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| admonish | to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of duty | warn, call on the carpet | praise, pat on the back | verb
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| cumbersome | clumsy, hard to handle;slow-moving | unwiedly, ponderous | manageable, easy to handle | adjective
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| diffuse | to spread or scatter freely or widely | disperse | concentrate |
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| dilemma | a difficult or perplexing situation or problem | predicament, quandary, pickle, bind | cinch |
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| predispose | to incline beforehand | make susceptible to | immunize against, shield from |
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| spasmodic | sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent | irregular, occasional | steady, continuous, chronic |
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| unbridled | uncontrolled, lacking in restraint | unrestrained, unchecked | restrained, held in check, muted |
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| comely | having a pleasing appearance | good-looking, attractive, bonny | plain, homely, ugly, repulsive |
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| compensate | to make up for; to repay for services | pay back, reimberse, recompense | fail to reward, stiff |
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| dissolute | loose in one's morals or behavior | dissipated, debauched, immoral, corrupt | virtuous, chaste, moral, seemly, proper |
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| erratic | not regular or consistant; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable | irregular, inconsistant, unpredictable | steady, consistant, dependable |
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| expulsion | the process of driving or forcing out | ejection, ouster, eviction | admittance, admission |
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| fient | a deliberately deceptive moment; a pretense | trick, ruse, subterfuge, dodge, bluff |
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| proliferate | to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly | multiply, mushroom, burgeon | decrease, dimish, dwindle, slack off |
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| subjugate | to conquer by force, bring under complete control | subdue, vanquish, master | be conquered, submit, surrender |
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| tantalize | to tease, torment by teasing | tempt, lead on, make one's mouth water | (blank)satisfy, fulfill, gratify |
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| adherent | a follower, supporter | disciple | opponent, adversary, critic, detractor |
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| marauder | a raider, plunderer | looter, pirate, freebooter | (blank) |
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| rift | a split, breack, breach | crack, fissure, gap, cleft | reconciliation |
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| semblance | a likeness; and owtward appearance; an apparition | appearance, air, aura, veneer, facade | dissimilarity, contrast, total lack |
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| surmount | to overcome, rise above | conquer, triumph over | be vanquished, be defeated, succumb to |
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| usurp | to sieze and hold a position by force or without | sieze illegally, commandeer, supplant | (blank) |
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