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GRE Words from Kaplan

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show tthe art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing; the profession of teaching  
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penury   show
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show adherence to the highest principles; uprightness; complete and confirmed  
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perspicacious   show
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mercurial   show
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esoteric   show
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salubrious   show
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show cursory; done without care or interest; hasty and without attention to detail not thorough  
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vituperate   show
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incipient   show
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arduous   show
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show excessive praise; idolization; idolisation  
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lissome   show
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show social blunder  
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aberrant   show
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show to leave secretly and hide; often to avoid the law  
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advocate   show
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obdurate   show
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show to deliberately obscure or unclear; to make obscure or unclear; to darken, make obscure, muddle; make obscure or unclear; to darken, make obscure, muddle  
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obsequious   show
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show unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid; lacking in sophistication or worldliness; innocent; characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; artless  
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show clever  
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show harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion; not causing disapproval; unobjectionable; not injurious to physical or mental health; unlikely to harm or disturb anyone  
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show lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression; slow to understand; stupid/blunt; purblind  
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show to anticipate and make unnecessary; remove (something); get rid of; to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action); to make unnecessary; get rid of; prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; ward off; debar; deflect  
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ionoclast   show
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idolatrous   show
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show about to happen; impending; about to happen; likely to happen very soon; ready to take place; especially; hanging threateningly over one's head; likely to come very soon  
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show not capable of change; that cannot be changed; that will never change; not capable of or susceptible to change; that cannot be changed  
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impassive   show
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impecunious   show
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show marked by extreme calm; impassivity and steadiness; not eaisly troubled or worried calm; marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness; serene; calm; not capable of being excitied  
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show hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement; acting or done quickly and with little thought or care; rash or impuslive; marked by impulsive vehemence or passion; having sudden energy, impulsive, thrusting ahead, forceful  
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implacable   show
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show immunity from punishment or penalty; with impunity with freedom from punishment or injury  
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inchoate   show
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incipient   show
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show having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice; apathetic  
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show unmoving; lethargic; sluggish; without power to move or act; deficient in active properties; especially; lacking a usual or anticipated chemical or biological action  
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infelicitous   show
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ingenuous   show
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inimical   show
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innocuous   show
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show without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland; having almost no taste or flavor; lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge; dull flat  
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intractable   show
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show refusing to compromise; refusing to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or attitude; uncompromising; uncompromising  
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intrepid   show
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show accustomed to accepting something undesirable; accustomed to; adapted; made tough by habitual exposure; hardened  
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show to obtain by deception or flattery; persuade somebody to go somewhere or do something by using flattery and deception; to win over by wiles; entice  
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show easily angered; prone to temperamental outburst; (of a person) easily made anger; marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger  
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laconic   show
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show to praise highly; praise somebody/something; glorify  
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loquacious   show
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lucid   show
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show characterized by brightness and the emission of light; giving out light; bright  
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show the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, especially in forgiving; being magnanimous  
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imperious   show
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show an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events  
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show not capable of being corrected  
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indelible   show
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show indescribable, inexpressible in words, unspeakable  
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show numb, unconscious  
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show of or pertaining ot an island, thus, excessively exclusive  
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leviathan   show
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malevolent   show
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show one who hates women  
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mitigate   show
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show wicked, evil  
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show harmful, offensive, destructive  
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show hardened against influence or feeling  
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obviate   show
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occlude   show
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opaque   show
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ossified   show
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show a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing  
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show a small sin or fault  
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pedantic   show
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show deliberately treacherous, dishonest; tending to betray,  
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show not easily excised; cool slugish  
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show tendency or action for the benefit of others as in donating money or property to a charitable orgaization  
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placate   show
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precipice   show
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show to stray from or evade the truth  
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show rashly wasteful  
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show beautiufl  
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show cowardly, timid, or irresolute, pretty  
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show inactivity, stillness; dormancy  
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show having power to compel or constrain; appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing  
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spurious   show
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show skillful in statecraft and management; acutely insightful and wise; perspicacious; sapient  
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sapient   show
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cursory   show
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pro forma   show
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supple   show
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malleable   show
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martial   show
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show an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party; unbranded calf; unorthodox person; rebel nonconformits  
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mercurial   show
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show characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail; giving great attention to details  
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show one who hates all other humans; a person who hates or distrusts mankind; person who hates mankind  
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show changeable; determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changing quickly; mercurial; volatile  
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show a brief treatment or account of a subject esp. an extensive subject; concise treatment; abridge; terse; synopsis  
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cursory   show
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mollify   show
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mundane   show
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show vague, cloudy; lacking clearly defined form; cloud like, hazy; indistinct, vague  
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show a new word, expression or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses; newly-invented word  
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neophyte   show
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noxious   show
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obdurate   show
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obstinate   show
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occlude   show
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odious   show
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onerous   show
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opprobrium   show
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show characterized by pretentiousness; intended to attract notice  
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show a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving  
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pedantic   show
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show penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous; very poor; poor stingy  
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perfunctory   show
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show acutely perceptive; having keen discernment; having or showing great insight or judgment; discerning; of acute mental vision or  
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show to examine with great care; read something especially carefully or thoroughly; to examine or consider with attention and in detail; study  
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show calm; sluggish; unemotional; calm and even-tempered; showing the quality of phlegm  
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pious   show
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pith   show
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show precise and brief; concise and full of meaning; terse; having substance and point; tersely cogent  
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cogent   show
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show to appease; to calm by making concessions; make less angry; soothe or pacify; to sooth or mollify especially by concessions; soothe, pacify, calm  
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platitude   show
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polemical   show
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prattle   show
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show acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause or to happen before anticipated or required; to bring about especially abruptly  
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predilection   show
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show to dress up/ to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care; clean or something (its feathers or itself) with its beak; show self-satisfaction; tidy  
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prescience   show
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show overstepping due bounds; too bold or self-confident  
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show to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead; try to avoid telling the (whole) truth by speaking in an evasive or misleading way; equivocate; to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie  
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proclivity   show
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show recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish; spending money or resources too freely; characterized by wasteful expenditure; lavish; wasteful, reckless with money  
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show abundant in size, force or extent; extraordinary; enormous, wonderful  
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show excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant; wildly extravagant; prodigal; licentious  
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profuse   show
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show to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly; produce new growth or offspring rapidly; multiply  
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prolific   show
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propensity   show
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prosaic   show
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pungent   show
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putrefy   show
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quaff   show
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qualm   show
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show prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome; complaining; irritable; fretful; whining  
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show question; inquiry; doubt in the mind; reservation; question  
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quiescence   show
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quixotic   show
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show occurring or recurring daily; commonplace; everyday; commonplace; banal everyday  
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rancorous   show
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rarefy   show
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recalcitrant   show
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show to retract especially a previously held belief; formally reject (a former opinion, belief etc,) as being wrong; to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly renounce take back as being false; give up  
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show hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure; little known; abstruse  
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show awe-inspiring; worthy of honor  
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show To attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument  
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veracity   show
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show a distinctive characteristic or attribute; trademark  
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scintilla   show
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show to dispute or oppose by reasoning  
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show extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books; profound, recondite, or bookish learning; scholarship  
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show To cause to be bewildered; confuse; daze  
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show means lack of manners  
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impress   show
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show which means courage or audacity; the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury; pull off  
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show vitality; vigor  
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show humble; meek  
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Gaucherie   show
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show blunt; curt  
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show someone who abandons a religious, political, or other belief; rebellious  
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excoriate   show
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donnybrook   show
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show timid  
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brazen   show
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pernicious   show
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licentious   show
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sybarite   show
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chauvinist   show
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incumbent   show
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ascetic   show
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incumbent   show
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megalomaniac   show
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show to lessen in intensity or degree; make or become less; to reduce in degree or intensity; to lessen, to subside  
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show an expression of praise; approval; any award, honor, or laudatory notice  
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show quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight; ability to understand and judge things quickly and clearly; shrewdness; mental keenness; sharpness of judgment;  
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show excessive praise; intense adoration; flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary  
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aggrandize   show
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alacrity   show
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amalgamamte   show
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ameliorate   show
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amenable   show
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show an expression of approval or praise; approval; consent; commendation; praise  
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arduous   show
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ascetic   show
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astringent   show
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show without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic; markedly simple or unadorned; severely and strictly moral; having no pleasures or comfort  
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show greed, especially for wealth  
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show to state as a fact; to confirm or support; to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive manner  
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axiom   show
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bucolic   show
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show harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance; loud unpleasant mixture of discordant sounds  
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show as established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature  
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show following or in agreement with orthodox requirements; appearing in a biblical canon of or relating to or required by canon law  
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show inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable; fickle; whimsical; given to change; unpredictable  
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show severe criticism or punishment  
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show to criticize severely; to officially rebuke; to find fault with and criticize as blameworthy  
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chary   show
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show trickery or subterfuge; use of clever but misleading talk in order to trick somebody especially in legal matters; dishonest practice  
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show appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing; convincing; strong  
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complaisance   show
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connoisseur   show
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show argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement; pugnacious; combative  
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show regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness; filled with or showing deep regret for having done wrong; repentant; grieving and penitent for sin or shortcoming  
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convention   show
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show deserving blame; blameworthy  
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show an attitude or quality or belief that all people are motivated by selfishness  
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dearth   show
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decorum   show
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show to question or oppose; to make objection esp. on the grounds of scruples; take exception; to hesitate, raise objections  
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show scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment, ridicule or mockery, deriding  
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desiccate   show
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show a harsh denunciation; lengthy and bitter attack in words; a bitter and abusive speech or writing; bitter and violent attack in words  
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show intended to teach or instruct; intended to teach; designed or intended to teach  
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show one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts of a branch of knowledge  
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disabuse   show
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show conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound; not in agreement; conflicting; inharmonious; conflicting  
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show cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions; quality of being discreet; good judgment;  
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show to slight or belittle; suggest; especially un faily; that is of little value or importance; to depreciate by indirect means; speak slighlty about  
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show fundamentally distinct or dissimilar; essentially different; so different in kind or degree that they cannot be compared  
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show to disguise or conceal; to mislead; hide or disguise (one's true thoughts and feelings); dissimulate; speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)  
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show to disclose something secret; to make known (as confidence or secret)  
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dogmatic   show
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ebullience   show
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eclectic   show
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show extreme boldness; presumptuousness; boldness or rudeness without shame; impertience  
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show a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead  
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show well spoken, expressive, articulate  
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emollient   show
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empirical   show
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endemic   show
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enervate   show
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show mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand  
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ennui   show
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show brief; fleeting; living lasting etc for a very short time; short lived; fleeting  
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equivocate   show
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erudite   show
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esoteric   show
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eulogy   show
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show tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing; quickly fading; soon disappearing from memory; tending to vanish like vapor; fleeting  
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exacerbate   show
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exculpate   show
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exigent   show
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extemporaneous   show
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facetious   show
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fallacy   show
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fawn   show
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show greatly emotional or zealous; ardent, hot; showing warmth and sincerity of feeling; enthusiastic; passionate  
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show intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speech making to delay legislative action  
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show to demonstrate contempt for; as in a rule or convention; to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock  
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show happening by fortunate accident or chance; happening by chance or coincidence  
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show to loudly attach or denounce; protest strongly and loudly; to send forth censures or invectives; berate; vituperate  
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furtive   show
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germane   show
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show marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial  
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grandiloquence   show
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show sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people; liking to be with other people; living in societies; liking the company  
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hackneed   show
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show calm; peaceful; happy  
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show to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; to address in a ranting way; long, loud, serious and use angry speech; a long passionate speech  
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hedonism   show
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hegemony   show
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show violating accepted dogma or convention  
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hubris   show
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show radiant, shiny, brillant  
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show to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position; banish; consign to inferior position  
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show to fail or honor a commitment; to go back on a promise  
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show to refuse to have anything to do with; disown  
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rescind   show
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refulgent   show
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choleric   show
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show rude  
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cistern   show
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show to grow together; cause to unit as one  
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show strongbox, large chest for money  
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cognomen   show
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show physical grace and beauty  
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show roomy, spacious  
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compunctious   show
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conciliatory   show
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conflagration   show
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show similar in tastes and habits  
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show of the same origin; related by blood  
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show quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent  
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show rebellious  
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show obesity, fatness, bulkiness  
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show to mold in shape with parallel grooves and ridges  
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show to pamper, treat with great care  
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show small group of persons with a similar purpose  
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coven   show
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curmudgeon   show
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show downward slop  
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show harmful, destructive, detrimental  
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show flood  
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show leader or rabble rouser who usually appeal to emotion or prejudice  
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show to lsur or blacken someone's reputation  
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descry   show
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dictum   show
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didactic   show
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diluvial   show
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diminutive   show
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show to cause perplexity and embarrassment  
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distaff   show
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dither   show
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show rigidly devoted to theories  
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dolor   show
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show courageous  
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droll   show
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dyspeptic   show
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ebullient   show
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show outpouring of gases or vapors  
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show brilliantly shining  
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egregious   show
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emend   show
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show having soothing qualities, esp. for skin  
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show warm praise  
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show belonging to a particular area, inherent  
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cajole   show
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show disastrous, catastrophic  
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show false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation, slander  
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canard   show
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carom   show
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cavalcade   show
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show shame, embarrassment, humiliation  
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charlatan   show
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chattel   show
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show fanciful, imaginary, visionary, impossible  
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show drunkenly festive  
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show to refuse, shirk; prevent  
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show saintly, angelic  
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show huge creature  
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belie   show
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show blessing  
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show divide into two parts  
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show easily irritated, relating to bile  
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show good-natured geniality; atmosphere of good cheer  
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bulwark   show
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cajole   show
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calamitous   show
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show false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation, slander  
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show lie  
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carom   show
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show a processesion  
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chagring   show
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show quack, fake  
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chattel   show
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show forceful, imaginary, visionary, impossible  
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itinerant   show
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show likely to provoke ill will; offensive  
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obfuscate   show
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allay   show
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show a reward over and above one's salary  
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quixotic   show
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show is to misrepresent a bad thing to make it look better  
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apt   show
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ineluctable   show
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show dissolute, fast, gay, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, uncontrolled, uninhibited, wanton; indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure; intemperate; dissolute  
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levity   show
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show to spread widely, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, radiate, scatter, blaze, blazon, promulgate, broadcast  
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show cut short; abbreviated; refers to a pattern or rhythm in which stress is shifted onto normally unaccented beats  
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show sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn  
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show to show to be false; contradict; slander; to misrepresent  
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show deserving blame or censure; blameworthy; fault, guilt; onus  
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anathematize   show
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contrition   show
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show dudgeon, huff, miff, resentment, umbrage, offend, affront, egg on, foment, galvanize  
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mawkish   show
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temerity   show
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show bland, innocuous, immature, childish (callow), dull, empty flat,  
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vitiate   show
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