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| abate | to lessen; to subside
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| abdication | giving up control authority
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| aberration | straying away from what is normal
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| abet | help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)
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| abeyance | suspended action
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| abhor | to hate to detest
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| abide | be faithful; to endure
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| abjure | promise or swear to give up
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| abraded | rubbed off; worn away by friction
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| abrogate | repeal or annul by authority
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| abscond | to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
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| abstruse | difficult to comprehend; obscure
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| abut | border on
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| abysmal | bottomless extreme
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| acarpous | effete; no longer fertile; worn out
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| acclaimed | welcomed with shouts and approval
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| accolade | praise; approval
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| accretion | the growing of separate things into one
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| accrue | accumulate
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| adamant | kind of stone ;inflexible
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| admonitory | containing warning
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| adorn | add beauty; decorate
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| adulteration | making unpure; poorer in quality
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| affable | polite and friendly
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| affinity | close connection ;relationship
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| aggravate | make worse; irritate
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| agile | active; quick-moving
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| agog | eager/excited
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| ail | trouble; be ill
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| alacrity | eager and cheerful readiness
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| alcove | recess/partially enclosed place
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| ale | fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
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| aleck | one who considers himself smarter than others
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| allegiance | duty ;support; loyalty
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| alleviate | make (pain) easier to bear
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| alloy | to debase by mixing with something inferior
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| aloof | reserved ;indifferent
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| amalgamate | mix; combine; unite societies
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| ambidextrous | able to use the left hand or the right equally well
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| ambiguous | doubtful; uncertain
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| ambivalent | having both of two contrary meanings
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| ambrosial | extremely pleasing to taste
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| ameliorate | improve; make better
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| amortize | end (a debt) by setting aside money
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| anguish | severe suffering
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| animosity | strong dislike
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| antidote | medicine used against a poison or a disease
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| antithetical | direct; opposing
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| apartheid | brutal racial discrimination
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| aplomb | self-confidence
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| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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| apotheosis | deification; glorification to godliness
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| appease | make quiet or calm
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| apprehensive | grasping understanding fear; unhappy feeling about future
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| apprise | give notice; to inform
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| approbation | approval
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| apropos | appropriate to the situation
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| apt | well-suited; quick-witted
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| arabesque | a complex ornate design
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| arboreal | of connected with trees
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| ardor | enthusiasm
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| arduous | steep difficult ascent laborious
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| argot | jargon slang
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| arrant | in the highest degree
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| arrogance | proud superior manner of behaviour
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| articulate | speak distinctly connect by joints
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| ascend | go or come up
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| ascertain | get to know
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| ascetic | practicing self-denial austere stark
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| ascribe | consider to be the origin of or belonging to
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| aseptic | surgically clean
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| asperity | roughness harshness ill temper irritability
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| aspersion | slander
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| assail | with attack violently
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| assiduous | diligent hard-working sedulous
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| assuage | make something (pain desire) less
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| asterisk | the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
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| astringent | substance that shrinks
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| astute | clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
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| atonement | repayment death of Jesus
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| attenuate | make thin. weaken enervate
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| attune | bring into harmony
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| audacious | daring foolishly bold impudent
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| augury | omen sign
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| august | majestic venerable
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| auspicious | favorable successful prosperous
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| austere | severely moral and strict simple and plain
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| auxiliary | helping supporting
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| aver | affirm assert prove justify
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| aversion | strong dislike
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| avid | eager greedy
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| avow | admit. Declare openly
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| baleful | harmful ominous causing evil
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| balk | obstacle purposely to get on the way of
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| baneful | causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive
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| barrage | artificial obstacle built across a river
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| barren | not good enough unable to have young ones without value
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| bask | in enjoy warmth and light
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| beatify | to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
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| bedizen | to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
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| belabor | beat hard
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| bellicose | belligerent pugnacious warlike
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| belligerent | (person nation) waging war
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| benefactor | person who has given help
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| benevolence | wish or activity in doing good
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| benign | kind and gentle mild (climate)
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| bequest | arrangement to give something at death
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| berate | scold sharply
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| bereft | rob or dispossess of something (material)
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| bewilder | puzzle confuse
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| bigot | stubborn narrow-minded person
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| bilge | bulge the protuberance of a cask
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| blandishment | flattery coaxing
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| blandness | polite manner comforting uninteresting
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| blatant | noisy and rough
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| blithe | cheerful casual carefree
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| bogus | sham counterfeit not genuine
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| boisterous | loud noisy rough lacking restraint
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| bolster | give greatly needed support
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| boorish | crude offensive rude
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| brash | hasty rush cheeky saucy
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| brass | yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
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| brazen | made of brass
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| breach | opening broken place breaking
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| brittle | easily broken
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| broach | bring up announce begin to talk about
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| brook | to tolerate endure
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| buoyant | able to float light-hearted
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| burgeon | grow forth send out buds
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| burnish | to polish rub to a shine
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| cabal | a scheme or plot a group of plotters
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| cadge | to beg to get by begging
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| cajole | use flattery or deceit to persuade
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| calipers | metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
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| calumny | slander aspersion
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| candid | frank straight-forward
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| cant | insincere talk/jargon
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| cantankerous | bad-tempered/quarrelsome
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| canvass | discuss thoroughly sort of touting
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| castigate | to chastise correct by punishing
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| castigation | severe punishment
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| catalyst | substance that causes speeding up
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| caustic | biting sarcastic
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| censure | expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
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| centurion | leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
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| chary | cautious wary
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| chastened | corrected punished
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| chastisement | punishment
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| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot
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| chicanery | legal trickery/false argument
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| chisel | steel tool for shaping materials
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| churl | bad-tempered person
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| clamor | shout complain with a lot of noise
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| clientele | customers
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| clinch | come to grips/settle conclusively
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| cling | to resist separation
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| clot | half-solid lump formed from liquid
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| cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
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| coagulation | change to a thick and solid state
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| coalescing | coming together and uniting into one substance
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| coax | get smb to do something by kindness
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| coda | passage that completes a piece of music
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| coddle | treat with care and tenderness
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| coerce | compel to force to make obedient
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| coeval | of the same period coexisting
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| cogent | strong convincing
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| cogitate | think deeply mediate
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| cognizant | being fully aware of
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| cohort | a group or band of people
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| colander | bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
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| collusion | secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
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| combustion | process of burning
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| commemorate | keep the memory of
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| commodious | having plenty of space for what is needed
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| commuter | person who travels regularly
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| complaisance | tending to comply obliging willingness to please
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| compunction | feeling of regret for one's action
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| conceal | hide keep secret
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| conceit | over-high opinion of too much pride
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| conciliatory | reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
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| concord | agreement or harmony
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| concur | agree in opinion happen together
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| condense | increase in density strength make laconic
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| Conduce | To bring about
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| condone | forgive
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| congeal | make or become stiff and solid
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| conjoin | to join together
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| connoisseur | a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
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| connotation | suggestion in addition to
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| consequential | pompous self important
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| console | give comfort or sympathy to
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| conspicuous | easily seen remarkable
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| consternation | surprise and fear dismay
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| constrain | compel
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| constrict | make tight or smaller
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| consume | get to the end of
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| consummate | perfect/make perfect/complete
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| contemn | to scorn or despise
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| contentious | argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
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| contiguous | touching neighboring near
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| contrite | filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
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| contumacious | insubordinate rebellious
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| conundrum | a riddle dilemma enigma
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| conviction | convincing firm belief
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| convoke | call together summon
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| convoluted | complicated coiled twisted
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| cordial | warm and sincere
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| cordon | line (of police acting as a guard)
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| cornucopia | abundant supply
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| corporeal | physical of or for the body
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| correlate | have a mutual relation
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| corroboration | additional strengthening evidence
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| countenance | to favor or approve of
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| counterfeit | forgery
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| countervail | counterbalance
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| covert | disguised
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| covetous | eagerly desirous
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| cower | crouch shrink back
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| coy | shy/modest (esp of a girl)
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| crass | very great (es. stupidity)
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| cravat | piece of linen worn as a necktie
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| craven | cowardly
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| crease | line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
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| credulity | too great a readiness to believe things
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| credulous | ready to believe things
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| crush | press lose shape subdue overwhelm
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| cryptic | secret with a hidden meaning
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| cumbersome | burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
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| curmudgeon | bad-tempered person
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| curriculum | course of study
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| cursory | quick hurried
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| curtail | make shorter then was planned
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| dainty | pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
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| daunt | intimidate make fearful
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| dawdler | person who is slow waste of time
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| dearth | shortage
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| debacle | a breakup overthrow sudden disaster
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| decorum | propriety properness
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| decree | order given by authority
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| decry | disapprove of
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| defer | postpone give way (to show respect)
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| deferential | showing respect
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| defiance | open disobedience or resistance
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| delineate | to portray depict sketch out
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| deluge | great flood heavy rush of water
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| demagogue | person appealing not to reasons
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| demur | to hesitate raise objections
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| denigrate | blacken belittle sully defame
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| denouement | an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
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| deplete | use until none remains
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| deposition | dethronement depositing
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| deprave | make morally bad corrupt
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| deprecate | protest against express disapproval of
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| dereliction | deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
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| derision | ridicule mockery deriding
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| derivative | unoriginal obtained from another source
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| derogatory | insulting tending to damage
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| descry | catch sight of see something in the distance
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| desiccant | substance used to absorb moisture
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| desuetude | cessation of use disuse
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| desultory | aimless haphazard digressing at random
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| deter | discourage hinder
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| detraction | slandering verbal attack aspersion
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| detumescence | diminishing or lessening of swelling
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| deviance | being different in moral standards (from normal)
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| dexterity | skill (esp. in handling)
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| diaphanous | transparent gauzy
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| diatribe | bitter and violent attack in words
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| didactic | intended to instruct
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| diffidence | shyness
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| dilate | speak comprehensively become wider large
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| disallow | refuse to allow or accept as a correct
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| discern | see with an effort but clearly
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| discomfit | confuse embarrass
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| disconcert | upset the self-possession of
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| discountenance | refuse to approve of
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| discourse | speech lecture
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| discredit | refuse to believe
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| discreet | careful/prudent
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| discrete | individually distinct
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| disdain | look on with contempt
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| disencumber | free from encumbrance
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| disheveled | untidy
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| disingenuous | sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
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| disinter | dig up from the earth
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| dislodge | move force from the place occupied
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| dismal | sad gloomy miserable
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| disparate | essentially different
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| disproof | proof to the contrary
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| dissemble | speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
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| disseminate | distribute (esp. ideas)
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| dissent | have a different opinion refuse to assent
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| dissolution | disintegration looseness in morals
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| distraught | distracted violently upset in mind
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| divergence | getting farther apart from a point
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| divestiture | taking off getting rid of giving up
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| divulge | make known something secret
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| doggerel | trivial poorly constructed verse
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| dogmatic | positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
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| dolt | stupid fellow
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| dormant | in a state of inactivity but awaiting development
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| dote | show much fondness center one's attention
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| drawl | slow way of speaking
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| droll | jesting
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| drone | male bee person who isn't self-employed
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| drowsiness | feeling sleepy half asleep
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| dubious | feeling doubt
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| dud | no use person something that fails
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| dulcet | melodious harmonious
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| dupe | cheat make a fool of
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| duplicity | deliberate deception
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| duress | threats to compel smb
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| dwarf | person or smb much below the usual size
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| dynamo | a generator something that produces electric current
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| earthenware | dishes made of baked clay
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| ebullience | exuberance outburst of feeling
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| ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
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| ecumenical | representing the whole Christian world
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| edacious | voracious devouring
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| eddy | circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
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| edible | fit to be eaten/not poisonous
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| effete | infertile worn out weak
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| efficacy | production of a desired result
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| effluvia | outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
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| effrontery | boldness impudence arrogance
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| egress | way out exit
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| elaborate | worked out with much care in great detail
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| elegy | a lament a melancholy composition
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| elicit | draw out
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| eloquence | fluent speaking skillful use of language
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| emaciate | make thin and weak
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| embellish | make beautiful
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| embezzle | use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
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| emote | stir up excite
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| empirical | relying on experiment
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| encapsulate | enclose in capsule
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| encomium | warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
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| encumbrance | burden things that get on the way of
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| endearing | making dear or liked
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| endemic | epidemic
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| epiphany | A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
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| endorse | write one's name on the back of
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| enduring | lasting
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| enervate | weaken deprive of strength attenuate
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| engender | cause produce give rise to
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| engrave | impress deeply
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| engrossing | taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
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| engulf | swallow up
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| enigma | something that is puzzling
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| enmity | hatred being an enemy
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| ensign | flag/badge
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| entangle | put into difficulties
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| enthral | please greatly/enslave (fig)
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| entice | tempt or persuade
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| entreat | ask earnestly
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| enunciate | pronounce (words)/express a theory
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| enzyme | catalyst
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| epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
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| epistle | letter
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| epithet | adjective
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| epitome | brief summary representative example a typical model
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| equable | steady regular
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| equanimity | calmness of temperament
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| equilibrium | state of being balanced
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| equipoise | equal distribution of weight equilibrium
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| equivocal | having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
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| equivocate | try to deceive by equivocal language
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| eradicate | get rid of pull up by the roots
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| erratic | irregular in behaviour or opinion
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| erudite | learned scholarly
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| eschew | avoid
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| esoteric | abstruse intended only for a small circle of
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| espouse | marry give one's support to
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| eulogy | formal praise panegyric
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| euphoria | elation state of pleasant excitement
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|
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| euthanasia | easy and painless death
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| evasive | tending to evade
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| evince | to show clearly to indicate
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| evoke | call up bring out
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| excoriation | severe criticism
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| exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt
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| exhaustive | complete thorough
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| exigency | emergency an urgent situation
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| exoneration | set smb clear free (e.g.. from blame)
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| exorbitant | much too high or great
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|
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| expatiate | to roam wander freely
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|
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| expedient | likely to be useful for a purpose
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|
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| expiation | ending expiring
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|
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| exploit | brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
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|
||||
| expostulate | argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
🗑
|
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| expurgate | to remove obscenity purify censor
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|
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| exscind | to cut out cut away
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|
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| extant | still in existence
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|
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| extempore | without previous thought or preparation
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|
||||
| extenuate | reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
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|
||||
| extinct | no longer active
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|
||||
| extinguish | end the existence of/wipe or put out
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|
||||
| extirpate | to destroy exterminate cut out exscind
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|
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| extol | praise highly
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|
||||
| extort | obtain by threats violence
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|
||||
| extralegal | outside the law
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|
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| extricable | that can be freed
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|
||||
| extrovert | cheerful person
🗑
|
||||
| exuberance | state of growing vigorously being full of life
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|
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| facetious | humorous funny jocular
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|
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| facile | easily done
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|
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| fagged | too tired
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|
||||
| fallacious | based on error
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|
||||
| falter | waver/move in an uncertain manner
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|
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| fatuous | without sense foolish self-satisfaction
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|
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| fawn | young deer try to win smb's favor
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|
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| feckless | lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
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|
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| fecund | fertile
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|
||||
| feint | pretend
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|
||||
| felicitous | apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
🗑
|
||||
| felon | person guilty of murder
🗑
|
||||
| ferment | substance become excited
🗑
|
||||
| ferocity | savage cruelty
🗑
|
||||
| ferret | discover by searching search
🗑
|
||||
| fervid | showing earnest feeling
🗑
|
||||
| fervor | warmth of feelings earnestness
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|
||||
| fetid | stinking
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|
||||
| fetter | to shackle put in chains
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|
||||
| feud | bitter quarrel over a long period of time
🗑
|
||||
| fidelity | loyalty accuracy
🗑
|
||||
| fidget | move restlessly make nervous
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|
||||
| figurehead | carved image on the prow of a ship
🗑
|
||||
| finesse | delicate way of dealing with a situation
🗑
|
||||
| finical | too fussy about food clothing etc.
🗑
|
||||
| finicky | finical
🗑
|
||||
| fission | splitting or division (esp. of cells)
🗑
|
||||
| fixate | stare at
🗑
|
||||
| flak | criticism/anti-aircraft guns
🗑
|
||||
| flamboyant | brightly colored florid
🗑
|
||||
| flaunting | show off complacently
🗑
|
||||
| flax | pale yellow (hair) a plant
🗑
|
||||
| fledged | able to fly trained experienced
🗑
|
||||
| fleet | number of ships quick-moving
🗑
|
||||
| flinch | draw move back wince
🗑
|
||||
| flop | fail/move/fall clumsily
🗑
|
||||
| florid | very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
🗑
|
||||
| flout | reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
🗑
|
||||
| fluke | lucky stroke
🗑
|
||||
| fluster | make nervous or confused
🗑
|
||||
| foible | defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
🗑
|
||||
| foil | prevent from carrying out contrast
🗑
|
||||
| foment | put something warm (to lessen the pain)
🗑
|
||||
| foolproof | incapable of failure or error
🗑
|
||||
| foppish | like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
🗑
|
||||
| forage | food for horses and cattle
🗑
|
||||
| forbear | refrain from be patient ancestor
🗑
|
||||
| forbearance | patience willingness to wait
🗑
|
||||
| ford | shallow place in a river (to cross)
🗑
|
||||
| forestall | prevent by taking action in advance preempt
🗑
|
||||
| forfeit | suffer the loss of something
🗑
|
||||
| forge | workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
🗑
|
||||
| forgery | counterfeit
🗑
|
||||
| forswear | renounce disallow repudiate
🗑
|
||||
| foster | nurture care for
🗑
|
||||
| fracas | noisy quarrel
🗑
|
||||
| fragile | easily injured broken or destroyed
🗑
|
||||
| fragrant | sweet-smelling
🗑
|
||||
| frantic | wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
🗑
|
||||
| frenetic | frantic frenzied
🗑
|
||||
| fret | worry irritation wear away
🗑
|
||||
| fringe | edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
🗑
|
||||
| froward | intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
🗑
|
||||
| frugal | careful economical
🗑
|
||||
| fulmination | bitter protest
🗑
|
||||
| fulsome | disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
🗑
|
||||
| gainsay | to deny to oppose
🗑
|
||||
| garble | make unfair selection from facts
🗑
|
||||
| garner | to gather and save to store up
🗑
|
||||
| garrulity | talkativeness
🗑
|
||||
| garrulous | too talkative
🗑
|
||||
| gaucherie | socially awkward tactless behavior
🗑
|
||||
| germane | relevant pertinent to
🗑
|
||||
| gist | the point general sense
🗑
|
||||
| glean | gather facts in small quantities
🗑
|
||||
| glib | ready and smooth but not sincere
🗑
|
||||
| glimmer | weak/unsteady light
🗑
|
||||
| gloat | over look at with selfish delight
🗑
|
||||
| glut | supply to much fill to excess
🗑
|
||||
| gnaw | waste away bite steadily
🗑
|
||||
| goad | something urging a person to action
🗑
|
||||
| gorge | eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
🗑
|
||||
| gossamer | soft light delicate material
🗑
|
||||
| gouge | tool for cutting grooves in wood
🗑
|
||||
| gourmand | a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
🗑
|
||||
| grandiloquent | using pompous words
🗑
|
||||
| grave | serious requiring consideration
🗑
|
||||
| graze | touch or scrape lightly in passing
🗑
|
||||
| gregarious | living in societies liking the company
🗑
|
||||
| grievous | causing grief or pain serious dire grave
🗑
|
||||
| grovel | crawl humble oneself
🗑
|
||||
| guile | deceit cunning
🗑
|
||||
| gullible | easily gulled
🗑
|
||||
| gush | burst out suddenly/talk ardently
🗑
|
||||
| gust | outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
🗑
|
||||
| hack | cut roughly hired horse
🗑
|
||||
| halcyon | calm and peaceful
🗑
|
||||
| hallow | to make holy consecrate
🗑
|
||||
| harangue | a long passionate speech
🗑
|
||||
| harbinger | something or smb that foretells the coming of
🗑
|
||||
| harrow | to distress create stress or torment
🗑
|
||||
| haughty | arrogant conceited
🗑
|
||||
| heed | attention/give notice to
🗑
|
||||
| heinous | odious (of crime)
🗑
|
||||
| heresy | belief contrary to what is generally accepted
🗑
|
||||
| hermetic | sealed by fusion
🗑
|
||||
| heterogeneous | made up of different kinds
🗑
|
||||
| hew | make by hard work cut (by striking)
🗑
|
||||
| highbrow | (person) with superior tastes
🗑
|
||||
| hirsute | hairy shaggy
🗑
|
||||
| hoax | mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
🗑
|
||||
| hoi | polloi the masses the rabble
🗑
|
||||
| hollow | not soled with hole
🗑
|
||||
| holster | leather case for a pistol
🗑
|
||||
| homiletics | act of preaching
🗑
|
||||
| hone | stone used for sharpening tools
🗑
|
||||
| hoodwink | trick mislead
🗑
|
||||
| hospitable | liking to give hospitality
🗑
|
||||
| hubris | arrogant pride
🗑
|
||||
| hush | make or become silent
🗑
|
||||
| husk | worthless outside part of anything
🗑
|
||||
| hypocrisy | falsely making oneself appear to be good
🗑
|
||||
| iconoclast | person who attacks popular beliefs
🗑
|
||||
| idiosyncrasy | personal mannerism
🗑
|
||||
| idolatry | excessive admiration of
🗑
|
||||
| idyll | a carefree episode or experience
🗑
|
||||
| ignoble | dishonorable common undignified
🗑
|
||||
| ignominious | shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
🗑
|
||||
| illicit | unlawful forbidden
🗑
|
||||
| imbroglio | complicated and embarrassing situation
🗑
|
||||
| immaculate | pure faultless
🗑
|
||||
| imminent | likely to come or happen soon
🗑
|
||||
| immutable | that cannot be changed
🗑
|
||||
| impair | worsen diminish in value
🗑
|
||||
| impassive | unmoved feeling no sign of passion
🗑
|
||||
| impecunious | having little or no money
🗑
|
||||
| impede | hinder get in the way of
🗑
|
||||
| impediment | something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
🗑
|
||||
| impending | imminent being about to happen expected
🗑
|
||||
| imperative | urgent essential
🗑
|
||||
| imperious | commanding haughty arrogant
🗑
|
||||
| impermeable | that cannot be permeated
🗑
|
||||
| imperturbable | calm not capable of being excited
🗑
|
||||
| impervious | not allowing to pass through (of materials)
🗑
|
||||
| imperviousness | haughty arrogant commanding
🗑
|
||||
| impetuous | having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
🗑
|
||||
| impiety | lack of reverence or dutifulness
🗑
|
||||
| implacable | incapable of being placated unpleasable
🗑
|
||||
| implicate | show that smb has a share
🗑
|
||||
| implicit | implied though not plainly expressed
🗑
|
||||
| implosion | collapse bursting inward
🗑
|
||||
| importune | beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
🗑
|
||||
| imprecation | an invocation of evil a curse
🗑
|
||||
| impromptu | without preparation
🗑
|
||||
| impudent | rash indiscreet
🗑
|
||||
| impugned | challenged to be doubted
🗑
|
||||
| impute | to attribute to a cause or source ascribe
🗑
|
||||
| inadvertent | not paying proper attention
🗑
|
||||
| inane | silly senseless
🗑
|
||||
| inasmuch | since because
🗑
|
||||
| incense | make angry
🗑
|
||||
| incessant | often repeated continual
🗑
|
||||
| inchoate | not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
🗑
|
||||
| incipient | beginning
🗑
|
||||
| incise | engrave make a cut in
🗑
|
||||
| incite | stir up rouse
🗑
|
||||
| inclined | directing the mind in a certain direction
🗑
|
||||
| incongruous | out of place not in harmony or agreement
🗑
|
||||
| incorrigibility | cannot be cured or corrected
🗑
|
||||
| incredulous | skeptical unwilling to believe
🗑
|
||||
| inculcate | fix firmly by repetition
🗑
|
||||
| incumbents | official duties
🗑
|
||||
| incursion | a raid a sudden attack
🗑
|
||||
| indefatigability | not easily exhaustible tirelessness
🗑
|
||||
| indelible | that cannot be rubbed out
🗑
|
||||
| indigence | poverty
🗑
|
||||
| indigenous | native
🗑
|
||||
| indistinct | not easily heard seen clearly marked
🗑
|
||||
| indolence | laziness
🗑
|
||||
| indomitable | not easily discouraged or subdued
🗑
|
||||
| indulge | gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
🗑
|
||||
| indulgent | inclined to indulge
🗑
|
||||
| ineffable | to great to be described in words
🗑
|
||||
| ineluctable | certain inevitable
🗑
|
||||
| inept | unskillful said or done at the wrong time
🗑
|
||||
| ineptitude | quality of being unskillful
🗑
|
||||
| inferno | hell
🗑
|
||||
| infuriate | fill with fury or rage
🗑
|
||||
| infuse | put pour fill
🗑
|
||||
| ingenuous | naive young artless frank honest sincere
🗑
|
||||
| ingest | take in by swallowing
🗑
|
||||
| inimical | harmful or friendly
🗑
|
||||
| inimitable | defying imitation unmatchable
🗑
|
||||
| innocuous | causing no harm
🗑
|
||||
| inscrutable | incapable of being discovered or understood
🗑
|
||||
| insensible | unconscious unresponsive unaffected
🗑
|
||||
| insinuate | suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
🗑
|
||||
| insipid | without taste or flavor
🗑
|
||||
| insouciant | unconcerned carefree
🗑
|
||||
| insularity | narrow-mindedness isolated
🗑
|
||||
| insurrection | rising of people to open resistance to
🗑
|
||||
| interdict | prohibit forbid
🗑
|
||||
| interim | as an installment
🗑
|
||||
| intersperse | place here and there
🗑
|
||||
| intransigence | unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
🗑
|
||||
| intransigent | uncompromising
🗑
|
||||
| intrepid | fearless brave undaunted
🗑
|
||||
| introspection | examining one's own thoughts and feelings
🗑
|
||||
| inundate | flood cover by overflowing
🗑
|
||||
| inured | accustomed to adapted
🗑
|
||||
| invective | abusive language curses
🗑
|
||||
| inveigh | to attack verbally denounce deprecate
🗑
|
||||
| inveterate | deep-rooted. long-established
🗑
|
||||
| invincible | too strong to be defeated
🗑
|
||||
| involute | complex
🗑
|
||||
| irascible | irritable easily angered
🗑
|
||||
| irate | angry
🗑
|
||||
| ire | anger
🗑
|
||||
| irksome | tiresome
🗑
|
||||
| irresolute | hesitating undecided
🗑
|
||||
| irrevocable | final and unalterable
🗑
|
||||
| itinerate | to travel from place to place to peregrinate
🗑
|
||||
| jabber | talk excitedly utter rapidly
🗑
|
||||
| jagged | notched
🗑
|
||||
| jibe | gibe make fun of
🗑
|
||||
| jocular | meant as a joke
🗑
|
||||
| judicious | sound in judgment wise
🗑
|
||||
| knit | draw together unite firmly
🗑
|
||||
| labyrinthine | to entangle the state of affairs
🗑
|
||||
| lachrymose | causing tears tearful
🗑
|
||||
| lackluster | (of eyes) dull
🗑
|
||||
| lament | show feel great sorrow
🗑
|
||||
| lassitude | weariness tiredness
🗑
|
||||
| latent | present but not yet active developed or visible
🗑
|
||||
| laudatory | expressing or giving praise
🗑
|
||||
| lavish | giving or producing freely liberally or generously
🗑
|
||||
| legacy | something handed down from ancestors
🗑
|
||||
| levee | formal reception/embankment
🗑
|
||||
| levity | lack of seriousness
🗑
|
||||
| libel | statement that damages reputation
🗑
|
||||
| liberality | free giving generosity
🗑
|
||||
| libertine | immoral person
🗑
|
||||
| lien | legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
🗑
|
||||
| limn | paint portray
🗑
|
||||
| limp | lacking strength walking unevenly
🗑
|
||||
| lionize | treat as a famous person
🗑
|
||||
| lithe | bending twisting
🗑
|
||||
| loll | rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
🗑
|
||||
| lope | move along with long strides
🗑
|
||||
| loquacious | talkative garrulous
🗑
|
||||
| lucubrate | write in scholarly fashion
🗑
|
||||
| luculent | easily understood lucid clear
🗑
|
||||
| lugubrious | mournful excessively sad
🗑
|
||||
| lull | become quiet or less active
🗑
|
||||
| lumber | move in a clumsy/noisy way
🗑
|
||||
| luminary | star light-giving body
🗑
|
||||
| lurk | be out of view ready to attack
🗑
|
||||
| lustrous | being bright polished
🗑
|
||||
| macabre | gruesome suggesting death
🗑
|
||||
| macerate | make or become soft by soaking in water
🗑
|
||||
| machination | plot scheme (esp. evil)
🗑
|
||||
| maladroit | tactless clumsy
🗑
|
||||
| malapropism | misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
🗑
|
||||
| malevolence | wishing to do evil
🗑
|
||||
| malign | injurious speak ill of smb tell lie
🗑
|
||||
| malinger | to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
🗑
|
||||
| malleable | yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
🗑
|
||||
| manacle | chains for the hands or feet
🗑
|
||||
| massacre | cruel killing of a large number of people
🗑
|
||||
| matriculation | be admitted enter a university as a student
🗑
|
||||
| maudlin | sentimental in a silly or tearful way
🗑
|
||||
| maul | hurt by rough handling
🗑
|
||||
| maverick | rebel nonconformist
🗑
|
||||
| mellifluous | sweetly flowing
🗑
|
||||
| mendacity | dishonesty
🗑
|
||||
| mendicant | a beggar
🗑
|
||||
| mercurial | quick changeable in character fleeting
🗑
|
||||
| meretricious | attractive on the surface but of little value
🗑
|
||||
| mesmerize | hypnotize
🗑
|
||||
| meticulous | giving great attention to details
🗑
|
||||
| mettle | quality of endurance or courage
🗑
|
||||
| mettlesome | courageous high-spirited
🗑
|
||||
| middling | fairly good but not very good
🗑
|
||||
| minatory | menacing threatening
🗑
|
||||
| mince | pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
🗑
|
||||
| misanthrope | person who hates mankind
🗑
|
||||
| mischievous | harmful causing mischief
🗑
|
||||
| miser | person who loves wealth and spends little
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| misogynist | one who hates women/females
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| mite | Avery small amount
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| moderation | quality of being limited not extreme
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| mollify | make calmer or quieter
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| molt | moult lose hair feathers before new growing
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| morbid | diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
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| morose | ill-tempered unsocial
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| muffler | cloth worn round the neck/silencer
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| multifarious | varied motley greatly diversified
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|
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| mundane | worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
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| myriad | very great number
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| nadir | lowest weakest point
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| nascent | coming into existence emerging
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| nebulous | cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
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| negligent | taking too little care
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| neophyte | person who has been converted to a belief
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| nexus | a connection tie or link
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|
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| nibble | show some inclination to accept (an offer)
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| noisome | offensive disgusting (smell)
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| nonchalant | not having interest
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|
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| nonplused | greatly surprised
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| nostrum | a quack remedy an untested cure
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| noxious | harmful
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|
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| nugatory | trifling/worthless
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| obdurate | hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
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| obfuscate | to darken make obscure muddle
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| oblivious | unaware having no memory
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| obloquy | abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
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|
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| obsequious | too eager to obey or serve
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|
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| obstreperous | noisy loud
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|
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| obtain | to be established accepted or customary
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|
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| obtrusive | projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
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| obtuse | blunt/stupid
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|
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| obviate | to make unnecessary get rid of
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| occluded | blocked up
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|
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| odious | repulsive hateful
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|
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| odium | contempt dislike aversion
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|
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| odor | smell favor reputation
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|
||||
| officious | too eager or ready to help offer advice
🗑
|
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| ominous | threatening
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|
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| onerous | needing effort burdensome
🗑
|
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| opaqueness | dullness/not allowing light to pass through
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|
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| opprobrious | showing scorn or reproach
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|
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| ossify | to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
🗑
|
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| ostensible | seeming appearing as such professed
🗑
|
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| ostentation | display to obtain admiration or envy
🗑
|
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| ostracism | shut out from society refuse to meet talk
🗑
|
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| overhaul | examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
🗑
|
||||
| overweening | presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
🗑
|
||||
| paean | song of praise or triumph
🗑
|
||||
| palate | roof of the mouth sense of taste
🗑
|
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| palatial | magnificent
🗑
|
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| palliate | lessen the severity of
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|
||||
| palpability | can be felt touched understood
🗑
|
||||
| palpitate | tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
🗑
|
||||
| panegyric | formal praise eulogy
🗑
|
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| paradigm | a model example or pattern
🗑
|
||||
| parenthesis | sentence within another one something separated
🗑
|
||||
| pariah | an outcast a rejected and despised person
🗑
|
||||
| parley | negotiation
🗑
|
||||
| parsimonious | too economical miserly
🗑
|
||||
| partisan | one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
🗑
|
||||
| patron | regular customer person who gives support
🗑
|
||||
| paucity | scarcity a lacking of
🗑
|
||||
| peccadillo | small sin small weakness in one's character
🗑
|
||||
| pedantic | bookish showing off learning
🗑
|
||||
| pedestrian | commonplace trite unremarkable
🗑
|
||||
| pellucid | transparent easy to understand
🗑
|
||||
| penchant | strong inclination a liking
🗑
|
||||
| penitent | feeling or showing regret
🗑
|
||||
| penurious | poor/stingy
🗑
|
||||
| penury | extreme poverty
🗑
|
||||
| peregrination | traveling about wandering
🗑
|
||||
| peremptory | urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
🗑
|
||||
| perfidious | treacherous faithless
🗑
|
||||
| perfidy | treachery breaking of faith
🗑
|
||||
| perfunctory | done as a duty without care
🗑
|
||||
| perilous | dangerous
🗑
|
||||
| peripatetic | wandering
🗑
|
||||
| perish | be destroyed decay
🗑
|
||||
| perjury | willful FALSE statement unlawful act
🗑
|
||||
| permeate | spread into every part of
🗑
|
||||
| pernicious | harmful injurious
🗑
|
||||
| perpetrate | be guilty commit (a crime)
🗑
|
||||
| personable | pleasing in appearance attractive
🗑
|
||||
| perspicacity | quick judging and understanding
🗑
|
||||
| pertain | belong as a part have reference
🗑
|
||||
| pest | destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
🗑
|
||||
| petrified | taken away power (to think feel act)
🗑
|
||||
| petrify | to make hard rocklike
🗑
|
||||
| petrous | like a rock hard stony
🗑
|
||||
| petulant | unreasonably impatient
🗑
|
||||
| philistine | a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
🗑
|
||||
| phlegmatic | calm sluggish temperament unemotional
🗑
|
||||
| picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers
🗑
|
||||
| pied | of mixed colors
🗑
|
||||
| pinch | be too tight take between the thumb and finger
🗑
|
||||
| pine | waste away through sorrow or illness
🗑
|
||||
| pious | dutiful to parents devoted to religion
🗑
|
||||
| piquant | agreeably pungent stimulating
🗑
|
||||
| pique | hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
🗑
|
||||
| pitfall | covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
🗑
|
||||
| pith | essential part force soft liquid substance
🗑
|
||||
| pivotal | of great importance (others depend on it)
🗑
|
||||
| placate | soothe pacify calm
🗑
|
||||
| plaintive | mournful melancholy sorrowful
🗑
|
||||
| plaque | flat metal on a wall as a memorial
🗑
|
||||
| platitude | a trite or banal statement unoriginality
🗑
|
||||
| plea | request
🗑
|
||||
| plead | address a court of law as an advocate
🗑
|
||||
| plethora | glut
🗑
|
||||
| pliant | pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
🗑
|
||||
| plod | continue doing something without resting
🗑
|
||||
| pluck | pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
🗑
|
||||
| plumb | get to the root of
🗑
|
||||
| plummet | fall plunge steeply
🗑
|
||||
| plunge | move quickly suddenly and with force
🗑
|
||||
| poignant | deeply moving keen
🗑
|
||||
| poncho | large piece of cloth
🗑
|
||||
| ponderous | heavy bulky dull
🗑
|
||||
| portent | omen marvelous threatening
🗑
|
||||
| precarious | uncertain risky dangerous
🗑
|
||||
| precepts | rules establishing standards of conduct
🗑
|
||||
| preclude | prevent make impossible
🗑
|
||||
| precursory | preliminary anticipating
🗑
|
||||
| predilection | special liking mental preference
🗑
|
||||
| predominate | have more power than others
🗑
|
||||
| preen | tidy/show self-satisfaction
🗑
|
||||
| premature | doing or happening something before the right time
🗑
|
||||
| preponderance | greatness in number strength weight
🗑
|
||||
| presage | warning sign
🗑
|
||||
| presumption | arrogance
🗑
|
||||
| preternatural | not normal or usual
🗑
|
||||
| prevalent | common
🗑
|
||||
| prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth
🗑
|
||||
| prim | neat formal
🗑
|
||||
| pristine | primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
🗑
|
||||
| probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle
🗑
|
||||
| proclivity | inclination
🗑
|
||||
| procrastination | keeping on putting off
🗑
|
||||
| prodigal | wasteful reckless with money
🗑
|
||||
| prodigious | enormous wonderful
🗑
|
||||
| profane | worldly having contempt for God
🗑
|
||||
| profligacy | shameless immorality
🗑
|
||||
| profligate | wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
🗑
|
||||
| profundity | depth
🗑
|
||||
| profuse | abundant/lavish
🗑
|
||||
| proliferate | grow reproduce by rapid multification
🗑
|
||||
| prolix | tiring because too long
🗑
|
||||
| prone | prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
🗑
|
||||
| propagation | increasing the number spreading extending
🗑
|
||||
| propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature
🗑
|
||||
| propitiatory | conciliatory appeasing mitigating
🗑
|
||||
| propitious | auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
🗑
|
||||
| prosaic | everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
🗑
|
||||
| proscribe | denounce as dangerous
🗑
|
||||
| protracted | prolonged
🗑
|
||||
| provident | frugal looking to the future
🗑
|
||||
| provisional | of the present time only
🗑
|
||||
| provoke | make angry vax
🗑
|
||||
| prudence | careful forethought
🗑
|
||||
| prudish | easily shocked excessively modest
🗑
|
||||
| prune | dried plum silly person
🗑
|
||||
| pry | get something inquire too curiously
🗑
|
||||
| pucker | wrinkle
🗑
|
||||
| pugnacious | fond of in the habit of fighting
🗑
|
||||
| puissance | strength
🗑
|
||||
| punctilious | precise paying attention to trivialities
🗑
|
||||
| pundit | pedant authority on a subject
🗑
|
||||
| pungency | sharpness stinging quality
🗑
|
||||
| purvey | provide supply
🗑
|
||||
| pusillanimous | cowardly craven
🗑
|
||||
| putrefaction | becoming rotten
🗑
|
||||
| pyre | large pile of wood for burning
🗑
|
||||
| quack | person dishonestly claiming to something
🗑
|
||||
| quaff | drink deeply
🗑
|
||||
| quail | lose courage turn frightened
🗑
|
||||
| qualm | feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
🗑
|
||||
| quandary | state of doubt or perplexity
🗑
|
||||
| quell | suppress subdue
🗑
|
||||
| quibble | try to avoid by sophistication
🗑
|
||||
| quiescence | state of being passive/motionless
🗑
|
||||
| quiescent | at rest dormant torpid
🗑
|
||||
| quirk | habit or action peculiar to smb or something
🗑
|
||||
| quixotic | generous unselfish
🗑
|
||||
| quotidian | banal everyday
🗑
|
||||
| rabble | mob crowd the lower classes of populace
🗑
|
||||
| raconteur | person who tells anecdotes
🗑
|
||||
| raffish | low vulgar base tawdry
🗑
|
||||
| ramify | to be divided or subdivided to branch out
🗑
|
||||
| rancorous | feeling bitterness spitefulness
🗑
|
||||
| rant | use extravagant language
🗑
|
||||
| rapacious | greedy (esp for money)
🗑
|
||||
| rarefy | to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
🗑
|
||||
| rave | act with excessive enthusiasm
🗑
|
||||
| reactionary | opposing progress
🗑
|
||||
| rebuff | snub
🗑
|
||||
| recalcitrant | disobedient
🗑
|
||||
| recant | take back as being FALSE give up
🗑
|
||||
| recast | cast or fashion anew
🗑
|
||||
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
🗑
|
||||
| reciprocity | granting of privileges in return for similar
🗑
|
||||
| recitals | a number of performance of music
🗑
|
||||
| recluse | person who lives alone and avoids people
🗑
|
||||
| recompense | make payment to reward punish
🗑
|
||||
| reconcile | settle a quarrel restore peace
🗑
|
||||
| recondite | little known abstruse
🗑
|
||||
| recreancy | cowardice a cowardly giving up
🗑
|
||||
| recuperate | become strong after illness loss exhaustion
🗑
|
||||
| redeem | get back by payment compensate
🗑
|
||||
| redoubtable | formidable causing fear
🗑
|
||||
| refine | make or become pure cultural
🗑
|
||||
| refractory | stubborn unmanageable untractable
🗑
|
||||
| refulgent | shining brilliant
🗑
|
||||
| regale | to delight or entertain to feast
🗑
|
||||
| regicide | crime of killing a king
🗑
|
||||
| reiterate | say or do again several times
🗑
|
||||
| rejuvenation | becoming young in nature or appearance
🗑
|
||||
| relapse | fall back again
🗑
|
||||
| reminiscent | viewing the past
🗑
|
||||
| remonstrate | to protest object
🗑
|
||||
| render | deliver provide represent
🗑
|
||||
| renovate | restore something to better condition
🗑
|
||||
| renowned | celebrated famous
🗑
|
||||
| repast | meal
🗑
|
||||
| repel | refuse to accept/cause dislike
🗑
|
||||
| repine | at be discontented with
🗑
|
||||
| reproach | scold upbraid
🗑
|
||||
| reprobate | person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
🗑
|
||||
| repudiate | disown refuse to accept or pay
🗑
|
||||
| repulsive | causing a feeling of disgust
🗑
|
||||
| requite | repay give in return
🗑
|
||||
| rescind | repeal/annul/cancel
🗑
|
||||
| resigned | unresisting submissive
🗑
|
||||
| resilience | quality of quickly recovering the original shape
🗑
|
||||
| resort | to frequently visit
🗑
|
||||
| restive | refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
🗑
|
||||
| resuscitation | coming back to consciousness
🗑
|
||||
| retard | check hinder
🗑
|
||||
| reticent | reserved untalkative silent taciturn
🗑
|
||||
| retrospective | Looking back on past
🗑
|
||||
| revere | have deep respect for
🗑
|
||||
| reverent | feeling or showing deep respect
🗑
|
||||
| riddle | puzzling person or thing
🗑
|
||||
| rift | split crack dissension
🗑
|
||||
| rivet | fix take up secure metal pin
🗑
|
||||
| roll | call calling of names
🗑
|
||||
| rotund | rich and deep plump and round
🗑
|
||||
| ruffian | violent cruel man
🗑
|
||||
| rumple | make rough
🗑
|
||||
| sagacious | having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
🗑
|
||||
| salacious | obscene
🗑
|
||||
| salubrious | healthful
🗑
|
||||
| salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement
🗑
|
||||
| sanctimony | self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
🗑
|
||||
| sanction | approval (by authority) penalty
🗑
|
||||
| sanguine | cheerful confident optimistic
🗑
|
||||
| sanity | health of mind soundness of judgment
🗑
|
||||
| sash | long strip worn round the waist
🗑
|
||||
| satiate | satisfy fully
🗑
|
||||
| saturnine | gloomy dark sullen morose
🗑
|
||||
| savant | person of great learning
🗑
|
||||
| savor | taste flavor something
🗑
|
||||
| sawdust | tiny bits of wood
🗑
|
||||
| scabbard | sheath for the blade
🗑
|
||||
| scent | smell (especially pleasant)
🗑
|
||||
| scorch | become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
🗑
|
||||
| scribble | write hastily
🗑
|
||||
| scurvy | mean contemptible
🗑
|
||||
| secular | material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
🗑
|
||||
| sedulous | persevering
🗑
|
||||
| seminal | like a seed constituting a source originative
🗑
|
||||
| sententious | short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
🗑
|
||||
| sequence | succession connected line of
🗑
|
||||
| sere | make hard and without feeling
🗑
|
||||
| sermon | reproving a person for his faults
🗑
|
||||
| serrated | having a toothed edge
🗑
|
||||
| serration | having a toothed edge
🗑
|
||||
| servile | like a slave lacking independence
🗑
|
||||
| sever | break off
🗑
|
||||
| severance | severing
🗑
|
||||
| shallow | little depth not earnest
🗑
|
||||
| shard | piece of broken earthenware
🗑
|
||||
| sheath | cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
🗑
|
||||
| shrewd | astute showing sound judgement
🗑
|
||||
| shrill | sharp piercing
🗑
|
||||
| shun | keep away from avoid
🗑
|
||||
| shunt | send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
🗑
|
||||
| sidestep | step to one side
🗑
|
||||
| simper | (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
🗑
|
||||
| sinuous | winding undulating serpentine
🗑
|
||||
| skiff | small boat
🗑
|
||||
| skit | short piece of humorous writing
🗑
|
||||
| slack | sluggish dull not tight
🗑
|
||||
| slake | to assuage to satisfy allay
🗑
|
||||
| slate | king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
🗑
|
||||
| sluggard | lazy slow-moving person
🗑
|
||||
| slur | join sounds/words (indistinct)
🗑
|
||||
| smolder | burn slowly without flame
🗑
|
||||
| snare | trap
🗑
|
||||
| snub | treat with contempt
🗑
|
||||
| soar | rise fly high
🗑
|
||||
| sober | self-controlled
🗑
|
||||
| sobriety | quality or condition of being sober
🗑
|
||||
| sodden | soaked saturated
🗑
|
||||
| soggy | heavy with water
🗑
|
||||
| solvent | of the power of forming a solution
🗑
|
||||
| somatic | of the body
🗑
|
||||
| soot | black powder in smoke
🗑
|
||||
| sophisticated | complex subtle refined
🗑
|
||||
| sophistry | fallacious reasoning faulty logic
🗑
|
||||
| sophomoric | self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
🗑
|
||||
| soporific | producing sleep
🗑
|
||||
| sordid | wretched comfortless contemptible
🗑
|
||||
| spear | weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
🗑
|
||||
| specious | illogical of questionable truth or merit
🗑
|
||||
| splenetic | bad-tempered irritable
🗑
|
||||
| splice | join (two ends)
🗑
|
||||
| sponge | porous rubber for washing live at once expense
🗑
|
||||
| spurious | FALSE counterfeit
🗑
|
||||
| spurn | have nothing to do reject or refuse
🗑
|
||||
| squalid | foul filthy
🗑
|
||||
| squander | spend wastefully
🗑
|
||||
| squat | crouch/settle without permission
🗑
|
||||
| stanch | to stop the flow of a fluid
🗑
|
||||
| steeply | rising or falling sharply
🗑
|
||||
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful
🗑
|
||||
| stickler | person who insists on importance of something
🗑
|
||||
| stigma | mark of shame or disgrace
🗑
|
||||
| stigmatize | describe smb scornfully
🗑
|
||||
| sting | something sharp
🗑
|
||||
| stingy | spending using unwillingly
🗑
|
||||
| stint | to be thrifty to set limits
🗑
|
||||
| stipple | paint with dots
🗑
|
||||
| stipulate | state or put forward as a necessary condition
🗑
|
||||
| stolid | showing no emotion impassive
🗑
|
||||
| stray | wander lose one's way
🗑
|
||||
| streak | long thin move very fast
🗑
|
||||
| striated | striped grooved or banded
🗑
|
||||
| stride | walk with long steps
🗑
|
||||
| strut | a supporting bar
🗑
|
||||
| stygian | hence dark gloomy
🗑
|
||||
| stymie | to hinder obstruct or block
🗑
|
||||
| subdue | overcome bring under control
🗑
|
||||
| sublime | extreme astounding
🗑
|
||||
| submerge | put under water liquid sink out of sight
🗑
|
||||
| suborn | induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
🗑
|
||||
| subpoena | written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
🗑
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| substantiation | giving facts to support (statement)
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| subsume | include under a rule
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| succor | assistance relief in time of distress
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| suffice | be enough
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| suffocate | cause or have difficulty in breathing
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| sullied | to be stained or discredited
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| summarily | briefly without delay
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| sumptuous | magnificent
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| sundry | various miscellaneous separate
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| supercilious | disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
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| superfluous | more then is needed or wanted
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| superimpose | put something on the top
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| supersede | take the place of
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| supine | lying on the back slow to act passive
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| suppliant | asking humbly beseeching
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| supplicate | make a humble petition to
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| suppress | prevent from being known put an end to
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| surcharge | additional load/charge
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| surfeit | satiate feed to fulness or to excess
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| susceptibility | sensitiveness
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| swerve | change direction suddenly
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| sycophant | person who flatter to the rich and powerful
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| synopsis | summary or outline
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| taciturn | untalkative silent
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| tadpole | form of a frog when it leaves the egg
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| talon | claw of a bird of prey
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| tamp | tap or drive down by repeated light blows
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| tamper | interfere with
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| tangential | suddenly changeable
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| tarnished | lost brightness
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| tassel | bunch of threads
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| taunt | contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
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| taut | tightly stretched
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| tautology | a repetition a redundancy
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| tawdry | cheap gaudy showy tacky
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| teetotal | oppose to alcohol
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| telltale | That gives warning or information
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| temerity | boldness brashness intrepidness
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| temperance | abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
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| temperate | showing self-control
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| tenacity | firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
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| tenuous | insubstantial flimsy weak
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| tepid | lukewarm
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| terse | brief and to the point
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| testiness | witness/evidence
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| thrift | care economy thriving prosperous
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| thwart | obstruct/frustrate
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| timid | shy easily frightened
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| timorous | fearful timid afraid
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| toady | obsequious flatterer
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| tonic | something giving strength or energy
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| topple | be unsteady and overturn
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| torment | severe pain or suffering
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| torpid | sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant
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| torque | twisting force causing rotation
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| tortuous | devious/not straightforward
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| tout | person who worries others to buy something to use his service
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| tractable | easily controlled or guided
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| transgress | break go beyond (a limit)
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| transient | temporary fleeting
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| transitory | brief
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| travesty | parody/imitation
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| trenchant | forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
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| trepidation | alarm excited state of mind
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| trickle | flow in drops
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| trifling | unimportant
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| trite | not new
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| truce | (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
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| truculence | aggressiveness ferocity
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| trudge | walk heavily
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| turbid | muddy having the sediment stirred up
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| turbulence | being uncontrolled violent
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| turgid | excessively ornate swollen or bloated
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| turmoil | trouble disturbance
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| turpitude | wickedness shamefulness
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| turquoise | greenish-blue precious stone
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| tyro | tiro beginner
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| ubiquitous | present everywhere
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| ulterior | situated beyond
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| umbrage | offense resentment
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| uncouth | rough awkward
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| underbid | make a lower bid then smb else
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| undermine | weaken gradually at the base make something under
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| undulate | to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
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| unearth | discover and bring to light
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| unencumbered | easy-going trifle
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| unfeigned | not pretended sincere
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| unscathed | unharmed unhurt
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| untoward | unfortunate inconvenient
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| upbraid | scold reproach
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| urbane | elegant refined in manners
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| vacillation | being uncertain hesitating
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| vagary | strange act or idea
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| vain | without use result conceited
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| valiant | brave
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| valorous | brave
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| vanquish | conquer
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| variegate | To mark with different shade or colors
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| veer | change direction
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| venal | ready to do something dishonest
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| veneer | surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
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| veneration | regard with deep respect
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| veracity | truth
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| verdant | fresh and green
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| verisimilitude | appearing TRUE or real
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| veritable | real rightly named
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| verve | spirit vigor enthusiasm
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| vestige | trace or sign
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| vex | annoy distress trouble
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| vigilance | watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
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| vigilant | member of a vigilance committee
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| vigorous | strong energetic
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| vilify | slander say evil things
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| vindictive | having a desire to revenge
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| virago | a loud domineering woman a scold or nag
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| visceral | of the internal organs of the body
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| viscous | sticky/semi-fluid
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| vitiate | lower the quality weaken the strength
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| vituperate | curse abuse in words
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| vivacious | lively high-spirited
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| volatile | changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
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| volubility | fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
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| voluble | fluent
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| waffle | talk vaguely and without much result
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| waft | scent waving movement carry lightly through
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| wag | merry person
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| warmonger | person who stirs up war
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| warrant | authority written order guarantee
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| wean | to turn away (from a habit)
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| weigh | measure hoe heavy something is
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| welter | turmoil a bewildering jumble
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| wend | to go proceed
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| whimsical | full of odd and fanciful ideas
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| wince | show bodily or mental pain
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| woo | try to win
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| writ | written order
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| xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl) | a person who is attracted to foreign peoples
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| yarn | tale story fibers for knitting
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