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| show | v. subside; decrease, lessen. Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate. abatement (n.)
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| show | adj. sparing in eating and drinking; temperate. Concerned whether her vegetarian son's abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, the worried mother pressed food on him.
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| show | adj. obscure; profound; difficult to understand. Baffled by the abstuse philosophical texts assigned in class, Dave asked Lexy to explain Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
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| show | n. award of merit. In Hollywood, an "Oscar" is the highest accolade.
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| show | v. assent; agree without protesting. Although she appeared to acquiesce to her employer's suggestions, I could tell she had reservations about the changes he wanted made. acquiescence (n.) acquiescent (adj.)
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| show | adj. apart; reserved. Shy by nature, she remained aloof while all the rest conversed.
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| show | adj. having an error involving time in a story. The reference to clocks in Juilius Caesar is anachronistic: clocks did not exist in Caesar's time. anachronism (n.)
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| show | adj. comparable. She called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same.
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| show | n. short account of an amusing or interesting event. Rather than make concrete proposals for welfare reform, President Reagan told anecdotes about poor people who became wealthy despite their impoverished backgrounds.
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| show | n. irregularity. A bird that cannot fly is an anomaly.
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| show | n. hostility; active resistance. Barry showed his antagonism toward his new stepmother by ignoring her whenever she tried talking to him. antagonistic (adj.)
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| show | adj. antiquated; extremely ancient. Looking at his great-aunt's antique furniture, which must have been cluttering up her attic since the time of Noah's flood, the young heir exclaimed, "Heavens! How positively antediluvian!"
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| show | n. medicine to counteract a poison or disease. When Marge's child accidentally swallowed some cleaning fluid, the local poison control hotline instructed Marge how to administer the antidote.
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| show | n. aversion; dislike. Tom's extreme antipathy for disputes keeps him from getting into arguments with his tempermental wife. Noise in any form is antipathetic to him. Among his other antipathies are honking cars, boom boxes, and heavy metal rock.
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| show | adj. old-fashioned; obsolete. Philip had grown so accustomed to editing his papers on word processors that he thought typewriters were to antiquated for him to use.
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| show | v. pacify or soothe; relieve. Tom and Jody tried to appease the crying baby by offering him one toy after another, but he would not calm down until they appeased his hunger by giving him a bottle.
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| show | n. fear. His nervous glances at the passerby on the deserted street revealed his apprehension.
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| show | adj. fit for growing crops. The first settlers wrote home glowing reports of the New World, praising its vast acres of arable land ready for the plow.
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| show | adj. antiquated. "Methinks," "thee," and "thou" are archaic words that are no longer part of our normal vocabulary.
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| show | n. pride; haughtiness. Convinced that Emma thought she was better than anyone else in the class, Ed rebuked her fore her arrogance.
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| show | n. object made by human beings, either handmade or mass-produced. Archaeologiests debated the significance of the artifiacts discovered in the ruins of Asia Minor but came to no conclusion about the culture they represented.
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| show | n. manually skilled worker; craftsman, as opposed to artist. A ntoed artisan, Arturo was known for the fine craftsmanship of his inlaid cabinets.
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| show | adj. diligent. He was assiduous, working at this task for weeks before he felt satisfies with his results. assiduity (n.)
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| show | v. waste away. After three months in a cast, your calf muscles are bound to atrophy; you'll need physical therapy to get back in shape. also (n.)
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| show | adj. daring; bold. Audiences cheered as Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia made their audacious, deathdefying leap to freedom, escaping Darth Vader's tropps. audacity (n.)
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| show | v. increase; add to. Armies augment their forces by calling up reinforcements; teachers augment their salaries by taking odd jobs.
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| show | adj. subordination the individual to the state; completly dominating another's will. The leaders of the authoritarian regime ordered the suppression of the democratic protest movement.
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| show | v. prevent; turn away. She averted her eyes from the dead cat on the highway.
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| show | v. mislead or delude; pass time. With flattery and big talk of easy money, the con men beguiled Kyle into betting his allowance on the shell game. Broke, he beuiled himself during the long hours by playing solitare.
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| show | adj. suffering from a disease; destroyed. The extent of the blighted areas could be seen only when viewed from the air.
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| show | v. support; reinforce. The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolster their arguments.
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| show | v./n. support; prop up. The attorney came up with several far-fetched arguments in a vain attempt to buttress his weak case.
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| show | adj. discordant; inharmonious. Do the students in the orchestra enjoy the cacophonous sould they make when they're tuning up? I don't know how they can stand the racket. cacophony, n.
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| show | adj. deliberately planned; likely. Lexy's choi
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| show | n. frankness; open honesty. Jack can carry candor too far: when he told Jill his honest opinion of her, she nearly slapped his face. candid (adj.)
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| show | adj. finding fault. A carping critic is a nit-picker: he loves to point out flaws. If you don't like this definition, feel free to carp. (v.)
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| show | n. quack; pretender to knowledge. When they realized that the Wizard didn't know how to get them back to Kansas, Dorothy and her companions were indignant that they'd been duped by a charlatan.
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| show | n. indirect or roundabout expression. He was aftraid to call a spade a spade and resorted to circumlocutions to avoid direct reference to his subject.
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| show | adj. easily burned. After the recent outbreak of fires in private homes, the fire commissioner ordered that all combustible materials be kept in safe containers. also n.
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| show | v. assemple; gather; accumulate. We planned to comple a list of the words most frequently used on SAT examinations.
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| show | v. admit; yield. Despite all the evidence Monica had assembled, Mark refused to concede that she was right.
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| show | v. agree. Did you concur with the decision of the court or did you find it unfair?
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| show | n. flowing together; crowd. They built the city at the confluence of two rivers.
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| show | v. confuse; puzzle. No mystery could confound Sherlock Holmes for long.
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| show | v. approach; tend to meet; come together. African-American men from allover the US converged on Washington to take part in the historic Million Men march.
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| show | adj. gracious; heartfelt; friendly. Our hosts greeted us at the airport with a cordial welcome and a hearty hug.
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| show | v. destroy by chemical action. The girders supporting the bridge corroded so gradually that no one suspected any danger until the bridge suddenly collapsed. corrosion (n.)
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| show | v. shorten; reduce. When Herb asked Diane for a date, she said she was really sorry she couldn't go out with him, but her dad had ordered her to curtail her social life.
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| show | v. weaken; enfeeble. Michael's severe bout of the flu debilitated him so much that he was too tired to go to work for a week.
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| show | v. expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc; ridicule. Pointing out that he consistently had voted against strengthening anti-pollution legislation, reporters debunked the candidate's claim that he was a fervent environmentalist.
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| show | v. remvove water from; dry out. Running under a hot sun quickly dehydrates the body; joggers soon learn to carry water bottles and to drink from them frequently.
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| show | adj. harmful. If you believe that smoking is deleterious to your health (and the Surgeon General certainly does), then quit!
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| show | v. dethrone; remove from office. The army attempted to depose the king and set up a military government.
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| show | v. ridicule; make fun of. The critics derided his pretentious dialogue and refused to consider his play seriously. derision (n.)
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| show | v. dry up. A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to desiccate food in order to preserve it.
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| show | adj. emotionally removed; calm and objective; physically unconnected. A psychoanalyst must maintain a detached point of view and stay uninvolved with his or her patients' personal lives.
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| show | adj. roundabout; erratic; not straightforward. The Joker's plan was so devious that it was only with great difficulty we could follow its shifts and dodges.
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| show | v. think up; invent; plan. How clever he must be to have devised such a devious plan! What ingenious inventions might he have devised if he had turned his mind to science and not to crime.
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| show | adj. delaying. If you are dilatory in paying bills, your credit rating may suffer.
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| show | n. steadiness of effort; persistent hard work. Her employers were greatly impressed by her diligence and offered her a partnership in the firm. diligent (adj.)
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| show | v. disregard; dismiss. Be prepared to discount what he has to say about his ex-wife.
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| show | n. formal discussion; conversation. The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical discourse of Socrates and his followers. also v.
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| show | adj. able to see differences; prejudiced. A superb interpreter of Picasso, she was sufficiently discriminating to judge the most complex works of moder art. (secondary meaning) discrimination (n.)
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| show | adj. argumentative; fond of arguing. Convinced he knew more than his lawyers, Alan was disputatious client, ready to argue about the best way to conduct the case. disputant (n.)
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| show | v. disagree. In the recent Supreme Court decision, Justice O'Connor dissented from the majority opinion. also (n.)
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| show | v. expand; swell out. I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forehead.
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| show | n. teachings, in general; particular principle (religious, legal, etc.) taught. He was so committed to the doctrines of his faith that he was unable to evaluate them impartially.
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| show | adj. questionable; filled with doubt. Many critics of the SAT contend the test is of dubious worth. Jay claimed he could get a perfect 2400 on thenew SAT, but Ellen was dubious: she knew he hadn't cracked a book in three years.
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