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1-49 Words- Synonyms

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inchoate   Related Words first, formative, inaugural, inchoative, initial, original; elementary, embryonic, fundamental, rudimentary; formless, incoherent; introductory, preliminary, preparatory; crude, primitive, rude  
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obdurate   1. Synonyms affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive 2. Synonyms adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded  
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amalgamate   Synonyms amalgamate, combine, comingle, commingle, commix, composite, concrete, conflate, fuse, homogenize, immingle, immix, incorporate, integrate, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, meld, merge, mingle, mix  
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effrontery   Synonyms audaciousness, audacity, brashness, brass, brassiness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah (also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa), crust, face, gall, nerve, nerviness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, sauce, sauciness, temerity  
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rarefy   purify, refine  
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diatribe   Synonyms diatribe, harangue, jeremiad, philippic, rant Related Words assault, attack, broadside, invective, lambasting, lashing, tongue-lashing, vituperation; berating, chewing out, rebuke, reprimand  
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precipitate (adj)   Synonyms cursory, drive-by, flying, gadarene, headlong, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed  
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precipitate (n)   1. Synonyms aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion, consequence, 2. Synonyms aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion, consequence,  
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precipitate (v)   Synonyms pour, precipitate, storm  
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disabuse   Synonyms disabuse, disenchant, undeceive Related Words sophisticate; advise, apprise, clue (in), fill in, wise (up); debunk, expose, refute, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask; disclose, divulge, spill, tell, unveil  
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aver   1. Synonyms affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess, protest, purport, warrant 2. Synonyms affirm, aver, avouch, avow, declare, guarantee, lay down, profess  
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bolster   1. Synonyms bear, bolster, brace, buttress, carry, prop (up), shore (up), stay, sustain, undergird, underpin, uphold 2. Synonyms back, bolster, buttress, corroborate, reinforce Related Words confirm, establish, prove, verify  
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undermine   weaken, injure  
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deliberate (adj)   1. Synonyms advised, calculated, considered, knowing, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, thought-out, weighed 2. Synonyms conscious, deliberate, intended, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting  
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deliberate (v)   Synonyms chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, eye, kick around, meditate, mull (over), perpend, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with)  
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assuage   1. Synonyms allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, mitigate, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe 2. Synonyms assuage, quench, sate, satiate, slake 3. Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate  
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laconic   1. Synonyms aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, 2. Synonyms closemouthed, dumb, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative  
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lucid   1. Synonyms beaming, bedazzling, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent 2. Synonyms balanced, clearheaded, compos mentis, lucid, normal, right, stable 3. Synonyms apparent, clear-cut  
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enervate   1. Synonyms castrate, damp, dampen, deaden, desiccate, devitalize, enervate, geld, lobotomize, petrify 2. Synonyms debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, prostrate, sap, soften, tire, waste  
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morose   Synonyms black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear,  
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eulogy   Synonyms accolade, citation, commendation, dithyramb, eulogium, eulogy, homage, hymn, paean, panegyric, salutation, tribute Related Words award, decoration, dedication, honor, prize; acclaim, acclamation, laudation; applause  
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placate   Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate Related Words calm, comfort, console, content, hush, quiet, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize); endear (to), ingratiate; delight, gladden, gratify, please; adulate,  
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antagonism   Synonyms animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, bitterness, gall, grudge, hostility, jaundice, rancor  
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skeptical   1. Synonyms disbelieving, distrustful, doubting, incredulous, mistrustful, negativistic, questioning, show-me, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving 2. Synonyms distrustful, dubious, hinky [slang], mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, trustless, uncertain,  
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intrepid   Synonyms bold, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, gutty, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, manful, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undauntable, undaunted, valiant, valorous  
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mollify   1. Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate 2. Synonyms allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, mitigate, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe  
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anomalous   1. Synonyms aberrant, aberrated, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, especial, exceeding, extraordinaire, extraordinary, freak, odd, peculiar 2. Synonyms aberrant, aberrational, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviate, devious, irregular, unnatural, untypica  
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mundane   1. Synonyms everyday, nitty-gritty, prosaic, terrestrial, workaday 2. Synonyms carnal, earthborn, earthbound, fleshly, material, mundane, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly  
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quotidian   1. Synonyms common or garden [chiefly British], commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, ordinary, quotidian, routine, ubiquitous, usual 2. Synonyms day-to-day, diurnal, quotidian  
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burgeon   1. Synonyms accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, burgeon (also bourgeon), climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell, wax 2. flourish, prosper 3. blo  
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sap (n)   1. Synonyms beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive 2. Synonyms chump, gull, mug [chiefly British], patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap, soft touch, sucker, tool 3. bat, baton, billy, billy club, bludgeon, cane 4. fitness, healthiness, heartiness,  
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sap (v)   Synonyms debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, prostrate, sap, soften, tire, waste  
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occult   1. Synonyms arcane, cryptic, deep, enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable, mystic, occult, uncanny 2. Synonyms ambiguous, arcane, cryptic, dark, deep, Delphic, double-edged 3. Synonyms magic, magical, numinous, occult, weird  
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gainsay   1. Synonyms contradict, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, refute, reject, repudiate 2. Synonyms disagree (with), gainsay  
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pith   Synonyms bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, root, sum  
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gist   Synonyms bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, root, sum  
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hackneyed (adj)   Synonyms banal, cliché (also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn  
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hackneyed (v)   Synonyms overexpose, overuse, stereotype, vulgarize  
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corroborate   1. Synonyms argue, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, corroborate, substantiate, support, validate, verify, vindicate 2. Synonyms back, bolster, buttress, corroborate, reinforce (also reenforce), shore (up), substantiate  
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plasticity   Synonyms malleability Related Words adaptability; ductility, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, suppleness; elasticity, flexibility, limberness, resilience, workability, workableness  
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ebullience   liveliness, excitedness  
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plethora   1. Synonyms abundance, cornucopia, feast, plenitude, plentitude, plethora, superabundance, wealth 2. Synonyms bellyful, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, redundancy, superabundance, superfl  
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artless   1. Synonyms artless, genuine, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or na{iuml}ve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious 2. Synonyms artless, clumsy, crude, jerry-built, jerry-rigged, jury-rigged, rough, rough-an  
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artifice   1. Synonyms artifice, device, dodge, fetch, 2. artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, 3. adeptness, adroitness, art, artfulness, artifice, artistry, cleverness 4. cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crooke  
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din (n)   Synonyms babel, blare, bluster, bowwow, brawl, bruit [archaic], cacophony, chatter, clamor, clangor, decibel(s), din, discordance, katzenjammer, racket, rattle, roar  
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din (v)   chime, din, iterate, rehearse, reiterate  
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precarious   lacking stability, unstable  
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default   Synonyms default, delinquency, dereliction, misprision, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, oversight Related Words carelessness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, laxity  
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tortuous   Synonyms bending, crazy, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, winding, windy Related Words zigzag, zigzagging; circling, coiled, coiling, corkscrew, looping, spiral, spiraling (or spiralling)  
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tenuous   thin, lacking substance  
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profuse   Synonyms copious, galore, gushing, lavish, riotous Related Words abounding, abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, liberal, plenteous, plentiful; extravagant, luxuriant; fat, fecund, fertile; free, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting; excessive  
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propitiate   Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate Related Words calm, comfort, console, content, hush, quiet, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize); endear (to), ingratiate; delight, gladden, gratify, please; adulate,  
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zenith   Synonyms acme, apex, apogee, capstone, climax, crescendo, crest, crown, culmination, head, high noon, high tide, high-water mark, meridian, ne plus ultra, noon, noontime, peak, pinnacle, sum, summit, tip-top, top, zenith Related Words bloom, blossom, flo  
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desiccate   Synonyms castrate, damp, dampen, deaden, desiccate, devitalize, enervate, geld, lobotomize, petrify Related Words burn out, debilitate, do in, drain, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, sap, tucker (out), undermine, weaken, wear, wear out; daunt, demoralize, dis  
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veneration   giving profound respect, respecting  
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