Appendix A Words Flashcards
(224 cards)
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Hasty and therefore not detailed
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Cursory
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Collection of concise but detailed info about something like in a book/publication usually
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Compendium
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Sparing in the use of words
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Terse
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Act quickly but also without thought or care
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Impetuous
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Act quickly or suddenly or unexpectedly
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Precipitate
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Very giving or generous or liberal
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Munificent
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Encourage someone to do something wrong
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Abet
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Adopt or support
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Espouse
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Advocates for something
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Proponent
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Maintaining of someone or something
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Sustenance
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Loyal, reliable ,and hardworking
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Stalwart
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Face or facial expression or Admit as acceptable or possible
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Countenance
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Spiteful or bad tempered (irritable, irascible, tetchy)
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Bilious
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Childishly bad tempered and petulant
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Pettish
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Feeling of offense or deep resentment
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Dudgeon
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Someone or something that is inexperienced, immature, or underdeveloped
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Fledgling
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Person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another
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Proselyte
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Easily angered
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Irascible
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Complaining in a petulant or whining manner
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Querulous
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Insolent (rude and arrogant lack of respect), rude, unreasonable angry and upset in a childish way
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Petulant
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Feeling of pique resentment usually from an insult or like slight
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Umbrage
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Beginning to grow or increase rapidly, flourishing
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Burgeoning
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Feeling of irritation or resentment from a slight especially to ones pride (irritation, annoyance, resentment, anger)
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Pique
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Readily expressing anger or irritation
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Waspish
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Cause or give rise to or reproduce offspring
Engender
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Sharp and frank
OR
Or can be something that taste sour or bitter
Acerbic
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Sharp remark or tone
Acidulous
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Victorious or incisive (direct) in expression or style
Trenchant
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Overused, unoriginal, boring
Hackneyed
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Harshly critical
Caustic
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Angry and bitter language or manner or feeling
Acrimonious
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Dull, tasteless, lacking things that are interesting
Insipid
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Sharp or critical quality
Mordant
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Biting sarcasm, invective (insulting/abusive)
Mordacious
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Harshness of tone or manner
Asperity
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Lack inspiration or excitement, dull
Pedestrian
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Occurs every day so its like mundane
Quotidian
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Lacking originality and obvious and boring
Banal
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Commonplace, unromantic, ordinary
OR
Unimaginative, uninspired, dull
Prosaic
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Remark or statement that is overused so it's not interesting or thoughtful anymore
Platitude (cliche, truism)
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Dull or unoriginal cause its overused
Trite
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Bold or can be imprudent lack of respect
Audacious
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Morally corrupt, wicked
Depraved
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Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
Debauchery
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Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
Licentious
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Drunken partying (revelry)
Bacchanalian
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Overindulging in sensual pleasures
Dissipated
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Person usually a man who behaves without moral principles or sense of responsibility especially in sexual matters (playboy)
Libertine
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Immoral or grossly unfair behaviour
Iniquity
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Unprincipled person usually humorously or affectionately
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Can be verb for expressing or feeling disapproval for something (criticize)
Reprobate
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Arousing moral distant (sleezy, sunsavory)
Sordid (squalid)
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Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
Vicarious
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Excessive sexual drive, lust, lecherous, lascivious
Libidinous
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Arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination, lustful
Salacious
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Typical example or pattern of something
Paradigm
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Referring to sexual matters in a irreverent (disrespectful) way (risque or racy)
Ribald
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Vile, like moral turpitude in law for behaviour that is against social standards
Turpitude
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False or misleading charge meant to harm someone’s reputation, Attack on reputation or integrity of someone or something
Aspersion
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Scold or criticise angrily
Berate
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Reprimand someone severely
Castigate
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Deny or contradict
Gainsay
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Make a forcefully reproachful (disapproving) protest
Remonstrate
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Express contempt for, ridicule
Deride/Derisive
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Damage good reputation of someone or something
Defame
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Regard or represent as being of little worth, belittle
Disparage
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Publicly denounce
Decry
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Dispute the truth, challenge
Impugn
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Criticize something harshly
Lambaste
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Strong public criticism or verbal abuse
Obloquy
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Slander
Calumny
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Attack or publicly ridicule
OR
Wooden framework
Pillory
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Forceful bitter verbal attack
Diatribe
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Publicly declare wrong or evil
OR
Inform against
Denounce
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Lengthy and aggressive speech
Harangue
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Rebuke severely, scold
Objurgate
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Criticize severely
OR
Damage or remove part of a surface usually of the skin
Excoriate
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Harsh criticisms (vilification)
Opprobrium
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Speak or write with great hostility (fulminate, declaim, protest)
Inveigh
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Scold or correct
Reprove
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Criticize in an abusive or angry manner
Revile
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Felling or expressing sorrow or distress
Dolorous
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Criticize sharply
Rebuke
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Funeral or burial
Obsequies
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A long angry speech (diatribe)
Tirade
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Sound of a bell usually run for a death or funeral
Knell
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No longer existing or functioning
Defunct
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Be deprived of a loved one through a profound absence
Bereave
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Blame or insult in strong or violent language
Vituperate
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Disturbing or horrifying usually involvement or depiction of death and injury
Macabre
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Ghost or ghostlike image of someone usually shortly before or after their death
Wraith
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Passionate expression of grief or sorrow
OR
Mourn
Lament
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Song of mourning
Elegy
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Person at the point of death
OR
Something in terminal decline, lacking vitality or vigor
Moribound
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Renounce or reject something desired or valuable
Abnegate
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Reating to tomb or interment
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Gloomy, dismal
Sepulchral
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Understood by few, mysterious
Arcane
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Showing the indifference to comfort or luxury
Spartan
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Suggesting practice of severe self discipline
Ascetic
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Strong and powerful, dominant
Hegemonic/Hegemony
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Assuming power or authority without justification, arrogant
Imperious
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Typical of a despot, tyrannical
Despotic
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Puzzle, confuse, bewilder
Bemusing
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Insisting on immediate attention or obedience, usually aggressively or hars
Peremptory
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Difficult to understand, obscure
Abstruse
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Cloud, opaque
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Confused or obscure in meaning or effect
Turbid
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Understood by small number of people with specialized knowledge or interest
Esoteric
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Little known, abstruse
Recondite
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Impossible to understand or interpret
Inscrutable
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Decaying or rotting with awful smell
Putrid
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Spoil
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Desecrate or profane (something sacred)
Defile
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Having an extremely offensive smell
Noisome
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Smelling extremely unpleasant
Fetid
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Arouse or incur resement or anger
OR
Unjust
Invidious
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Translucently clear
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Easily understood
Pellucid
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Extremely unpleasant, repulsive
Odious
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Thing belonging or appropriate to a period usually that its not in right that usually like old fashion
Anachronism
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Free of anything that darkens, completely clear
Limpid
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Unattractive and objectionable
Rebarbative
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Clear, logical, and convincing
Cogent
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Making someone feel embarrassed, disconcerted (unsettled or confused)
Abash
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Person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
Iconoclast
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Departing from an accepted standard (deviant)
Aberrant
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Deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected
Anomalous
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Distress or embarrassment
Chagrin
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Feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows doing something bad
Compunction
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State of feeling remorseful or penitent
Contrition
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Modesty or shyness resulting in lack of self confidence
Diffidence
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Atone for guilt or sin
Expiate
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Minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character
Foible
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Awkward, embarrassing, or unsophisticated
Gaucherie
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Bitterly regret
Rue
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Equivalent in seriousness to, same as
Tantamount
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Doubt the authenticity, fictitious
Apocryphal
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Use of trickery to a achieve political, financial, or legal purpose
Chicanery
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Deceitfulness
Duplicity
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Wrong, incorrect
Erroneous
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Sly or cunning intelligence
Guile
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Untruthfulness, lying
Mendacity
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Speak or act in an evasive way
Prevaricate
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False or fake
Spurious
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An unfounded rumor or story
Canard
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Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs
Dissemble
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Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, artificial, imitation, substitute
Ersatz
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Simulated or pretended, insincere
Feigned
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Not telling truth, lying
Mendacious
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Deceitfulness, untrustworthiness
Perfidy
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Superficially plausible but not actually wrong
Specious
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Relating to marriage
Conjugal
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Related
Consanguine
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Stick or spindle on wood for spinning
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Female side of family
Distaff
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Marriage
Endogamous
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Of or due from son or daughter
Filial
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Brothers
Fraternal
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Killing of own brother or sister
Fratricide
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Person or thing from which it originates or descends from
Progenitor
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Descendent of notable family
Scion
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Enthusiasm or passion
Arden/Ardor
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Intensely enthusiastic or passionate
Fervid
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Person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their ideals
Zealot
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Strong supporter of something
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Prejudice in favor of something (biased)
Partisan
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Expressing or intending to promote particular cause or point of view
Tendentious
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Set or declare someone free from blame
Absolve and Exculpate
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Atone for guilt or sin
Expiate
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Make something less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause
Palliate
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Rectify something
Redress
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Clear someone of blame or suspicion
Vindicate
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Laugh in a breathy gleeful way, chuckle
Chortle
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Treating serious things with inappropriate humor, flippant
Facetious
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An insulting or mocking remark, taunt
Gibe
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Humor or frivolity for serious things with humor lacking respect
Levity
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Good humored teasing
Raillery
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Smile in an affectedly coy manner, giggle
Simper
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Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement
Droll
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Not showing a serious or respectful attitude
Flippant
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Fond of or characterized by joking, humorous or playful
Jocular
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So foolish
Ludicrous
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Quick clever reply to insult or criticism
Riposte
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Reduction, decrease
Abatement
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Long opening or break in something
Fissure
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Pause between things
Interregnum
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Opening or open space
Aperature
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An intervening space, usually very small
Interstice
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Short period of rest or relief from something unpleasant
Respite
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Inclined to be merciful, lenient
Clement
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Generosity in giving money or gifts
Largesse
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Gift larger or more generous than needed
Munificent
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Generous or forgiving especially towards rival or less powerful person
Magnanimous
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Given or giving without restraint
Unstinting
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Having or showing extreme greed for wealth or material gain
Avaricious
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Having or showing great desire for wanting something someone else has
Covetous
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Primarily concerned with money
Mercenary
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Extremely poor or mean
Penurious
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Aggressively greedy or grasping
Rapacious
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Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery
Venal
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Harshness of tone or manner
Asperity
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Relentlessly severe stern ro gloomy in manner or appearance
Dour
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Grimly mocking or cynical
Sardonic
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Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
Malevolent
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Eager or quick to argue or fight, aggressively defiant
Truculent
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Threatening harm, menacing
Baleful
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Causing harm or damage
Deleterious
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Terrible evil or ferocity
Fell
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Having or showing sharp or critical quality, biting
Mordant
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Witheringly scornful, severely critical
Scathing
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Filled with bitter criticism or mallice
Vitriolic
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Threatening harm, menacing
Baleful
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Causing or likely to cause damage or harm
Injurious
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Causing destruction or serious harm
Baneful
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Tending to obstruct or harm
OR
Unfriendly, hostile
Inimical
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Proceeding in a gradual subtle way with harmful effect
Insidious
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Expressive or conveying a threat
Minatory
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Deceitful and untrustworthy
Perfidious
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Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
Pernicious
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Harsh discordant mixture of sounds
Cacophony
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Making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise
Raucous
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Loud unpleasant and prolonged noise
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Making someone learn or remember somehting
Din
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Loud and harsh, grating
Strident
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Lacking harmony
Dissonant
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Bitterness or resentfulness
Rancor
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Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
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Formal curse by pope or council of church
Anathema
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Feeling of repulsion, disgusted loathing
Abhorrence
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Deep seated feeling of dislike, aversion
Antipathy
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General or widespread hatred or disgust directed towards someone cause of their actions
Odium
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State or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something
Enmity
