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| show | abnormal, deviant
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| show | temporary inactivity; suspended action
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| show | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
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| show | make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances; contaminate, debase
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| show | sum total; gross amount; whole mass; materials used in making concrete
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| anachronistic | show 🗑
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| show | irregularity; abnormality; deviation from the norm; something difficult to classify
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| show | habitual aversion; intense dislike; natural repugnance; hatred
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| show | spurious; not authentic; invented rather than true; mythical; uncanonical (not part of an accepted body of literary work)
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| show | one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs; turncoat; deserter; defector; renegade; traitor; rebel
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| show | inform; make aware of; advise of; notify
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| ascetic | show 🗑
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| show | slanderous remark; abusive attack; disparaging comment; slur; calumny
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| show | diligent; industrious; unremitting; persistent
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| show | harshly biting; sharp and penetrating; bitter in taste; caustic; causing contraction
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| show | weaken or lessen (in density, force, or degree); make thinner or finer; become weak or fine; rarefy
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| show | political or personal independence; self-governance; freedom
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| aver | show 🗑
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| show | deadly; having a malign influence; ominous; threatening harm or misfortune; menacing
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| banality | show 🗑
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| show | cause of ruin or misery; blight; curse
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| show | producing benefits; charitable; generous
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| show | carefree; happy; lighthearted
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| bolster | show 🗑
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| show | pretentious and long-winded; pompous; using inflated language
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| show | someone who acts in a rude or insensitive way; lout; oaf
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| brook | show 🗑
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| burgeon | show 🗑
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| show | make shiny by rubbing; polish
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| show | discordant; unpleasant-sounding; grating; strident
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| castigation | show 🗑
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| show | someone or something that precipitates an action or change; substance that initiates or speeds up a chemical reaction without itself being affected
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| coagulate | show 🗑
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| coda | show 🗑
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| show | convincing; well-argued; powerfully persuasive
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| show | corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc.; proportionate; adequate
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| show | comprehensive though brief summary or a larger work; digest or abstract; inventory
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| show | obliging; eager to please; overly polite
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| show | submissive; yielding; willing to obey; acquiescent
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| confound | show 🗑
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| connoisseur | show 🗑
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| show | penitent; remorseful; repentant; deeply sorry
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| show | riddle, especially one involving a pun; puzzle; difficult problem; dilemma
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| converge | show 🗑
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| show | intimidate; frighten; dishearten
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| show | blacken; belittle; defame; disparage
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| show | dry up; preserve by removing moisture; dehydrate
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| show | aimless; haphazard; unfocused; disappointing in performance
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| show | bitter, accusing criticism; tirade; sharp verbal attack; harangue
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| show | division; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones); duality
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| show | timidity; shyness; self-doubt; lack of self-confidence
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| show | wordy; verbose; widely spread out (like a gas); scattered
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| dirge | show 🗑
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| show | correct a false impression; free someone from an erroneous belief; undeceive
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| discrete | show 🗑
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| show | lacking candor; falsely pretending to be frank; insincere
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| show | unbiased; impartial; neutral; dispassionate
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| disjointed | show 🗑
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| show | fundamentally different; wholly dissimilar; unrelated; unlike
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| show | feign; hide behind a false appearance; conceal one's motives; dissimulate
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| show | disintegration; dissolving into parts; termination; indulgence in sensual pleasures; debauchery
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| ebullience | show 🗑
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| show | effectiveness; power to bring about a desired effect; usefulness
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| effrontery | show 🗑
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| show | embellishment; amplification; refinement; addition of details; intricacy
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| elegy | show 🗑
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| show | draw forth; evoke; prompt; succeed in obtaining (information) from someone
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| empirical | show 🗑
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| show | eulogy; high praise; formal tribute; panagyric
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| endemic | show 🗑
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| show | weaken; debilitate; render feeble; drain
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| show | cause; produce; stir up; prompt; create; breed
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| show | composure; equilibrium; calmness of temperament; self-posession
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| equivocate | show 🗑
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| show | deep scholarly knowledge; scholarship; learning
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| show | praise highly; extol; panegyrize; give or write a laudatory speech
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| show | brainless; inane; smugly foolish; asinine
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| show | obsequious; servile; sycophantic; bootlicking; toadying
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| show | appropriate; apt; well-chosen; fortunate
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| florid | show 🗑
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| foment | show 🗑
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| show | prevent by taking action in advance; hinder; preclude; avert
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| show | frenzied; frantic; hectic; wildly agitated; uncontrolled
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| show | contradict; take exception to; dispute; deny; oppose
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| grandiloquent | show 🗑
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| show | intense verbal attack; passionate, vehement speech; diatribe; tirade
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| show | unorthodox; unconventional; dissident; disagreeing with accepted beliefs
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| homogeneity | show 🗑
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| show | excessively exaggerated; overstated; inflated beyond reason
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| iconoclastic | show 🗑
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| show | individual trait, usually odd in nature; eccentricity; quirk; foible
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| idolatrous | show 🗑
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| idyllic | show 🗑
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| show | deceptive; false; misleading; unreal
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| impassive | show 🗑
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| show | overbearing manner; domineering attitude; arrogance; lordliness
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| show | impervious; not permitting passage through its substance; impenetrable; waterproof
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| show | unflappable; unflustered; composed; calm
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| impervious | show 🗑
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| inchoate | show 🗑
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| show | insignificant; unimportant; trivial; illogical
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| indeterminate | show 🗑
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| indigent | show 🗑
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| inert | show 🗑
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| show | naive and trusting; artless; unsophisticated; innocent
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| show | harmlessness; inoffensiveness; insipidity; innocence
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| inundate | show 🗑
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| inured | show 🗑
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| show | abuse; verbal attack; vituperation; violent censure
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| show | irritable; touchy; testy; quick-tempered
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| show | uncertain how to act; unsure; weak; indecisive; vacillating
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| lassitude | show 🗑
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| show | potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
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| show | talkative; voluble; garrulous; gabby; long-winded
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| show | shining; issuing light; glowing; gleaming
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| show | generosity; greatness of spirit; nobility; high-mindedness
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| malinger | show 🗑
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| show | capable of being shaped by pounding; soft and pliable; impressionable
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| maverick | show 🗑
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| mercurial | show 🗑
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| show | change of form; transformation; total alteration; transfiguration
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| morose | show 🗑
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| neophyte | show 🗑
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| show | stubbornness; obstinacy; inflexibility; intransigence
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| show | servile; sycophantic; fawning; slavishly attentive
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| obviate | show 🗑
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| show | shut; close; clog; obstruct; block
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| show | ignominy; disgrace caused y shameful behavior; state of dishonor; obloquy
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| show | swing to and fro like a pendulum; vacillate; waver
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| ostentation | show 🗑
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| show | tangible; perceptible by touch; touchable; easily perceived; obvious
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| panegyric | show 🗑
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| show | model of perfection; pattern of excellence; peerless example; ideal instance
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| show | excessive frugality; stinginess; meanness
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| show | relating to the study of disease; caused by disease; manifesting compulsive behavior; abnormal
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| show | scarcity; dearth; scantiness; insufficiency of number; fewness
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| show | showing off one's learning; overly fussy about minute details; didactic; bookish; nitpicking
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| show | strong inclination; decided taste; definite liking; predilection
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| perfidious | show 🗑
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| show | superficial; cursory; not thorough; indifferent; negligent
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| show | penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
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| show | not easily disturbed or excited; calm; composed; unruffled; sluggish
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| show | physical malleability; ability to be shaped without breaking; capability of being molded
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| platitude | show 🗑
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| show | superabundance; excess; glut; surfeit
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| show | sievelike; permeable; allowing passage of air or liquids
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| show | preface; introduction; foreword; prologue; preliminary circumstance
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| show | dangerous; risky; perilous; uncertain; insecure; unreliable
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| precursor | show 🗑
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| show | lie; speak misleadingly; intentionally misstate; equivocate; fib
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| pristine | show 🗑
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| show | integrity; uprightness; rectitude; incorruptibility; honesty; righteousness
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| show | wasteful extravagance; recklessness with money; uncontrolled spending; lavishness
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| show | tending to prevent or discourage something's purchase or use; inclined to prevent or forbid
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| show | increase in number; spread rapidly; multiply
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| show | appease; conciliate; mollify; placate; sooth; pacify
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| show | denounce; condemn; prohibit; forbid; ostracize; banish; outlaw; ban
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| show | learned authority; authoritative critic or commentator; scholarly expert; expert analyst
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| show | acrid-tasting; strong-smelling; stinging; caustic; bitter; mordant; penetrating; mentally keen
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| show | disclaim; disavow; retract a previous statement; repudiate; openly confess error
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| show | solitary; seeking isolation; withdrawn from society; providing seclusion; cloistered
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| show | difficult to understand; profound; abstruse; esoteric; obscure; mysterious; secret
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| show | unprincipled or evil person; depraved individual; person hardened by sin; scoundrel; wastrel; miscreant
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| show | revoke; repeal; annul; abrogate; cancel; nullify; withdraw; countermand
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| show | conducive to good health; healthful; beneficial
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| show | officially authorize; approve; allow; encourage; permit; agree to
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| show | be frugal; set limit; be thrifty; restrict; be sparing; scrimp
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| show | make express conditions; specify; arrange specifically; require; expressly demand; insist on
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| show | impassive; unemotional; not easily excited; indifferent; phlegmatic; dull
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| show | understood without being put into words; unspoken; silent; unvoiced; implied without being openly stated; unexpressed; implicit
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| show | thin; threadlike; attenuated; unsubstantiated; weak; flimsy; insignificant; unimportant; vague
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| show | bitter outburst; vehement denunciation; extended scolding; harangue; diatribe
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| show | apathy; sluggishness; listless indifference; lethargy; stolidity; inertia; dormancy
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| show | belligerence; aggressiveness; hostility; ferocity; pugnacity; fierceness; being disposed to fight
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| show | profound respect; reverence; awe
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| show | extreme ability in an artistic form; masterly skill or technique
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| show | sticky; thick; adhesive; gluey; syrupy
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| show | abusive; scathing; venomous; scolding; denunciatory; censorious; defamatory; vilifying; insulting
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