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Impair

To make worse or less effective

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Compromise

To risk having a harmful effect on something (to harm)

To lower standards/morals

To accept that you will change your opinion on order to reach an agreement with someone

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Insipid

Lacking interest or significance or impact

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Provocative

Causing thought about interesting subject

Causing an angry reaction

Simulating (causing sexual desire)

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Immense

Extremely large in size or degree

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Vast

Extremely big

Eg: vast majority

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Serendipity

Finding something pleasant that you weren’t even looking for

幸運

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prescient

Knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future

Foresighted

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Fortuitous

(Of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening by chance

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Long-standing

Having existed for a long time

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Lucrative

(Esp of a business, job or activity) producing a lot of money

Profitable

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Revival

復興

The process of becoming more active or popular again

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Kindred

Similar and related

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Commensurate

To be in proportion or corresponding in degree or amount

Proportionate

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Imperative

Extremely important or urgent

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Coalesce

If two or more things coalesce, they come or grow to form one thing or system

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Incense

To cause someone to be extremely angry

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Heterodox

(Of belief, ideas or activities) different to and opposing generally accepted beliefs

Iconoclastic

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Synthesise

To produce a substance

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Ubiquitous

Seeming to be everywhere

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Sporadic

Happening sometimes; not regular or continuous

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Scanty

Smaller in size or amount than is considered necessary or is hoped for

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Omnipresent

Present or having an effect everywhere at the same time

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Prolix

Usually too many words and therefore boring or difficult to read or listen to

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Long-winded

A long-winded speech, article etc is too long or uses too many words

Ameliorate

To make a bad situation better

Obsolete

Not in use any more, having been replaced by something newer

Disparate

Different in every way

Divergent

Different from each other | Disparate

Herald

A sign that something will happen

Staple

A main product or part of something (ie 主食)

Harbinger

A person or thing that shows that something is going to happened soon (esp something bad)

Cursory

Quick and probably not detailed 草率

Perfunctory

Done quickly; without taking care or interest 草率 cursory

Prevalence

The fact that something existing or happening often

Canny

Thinking quickly and cleverly (esp in business or financial matters)

Shrewd

Having or based on clear understanding and good judgement of a situation, resulting in an advantage 精明

Ruthless

Cruel Not thinking or worrying about any pain caused to others

Inscrutable

Difficult to understand

Wanting

Lacking

Undertake

take on, To promise to do a particular thing

Circumscribe

Restrict, limit

Prosaic

Commonplace, ordinary

Unseemly

Not proper or appropriate

Scathing

Severely critical

Tantamount

Equivalent to, amounting to

Riveting

Compelling

Renounce

Reject, to give up

Relinquish

To renounce, give up

Tonic

Giving feeling of well-being

Deflect

To divert, to bounce To cause to deviate from an intended purpose

Abeyance

Suspension, the state of temporary suspension or disuse

Antidote

Remedy, cure

Deferential

respectful

Credulous

Naive, trusting

Inimical

Harmful, injurious Unfriendly, hostile

Deprecate

To disapprove of, to deplore

Discreet

Carful, circumspect, cautious, wary

Entrance

To captivate

Esoteric

Intended to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialised knowledge

Lethargic

Inactive, apathetic

Lurid

Unpleasantly bright in colour Presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms

Limpid

(Liquid) completely clear (Eye) clear, unclouded (Writing or music) clear and melodious

Exigent

Pressing and demanding

Unruffled

Not disordered, calm

Exiguous

Very small in size or amount

Unfazed

Not disconnected, or perturbed

Preclude

Make impossible, to prohibit

Integrated

United, with various parts linked or coordinated

Compel

To force to do something

Oversight

Unintentional failure to notice or consider Watchful care

Ossify

Harden, solidify, cease developing, stagnate

Strain

To force I make an unusually great effort A severe demand on strength, resources or abilities

Slippery

Elusive in meaning Unpredictable, unsound

Warp

To distort

Potent

Powerful, strong

Encumbrance

Hindrance, burden

Avocation

A hobby or minor occupation

Serpentine

Like a snake, To move or lie in a winding path of line, not straight

Precipitous

Dangerously high or steep (Action) done suddenly without careful consideration

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