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Question | Answer |
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abate | subside,moderate |
aberrant | abnormal,deviant |
abrasive | rubbing away, tending to grind |
abridge | condense,shorten |
absolute | complete,totally umlimited |
abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking |
abstract | theoretical,not concrete,nonrepresentational |
abstruse | obscure,profound,difficult to understand |
accessible | easy to approach,obtainable |
acclaim | applaud,announce with great approval |
banal | hackneyed,commonplace,trite |
bane | cause of ruin |
belie | contradict,give a false impression |
belittle | disparage,make fun of |
belligerent | quarrelsome |
benevolent | generous,charitable |
benign | kindly,favorable,not malignant |
bequeath | leave to someone by a will,hand down |
biased | slanted,prefudiced |
bland | soothing,mild,dull |
cacophonous | discordant,inharmonious |
cajole | coax,wheedle |
calculated | deliberately planned, likely |
candor | frankness |
capricious | fickle,incalculable |
caricature | distortion,burlesque |
censorious | critical |
censure | blame,criticize |
certitude | certainty |
charlatan | quack,pretender to knowledge |
daunt | intimidate,frighten |
dawdle | loiter,waste time |
debilitate | weaken, enfeeble |
debunk | expose sth as nonsensieal or false |
decorum | propriety,orderliness and good taste in manners |
defame | harm someone's reputation,malign |
deference | courteous regard for another's wish |
defiance | refusal to yield,resistance |
degenerate | become worse,deteriorate |
degrade | lower in rank or dignity,debase |