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yielding, dutiful, adaptable

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malleable
sent: she was malleable to our suggestions and eagar to help

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to free, emancipate, liberate

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manumit
sent: when did great britian manumit african slaves?

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despot, disciplinarian, tyrant

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martient
sent: the colonel, a martient, is feared by his troops

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fracas, brawl, skirmish

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melee
sent: adults broke up a brief melee on the playground

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smooth, sweet, honeyed

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mellifluous
sent: his saxophone has a pleasent, mellifluous tone

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deceit, dishonesty, untruthfulness

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mendacity
sent: her constant mendacity has lost her a group of loyal friends

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begger, almsman, pauper

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mendicant
sent: a mendicant walked through the bubway, hat in hand

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counselar, tutor, advisor

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mentor
sent: i serve as a mentor for several entering freshman

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money-oriented, acquisitive, grasping

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mercenary
sent: a day trader may benefit from a mercenaty attitude

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pond, lake, marsh

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mere
sent: herons hunted small frogs in the area around the mere

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vulgar, gaudy, specious

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meretricious
sent: those meretricious trinkets are not worth a dollar

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painstaking, careful, thorough

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meticulous
sent: she does maticulous work as she repairs the old books

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courage, fortitude, pluck

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mettle
sent: the soldiers showed mettle as they patrolled the village

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bearing, apperrance, demeanor

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mien
sent: even under stress, her mien is always regal and calm

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mistrusted, skeptical, scornful

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misanthropic
sent: a misanthropic attitude will never win you friends

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to moderate, alleviate, ease

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mitigate
sent: early education may mitigate poverty in some cases

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to adjust, modify, vary

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modulate
sent: please modulate your voice as you enter the hospital

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to pacify, calm, soothe

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mollify
sent: after the team’s loss, no words could mollify the players

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dying, declining, failing

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moribund
sent: it is a moribund town with few remaining businesses

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commonplace, ordinary, dull

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mundane
sent: a vacation can break you out of your mundane existance

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generous, charitable, benevolent

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munificent
sent: her munificent deeds helped many in our community

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alterable, changeable, variable

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mutable
sent: the hummingbird’s colors are mutable as it flies

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ruler, noble, aristocrat

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nabob
sent: he is considered something of a nabob in his city of residence

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lowmpoint, depths, bottom

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nadir
sent: the loss of her job was the nadir of her misfortune

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innocence, ingenuousness, artlessness
naivete sent: a child's naivete makes every experience seem wonderous
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self-love, conceit, vanity
narcissism sent: narcissism led her to challenge any critique of her work
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blossoming, budding, emerging
nascent sent: the nascent windmill industry has transformed the town
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cloudy, hazy, imprecise
nebulous sent: his nebulous explanation just confused matters
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arch-enemy, rival, retribution
nemesis sent: othello's nemesis is clearly his advisor, iago
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to irritate, vix, annoy
nettle sent: her constant nitpicking will just nettle her coworkers
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detail, subtlety, fastidiousness
nicety sent: using the proper fork is a nicety of table manners
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grasping, parimonious, stingy
niggardly sent: he was especially niggardly at handing out compliments
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offensive, foul, rank
noisome sent: what is that noisome odor coming from the kitchen?
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unconcerned, indifferent, cool
nonchalant sent: act nonchalant, and they will never suspect a thing
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trifling, invaild, unimportant
nugatory sent: leave those nugatory details out of the report
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coin collector
numismatist sent: the numismatist has coins found on a sucken ship
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stubborn, obstinate, unyielding
obdurate sent: an obdurate refusal to learn will not help you to succeed
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fat, stout, corpulent
obese sent: if he becomes more obese, it will affect his heart and liver
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to complicate, confuse, obscure
obfuscate sent: don't obfuscate the truth with unimportant details
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sycophantic, flattering, fawning
obsequious sent: her obsequious behavior made her seem oily and passive
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outdated, passe, archaic
obsolete sent: that computer is obsolete; you can no longer buy parts for it
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defiant, confrontational, aggressive
obstreperous sent: the obstreperous girl spent time in the principal's office
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blatant, prominent, brash
obtrusive sent: the solar panels blend in and are not too obtrusive
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preclude, avert, hinder
obviate sent: a good carpet can obicvate the need to refinish the floors
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abhorrent, hateful, vile
odious sent: that odious person deserves no one's pity
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composition, masterwork, lifework
oeuvre sent: her oeuvre contains poetry as well as prose
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self-important bureaucratic, overbearing
officious sent: with an officious manner, the women directed us to sit down
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government by the few
oligarchy sent: my town os a democracy but yours is more of an oligarchy
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all-powerful, invincible, almighty
omnipotent sent: zeus was omnipotent, bbut he still got into trouble
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burdensome, opperssice, troublesome
onerous sent: filling out tax forms can be an onerous task
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dense, obscure, unclear
opaque sent: the tiles are opaque to hide the shoer stall
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disgrace, ignominy, dishonor
opprobrium sent: he left town to escape any opprobrium for his misdeeds
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seer, soothsayer, visionary
oracle sent: an oracle warned him that he would face many enemies
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speechifying, rhetoric, eloquence
oratory sent: plainspoken harruy truman was not knwon for his oratory
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to swing, vacillate, sway
oscillate sent: the breeze caused the swings to oscillate gentlu
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to kiss, bussm contact
osculate senta: the two pool balls osculate as they come to rest
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showy, flamboyant, pretentious
ostentatious sent: that ostentatious display does not inspire me to buy his hats
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chatter, gossip, chitchat
palaver sent: after an hour of palaver club members got down to business
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picket, fence, fortification
palisade sent: we set up a palisade around the orchard to keep out the deer
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trivial, trifling, unimportant
paltry sent: leave the paltry task and join our more important discussion
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flair, elan, style
panache sent: he wears his unusual outfits with panache
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tribute, encomium, compliment
panegyric sent: she delivered a panegyric in memory of her father
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model, example, archetype
paradigm sent: is romeo the paradigm of the star-crossed lover?
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dominant, supreme, principal
paramount sent: raising wages is paramount in our plan for reform
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outcast, exile, untouchable
pariah sent: his odd appearrance made him a pariah in the village
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stinginess, frugality, economy
parsimony sent: parsimony led her to live in rags when she could afford better
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pity, sympathy, sorrow
pathos sent: the pathos in the music made the audience somber and still
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dialect, regionalism, vernacular
patois sent: he speaks an unusual patois that mixes french and english
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scarceness, lack, rarity
paucity sent: there is a paucity of fresh seafood in my inland city
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offense, transgression, sin
peccadillo sent: a minor peccadillo will not result in much punishment
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monetary, financialm, economic
pecuniary sent: his pecuniary difficulties led him to seek new employment
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teaching, education, instruction
pedagogy sent: my education professor teaches theories of pedagogy
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dull, doctrinaire, obscure
pedanric sent: the speaker's pedantic tone nearly put me to sleep
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atonement, repentance, regret
penitence sent: as penitence for being late, she promised to pay for dinner
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throughtful, boording, meditative
pensive sent: in a pensive mood, he meditated on his life
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indigent, destitute, stingy
penurious sent: the penurious family scratched out a living on five arces
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laborer, farm worker, drudge
peon sent: rather than valuing my input, my boss treats me like a peon
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to roam, stroll, amble
perambulate sent: my parents like to perambulate along that paths in the park

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