittle artifact |
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Tacit |
Implied by or inferred from actions or statements |
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Wary |
Marked by keen caution and watchful prudence |
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Prodigal |
Recklessly wasteful |
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Refute |
Overthrow by argument, evidence or proof |
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Skeptic |
Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs |
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Tangential |
Of superficial relevance if any |
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Welter |
A confused multitude of things |
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Profound |
Situated at or extending to great depth |
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Relegate |
Assign to lower position |
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Solicitous |
Full of anxiety and concern |
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Tenuous |
Very thing in gauge or diameter |
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Whimsical |
Determined by chance or impulse rather by necessity |
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Prohibitive |
Tending to discourage |
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Reproach |
Express criticism towards |
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Soporific |
Inducing sleep |
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Tirade |
A speech of violent denunciation |
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Zealot |
A fervent and even militant proponent of something |
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Proliferate |
Grow rapidly |
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Reprobate |
A person without moral scruples |
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Specious |
Plausible but false |
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Torpor |
A state of motor and mental inactivity |
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Propensity |
A natural inclination |
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Repudiate |
Refuse to acknowledge, ratify or recognize as valid |
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Spectrum |
A broad range |
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Tortuous |
Makes by repeated turns and bends |
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Protracted |
Lasting for a long time "A protracted and bitter dispute." |
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Operatic |
Overly dramatic |
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Unseemly |
Inappropriate |
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Sordid |
Characterized by ignoble motives |
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Accretion |
The process of growth or increase |
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Underscore |
Underline, emphasize |
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Ingratiate |
Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them. Social climbers try to ingratiate themselves with the popular kids. |
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Vociferous |
Violent, clamorous |
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Mawkish |
Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way |
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Draconian |
Excessively harsh or severe |
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Perfunctory |
Carried out with no effort or reflection |
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Pellucid |
Easily understandable |
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Precis |
Summary or abstract |
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Spasmodically |
Irregularly |
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Epigrammatic |
of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing |
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Apothegm |
A concise saying or maxim, an aphorism |
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Inveterate |
Habitual, long-established |
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Insofar as |
to the extent or degree that we agree only insofar as the budget is concerned |
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Stratified |
Classified, arranged |
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Brazen |
Bold and without shame |
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Conspicuous |
Catching attention |
