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What word matches the definition?

Apathy, impassivity

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perfunctoriness

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Define prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

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What word matches this definition?

Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

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prescient

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Define diffident

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Modest or shy due to a lack of self confidence.

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Define deference

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Humble submission or respect

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Define supine

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(of a person) Lying face upward.

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What word matches this definition?

Tending to obstruct or harm,.Unfriendly; hostile.

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inimical

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Define prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

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Name an antonym:

profligate

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moderate, reasonable, conservative

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What word matches this definition?

Modest or shy due to a lack of self confidence.

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diffident

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What word matches this definition?

Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

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phlegmatic

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What word matches the definition?

of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress

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sartorial

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Define tendentiousness

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Intentional and controversial bias.

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Define attenuated

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Unnaturally thin, weakened in force or affect.

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What word matches this definition?

(of a person) Lying face upward.

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supine

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Define diffident

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Modest or shy due to a lack of self confidence.

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Define probity

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The quality of having strong morals or principles; honesty and decency

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What word matches this definition?

Intentional and controversial bias.

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tendentiousness

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What word matches this definition?

Modest or shy due to a lack of self confidence.

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diffident

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Define phlegmatic

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Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

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Name an antonym:

diffident

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Bold, confident, unabashed, brave, dauntless, courageous

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What word matches this definition?

Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

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phlegmatic

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What word matches this definition?

The quality of having strong morals or principles

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probity

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What word matches this definition?

Humble submission or respect.

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deference

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define perfunctoriness
Apathy, impassivity
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What word matches the definition: | Loud and harsh, grating. Expressing a point of view (controversial) in an excessively forceful way.
strident
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Name an antonym: | demur
Consent, agree
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What word matches this definition? | Unnaturally thin, weakened in force or affect.
attenuated
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Name an antonym: | approbation
upbraid, scold, criticism, disapprobation
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Define promulgate
Promote or make widely known; put into law by official proclamation
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Define approbation
Approval or praise
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Define inimical`
Adjective Tending to obstruct or harm: "actions inimical to our interests". Unfriendly; hostile.
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What word matches this definition? | Approval or praise
approbation
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Define profligate
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
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define demur
raise doubts or objections, show reluctance
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What word matches the definition? | raise doubts or objections, show reluctance
demur
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Define tendentiousness
Intentional and controversial bias.
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Define strident
Loud and harsh, grating. Expressing a point of view (controversial) in an excessively forceful way.
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Define sartorial
of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress
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Name an antonym: | probity
deceit, dishonesty, unfairness, corrupt
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Name an antonym: | phlegmatic
Emotional, interested, passionate, excited
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Name an antonym: | perfunctoriness
Careful, precise, accurate
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What word matches this definition? | Intentional and controversial bias.
tendentiousness
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Define inimical`
Adjective Tending to obstruct or harm: "actions inimical to our interests". Unfriendly; hostile.
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What word matches this definition? | (of a person) Lying face upward.
supine
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Define phlegmatic
Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.
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What word matches this definition? | Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
profligate
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What word matches this definition? | Tending to obstruct or harm,.Unfriendly; hostile.
inimical
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What word matches this definition? | Unnaturally thin, weakened in force or affect.
attenuated
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Define attenuated
Unnaturally thin, weakened in force or affect.
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What word matches this definition? | Humble submission or respect.
deference
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Define deference
Humble submission or respect
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What word matches this definition? | The quality of having strong morals or principles
probity
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Define approbation
Approval or praise
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Define probity
The quality of having strong morals or principles; honesty and decency
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Define profligate
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
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What word matches this definition? | Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources
profligate
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What word matches this definition? | Approval or praise
approbation
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What word matches the definition? | Apathy, impassivity
perfunctoriness
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define perfunctoriness
Apathy, impassivity
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What word matches the definition? | raise doubts or objections, show reluctance
demur
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define demur
raise doubts or objections, show reluctance
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Name an antonym: | perfunctoriness
Careful, precise, accurate
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Name an antonym: | demur
Consent, agree
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Name an antonym: | profligate
moderate, reasonable, conservative
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Name an antonym: | probity
deceit, dishonesty, unfairness, corrupt
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Name an antonym: | phlegmatic
Emotional, interested, passionate, excited
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Name an antonym: | approbation
upbraid, scold, criticism, disapprobation
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Define sartorial
of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress
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What word matches the definition? | of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress
sartorial
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Define strident
Loud and harsh, grating. Expressing a point of view (controversial) in an excessively forceful way.
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Name an antonym: | diffident
Bold, confident, unabashed, brave, dauntless, courageous
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Define promulgate
Promote or make widely known; put into law by official proclamation
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Define didactic
Intended to teach, having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
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Define amour
a secret or illicit love affair or lover.
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a secret or illicit love affair or lover.
amour
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Define volition
The faculty or power of using ones will; desire
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Art or object considered in poor taste due to garishness or sentimentality, appreciated in an ironic way.
kitsch
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The faculty or power of using ones will
volition
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Define preclude
To prevent from happening; make impossible.
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To prevent from happening; make impossible.
preclude
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Name an antonym: | preclude
support, permit, enable.
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Define pugnacious
Eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight; Having the appearance of a willing fighter. Quarrelsome. Bellicose. Truculent.
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Define irascible
Short tempered; characterized or arising by anger.
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What word matches the definition: | Loud and harsh, grating. Expressing a point of view (controversial) in an excessively forceful way.
strident
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Short tempered; characterized or arising by anger.
irascible
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Apt in the circumstances or relating to something. Pertinent.
apposite
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Define apposite
Apt in the circumstances or relating to something. Pertinent.
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Define germane
relevant to a subject under consideration
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Name an antonym: | germane
irrelevant, inappropriate, unsuitable, unfitting, improper.
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Extreme greed for wealth or material gain
avarice
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Define mendacity
untruthfulness
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Define baseness
unworthiness by virtue or lacking higher values
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Define munificent
Very generous
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Define kitsch
Art or object considered in poor taste due to garishness or sentimentality, appreciated in an ironic way.
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Define laconic
Using very few words
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Using very few words
laconic
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Very generous
munificent
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Define repudiate
Deny the validity or truth of; refuse to accept or be associated with.
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Deny the validity or truth of; refuse to accept or be associated with.
repudiate
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Define avarice
Extreme greed for wealth or material gain
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Define capitulate
Cease to resist an opponent or unwelcome demand. Surrender
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Cease to resist an opponent or unwelcome demand. Surrender
capitulate
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Define fecundity
The quality or power of producing abundantly. The creative power of the mind. Fertility or fruitfulness.
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The quality or power of producing abundantly. The creative power of the mind. Fertility or fruitfulness.
Fecundity
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Define pithy
Concise and forcefully expressive. Terse or succinct.
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Concise and forcefully expressive. Terse or succinct.
pithy
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Define endemic
Regularly found among a certain people or in a particular area.
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Regularly found among a certain people or in a particular area.
endemic
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Define parochial
Having a limited or narrow outlook or scope.
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Having a limited or narrow outlook or scope.
parochial

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