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| show | raised platform for guests of honor
When he approached the dais, he was greeted by cheers from the people who had come to honor him.
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| show | damp
The walls of the dungeon were dank and slimy.
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| show | neat and trim
In "The Odd Couple," Tony Randall played Felix Unger, an excessively dapper soul who could not stand
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| show | intimidate
Your threats cannot daunt me.
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| show | standstill; stalemate
The negotiations had reached a deadlock.
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| show | wooden; impassive
We wanted to see how long he could maintain his deadpan expression.
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| show | breaking up; downfall This debacle in the government can only result in anarchy.
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| show | reduce to lower state
Do not debase youself by becoming maudlin.
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| show | weaken; enfeeble
Overindulgence debilitates character as well as physical stamina.
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| show | expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule
Pointing out that he conhsistently had voted afainst strenghtening antipollution legislation, reporters
debunked the candidate's claim that he was a fervent environmentalist.
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| show | yound woman making formal entrance into society
As a debutante, she was often mentioned in the society columns of the newspapers.
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| show | decay
The moral decadence of the people was reflected in the lewd literature of the period.
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| show | behead
They did not hang Lady Jane Grey; they decapitated her.
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| show | slow down
Seeing the emergency blinkers in the road ahead, he decelerated quickly.
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| show | falling off, as of leaves
The oak is a deciduous tree.
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| show | kill, usually one out of ten
We do more to decimate our population in automobile accidents than we do in war.
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| show | downward slope
The children loved to ski down the declivity.
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| show | having a low-cut neckline Fashion decrees that evening gowns be decollete this season; bare shoulders are again the vogue.
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| show | decay
Despite the body's advanced state of decomposition, the police were able to identify the murdered man.
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| show | propriety; seemliness
Shocked by the unruly behavior, the teacher criticized the class for its lack of decorum.
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| show | derived byreasoning
If we accept your premise, your conclusions are easily deducible.
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| show | harming a person's reputation
Such defamation of character may result in a slander suit.
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| show | failure to do
As a result of her husband's failure to appear in court, she was granted a divorce by default.
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| show | courteous regard for another's wish
In deference to his desires, the employers granted him a holiday.
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| show | most reliable or complee
Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln may be regarded as the definitive work on the life of the Great
Emancipator.
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| show | turn aside
His life was saved when his cigarette case deflected the bullet.
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| show | provide ofr the payment of
Her employer offered to defray the costs of her postgraduate education.
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| show | neat; skillful
The deft waiter uncorked the champagne without spilling a drop.
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| show | remove water from; dry out
Vigorous dancing quickly dehydrates the body; between dances, be sure to drink more water than normal.
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| show | harmful
Workers in nuclear research must avoid the deleterious effects of radioactive substances.
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| show | consider; ponder; unhurried
Offered the new job, she asked for time to deliberate before she made her decision.
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| show | mental disorder marked by confusion
The drunkard in his delirium saw strange animals.
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| show | false belief; hallucination
This scheme is a snare and a delusion.
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| show | deceptive; raising vain hopes
Do not raise your hopes on the basis of his delusive promises.
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| show | person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader
He was accused of being a demogogue because he made promises that aroused futile hopes in his listeners.
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| show | degrade; humiliate
He felt that he would demean himself if he replied to the scurrilous letter.
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| show | insane
She became increasingly demented and had to be hospitalized.
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| show | related to population balance
In conducting a survey, one should take into account demographic trends in the region.
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| show | fiendish
The Spanish Inquisition devised many demoniac means of torture.
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| demotic | show 🗑
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| demur | show 🗑
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| show | grave; serius; coy She was demure and reserved.
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| show | reduce; exhaust
We must wait until we deplete our present inventory before we order replacements.
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| show | regret
Although I deplore the vulgarity of your language, I defend your right to express yourself freely.
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| show | dethrone; remove form office
The army attempted to depose the king and set up a military government.
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| show | testimony under oath
He made his deposition in the judge's chamber.
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| show | express disapproval of; protest against; belittle
A firm believer in old-fashioned courtesy, Miss Post deprecated the modern tendency to address new
acquaintances by their first names.
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| show | lessen in value
If you neglect this properly, it will depreciate.
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| show | plundering
After the depredations of the invaders, the people were penniless.
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| show | neglectful of duty; abandoned
The corporal who fell asleep while on watch was thrown into the guardhouse for being derelic in his duty.
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| show | unoriginal; obtained from another source
Although her early poetry was clearly derivative in nature, the critics thought she had promise and
eventually would find her own voice.
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| show | one who studies the skin and its diseases
I advise you to consult a dermatologist about your acne.
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| show | expressing a low opinion
I resent your derogatory remarks.
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| show | rob of joy; lay waste to; forsake
The bandits desolated the countryside, burning farms and carrying off the harvest.
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| show | reckless outlaw
Butch Cassidy was a bold desperado with a price on his head.
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| show | contemptible
Your despicable remarks call for no reply.
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| show | scorn
I despise your attempts at a reconciliation at this time and refuse to meet you.
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| show | plunder
If you do not yield, I am afraid the enemy will despoil the countryside.
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| show | aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
In prison Malcolm X set himself the task of reading straight through the dictionary; to him reading was
purposeful, not desultory.
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| show | slandering; aspersion
He is offended by your frequent detractions of his ability as a leader.
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| show | harmful; damaging
Your acceptance of her support will ultimately prove detrimental rather than helpful to your cause.
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| show | turn away from
Do not deviate from the truth; you must face the facts.
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| show | lacking
He was devoid of any personal desire for gain in his endeavor to secure improvement in the community.
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| show | deputize; pass to others
It devolved upon us, the survivors, to arrange peace terms with the enemy.
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| show | enthusiastic follower
A devotee of the opera, he bought season tickets every year.
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| show | pious
The devout man prayed daily.
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| diadem | show 🗑
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| show | art of debate
I am not skilled in dialectic and therefore, cannot answer your arguments as forcefully as I wish.
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| show | branching into two parts
The dichotomy of our legislative system provides us with many safeguards.
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| show | arthoritative and weighty statement
She repeated the statement as though it were the dictum of the most expert worker in the group.
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| show | teaching; instructional; preaching or moralizing
The didactic qualities of his poetry overshadow its literary qualities; the lesson he teaches is more
memorable than the lines.
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| show | device for stamping or impressing; mold
In coining pennies, workers at the old mint squeezed sheets of softened copper between two dies.
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| show | shyness
You must overcome your diffidence if you intend to become a salesperson.
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| show | wordiness; spreading in all directions like a gas
Your composition suffers from a diffusion of ideas; try to be more compact.
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| show | ruined because of neglect
We felt that the dilapidated building needed several coats of paint.
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| show | expand
In the dark, the pupils of your eyes dilate.
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| dilatory | show 🗑
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| show | problem; choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives
In this dilemma, he knew no one to whom he could turn for advice.
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| show | steadiness of effort; persisten hard work
Her employers were greatly impressed by her diligence and offered her a partnership in the firm.
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| show | make less concentrated; reduce in strength
She preferred her coffee diluted with milk.
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| show | continued loud noise
The din of the jackhammers outside the classroom window drowned out the lecturer's voice.
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| show | small boat (often ship's boat)
In the film Lifeboat, an ill-assorted group of passengers from a sunken ocean liner are marooned at sea in a
dinghy.
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| show | disastrous
People ignored her dire predictions of an approaching depression.
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| show | a disorderly or untidy state
After the New Year's party, the once orderly house was in total disarray.
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| show | denial; disclaiming
His disavowal of his part in the conspiracy was not believed by the jury.
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| show | pay out
When you disburse money on the company's behalf, be sure to get a receipt.
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| show | disown; renounce claim to
If I grant you this previlege, will you disclaim all other rights?
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| show | reveal
Although competitors offered him bribes, he refused to disclose any information about his company's
forthcoming product.
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| show | put to rout; defeat; disconcert
This ruse will discomfit the enemy.
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| show | inharmonious; conflicting
She tried to unite the discordant factions.
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| show | defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve The campaign was highly negative in tone; each candidate tried to discredit the other.
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| show | separate; unconnected
The universe is composed of discrete bodies.
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| show | treat with scorn or contempt
You make enemies of all you disdain.
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| show | go ashore; unload cargo from a ship
Before the passengers could disembark, they had to pick up their passports from the ship's purser.
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| show | deprive of a civil right
The imposition if the poll tax effectively disenfranchised poor Southern blacks, who lost their right to vote.
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| show | mar the appearance of; spoil
An ugly frown disfigured his normally pleasant face.
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| show | discourage
His failure to pass the bar exam disheartened him.
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| show | untidy
Your disheveled appearance will hurt your chances in this interview.
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| show | unwilingness
Some mornings I feel a great disinclination to get out of bed.
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| show | dig up; unearth
They disinterred the body and held an autopsy.
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| show | unprejudiced
The only disinterested person in the room was the judge.
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| show | remove (forcible)
Thrusting her fist up under the choking man's lower ribs, Margaret used the Heimlich maneuver to
dislodge the food caught in this throat.
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| show | eliminate from consideration; reject
Believing in John's love for her, she dismissed the notion that he might be unfaithful.
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| show | belittle
Do not disparage anyone's contribution; these little gifts add up to large sums.
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| show | difference; condition of inequality
The disparity in their ages made no difference at all.
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| show | calm; impartial
In a dispassionate analysis of the problem, he carefully examined the causes of the conflict and proceeded
to suggest suitable remedies.
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| show | scatter
The police fired tear gas into crowd to disperse the protesters.
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| show | amuse
The popularity of Florida as a winter resort is constantly increasing; each year, thousands more disport
themselves at Miami and Palm Beach.
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| show | a formal systematic inquiry; an explanation of the results of a formal inquiry
In his disquisition, he outlined the steps he had taken in reaching his conclusions.
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| show | analysis; cutting apart in order to examine
The dissection of frogs on the laboratory is particularly unpleasant to some students.
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| show | formal essay
In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities, a candidate is frequently required to
prepare a dissertation on some scholarly subject.
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| show | discord
Some contemporary musicians deliberately use dissonance to achieve certain effects.
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| show | upset; distracted by anxiety
The distraught parents frantically searched the ravine for their lost child.
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| show | differing; deviating
The two witnesses presented the jury with remarkably divergent accounts of the same epipode.
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| show | differing in some characteristics; various
There are diverse ways of approaching this problem.
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| show | perceive intuitively; foresee the future
Nothing infuriated Tom more than Aunt Polly's ability to divine when he was not telling the truth.
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| show | obedient; easily managed
As docile as he seems today, that old lion was once a ferocious, snarling beast.
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| show | program asfor trial; book where such entries are made
The case of Smith v. Jones was entered in the docket for July 15.
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| show | unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding
Weng had hoped that the student-led democracy movement might bring about change in China, but the
repressive response of the doctrinaire hard-liners crushed his dreams of democracy.
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| show | shaky; infirm from old age
Although he is not as yet a doddering and senile old man, his ideas and opinions no longer can merit the
respect we gave them years ago.
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| show | take off
A gentleman used to doff his hat to a lady.
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| show | stupid person
I thought I was talking to a mature audience; instead, I find myself addressing a pack of dolts.
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| show | home
Althoughhis legal domicile was in New York City, his work kept him away from his residence for many
years.
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| show | put on
When Clark Kent had to don his Superman outfit, he changed clothes in a convenient phone booth.
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| show | window projecting from roof
In remodeling the attic into a bedroom, we decided that we needed to put in dormers to provide sufficient
ventilation for the new room.
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| show | relating to the back of an animal
A shark may be identified by its dorsal fin, which projects above the surface of the ocean.
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| show | file of documents on a subject
Ordered by J. Edgar Hoover to investigate the senator, the FBI compiled a complete dossier.
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| show | senility
In his dotage, the old man bored us with long tales of events in his childhood.
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| show | sullen; stubborn
The man was dour abd taciturn.
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| show | slovenly; untidy
She tried to change her dowdy image by buying a fashionable new wardrobe.
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| show | dull; lacking color; cheerless
The Dutch woman's drab winter coat contrasted with the distinctive, colorful native costume she wore
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| show | someone easily fooled
While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more
difficult to fool.
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| show | double-dealing; hypocrisy
People were shocked and dismayed when they learned of his duplicity in this affair, as he had always
seemed honest and straightforward.
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| show | forcible restraint, especially unlawfully
The hostages were held under duress until the prisoners' demands were met.
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| show | shrink; reduce
They spent so much money that their funds dwindled to nothing.
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