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