300 Essential Words Flashcards
(184 cards)
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Abstain (thes)
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(to choose not to do something), abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, eschew, evade, fast, fence-sit, forbear, forgo, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, withhold
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adulterate (thes)
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(alter or debase, often for profit. to make impure); amalgamate, blend, cheapen, commingle, contaminate, corrupt, defile, degrade, denature, depreciate, deteriorate, devalue, dilute, lace, pollute, shave, taint, transfuse, vitiate, water down, weaken
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advocate (thes)
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(person supporting an idea of cuase publicly, or to support idea or cause publically), NOUN: apostle, backer, campaigner, champion, counsel, defender, exponent, expounder, lawyer, pleader, promoter, proponent, proposer, upholder. VERB: advance, advise, argue for, back, be in corner, bolster, champion, defend, encourage, favor, further, get on bandwagon, promote, push, recommend, tout, uphold, urge,
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Anomaly (thes)
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(Deviation from what is normal), aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity, unorthodoxy
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antipathy (thes)
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(strong dislike, disgust), abhorrence, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism, aversion, avoidance, bad blood, contrariety, distaste, dyspathy, enmity, eschewal, evasion, hate, hatred, hostility, ill will, incompatibility, loathing, opposition, rancor, repellency, repugnance, repulsion
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Apathy (thes)
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(uncaring attitude, lack of interest) aloofness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, indifference, insensibility, insensitivity, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, passiveness, passivity, stoicism, unconcern, unresponsiveness
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Assuage (thes)
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allay, alleviate, appease, calm, compose, conciliate, ease, lessen, lighten, lull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quench, quiet, sate, satisfy, soften, surfeit, tranquilize
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Audacious (thes)
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(reckless, daring; or arrogant, presumptuous) aweless, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky, courageous, daredevil, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty, intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, smart ass, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome, assuming, bantam, bold, brash, brassy, brazen, cheeky, defiant, disrespectful, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, rude, saucy, shameless
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bloster (thes)
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(to help), aid, assist, boost, bulwark, buoy, buttress, carry, prop, reinforce, strengthen, support, sustain, uphold
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cacophony (thes)
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(dissonance, harshness, noise)
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capricious (thes)
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(given to sudden behavior change) arbitrary, careless, changeful, contrary, crotchety, effervescent, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fitful, flaky, flighty, freakish, gaga, helter-skelter, impulsive, inconstant, lubricious, mercurial, moody, mutable, notional, odd, punchy, queer, quirky, temperamental, ticklish, unpredictable, unstable, up and down, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo
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corroborate (thes)
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(to back up information, to get the background) approve, authenticate, certify, confirm, double check, endorse, establish, justify, prove, ratify, rubber-stamp, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, validate, verify
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deride (thes)
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(make fun of; insult), banter, chaff, contemn, detract, disdain, disparage, flout, gibe, jeer, jolly, kid, knock, laugh at, lout, mock, pan, pooh-pooh, ridicule, roast, scoff, scorn, taunt,
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Desiccate (thes)
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(take the moisture out of) anhydrate, dehydrate, deplete, devitalize, divest, drain, dry, dry up, evaporate, exsiccate, parch, sear, shrivel, wither, wizen
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Disingenuous (thes)
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(insincere) artful, crooked, cunning, deceitful, designing, dishonest, duplicitous, false, feigned, foxy, guileful, indirect, insidious, mendacious, oblique, shifty, sly, tricky, two-faced, uncandid, underhanded, unfair, unfrank, wily
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dissonance (thes)
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(disagreement, noise, discord,) antagonism, conflict, contention, controversy, difference, disaccord, discord, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, dissension, dissidence, incongruity, inconsistency, strife, variance, cacophony, harshness, jangle, jarring, unmelodiousness
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Efficacious (thes)
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(effective), active, adequate, capable, competent, effective, effectual, energetic, influential, operative, potent, powerful, puissant, serviceable, strong, successful, useful, virtuous
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enervate (thes)
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(to tire, to wear out), debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary. NOTE: Innervate means to supply with energy
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engender (thes)
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(to cause to happen, to cause an action), arouse, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, lmuster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate,
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Enigma (thes)
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(a puzzle, a mystery), Gordian knot, bewilderment, cliffhanger, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, grabber, perplexity, problem, puzzle, sphinx,
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ephemeral (thes)
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(momentary, passing), brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, short, short-lived, temporary, transient, transitory, unenduring, volatile
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Equivocal (thes)
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(using expressions of double meaning), ambiguous, ambivalent, borderline, clouded, disreputable, dubious, evasive, fishy, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading, muddled, muzzy, oblique, obscure, puzzling, questionable, suspect, suspicious, tenebrous, unclear, undecided, unexplicit, unintelligible, vague, with mixed feelings
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Erudite (thes)
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(learned, scholarly, bookish) brainy, cultivated, educated, highbrow, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, savvy, scholarly, scholastic, studious, well-read, wise up
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Eulogy (thes)
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(praise, acclamation); acclaim, accolade, adulation, applause, commendation, compliment, encomium, exaltation, glorification, laudation, paean, panegyric, plaudit, salutation, tribute
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Fervid (thes)
(ardent, impassioned, intensely emotional, feverish)
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Garrulous (thes)
(talkative), babbling, blabbermouth, chattering, chatty, effusive, gabby, glib, gossiping, gushing, loquacious, motormouth, mouthy, prating, prattling, verbose, voluble, wordy, yakkity, yakky
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gullible (thes)
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Ingenious (thes)
(clevel or brilliant), adroit, artistic, bright, canny, crafty, creative, cunning, deviceful, dexterous, gifted, imaginative, innovational, innovative, innovatory, intelligent, inventive, original, resourceful, shrewd, skillful, sly, subtle
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Ingenuous (thes)
(honest, trustful, frank, candid, and naive): artless, candid, childlike, frank, guileless, innocent, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square, straightforward, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front
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laconic (thes)
(short, to the point) breviloquent, brief, brusque, compact, compendiary, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, pithy, sententious, short and sweet, succinct, terse
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laudable (thes)
(admirable), commendable, creditable, deserving, estimable, excellent, meritable, meritorious, praisable, praiseworthy, stellar, terrific, thankworthy, worthy
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lethargic (thes)
(lazy, sluggish), apathetic, comatose, debilitated, dilatory, dopey, dormant, draggy, drowsy, dull, enervated, idle, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, languorous, listless, moony, nebbish, phlegmatic, sleepy, sleepyhead, slothful, slow, slumberous, snoozy, somnolent, spiritless, stolid, stupefied, supine, torpid, wimpy
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loquacious (thes)
(talkative), babbling, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, jabbering, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, voluble, wordy, yacking
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lucid (thes)
(clear and easily understood), apprehensible, clear, clear-cut, comprehendible, comprehensible, crystal clear, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, limpid, luminous, pellucid, plain, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unblurred, understandable
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malleable (thes)
(pliable), adaptable, compliant, ductile, flexible, impressionable, manageable, moldable, plastic, pliant, submissive, supple, tractable, tractile, transformable, workable, yielding
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Mendacious (thes)
deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, false, fibbing, fraudulent, insincere, lying, paltering, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, shifty, spurious, untrue, untruthful, wrong
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misanthrope (thes)
(person who hates others), cynic, doubter, egoist, egotist, hater, isolate, loner, misanthropist, recluse, skeptic
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mitigate (thes)
(check, diminish, lighten), abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm, dull, ease, extenuate, lessen, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, remit, soften, soothe, subdue, tone down, tranquilize, weaken
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obdurate (thes)
(pigheaded, stubborn), adamant, bullhead, callous, dogged, immovable, implacable, indurate, inexorable, inflexible, mulish, obstinate, perverse, relentless, rigid, unbending, uncompassionate, uncompromising, uncooperative, unemotional, unfeeling, unimpressible, unrelenting, unshakable, unsympathetic, unyielding
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opaque (thes)
blurred, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dirty, dull, dusky, filmy, foggy, frosty, fuliginous, gloomy, hazy, impenetrable, lusterless, misty, muddied, murky, nontranslucent, nontransparent, nubilous, obfuscated, shady, smoky, sooty, thick, turbid
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ostentation (thes)
(exhibitionism, flashiness), affectation, array, boast, boasting, brag, braggadocio, bragging, bravado, demonstration, display, exhibition, false front, flamboyance, flash\*, flaunting, flourish, fuss, garishness, grandstand play, magnificence, pageant, pageantry, parade, parading, pomp, pomposity, pompousness, pretending, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, shine\*, show, showiness, showing off, showoff, spectacle, splendor, splurge, swagger\*, swaggering, swank, vainglory, vaunt, vaunting, window-dressing
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paradox (thes)
(contradiction, puzzle), Catch-22, absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, catch, enigma, error, inconsistency, mistake, mystery, nonsense, oddity, opposite, reverse
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Pedant (thes)
(formalist), bluestocking, bookworm, doctrinaire, dogmatist, egghead, methodologist, pedagogue, waling encyclopedia
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philanthropic (thes)
(chartible, giving), altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benignant, big-hearted, bountiful, contributing, donating, eleemosynary, generous, good, gracious, helpful, humane, humanitarian, kind, kindhearted, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, patriotic, public- spirited
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placate (def)
appease, assuage, calm, cheer, comfort, conciliate, humor, make peace, make up\*, mollify, pacify, play up to, pour oil on, propitiate, reconcile, satisfy, soft-pedal, soothe, stroke\*, sweeten, tranquilize, win over
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pragmatic (thes)
(sensible), businesslike, commonsensical, down-to-earth, efficient, hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, logical, matter-of-fact, practical, realistic, sober, unidealistic, utilitarian
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precipitate (thes)
accelerate, advance, bring on, cast, discharge, dispatch, expedite, fling, further, hasten, hurl, launch, let fly, press, push forward, quicken, send forth, speed up, throw, trigger
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prevaricate (thes)
(deceive, stretch the truth), belie, cavil, con, distort, dodge, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, fabricate, falsify, fib, garble, hedge, invent, jive, lie\*, misrepresent, misspeak, palter, phony up, put on\*, quibble, shift, shuffle, tergiversate
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prodigal (thes)
wasteful, luxurious, profuse, a person who spends a lot, dissipated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, improvident, intemperate, lavish, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, squandering, wanton, abundant, bounteous, bountiful, copious, exuberant, lavish, lush, luxuriant, moneyed, munificent, opulent, riotous, sumptuous, superabundant, teeming
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propriety (thes)
(suitableness, appropriateness), accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability
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vacillate (thes)
(to go back and forth), alternate, be indecisive, be irresolute, change, change mind, dither, fence-straddle, fluctuate, hedge, hem and haw, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, pussyfoot around, reel, rock, run hot and cold, seesaw, shilly-shally, stagger, straddle, sway, swing, waffle, waver, whiffle, yo-yo
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venerate (thes)
(revere), admire, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, be in awe of, cherish, deify, esteem, exalt, hallow, hold in awe, honor, idolize, look up to, love, put on a pedestal, regard, respect, reverence, think highly of, treasure, value, worship
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volatile (thes)
(explosive, changeable), airy, buoyant, capricious, effervescent, elastic, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, expansive, fickle, fleeting, flighty, flippant, frivolous, fugacious, fugitive, gaseous, gay, giddy, impermanent, imponderable, inconsistent, inconstant, light, lively, lubricious, mercurial, momentary, playful, resilient, short-lived, sprightly, subtle, temperamental, ticklish, transient, transitory, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, up-and-down, vaporous, variable, whimsical
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waver (thes)
(shift back and forth, be indecisive), be irresolute, be unable to decide, blow hot and cold, change, deliberate, dilly-dally, dither, falter, flicker, fluctuate, halt, hedge, hem and haw, hesitate, oscillate, palter, pause, pussyfoot around, quiver, reel, run hot and cold, seesaw, shake, stagger, sway, teeter, totter, tremble, trim, undulate, vacillate, vary, waffle, wave, weave, whiffle, wobble, yo-yo
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Zeal (thes)
alacrity, ardor, bustle, determination, devotion, diligence, dispatch, drive, eagerness, earnestness, enterprise, fanaticism, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, hustle, inclination, initiative, intensity, intentness, keenness, mania, passion, perseverance, push, readiness, sincerity, spirit, stick-to-itiveness, urgency, vehemence, verve, warmth, what-it-takes, yen, zest
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Abate
(to reduce in amount, degree or severity), allay, diminish, dull, dwindle, ebb, quell, recede, reduce, slacken, slow, subdue, subside, taper, wane
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Abscond
(to leave secretly), decamp, disappear, skedaddle, skip out, vamoose, vanish
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Abyss
(an extremely deep hole), abysm, chasm, crevasse, depth, fissure, gorge, gulf, hole, pit, void
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Aesthetic/ esthetic
(concerning the appreciation of beauty), no decent synonyms
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Aggrandize
(to increase in power, influence, and reputation), acclaim, applaud, augment, beef up, boost, commend, dignify, distinguish, ennoble, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, hype, increase, intensify, jack up, jump, magnify, multiply, parlay, praise
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Alleviate
(to make more bearable), allay, assuage, ease, lighten, mitigate, mollify, pacify,
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amalgamate
(to combine, to mix together), admix, alloy, ally, coalesce, combine, come together, compound, consolidate, fuse, integrate, interface, intermix, meld, merge, mingle, network, pool, unite
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ambiguous
(doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several ways), cryptic, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, inconclusive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, muddy, multivocal, obscure, opaque, polysemous, puzzling, questionable, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague
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ameliorate
(to make better, to improve), alleviate, amend, help, improve, lighten, meliorate, mitigate, relieve, step up, upgrade
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anachronism
(something out of place in time), chronological error, metachronism, misdate, misplacement, postdate, prolepsis, solecism
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analogous
(similar or alike in some way; equivalent to), akin, alike, comparable, consonant, convertible, correspondent, corresponding, equivalent, homologous, interchangeable, kindred, like, parallel, related, resembling, undifferentiated, uniform
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antagonize
(to annoy or provoke), alienate, anger, annoy, counteract, estrange, insult, irritate, neutralize, offend, repel, struggle, work against
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arbitrate
(to judge a dispute between two opposing parties), adjudge, adjudicate, adjust, bring to terms, come to school, come to terms, conciliate, decide, determine, hammer out a deal, interpose, intervene, judge, make a deal, mediate, meet halfway, negotiate, parley, pass judgment, placate, play ball, reconcile, referee, settle, smooth, soothe, step in, straighten out, strike happy medium, trade off, umpire, work out a deal
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archaic
(ancient, old-fashioned), ancient, antiquated, antique, bygone, obsolete, old-fashioned, olden, out of date, outmoded, pass
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ardor
(intense and passionate feeling), avidity, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, feeling, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, heat, intensity, jazz, keenness, oomph, passion, pep talk, spirit, turn on, vehemence, verve, warmth, weakness\*, zeal, zest, zing
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articulate
(able to speak clearly and expressively), clear, coherent, comprehensible, definite, distinct, eloquent, expressive, fluent, intelligible, lucid, meaningful, understandable, well-spoken
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attenuate
(to reduce in force or degree, to weaken), abate, constrict, contract, cripple, debilitate, deflate, disable, dissipate, enfeeble, extenuate, lessen, mitigate, sap, shrink, thin, undermine, vitiate
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austere
(severe or stern in appearance, undecorated), ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, rigid, rigorous, serious, sober, solemn, somber, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unfeeling, unrelenting, abstemious, ascetic, chaste, continent, economical, puritanical, self-denying, self-disciplined, sober, straightlaced, strict, subdued, unrelenting
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banal
(predictable, cliched, boring), blah\*, bland, bromidic, clich
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bolster
(to support, to prop up), aid, assist, bear up, boost, brace, buck up, bulwark, buoy, buttress, carry, cushion, help, hold up, maintain, pick up, pillow, prop, reinforce, shore up, stay, strengthen, support, sustain, uphold
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bombastic
(pompous in speech and manner), aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy
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candid
(impartial and honest in speech), aboveboard, bluff, blunt, equal, equitable, fair, forthright, frank, free, frontal, genuine, guileless, impartial, ingenuous, just, objective, open, outspoken, plain, right up front, scrupulous, sincere, straightforward, talking turkey, telling it like it is, truthful, unbiased, uncolored, unequivocal, unprejudiced, unpretended, up front, upright
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castigate
(to punish or criticize harshley), baste, bawl out, beat, berate, blister, cane, censure, chasten, chastise, chew out, come down on, correct, criticize, discipline, drag over the coals, dress down, drub, excoriate, flay, flog, jump down one's throat, lambaste, lash, lay out, lean on, penalize, pummel, punish, rail, rate, read the riot act, ream, rebuke, reprimand, scarify, scathe, scold, scorch, scourge, thrash, tongue-lash, upbraid, whip
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catalyst
(something that brings about a change in something else.), adjuvant, agitator, enzyme, goad, impetus, impulse, incendiary, incentive, incitation, incitement, motivation, radical stimulus, reactant, reactionary, spark plug, spur, stimulant, synergist, wave maker
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caustic
(biting in wit, sarcastic), abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, alkaline, astringent, biting, corroding, erosive, keen, mordant, pungent, tart, acerb, acerbic, acrimonious, bitter, cutting, harsh, incisive, pithy, pungent, rough, salty, satiric, scathing, severe, sharp, stinging, trenchant, virulent
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chaos
(great disorder and confusion), anarchy, ataxia, bedlam, clutter, disarray, discord, disorder, disorganization, entropy, free-for-all, holy mess, lawlessness, misrule, mix-up, mobocracy, muddle, pandemonium, rat's nest, snarl, topsy-turviness, tumult, turmoil, unruliness
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chauvinist
(someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs), bigot, jingoist, patriot, sexist, superpatriot
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chicanery
(deception by means of craft or guile), artifice, cheating, chicane, deviousness, dishonesty, dodge, double-crossing, double-dealing, duplicity, feint, fourberie, fraud, furtiveness, gambit, hanky-panky, intrigue, machination, maneuver, plot, ploy, ruse, sharp practice, skullduggery, sophistry, stratagem, subterfuge, surreptitiousness, underhandedness, wiles
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Cogent (def)
(Convincing, well-reasoned, having the power to compell), apposite, apt, compelling, conclusive, consequential, convictive, convincing, fitting, forceful, forcible, inducing, influential, irresistible, justified, meaningful, momentous, persuasive, pertinent, potent, powerful, puissant, relevant, satisfactory, satisfying, significant, solid, sound, strong, suasive, telling, urgent, valid, weighty, well-grounded
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Condone
(to overlook, pardon, or disregard), disregard, excuse, forget, forgive, give green light, go along with, ignore, lap up, let it come, let it go by, let pass, look the other way, nod at, okay, overlook, pardon, pass over, remit,
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convoluted
(intricate and complicated), baffling, complex, confused, elaborate, impenetrable, intricate, involved, labyrinthine, perplexing, puzzling, serpentine, tangled, tortuous
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credulous
(too trusting, gullible), accepting, believing, born yesterday, dupable, easy mark, falling for, green, overtrusting, simple, swallow whole, taken in, trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary
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crescendo
(steadily increasing volume or force), apex, ascension, building, climb, crest, critical mass, culmination, elevation, escalation, intensification, peak, pinnacle, rise, summit, surge, upsurge, zenith
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decorum
(appropriateness of behavior or conduct, propriety), breeding, civility, conduct, convenance, convention, correctitude, correctness, courtliness, decency, demeanor, deportment, dignity, etiquette, form, formality, gentility, good grace, gravity, habits, order, orderliness, politeness, politesse, properness, propriety, protocol, punctilio, respectability, seemliness, tact, usage
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deference
(respect, courtesy) acquiescence, capitulation, complaisance, condescension, docility, obeisance, submission, yielding
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desultory
(jumping from one thing to another, disconnected), aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic, without purpose
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diatribe
(an abusive, condemnatory speech), abuse, castigation, denunciation, disputation, invective, jeremiad, objection, onslaught, philippic, reviling, screed, stricture, tirade, vituperation
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Diffident
(lacking self-confidence), backward, bashful, blenching, chary, constrained, coy, demure, distrustful, doubtful, dubious, flinching, humble, insecure, meek, modest, mousy, rabbity, reluctant, reserved, retiring, self-conscious, self-effacing, sheepish, shrinking, shy, suspicious, timid, timorous, unassertive, unassuming, unassured, unobtrusive, unpoised, unsure, withdrawn
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dilate
(to make larger, to expand). amplify, augment, be profuse, be prolix, broaden, develop, distend, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, extend, increase, inflate, lengthen, prolong, protract, puff out, spin off, swell
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dilatory (adj)
(intended to delay, procrastinating), backward, behindhand, dallying, delaying, deliberate, laggard, late, lax, lazy, leisurely, lingering, loitering, moratory, neglectful, negligent, putting off, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, snail-like, tardy, tarrying, time-wasting, unhasty, unhurried
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dilettante
(someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic), rookie, tenderfoot, unaccomplished.
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dirge
(a funeral hymn or mournful speech), chant, coronach, cry, death march, death song, elegy, funeral song, hymn, jeremiad, keen, lament, march, monody, requiem, threnody
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disabuse
(to set right, to free from error, to free from belief), correct, debunk, disenchant, disillusion, enlighten, expose, free, liberate, rectify, rid
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discern
(to perceive, to recognize), anticipate, apprehend, ascertain, behold, descry, detect, determine, difference, differentiate, discover, discrepate, discriminate, distinguish, divine, espy, extricate, figure out, find out, focus, foresee, get a load of, get the picture, get wise to, judge, know, make distinction, make out, note, notice, observe, perceive, pick out, read, remark, rubberneck, secern, see the light, see through, separate, severalize, spot, take in, view
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disparate
(fundmentally different, entirely unlike), at variance, contrary, contrasting, discordant, discrepant, dissimilar, distant, distinct, divergent, diverse, far cry, incommensurate, incompatible, inconsistent, inconsonant, like night and day, poles apart, separate, unalike, unequal, unequivalent, uneven, unlike, unsimilar, various
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dissemble
(to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character), affect, camouflage, cloak, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, dissimulate, double-talk, doublespeak, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, four-flush, hide, let on, make like, mask, pass, play possum, pussyfoot, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, put up a smoke screen, sham\*, shroud, shuck and jive, signify, simulate, stonewall, whitewash
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dogma
(a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief.) article, article of faith, canon, conviction, credenda, credo, creed, doctrine, gospel, opinion, persuasion, precept, rule, teachings, tenet, view
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dogmatic
(dictorial in one's opinions), arbitrary, arrogant, assertive, bigoted, bullheaded, categorical, cocksure, confident, definite, despotic, determined, dictative, doctrinaire, domineering, downright, egotistical, emphatic, fanatical, fascistic, formal, high and mighty, imperious, intolerant, magisterial, narrow-minded, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, overbearing, peremptory, pigheaded, prejudiced, stiff-necked, stubborn, tenacious, tyrannical, unequivocal, wrong-headed
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dupe
(to deceive, a person who is easily deceived), synonyms for verbs: baffle, bamboozle\*, beguile, betray, catch, cheat, chicane, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dust\*, flimflam, gull, hoax, hoodwink\*, hornswoggle, jerk around, kid, mislead, outwit, overreach, pull one's leg, pull something, rip off, rook, rope in, shaft, spoof, swindle, trick, victimize
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eclectic
(selecting from or made up from a variety of sources), all-embracing, assorted, broad, catholic, dilettantish, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, inclusive, liberal, many-sided, mingled, mixed, multifarious, multiform, selective, universal, varied, wide-ranging
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efficacy
(effectiveness), ability, adequacy, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, efficaciousness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue, weight
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elegy
(a sorrowful poem or speech), death song, funeral song, knell, lament, plaint, requiem, threnody
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eloquent
(persuasive and moving, especially in speech), affecting, ardent, articulate, expressive, facund, fervent, fervid, fluent, forceful, glib, grandiloquent, graphic, impassioned, impressive, indicative, magniloquent, meaningful, moving, outspoken, passionate, persuasive, poignant, potent, powerful, revealing, rhetorical, sententious, significant, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken, stirring, suggestive, telling, touching, vivid, vocal, voluble, well-expressed
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emulate
(to copy, to try to equal or excel), challenge, compete, compete with, contend, contend with, ditto\*, do like, do\*, follow, follow in footsteps, follow suit, follow the example of, go like, imitate, make like, mimic, mirror, outvie, pattern after, rival, rivalize, take after, vie with
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enumerate
(to count, list, or itemize), add up, calculate, cite, compute, count noses, detail, figure, identify, inventory, itemize, keep tabs, mention, name, number, particularize, quote, recapitulate, recite, reckon, recount, rehearse, relate, run down, run off, specialize, specify, spell out, sum, take account of, tally, tell, tick off, total
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erratic
(wandering and unpredictable), aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, changeable, desultory, devious, dicey, directionless, dubious, eccentric, fitful, flaky\*, fluctuant, idiosyncratic, iffy, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, meandering, mercurial, nomadic, oddball, peculiar, planetary, rambling, roving, shifting, spasmodic, strange, stray, uncertain, undirected, unnatural, unreliable, unstable, unusual, vagarious, variable, volatile, wayward, weird, whimsical
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esoteric
(known or understood by only a few), Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, abstruse, acroamatic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner, inscrutable, mystic, mystical, occult, private, profound, recondite, secret
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estimable
(admirable), : admirable, admired, appreciable, august, big name, big time, commendable, decent, deserving, esteemed, excellent, good, high-powered, honored, in limelight, laudable, major league, meretorious, meritable, name, noble, palmary, praisable, praiseworthy, reputable, reputed, respectable, respected, sterling, valuable, valued, venerable, well-thought-of
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euphemism
(use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one), circumlocution, delicacy, floridness, grandiloquence, inflation, pomposity, pretense, purism
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exacerbate
(to make worse), add insult to injury, aggravate, annoy, egg on, embitter, enrage, envenom, exasperate, excite, fan the flames, feed the fire, go from bad to worse, heat up, heighten, hit on, increase, inflame, intensify, irritate, madden, provoke, push one's button, rattle one's cage, rub salt in a wound, vex, worsen
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exculpate
(to clear from blame; prove innocent), absolve, acquit, amnesty, clear, condone, discharge, disculpate, dismiss, excuse, exonerate, explain, free, justify, let off, pardon, rationalize, release, remit, vindicate, wipe slate clean
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exigent
(urgent, requiring immediate action, difficult and taxing), acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, menacing, necessary, needful, threatening, arduous, burdensome, demanding, exacting, grievous, hard, harsh, onerous, oppressive, rigorous, severe, stiff, strict, stringent, superincumbent, tough, weighty
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exonerate
(to clear of blame), absolve, acquit, disburden, discharge, dismiss, except, exculpate, exempt, free, justify, let off hook, let off, liberate, pardon, release, relieve, sanitize, vindicate, whitewash, wipe slate clean
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explicit
(clearly stated or shown, forthright in expression), absolute, accurate, categorical, certain, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, correct, definite, definitive, direct, distinct, exact, express, frank, lucid, obvious, on the nose, open, outspoken, patent, perspicuous, plain, positive, precise, stated, straightforward, sure, understandable, unequivocal, unqualified, unreserved
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fanatical
(acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion), biased, bigoted, bugged, burning\*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, high on, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, monomaniacal, narrow-minded, nuts for, obsessed, obsessive, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, turned on, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous
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fawn
(to grovel, to ingratiate oneself to, to seek notice or favor by servile demeanor), abase, apple-polish, be at beck and call, be obsequious, be servile, blandish, bow, brownnose, buddy up, butter up, cajole, cater to, cave in to, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, curry favor, debase, defer, fall all over, fall on one's knees, flatter, grovel, honey up, invite, jolly, kneel, kowtow, lay it on, lick boots, make up to, massage\*, oil, pander, pay court, play up to, scrape, slaver, snow\*, stoop, stroke\*, submit, toady, truckle, woo\*, yield
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florid
(excessively decorated or embellished), aureate, baroque, busy, decorative, embellished, euphuistic, figurative, flamboyant, flowery, fussy, garnished, grandiloquent, high-flown, luscious, magniloquent, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, overblown, pretentious, rhetorical, rich, sonorous
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foment
(to arouse or incite), abet, agitate, arouse, brew, cultivate, encourage, excite, fan the flames, foster, goad, incite, nurse, nurture, promote, quicken, raise, set, set on, sow the seeds, spur, start, stimulate, stir up, whip up
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frugality
(a tendency to be thrifty, or cheap), avarice, avariciousness, carefulness, conservation, economy, forehandedness, good management, miserliness, moderation, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penuriousness, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, stinginess, thrift, thriftiness
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gregarious
(outgoing, sociable), affable, clubby, companionable, convivial, cordial, fun, outgoing, sociable, social
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guile
(deceit or trickery). artfulness, artifice, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-cross, duplicity, foul play, jive, run-around, ruse, sellout, sharp practice, stab in the back, treachery, trickery, trickiness, wiliness
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iconoclast
(one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions), critic, cynic, denouncer, dissenter, dissident, heretic, image-breaker, non-conformist, nonbeliever, questioner, radical, rebel, revolutionist, ruiner, sceptic, unbeliever
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imperturbable
(not capable of being disturbed), assured, complacent, composed, cool, cool as cucumber, disimpassioned, equanimous, hard as nails, immovable, nerveless, nonchalant, roll with punches, sedate, self-possessed, self-satisfied, smug, stiff upper lip, stoical, thick-skinned, tranquil, unaffected, undisturbed, unexcitable, unflappable, unmoved, unruffled, untouched
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impervious
(impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected), closed to, hermetic, immune, impassable, impassive, impenetrable, impermeable, imperviable, inaccessible, invulnerable, resistant, sealed, tight, unaffected, unapproachable, unmoved, unpierceable, unreceptive, watertight
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impetuous
(quick to act without thinking), abrupt, ardent, eager, fervid, fierce, furious, going off deep end, hasty, headlong, hurried, impassioned, impulsive, passionate, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, rash, restive, rushing, spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment, subitaneous, sudden, swift, unbridled, unexpected, unplanned, unpremeditated, unreflecting, unrestrained, unthinking, vehement, violent
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implacable
(unable to be calmed down or made peaceful), grim, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, ironfisted, mortal, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unappeasable, unbending, uncompromising, unflinching, unforgiving, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive
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inchoate
(not fully formed, disorganized), : amorphous, elementary, embryonic, formless, immature, imperfect, inceptive, incipient, just begun, nascent, preliminary, rudimentary, shapeless, unfinished, unformed, unshaped
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inimical
(hostile, unfriendly), adverse, antipathetic, destructive, disaffected, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, ill-disposed, inimicable, injurious, noxious, opposed, oppugnant, pernicious, repugnant, unfavorable, unfriendly, unwelcoming
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innocuous
(harmless), banal, bland, flat, innocent, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, insipid, jejune, kind, painless, safe, sapless, unobjectionable, unoffending, weak
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insipid
(lacking interest or flavor), anemic, arid, banal, beige, blah\*, bland, characterless, colorless, commonplace, dead\*, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, ho-hum, inane, innocuous, jejune, lifeless, limp, mild, mundane, nebbish, nothing, ordinary, plain, pointless, prosaic, prosy, slight, soft\*, spiritless, stale, stupid, subdued, tame, tedious, tenuous, thin, tired, trite, unimaginative, vapid, watery, weak, weariful, wearisome, wishy-washy
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intransigent
(uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled), adamant, inflexible, obstinate, resolute, stubborn, tenacious
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inundate
(to overwhelm, to over with water), deluge, dunk, engulf, flood, glut, immerse, overflow, overrun, pour down on, snow\*, submerge, swamp, whelm
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irascible
(easily made angry) angry, bearish, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight
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lament
(to express sorrow; to grieve) bawl, beat one's breast, bemoan, bewail, bleed, cry, deplore, eat one's heart out, howl, hurt, kick self, moan, rain, regret, repine, rue, sing, sob, sorrow, take it hard, wail, weep
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lavish
(V: to give unsparingly; Adj: extremely generous or extravagant), abundant, bountiful, copious, effusive, exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, exuberant, first-class, free, generous, gorgeous, grand, immoderate, impressive, improvident, inordinate, intemperate, liberal, lush, luxuriant, luxurious, munificent, openhanded, opulent, plentiful, plush, posh, prodigal, profligate, profusive, prolific, riotous, ritzy, sumptuous, swanky, thriftless, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsparing,
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luminous
(bright, brilliant, glowing), beaming, brilliant, clear, crystal, effulgent, fulgent, illuminated, incandescent, lambent, lighted, lit, lucent, lucid, luminescent, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, translucent, transparent, vivid, apprehensible, bright, brilliant, clear, comprehendible, comprehensible, evident, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, lucid, perspicacious, perspicuous
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malinger
(to evade a responsibility by pretending to be ill),
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metaphor
(a figure of speech comparing two different things, a symbol), allegory, analogy, emblem, hope, image, metonymy, personification, similitude, symbol, trope
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meticulous
(extremely careful about details), accurate, cautious, conscientious, conscionable, crossing the t's, dotting the i's, exact, fastidious, fussy, heedful, microscopic, nitpicking, painstaking, particular, persnickety\*, picky, precise, punctilious, punctual, scrupulous, stickling, strict, thorough
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mollify
(to calm or make less severe), abate, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm, compose, conciliate, cool, cushion, decrease, diminish, dulcify, ease, fix up, lessen, lighten, lull, mellow, mitigate, moderate, modify, pacify, patch things up, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, reduce, relieve, soften, sweeten, take sting out, temper, tranquilize
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monotony
(lack of variation), colorlessness, continuance, continuity, dreariness, dryness, dullness, ennui, equability, evenness, flatness, humdrum\*, identicalness, invariability, levelness, likeness, monotone, monotonousness, oneness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, routine, same old thing, similarity, tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, uniformity, wearisomeness
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obsequious
(overly submissive and eager to please), abject, beggarly, brownnosing, complacent, compliable, compliant, cringing, crouching, deferential, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, oily, parasitic, parasitical, prostrate, respectful, servile, slavish, sneaking, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subservient, sycophantic, toadying, unctuous
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obstinate
(stubborn, unyeilding), adamant, cantankerous, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, convinced, dead set on, dogged, dogmatic, firm, hard, hardened, headstrong, heady, immovable, indomitable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, locked in, mulish, obdurate, opinionated, opinionative, persistent, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, relentless, resolved, restive, self-willed, steadfast, strong-minded, tenacious, unalterable, unflinching, unmanageable, unyielding, willful
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obviate
(to prevent, to make unnecessary), anticipate, avert, block, counter, counteract, deter, do away with, forestall, forfend, hinder, interfere, interpose, intervene, preclude, prevent, remove, restrain, rule out, stave off, ward
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occlude
(to stop up, to prevent the passage of), choke, clog, close, close out, congest, curb, fill, hinder, impede, leave out, lock out, obstruct, plug, seal, shut, stop up, stopper, throttle
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onerous
(troublesome and oppressive, burdensome), arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, embittering, exacting, excessive, exhausting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, grinding, grueling, hard\*, harsh, headache, heavy\*, intolerable, irksome, laborious, merciless, oppressive, overpowering, overtaxing, painful, plodding, ponderous, pressing, responsible, rigorous, serious, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, vexatious, weighty
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opprobrium
(public disgrace), black eye, blemish, debasement, debasing, degradation, discredit, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, loss of honor, obloquy, shame, stain, stigma, tarnish
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paragon
(model of excellence or perfection), apotheosis, archetype, beau ideal, beauty, best, champ, champion, crackerjack\*, cream\*, criterion, cynosure, epitome, essence, exemplar, gem, ideal, jewel\*, love, lovely, model, nonesuch, nonpareil, original, paradigm, pattern, peach, perfection, pick, prototype, quintessence, standard, sublimation, tops, trump\*, ultimate
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perfidious
(willing to betray one's trust), betraying, deceitful, deceptive, double-crossing, double-dealing, faithless, false, insidious, misleading, recreant, shifty, slick\*, snake in the grass, traitorous, two-faced, two-timing, undependable, unfaithful, unloyal, unreliable, untrustworthy
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perfunctory
(done in a routine way, indifferent), apathetic, careless, cool, cursory, disinterested, going through the motions, heedless, impersonal, inattentive, indifferent, involuntary, lackadaisical, laid-back\*, mechanical, negligent, offhand, phoning it in, routine, sketchy, slipshod, slovenly, standard, stereotyped, stock, superficial, unaware, unconcerned, uninterested, usual, walking through it, wooden
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permeate
(to penetrate), charge, diffuse, drench, fill, go through, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, interfuse, invade, pass through, penetrate, percolate, pervade, pierce, saturate, seep, soak, stab, stalk, steep, suffuse, transfuse
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plastic
(able to be molded, altered or bent, or easily influenced), bending, ductile, elastic, fictile, formable, moldable, molded, pliable, pliant, resilient, shapeable, supple, workable, amenable, bending, compliant, docile, ductile, flexible, giving, impressionable, influenceable, malleable, manageable, moldable, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, tractable, yielding
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plethora (n.)
(too much of something good OR bad, an over-abundance), deluge, flood, glut, many, much, overabundance, overflow, overkill, overmuch, plenty, profusion, superabundance, superfluity, surplus
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pristine (Ojo!)
(ancient, primeval, in a state of being virtually unchanged from the original, uncorrupted, unsullied, earliest, early, first, immaculate, intact, natural, original, primal, purified, refined, sanitary, snowy, spotless, stainless, sterile, sterilized, taintless, unadulterated, uncorrupted, undebased, unpolluted, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, untouched, virginal, wholesome
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proliferate
(to increase in number quickly), breed, burgeon, engender, escalate, expand, generate, grow rapidly, multiply, mushroom, procreate, propagate, reproduce, run riot, snowball
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propitiate
(to conciliate, to appease), appease, assuage, atone, mollify, pacify, placate, satisfy, adapt, appease, calm, conciliate, conform, mediate, placate, reconcile, soothe
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prudence
(wisdom, caution, or restraint), austerity, calculation, care, carefulness, circumspection, concern, conservation, conservatism, considerateness, coolness, deliberation, diligence, discretion, economy, foresight, forethought, frugality, heed, heedfulness, judgment, judiciousness, precaution, providence, reasoning, sagacity, tact, vigilance, watchfulness, wisdom, calculation, canniness, caution, cautiousness, circumspection, discretion, economy, foresight, forethought, frugality, judiciousness, moderation, providence, restraint, sense, sophrosyne, temperance, thrift, vigilance, wisdom
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pungent
(sharp and irritating to the senses), acid, acrid, aromatic, bitter, effluvious, hot, nosey, odoriferous, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salty, seasoned, sharp, snappy, sour, spicy, stinging, stinking, strong, tangy, tart, whiffy, zesty, acrimonious, acute, barbed, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, exciting, hot, incisive, keen, mordant, penetrating, peppery, piercing, poignant, pointed, provocative, racy, salt, salty, sarcastic, scathing, snappy, spicy, stimulating, stringent, telling, trenchant, zesty
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quiescent
(motionless), Synonyms: asleep, at rest, deactivated, dormant, fallow, idle, immobile, in abeyance, inert, inoperative, latent, motionless, passive, quiet, slumbering, stagnant, still
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rarefy
(to make thinner or sparser), attenuate, cook, cut back, cut\*, decrease, delete, diminish, disperse, doctor, edit, emaciate, expand, extenuate, irrigate, lace, needle, prune, reduce, refine, shave, spike, trim, water, water down, weaken, weed out
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repudiate
(to reject the validity of), abandon, abjure, apostatize, banish, be against, break with, cast, cast off, cut off, decline, default, defect, demur, deny, desert, disacknowledge, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, dishonor, disinherit, dismiss, disown, dump, flush\*, fly in the face of, forsake, nix, oust, rat, recant, refuse, renounce, repeal, reprobate, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, spurn, tergiversate, tergiverse, turn, turn down, wash one's hands of
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reticent
(silent, reserved), bashful, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, dried up, dummied up, hesitant, mum, reserved, restrained, shy, silent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative, unforthcoming, unspeaking, uptight\*
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rhetoric
(effective writing or speaking), address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity
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satiate
(to satisfy fully or overindulge), cloy, content, feed to gills, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, overdose, overfill, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit
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soporific
(causing sleep or lethargy), anesthetic, balmy, calming, deadening, dozy, drowsy, dull, hypnotic, mesmerizing, narcotic, nodding, numbing, opiate, quietening, sedative, slumberous, snoozy, somniferous, somnolent, soothing, tranquilizing
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specious
(deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious), apparent, apparently right, beguiling, captious, casuistic, colorable, credible, deceptive, delusive, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, flattering, hollow, idle, illogical, inaccurate, incorrect, likely, nugatory, ostensible, ostentatious, plausible, presumable, presumptive, pretentious, probable, seeming, sophistic, sophistical, sophisticated, spurious, unsound, untrue, vain, wrong
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stigma
(a mark of shame or discredit), bar sinister, besmirchment, black mark, blame, blemish, blot, brand, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, imputation, lost face, mark, odium, onus, reproach, scar, slur, spot, stain, taint
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stolid
(unemotional, lacking sensitivity), blunt, bovine, dense, doltish, dry, dull, dumb, heavy, impassive, inactive, indifferent, inert, lumpish, matter-of-fact, obtuse, passive, phlegmatic, slow, stoic, supine, unemotional, unexcitable, wooden
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sublime
(lofty or grand), abstract, august, divine, dynamite, elevated, eminent, exalted, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, high, holy, ideal, imposing, lofty, majestic, noble, outrageous, proud, resplendent, sacred, spiritual, splendiferous, splendorous, stately, super, superb, the most, too much\*, transcendent, transcendental
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tacit
(Done with using words), alluded to, allusive, assumed, hinted at, implicit, implied, inarticulate, indirect, inferred, intimated, silent, suggested, undeclared, understood, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unstated, unvoiced, wordless
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taciturn
(silent, not talkative), aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn
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tirade
(long, harsh speech or verbal attack), anger, berating, censure, condemnation, denunciation, diatribe, dispute, fulmination, harangue, invective, jeremiad, lecture, malediction, philippic, ranting, revilement, screed, sermon, tongue-lashing, vituperation
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torpor
(extreme mental and physical sluggishness), apathy, disinterest, dormancy, drowsiness, dullness, idleness, impassivity, inaction, inactivity, languor, laziness, lifelessness, listlessness, passiveness, sleepiness, sloth, slowness, sluggishness, slumber, stupor, torpidity, torpidness
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transitory
(temporary, lasting, a brief time), impermanent, momentary, temporal, transient
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veracity
(filled with truth and accuracy), accuracy, actuality, authenticity, candor, correctness, credibility, exactitude, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, gospel, honest-to-god truth, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, like it is, openness, precision, probity, real McCoy, reality, rectitude, rightness, sincerity, straight stuff, trueness, truism, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word\*
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verbose
(wordy), bombastic, circumlocutory, diffuse, flowery, full of air, fustian, gabby, garrulous, grandiloquent, involved, loquacious, magniloquent, palaverous, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, redundant, repeating, repetitious, repetitive, rhetorical, talkative, talky, tautological, tautologous, tedious, tortuous, windy, yacking
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vex
(to annoy), abrade, afflict, aggravate, agitate, anger, annoy, be at, chafe, depress, displease, disquiet, disturb, eat\*, embarrass, exasperate, fret, gall\*, get in one's hair, get under one's skin, give a bad time, give a hard time, grate on, harass, harry, hassle, infuriate, irk, irritate, molest, needle, nettle, offend, peeve, perplex, pester, pique, plague, provoke, put out, rasp, ride, rile, tease, tick off, torment, trouble, turn off, upset, worry
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whimsical
(acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable), amusing, arbitrary, capricious, chancy, chimerical, comical, curious, dicey, droll, eccentric, erratic, fantastic, flaky\*, freakish, funny, kinky\*, mischievous, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer\*, quizzical, singular, uncertain, unpredictable, unusual, waggish, wayward, weird\*
