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Commiserate (with)

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To sympathize, feel or express sympathy, show sorrow or pity for, condole.

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Voluble

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Talkative, talking much and easily, long-winded, glib, garrulous, loquacious, verbose, effusive.

Antonyms: reticent, terse, laconic, taciturn.

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Dilemma

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A predicament, any difficult or unpleasant situation, quandary, quagmire.

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Transitory (nature)

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Passing, temporary, fleeting, not permanent, transient, ephemeral, evanescent.

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Philanthropic

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Charitable, benevolent, humane, motivated by a desire to help/improve the welfare of others.

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Lethargy

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Lack of energy, sluggishness, dullness, apathy, stupor; an abnormally dull, drowsy, inactive condition of mind, torpor, somnolence, lassitude, languor, stupefaction.

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Exonerate

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To free from blame, declare blameless, acquit, absolve, exculpate.

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Pugnacious

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Given to fighting, combative, quarrelsome, ready to fight, contentious, belligerent, bellicose.

Antonyms: peaceable, clement, amicable.

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Contrition

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Remorse, penitence (temporary), repentance, deep and devastating sorrow.

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Abrogate

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To abolish by legal, cancel, revoke, repeal, annul, nullify, rescind.

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Officious

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Meddlesome, nosy, intrusive, interfering, prying, quidnunc.

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Intractable

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Hard to manage or control, stubborn, unruly.

Antonyms: obedient, compliant, malleable, docile, tractable.

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Altruism

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Selflessness, unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

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Accolade

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An award, sign of respect

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Vernecular

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The native language of people

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Judicious

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Wise and careful, sensible, levelheaded, prudent, discreet.

Antonyms: thoughtless, foolhardy, impetuous, temerarious.

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Chrysalis

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The pupa of butterfly (cocoon), fig. undeveloped stage of being, transformation, metamorphosis.

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Genteel

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Refined, polite, well-bred, sophisticated, elegantly stylish or fashionable, belonging to high society.

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Jovial

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Merry, full of good humor, hearty, fun-loving, jolly, convivial.

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Subterfuge

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A deception, trick, underhanded scheme, stratagem, artifice, ruse.

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Ebullience

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Lively enthusiasm, high spirits, bubbly excitement, exuberance, exhilaration, effervescence.

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Impervious

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Impenetrable, incapable of being entered, unable to be moved or affected by smth, impassable, impermeable, opaque.

Antonyms: penetrable, passable, accessible, permeable, translucent, diaphanous.

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Remonstrate

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To object, protest, reprove, rebuke, argue, plead against, expostulate.

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Efface

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To rub out, wipe out, obliterate, erase, expunge.

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Chimera
A foolish fancy, fantastic notion or idea, figment of the imagination, whimsy, crochet, maggot, caprice.
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Incorrigible
Bad beyond correction or reform, hopeless, irreformable, unruly, unmanageable, difficult to control, irredeemable, irreclaimable, unrepentant, inveterate, unregenerate, willful, intractable.
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Juxtapose
To place side by side or close together
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Conversant (with)
Familiar, acquainted, well-informed, well-versed.
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Esoteric
Not public, secret, confidential, mysterious, impenetrable, inscrutable, cryptic, abstruse, arcane, recondite. Antonyms: plain, apparent, accessible, manifest, discernible, lucid, perspicuous, exoteric.
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Auspicious
Favorable, fortunate, marked by good fortune, conducive to success, boding well, propitious.
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Itinerant
Wandering, traveling, moving from place to place, migratory, wayfaring, vagrant, nomadic, ambulatory, peripatetic.
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Cull
To pick out, select from various sources, gather, collect, glean.
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Promulgate
To make known, publish, make public in an official manner, announce, advertise, broadcast.
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Gratuitous
Free, given charge or obligation, uncalled-for, unjustified, baseless, unwarranted, gratis.
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Nomenclature
A system of names (science, art)
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Droll
Amusing, humorous, comical, ridiculous, ludicrous, farcical, waggish. Antonyms: sober, sedate, staid, austere.
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Insatiable
Greedy, hungry, unable to be satisfied, ravenous, voracious, unquenchable, unappeasable. Antonyms: satiable, capable of being satisfied.
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Beguile
To deceive, delude, mislead, dupe, gull, hoodwink, swindle, bamboozle, ensnare, cozen; to charm, amuse, delight, enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ensorcel.
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Vindictive
Wanting revenge, vengeful.
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Replete
Fully or richly supplied, well-stocked, chock-full, filled to capacity, stuffed, crammed, gorged, abounding, brimming, teeming, laden, surfeited, fraught.
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Preclude
To prevent, make impossible, avert, obviate, forestall. Antonyms: incite, instigate, engender.
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Castigate
To punish, criticize severely, chasten, chastise, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, censure. Antonyms: approve, reward, praise, commend, laud, extol, eulogize.
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Colloquial
Conversational, informal, casual, natural.
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Obfuscate
To make obscure, cloud over, darken, make unclear, confuse, complicate, muddle, bewilder, shroud, eclipse, adumbrate. Antonyms: expose, unveil, clarify, elucidate.
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Facile
Easy, easily done, quick, ready, fluent, nimble, dexterous, expert, adroit. Antonyms: difficult, awkward, unwieldy, laborious, irksome, obstinate, onerous, intractable, refractory.
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Convivial
Sociable, merry, festive, jovial, genial, companionable, affable, gregarious. Antonyms: unsociable, reserved, solitary, aloof.
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Eschew
To avoid, shun, abstain from; keep away from smth harmful, wrong.
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Prodigious
Enormous, huge, tremendous, immense; extraordinary in size, extent, force, degree; mammoth, monumental, colossal, gargantuan, elephantine, herculean, Brobdingnagian. Antonyms: Lilliputian.
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Idiosyncrasy
A peculiarity, eccentricity, quirk.
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Approbation
Approval, acceptance, commendation, endorsement, sanction, ratification, acclamation. Antonyms: rejection, opposition, disapprobation, renunciation, repudiation, disavowal, abjuration.

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