Second Half of 300 Essentials Flashcards
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aberrant
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adj. deviating from the norm
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abeyance
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n. temporary supression or suspension
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abstemious
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(sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet, characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life.) abstinent, ascetic, austere, continent, frugal, moderate, moderating, restrained, self-denying, self-restrained, sober, sparing, temperate
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admonish
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advise, berate, call down, call on the carpet, censure, check, chide, come down hard on, counsel, ding, draw the line, enjoin, exhort, forewarn, give a going over, give a piece of one’s mind, glue*, growl*, hoist, jack up, notice, rap on knuckles, rap, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, scold, sit on, slap on wrist, speak to, talk to, tell a thing or two, tell off, upbraid, warn
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aggregate
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accumulated, added, amassed, assembled, collected, collective, combined, composite, corporate, cumulative, heaped, mixed, piled, total
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alacrity
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alertness, avidity, briskness, cheerfulness, dispatch, eagerness, enthusiasm, expedition, fervor, gaiety, hilarity, joyousness, promptitude, quickness, readiness, speed, sprightliness, willingness, zeal
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ambivalent
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clashing, contradictory, debatable, doubtful, equivocal, fluctuating, hesitant, inconclusive, irresolute, mixed, opposed, uncertain, undecided, unresolved, unsure, vacillating, warring, wavering
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anomalous
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aberrant, abnormal, atypical, bizarre, divergent, eccentric, exceptional, foreign, heteroclite, incongruous, inconsistent, irregular, odd, peculiar, preternatural, prodigious, rare, strange, unnatural, unorthodox, unrepresentative, untypical, unusual
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apprise
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(in inform; to advise) , brief, enlighten, fill in, inform, notify, tip off, accustom, advise, apprise, bring out, clue, come out with, disclose, divulge, enlighten, familiarize, fill in, fix up, get together*, habituate, inform, intro, introduce, knock down, let know, make familiar, notify, post, present, reveal, tell, warn
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approbation
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admiration, approval, bells, consent, endorsement, esteem, favor, go-ahead, high regard, okay, permission, recognition, sanction, support, the nod
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artless
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direct, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, plain, pure, sincere, straight, straightforward, talking turkey, true, unadorned, unaffected, uncontrived, unpretentious, unsophisticated, up front
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ascetic
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Spartan, abstaining, abstemious, abstinent, austere, disciplined, puritanical, strict
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assiduous
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active, attentive, busy, constant, diligent, eager beaver, exacting, grinding, indefatigable, industrious, laborious, persevering, plugging, scrupulous, sedulous, steady, studious, unflagging, untiring, whiz, zealous
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autonomous
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free, self-determining, self-governing, self-ruling, sovereign, uncontrolled
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aver
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affirm, assert, avouch, claim, contend, declare, emphasize, insist, justify, predicate, proclaim, prove, state, swear, verify
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belie
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confute, contradict, contravene, controvert, deny, disaffirm, disagree, explode, gainsay, negate, negative, oppose, repudiate, color, conceal, disguise, distort, falsify, garble, give the lie to, gloss over, hide, miscolor, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, trump up, twist, warp
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beneficent
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altruistic, benevolent, benign, big-hearted, charitable, compassionate, generous, helpful, humanitarian, kind, philanthropic
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boorish
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bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
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burgeon
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blossom, bud, expand, flower, grow, increase, mushroom, prosper, snowball, sprout, thrive
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burnish
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buff, furbish, glance, glaze, gloss, luster, patina, put on a finish, rub, sheen, shine, smooth, wax
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buttress
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abutment, column, mainstay, pier, prop, reinforcement, shore, stanchion, stay, strut, underpinning
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causality
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agent, ancestor, ancestry, antecedent, author, base, causality , causation, connection, creator, derivation, determinant, egg, element, embryo, fountain, generator, germ, horse’s mouth, impulse, inception, inducement, influence, inspiration, mainspring, motive, nucleus, occasion, parent, parentage, principle, producer, progenitor, provenance, provenience, root, roots, seed, source, spring, stock, well, wellspring
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coda
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coda , concluding speech, conclusion, ending, finale, follow-up, peroration, postlude, postscript, sequel, summation, swan song
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commensurate
appropriate, coextensive, comparable, compatible, consistent, due, equal, equivalent, fit, fitting, in accord, proportionate, sufficient, symmetrical
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compendium
abstract, aper?u, brief, conspectus, digest, epitome, essence, guide, handbook, manual, overview, pandect, pr?cis, sketch, summary, survey, syllabus, sylloge
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complaisant
(attempting or eager to please or satisfy, obliging, affable) accommodating, amiable, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, easy, easy-going, friendly, generous, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, indulgent, lenient, mild, obliging, polite, solicitous, submissive
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complacent
(pleased or satisfied with how things are, with how they affect one's self, self-satisfied, smug),
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conciliatory
appeasing, assuaging, calm, civil, disarming, irenic, mollifying, pacific, peaceable, placating, placatory, propitiative, quiet, willing
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confound
abash, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, befog, bewilder, blend, bug\*, commingle, confute, discombobulate, discomfit, discountenance, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, fiddle, flabbergast, jumble, metagrobolize, misidentify, mix, mix up, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, rattle, screw up, startle, surprise, throw\*
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connoisseur
adept, aesthete, aficionado, appreciator, arbiter, bon vivant, buff\*, cognoscente, critic, devotee, dilettante, epicure, expert, fan, freak\*, gourmet, judge, maven\*, nut\*, one into, savant, specialist, (ANTONYMS: ignoramus)
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contention
altercation, argument, battle, beef, belligerency, bone of contention, bone to pick, combat, conflict, contest, controversy, difference, disaccord, discord, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, enmity, feuding, fight, flak, hassle, hostility, quarrel, rivalry, run-in, scene, scrap, set-to, squabble, static, strife, struggle, variance, war, wrangle, wrangling
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contentious
antagonistic, argumentative, belligerent, combative, disagreeable, factious, perverse, petulant, querulous, testy
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conundrum
brain-teaser, closed book, enigma, mystery, mystification, poser, problem, puzzlement, riddle, why\*
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conventional
accepted, accustomed, button-down, commonplace, correct, current, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, in established usage, ordinary, orthodox, plain, popular, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, proper, regular, ritual, routine, square, standard, stereotyped, straight, traditional, tralatitious, typical, usual, well-known, wonted
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craven (v. n. or adj)
(cowardly, contemptibly timid, pusillanimous or a coward, or to make cowardly), chicken\*, cowardly, dastardly, fearful, gutless, lily-livered, mean-spirited, poltroonish, pusillanimous, scared, timorous, weak-kneed, wimpish, wimpy, wussy, yellow\*, yellow-bellied, dastard, fraidy cat, nebbish, poltroon, quitter, recreant, scaredy cat, weakling, wheyface,
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delineate
characterize, chart, define, depict, detail, draft, draw, figure, lay out, limn, mark, plot, portray, represent, sketch out, trace
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derivative
acquired, ancestral, caused, cognate, coming from, connate, copied, evolved, hereditary, imitative, inferential, inferred, not original, obtained, plagiaristic, plagiarized, procured, rehashed, secondary, secondhand, subordinate, uninventive, unoriginal, by-product, offshoot, outgrowth, spin-off, wave
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diffidence
(hesitancy; lack of confidence) backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness, reluctance, reserve, self-consciousness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness
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diffuse
broadcast, catholic, circulated, diluted, dispersed, disseminated, distributed, expanded, extended, general, prevalent, propagated, radiated, scattered, separated, strewn, thin, unconcentrated, universal, widespread
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digression
apostrophe, aside, deflection, departure, detour, difference, discursion, divagation, divergence, diversion, drifting, episode, excursion, excursus, footnote, incident, note, obiter dictum, parenthesis, rambling, variation, wandering
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discerning
acute, astute, bright, brilliant, clear-sighted, clever, critical, gnostic, ingenious, insighted, insightful, intelligent, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, penetrating, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, sagacious, sage, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, subtle, wise
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discordant
antagonistic, antipathetic, at odds, cacophonous, clashing, contradictory, contrarient, contrary, different, disagreeing, discrepant, dissonant, divergent, grating, harsh, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, jangling, jarring, on a sour note, opposite, quarreling, strident, uncongenial, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmixable
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discredit
blow up, bring into disrepute, bring to naught, censure, defame, degrade, destroy, disconsider, disesteem, disfavor, disgrace, dishonor, disparage, disprove, explode, expose, frown upon, knock bottom out of, mudsling, poke full of holes, pooh-pooh, puncture, put down, reflect on, reproach, ruin, run down, shoot, show up, slander, slur, smear, take rug out from under, tear down, vilify
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descrepancy
alterity, contrariety, difference, discordance, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, dissonance, distinction, divergence, divergency, error, far cry, incongruity, inconsistency, miscalculation, otherness, split, unlikeness, variance, variation
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discrete
detached, different, disconnected, discontinuous, distinct, diverse, separate, several, unattached, various
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disinterested
aloof, candid, casual, dispassionate, equitable, even-handed, impartial, impersonal, incurious, indifferent, just watching the clock, lackadaisical, negative, neutral, nonpartisan, not giving a damn, outside, perfunctory, remote, unbiased, unconcerned, uncurious, unprejudiced, unselfish, withdrawn
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disjointed
aimless, confused, cool, discontinuous, disordered, displaced, disunited, divided, far-out, fitful, fuzzy, inchoate, incoherent, incohesive, irrational, jumbled, muddled, out-of-it, out-to-lunch, rambling, separated, spaced-out, spacey, spasmodic, split, unattached, unconnected, unorganized
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dismiss
abolish, banish, boot, brush off, bundle, cast off, cast out, chase, chuck, clear, decline, deport, detach, disband, discard, dispatch, dispense with, disperse, dispose of, dissolve, divorce, do without, drive out, eject, expel, force out, have done with, kick out, let go, let out, lock out, outlaw, push aside, push back, reject, release, relegate, relinquish, repel, repudiate, rid, send off, send packing, shed, show out, slough off, supersede, sweep away, turn out
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disparage
abuse, belittle, chill\*, cry down, decry, defame, degrade, deject, demoralize, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, deride, derogate, dis, discourage, discredit, disdain, dishearten, dismiss, dispirit, dispraise, downcry, dump on, lower, malign, minimize, pan, put down, put hooks in, rap, ridicule, roast, run down, scorch, scorn, slam\*, slander, smear, sour grapes, tear down, traduce, underestimate, underrate, undervalue, vilify, write off
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disseminate
advertise, announce, annunciate, blaze, blazon, broadcast, circulate, declare, diffuse, disject, disperse, dissipate, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publicize, publish, radiate, sow, spread, strew
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dissolution
breaking up, detachment, disintegration, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, resolution, split-up, adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, defunction, demise, disappearance, disbandment, discontinuation, dismissal, dispersal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, liquefaction, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination
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distend
(bulge, swell) amplify, augment, balloon, bloat, dilate, distort, enlarge, expand, increase, inflate, lengthen, puff, stretch, widen
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distill
(to make pure, to draw something out), boil down, brew, clarify, concentrate, condense, cook, cut, cut down, cut to the bone, dribble, drip, drop, evaporate, express, extract, ferment, get to the meat, infuse, precipitate, press, press out, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, squeeze out, steam, sublimate, trickle, trim, vaporize, volatilize
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doctrinaire
authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigoted, bullheaded, dictative, dictatorial, dogged, fanatical, impractical, inflexible, insistent, magisterial, mulish, obstinate, one-sided, pertinacious, pigheaded, rigid, speculative, stiff-necked, stubborn, unrealistic
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dupe
baffle, bamboozle\*, beguile, betray, catch, cheat, chicane, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, double-cross, dust\*, flimflam, gull, hoax, hoodwink\*, hornswoggle, jerk around, kid, mislead, outwit, overreach, pull one's leg, pull something, rip off, rook, rope in, shaft, spoof, swindle, trick, victimize
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ebullient
agitated, bouncy, brash, buoyant, chipper, chirpy, effervescent, effusive, elated, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, frothy, gushing, high-spirited, in high spirits, irrepressible, vivacious, zestful, zippy
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efficacy
ability, adequacy, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, effect, effectiveness, efficaciousness, energy, force, influence, performance, potency, power, strength, success, sufficiency, use, vigor, virtue, weight
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effrontery
arrogance, assurance, audacity, backtalk, brashness, brass, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah\*, crust, disrespect, face, gall, guff, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, lip, presumption, rudeness, sass, sauce, self-assurance, self-confidence, shamelessness, smart talk, temerity
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elicit
(to draw out), arm-twist, badger, bite\*, bring, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth, cause, derive, educe, evince, evoke, evolve, exact, extort, extract, fetch, give rise to, milk, obtain, put muscle on, put the arm on, rattle, shake, shake down, squeeze, wrest, wring
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embellish
add bells and whistles, adorn, amplify, array, beautify, bedeck, color, deck, dress up, elaborate, emblaze, embroider, enhance, enrich, exaggerate, festoon, fix up, fudge, garnish, gild, give details, grace, gussy up, magnify, ornament, overstate, spiff up, spruce up, trim
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empirical
experient, experiential, experimental, factual, observational, observed, pragmatic, provisional, empiric, experient, experiential, experimental, factual, observational, observed, pragmatic, provisional, speculative
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endemic
(native), local, regional
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engender
arouse, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, create, develop, excite, foment, generate, give birth to, give rise to, hatch, incite, induce, instigate, lead to, make, muster, occasion, precipitate, procreate, produce, propagate, provoke, quicken, rouse, spawn, stimulate, stir, work up
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equanimity
(levelheadedness), aplomb, assurance, ataraxia, ataraxy, calm, calmness, composure, confidence, cool, coolness, detachment, equability, imperturbability, patience, peace, phlegm, placidity, poise, presence of mind, sangfroid, self-possession, serenity, steadiness, tranquillity
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equivocate
beat around the bush, beg the question, blow hot and cold, cavil, cloud the issue, con, cop a plea, cop out, cover up, dodge, double-talk, elude, escape, eschew, evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop, fudge, give run around, hedge, hem and haw, jive, lie, mince words, palter, parry, pass the buck, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, run around, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, sit on the fence, stonewall, tell white lie, tergiversate, tergiverse, waffle, weasel
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exigency
(difficulty/demand), acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, criticalness, crossroad, demandingness, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, imperativeness, jam, juncture, necessity, need, needfulness, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pressingness, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape\*, stress, turning point\*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour
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extraneous
accidental, additional, adventitious, beside the point, extra, foreign, immaterial, impertinent, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental, inessential, needless, nonessential, off the subject, peripheral, pointless, redundant, superfluous, supplementary, unconnected, unessential, unnecessary, unrelated
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facetious
(kidding, tongue in cheek), amusing, blithe, capering, clever, comic, comical, droll, dry, fanciful, farcical, flip\*, flippant, frivolous, funny, gay, humorous, indecorous, ironic, irreverent, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, ludicrous, merry, not serious, playful, pleasant, pulling one's leg, punning, putting one on, ridiculous, salty, sarcastic, satirical, smart, sportive, sprightly, waggish, whimsical, wisecracking, witty, wry
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facilitate
aid, ease, expedite, forward, further, grease the wheels, hand-carry, help, make easy, open doors, promote, run interference for, simplify, smooth, speed, speed up, walk through
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falacious
beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, erroneous, fictitious, fishy, fraudulent, illogical, illusory, incorrect, invalid, irrational, mad, misleading, mistaken, off\*, phony, reasonless, sophistic, sophistical, spurious, unfounded, ungrounded, unreal, unreasonable, unreasoned, unsound, untrue, way off
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fatuous
absurd, asinine, birdbrained, boneheaded, brainless, dense, dull, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, inane, insensate, jerky, lamebrained, ludicrous, lunatic, mad, mindless, moronic, puerile, sappy, silly, simple, vacuous, witless
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felicitous
(appropriate, suitable), applicable, apposite, apropos, apt, convincing, fit, fitting, germane, happy, inspired, just, meet, neat, opportune, pat, pertinent, proper, propitious, relevant, seasonable, telling, timely, well-chosen, well-timed
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flag
(to decline, fall off), abate, deteriorate, die, droop, ebb, fade, fail, faint, languish, peter out, pine, sag, sink, slump, succumb, taper off, wane, weaken, weary, wilt
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fledgling
(beginner in activity), apprentice, chick, colt, greenhorn, learner, neophyte, nestling, newcomer, novice, rookie, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro\*
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flout
(show contempt for), affront, defy, deride, disregard, gibe, gird, insult, jeer, laugh at, mock, outrage, quip, repudiate, ridicule, scoff, scorn, slight, sneer, spurn, taunt, thumb nose at
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foment
abet, agitate, arouse, brew, cultivate, encourage, excite, fan the flames, foster, goad, incite, nurse, nurture, promote, quicken, raise, set, set on, sow the seeds, spur, start, stimulate, stir up, whip up
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forestall
(to keep from happening), anticipate, avert, delay, deter, hinder, monopolize, preclude, preoccupy, prevent, thwart
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gainsay
(v. contradict) combat, contravene, controvert, cross, deny, disaffirm, disagree, disclaim, disprove, dispute, fight, impugn, negate, negative, oppose, refute, repudiate, resist, traverse, withstand
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goad
(n. stimulus or V. egg on, incite), catalyst, compulsion, desire, drive, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitation, incitement, irritation, lash, lust, motivation, passion, pressure, prod, spur, urge, whip, zeal, animate, annoy, arouse, bully, coerce, drive, encourage, excite, exhort, fire up, force, goose, harass, hound, impel, inspirit, instigate, irritate, key up, lash, move, needle, press, prick\*, prod, prompt, propel, provoke, push, put up to, rowel, sic, sound, spark\*, spur, stimulate, sting\*, tease, thrust, trigger, turn on, urge, whip\*, work up, worry
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gouge
(n. groove, hole, or v. cut, scoop) channel, cut, excavation, furrow, gash, hollow, notch, scoop, score, scratch, trench, burrow, claw, dig, dredge, excavate, gash, groove, scrape, scratch, shovel, tunnel
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grandiloquent
aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple\*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy
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guileless
(honest), aboveboard, artless, candid, frank, genuine, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, simple, simple-minded, sincere, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, undesigning, unsophisticated, unstudied
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harangue
address, chewing out, declamation, diatribe, discourse, exhortation, hassle, jeremiad, oration, philippic, reading out, screed, sermon, speech, spiel\*, spouting, tirade, accost, address, apostrophize, buttonhole, chew out, declaim, exhort, get on a soapbox, go on about, hold forth, orate, perorate, rant, rave, soapbox, spiel\*, spout, stump, talk to, yell at
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homogenous
alike, comparable, compatible, consistent, equal, same, solid, uniform
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hyperbole
amplification, big talk, coloring, distortion, embellishment, embroidering, enlargement, hype\*, laying it on thick, magnification, metaphor, mountain out of molehill, overstatement, tall talk
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iconoclastic
dissident, individualistic, irreverent, nonconforming, radical, fanatical, heathen, heathenish, heretical, impious
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idolatry
(the workship of idols or extreme devotion), adulation, fervor, hero worship, infatuation
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immutable
abiding, ageless, changeless, constant, enduring, fixed, immovable, inflexible, invariable, permanent, perpetual, sacrosanct, stable, steadfast, unalterable, unmodifiable
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impair
blemish, blunt, cheapen, damage, debase, debilitate, decrease, destroy, deteriorate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, ding, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, hurt, injure, invalidate, lessen, lose strength, make useless, mar, prejudice, queer, reduce, rough up, spoil, tarnish, total, tweak, undermine, unfit, vitiate, weaken, worsen
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impassive
apathetic, callous, cold, cold-blooded, collected, composed, dispassionate, dry, emotionless, hardened, heartless, imperturbable, indifferent, indurated, inexcitable, inexpressive, inscrutable, insensible, insusceptible, matter-of-fact, nonchalant, passionless, phlegmatic, placid, poker-faced, reserved, reticent, sedate, self-contained, serene, spiritless, stoic, stoical, stolid, taciturn, unconcerned, unemotional, unexcitable, unfeeling, unflappable, unimpressible, unmoved, unruffled, wooden
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impede
bar, block, blow whistle on, brake, check, clog, close off, cramp one's style, curb, cut off, dam, delay, deter, discomfit, disconcert, disrupt, embarrass, faze, flag one, freeze, hamper, hang up, hold up, interfere, oppose, rattle, restrain, retard, saddle with, shut down, shut off, slow, slow down, stonewall, stop, stymie, thwart
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impermeable
airtight, dense, hermetic, impassable, impervious, leak-proof, nonporous, sealed, water-resistant, waterproof, watertight
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implicit
accurate, certain, complete, constant, constructive, contained, definite, entire, firm, fixed, full, implicative, implied, inarticulate, inevitable, inferential, inferred, latent, practical, steadfast, tacit, taken for granted, total, undeclared, understood, unexpressed, unhesitating, unqualified, unquestioned, unreserved, unsaid, unshakable, unspoken, unuttered, virtual, wholehearted
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implode
(collapse inward)
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inadvertently
heedlessly, negligently, rashly, recklessly, accidentally, involuntarily, not by design, unwittingly
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inchoate
(undeveloped, beginning), amorphous, elementary, embryonic, formless, immature, imperfect, inceptive, incipient, just begun, nascent, preliminary, rudimentary, shapeless, unfinished, unformed, unshaped
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incongruity
difference, inappropriateness, inconsistency, mismatch
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inconsequential
big zero, casual, dinky, entry level, exiguous, immaterial, inadequate, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsiderable, insignificant, insufficient, light, little, measly, minor, negligible, no biggie, paltry, petty, picayune, puny, runt, scanty, shoestring, shrimp, skimpy, small, small potatoes, small-time, trifling, trivial, two bit, unconsidered, unimportant, wimpy, worthless
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incorporate
absorb, add to, amalgamate, assimilate, associate, blend, charter, coalesce, consolidate, cover, dub, embody, form, fuse, gang up, hook in, imbibe, integrate, join, link, merge, mix, organize, pool, put together, start, subsume, tie in, unite
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indeterminate
borderless, general, imprecise, inconclusive, indefinite, indistinct, inexact, undefined, undetermined, unfixed, unspecified, unstipulated
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indigence
(poorness), destitution, penury
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indolent
(lazy), drony, easygoing, fain?ant, idle, inactive, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lax, lazy, lethargic, listless, resting, shiftless, slothful, slow, slow-going, sluggish, torpid
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inert
(not moving, lifeless), apathetic, asleep, dead, dormant, down, dull, idle, immobile, impassive, impotent, inactive, inanimate, indolent, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden, listless, motionless, numb, paralyzed, passive, phlegmatic, powerless, quiescent, quiet, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggard, sluggish, slumberous, static, still, stolid, torpid, unmoving, unreactive, unresponsive
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inherent
built-in, characteristic, congenital, connate, constitutional, deep-rooted, deep-seated, distinctive, elementary, essential, fixed, fundamental, genetic, immanent, implicit, in the grain, inborn, inbred, inbuilt, indigenous, indispensable, individual, indwelling, ingrained, inherited, innate, inner, instinctive, integral, integrated, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, latent, native, natural, original, part and parcel, resident, running in the family, subjective, unalienable
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insensible
cold, gradual, imperceivable, imperceptible, inanimate, inappreciable, insensate, numb, obdurate, oblivious, torpid, unaware, unconscious, unfeeling, unimpressible, unintelligible, unmindful, unsusceptible
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insinuate
(hint, suggest, or force one's way into), allude, ascribe, connote, imply, impute, indicate, intimate, mention, propose, purport, refer, signify, curry favor, edge in, fill in, foist, get in with, horn in, infiltrate, infuse, ingratiate, inject, insert, instill, intercalate, interject, interpose, introduce, muscle in, slip in, wedge in, work in, worm in
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insularity
(of or pertaining to an island or islands: insular possessions, narrow-minded or illiberal; provincial: insular attitudes toward foreigners, detached; standing alone; isolated. )
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intractable
(difficult, stubborn), awkward, bullheaded, cantankerous, contrary, hang tough, hard-line, headstrong, immovable, incompliant, incurable, indocile, indomitable, insoluble, locked in, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, self-willed, set in stone, tenacious, tough, tough-nut, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpliable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful
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intransigence
adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacability, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness
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inured
(accustom) acclimate, familiarize, habituate, harden, make ready, season, toughen, train
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invective
(n. verbal abuse), accusation, berating, billingsgate, blame, blasphemy, castigation, censure, condemnation, contumely, denunciation, diatribe, epithet, jeremiad, obloquy, philippic, reproach, revilement, sarcasm, scurrility, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification, vituperation
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irresolute
changing, doubtful, doubting, faltering, fearful, fickle, fluctuating, halfhearted, halting, hesitant, hesitating, hot-and-cold, infirm, on-the-fence, shaky, tentative, timid, uncertain, undecided, undetermined, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, vacillating, waffling, wavering, weak, weak-kneed, wimpy, wishy-washy, wobbly
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lassitude
(lethargy), apathy, dullness, exhaustion, fatigue, idleness, inaction, inactivity, languor, laziness, listlessness, sleepiness, sluggishness, tiredness, torpor, weakness, weariness
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laud
admire, adore, approve, bless, boost, build up, celebrate, commend, compliment, cry up, eulogize, extol, flatter, glorify, hand it to, honor, hymn, magnify, panegyrize, pat on the back, revere, reverence, sing the praises of, stroke, venerate, worship
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levee
(embankment)
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levity
(funniness, sillyness), absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, jocularity, laughs, lightheartedness, mirth, picnic, pleasantry, repartee, trifling, triviality, volatility, wit
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magnanimity
(generousity), chivalry, philanthropy
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malingerer
(slacker),
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maverick
(person who takes chances, departs from accepted course), bohemian, dissenter, extremist, malcontent, nonconformist, radical
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metamorphosis
alteration, change, changeover, evolution, mutation, rebirth, transfiguration, transfigurement, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, transubstantiation
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morose
(depressed, pessimistic), acrimonious, blue\*, brusque, cantankerous, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cranky\*, cross, dolorous, dour, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, frowning, gloomy, glum, grouchy, gruff, harsh, having blue devils, having the blahs, ill-humored, ill-tempered, in a bad mood, in a blue funk, irritable, low, melancholy, moody, moping, mournful, perverse, perversive, sad, saturnine, singing the blues, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, testy, troubled, ugly
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mundane
banal, commonplace, day-to-day, earthly, everyday, humdrum\*, lowly, normal, prosaic, routine, workaday, workday, worldly
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negate
abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, belie, blackball, break with, cancel, cancel out, controvert, countercheck, cross\*, deny, ding, disaffirm, disallow, disprove, dump\*, fly in the face of, frustrate, gainsay, impugn, invalidate, kill, negative, neutralize, nullify, oppose, put down, quash, rebut, redress, refute, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, stonewall, traverse, turn down, turn thumbs down, undo, vitiate, void
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nephyte
(beginner), abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, colt, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, new boy/girl, new kid on the block, newcomer, novice, recruit, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro\*
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obviate
(to make unnecessary), anticipate, avert, block, counter, counteract, deter, do away with, forestall, forfend, hinder, interfere, interpose, intervene, preclude, prevent, remove, restrain, rule out, stave off, ward
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oscillate
(to change back and forth), be unsteady, dangle, fishtail, flicker, fluctuate, librate, lurch, palpitate, pendulate, pitch, pivot, reel, ripple, rock, roll, seesaw, stagger, sway, swing, switch, swivel, teeter, teeter-totter, thrash, toss, totter, undulate, vacillate, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, waltz, wave, waver, whirl, wiggle, wobble
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partisan (n.)
(an adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause), accessory, adhering, biased, bigoted, blind, cliquish, colored, conspiratorial, denominational, devoted, diehard, exclusive, fanatic, jaundiced, one-sided, overzealous, partial, prejudiced, prepossessed, sectarian, sympathetic, tendentious, unjust, unreasoning, warped, zealous
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paucity
(lack, scarcity, absence, dearth, deficiency, famine, fewness, insufficience, insufficiency, meagerness, paltriness, poverty, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, slenderness, slightness, smallness, sparseness, sparsity
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pedantic
abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted
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penchant
affection, affinity, attachment, bias, disposition, druthers, inclining, itch, leaning, liking, partiality, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, taste, tendency, tilt, turn\*, weakness, yen
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penury
(poverty), barrenness, dearth, destitution, indigence, insufficiency, need, privation, scantiness
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perennial
(enduring, perpetual), abiding, annual, ceaseless, chronic, constant, continual, continuing, deathless, durable, eternal, everlasting, immortal, imperishable, incessant, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, long-lasting, long-lived, longstanding, never-ending, old, perdurable, permanent, persistent, recurrent, seasonal, sustained, unceasing, unchanging, undying, unfailing, uninterrupted, yearlong, yearly
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permeable
absorptive, accessible, enterable, passable, pervious, porose, porous, spongelike, spongy
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pervasive
all over the place, can't get away from, common, general, inescapable, omnipresent, permeating, pervading, prevalent, rife, ubiquitous, universal, wall-to-wall, widespread
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phlegmatic
(unemotional), along for the ride, apathetic, blah\*, cold, cool, deadpan, desensitized, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, emotionless, flat, frigid, groggy, indifferent, lethargic, lifeless, listless, passionless, passive, sluggish, uncompassionate, undemonstrative, unexcitable, unfeeling, uninvolved, unresponsive
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piety
(devotion, religiousness), allegiance, application, ardor, belief, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, duty, faith, fealty, fervor, fidelity, godliness, grace, holiness, loyalty, obedience, passion, religion, religiosity, reverence, sanctity, veneration, zeal
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plasticity
(pliancy), elasticity, flexibility, malleability, mobility, resilience
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platitude
(dull, overused saying), banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, chestnut, clich?, commonplace, corn, evenness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, high camp, hokum, inanity, insipidity, monotony, motto, old chestnut, old story, potboiler, prosaicism, proverb, saw, shibboleth, stereotype, tag\*, trite remark, triteness, triviality, truism, vapidity, verbiage
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plummet
(fall hard and fast), collapse, crash, decline, decrease, descend, dip, dive, downturn, drop, drop down, dump, fall, nose-dive, plunge, precipitate, sink, skid, stoop, swoop, tumble
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precarious
(tricky, doubtful),. ambiguous, borderline, chancy, contingent, dangerous, delicate, dicey, dubious, dynamite, equivocal, hairy\*, hanging by a thread, hazardous, iffy, impugnable, indecisive, insecure, loaded, on thin ice, open, out on a limb, perilous, problematic, risky, rocky, rugged\*, sensitive, shaky, slippery, ticklish, touch and go, touchy, uncertain, unhealthy, unreliable, unsafe, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure
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precursor
forerunner, harbinger, herald, messenger, outrider, usher, vanguard, ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, original, originator, parent, pioneer, predecessor, prototype
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presumptuous
(self confident), arrogant, audacious, bold, cheeky\*, conceited, confident, contumelious, egotistic, foolhardy, forward, fresh, insolent, overconfident, overfamiliar, overweening, pompous, presuming, pretentious, pushy, rash, rude, self-assertive, self-assured, self-satisfied, smug, supercilious, uppity
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Presumptive
based on a presumption, based on grounds of probability'
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probity
(fairness, honesty), equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, integrity, justice, morality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, sincerity, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, worth
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problematic
(open to doubt), ambiguous, arguable, chancy, debatable, disputable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, enigmatic, iffy, indecisive, moot, open, precarious, problematical, puzzling, questionable, suspect, tricky, uncertain, unsettled, up for grabs
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propensity
(inclination/weakness), ability, aptness, bent\*, bias, capacity, competence, disposition, flash, inclining, leaning, liability, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, susceptibility, sweet tooth, talent, tendency, thing\*, tilt, yen
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proscribe
(condemn, exclude), ban, banish, blackball, boycott, censure, damn, denounce, deport, doom\*, embargo, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, forbid, interdict, ostracize, outlaw, prohibit, reject, sentence
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qualified
(can mean able, skillful, or limited and restricted), accomplished, adept, adequate, all around, au fait, capable, catechized, certified, competent, disciplined, efficient, equipped, examined, experienced, expert, fit, fitted, good, instructed, knowledgeable, licensed, practiced, pro\*, proficient, proper, proved, quizzed, talented, tested, trained, tried, up to snuff, up to speed, vet, veteran, war-horse, wicked, : bounded, circumscribed, conditional, confined, contingent, definite, determined, equivocal, fixed, guarded, modified, partial, provisional, reserved
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quibble
(n. objection complaint) artifice, cavil, criticism, dodge, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, hair-splitter, nicety, niggle, nit-picker, pretense, prevarication, protest, quiddity, quirk, shift, sophism, subterfuge, subtlety (v. disagree over minor issues), altercate, argue over, argufy, avoid, bicker, blow hot and cold, carp, catch at straws, cavil, chicane, criticize, dispute, equivocate, evade, fence, flip-flop, hassle, have at it, hem and haw, hypercriticize, make a big thing about, nit-pick, paralogize, pettifog, pretend, prevaricate, put up an argument, set to, shift, spar, split hairs, squabble, talk back, waffle, wrangle
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rarefied
(exclusive), cliquish, elevated, esoteric, exalted, lofty, private, select
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recalcitrant
contrary, contumacious, defiant, fractious, indomitable, insubmissive, insubordinate, intractable, obstinate, opposing, radical, rebellious, refractory, resistant, resisting, stubborn, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward, unwilling, wayward, wild, willful, withstanding
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recant
(to take back something said), abjure, abnegate, abrogate, annul, apostatize, back down, back off, back out, backtrack, call back, cancel, contradict, countermand, deny, dial back, disavow, disclaim, disown, eat one's words, forswear, go back on one's word, nullify, recall, renege, renounce, repeal, repudiate, rescind, retract, revoke, take back, unsay, void, weasel out, welsh, withdraw, worm out of
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recondite
(mysterious, obscure), abstruse, academic, acroamatic, arcane, cabalistic, concealed, cryptic, dark, deep, difficult, esoteric, hard, heavy\*, hermetic, hidden, involved, little-known, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, pedantic, profound, scholarly, secret
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refractory
(stubborn, or inflexible), disobedient, headstrong, mulish, obstinate, unmanageable, unruly, willful, impliable
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refute
(prove false, discredit), abnegate, argue against, blow sky high, break, burn, burn down, cancel, cancel out, confute, contend, contradict, contravene, convict, counter, crush, debate, demolish, disclaim, disconfirm, dispose of, disprove, dispute, evert, explode, expose, gainsay, give the lie to, give thumbs down to, invalidate, negate, oppose, overthrow, parry, quash, rebut, reply to, repudiate, shoot down, shoot full of holes, show up, silence, squelch, take a stand against, tear down, top\*
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relegate
(assign, transfer) accredit, charge, commend, commit, confide, consign, credit, delegate, entrust, hand over, pass on, refer, turn over, (banish, downgrade), demote, deport, dismiss, displace, eject, exile, expatriate, expel, expulse, lag, ostracize, remove, throw out, transport
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reproach
(n. strong criticism, dishonor or v. find fault with) abuse, admonishment, admonition, blame, blemish, censure, chiding, condemnation, contempt, disapproval, discredit, disgrace, disrepute, ignominy, indignity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, rap, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, scorn, shame, slight, slur, stain, stigma, abuse, admonish, blame, call down, call to task, cavil, censure, chide, condemn, criticize, defame, discredit, disparage, give comeuppance, give the devil, jawbone, lay on, lesson, rake, ream, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, sit on, take to task, trim, upbraid
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reprobate
(shameless), bad, corrupt, degenerate, foul, immoral, improper, incorrigible, lewd, rude, sinful, unprincipled, vile, wanton, wicked
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rescind
(to declare null and void), abolish, abrogate, annul, back out of, backpedal, backwater, call off, cancel, countermand, crawl out of, dismantle, forget, invalidate, lift, nix, overturn, pull the plug, quash, recall, remove, renege, repeal, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, set aside, void, wangle out, weasel out
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resolution
(determination, strong will), aim, boldness, constancy, courage, dauntlessness, decidedness, decision, declaration, dedication, doggedness, earnestness, energy, firmness, fixed purpose, fortitude, guts\*, heart\*, immovability, intent, intention, judgment, mettle, moxie\*, obstinacy, perseverance, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, purposiveness, relentlessness, resoluteness, resolve, settlement, sincerity, spirit, spunk, staunchness, staying power, steadfastness, stubbornness, tenacity, verdict, willpower (answer, judgement), analysis, assertion, breakdown, call, conclusion, decision, declaration, determination, dissection, elucidation, end, exposition, finding, interpretation, motion, nod, outcome, pay dirt, presentation, proposal, proposition, quick fix, recitation, recommendation, resolve, settlement, solution, solving, sorting out, ticket, unravelling, upshot, verdict, working out
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reverent
(respectful), admiring, appreciative, deferential, devout, dutiful, gracious, humble, obedient, obeisant, pious, polite, regardful, reverential, solemn, upholding, worshipping
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sage
(adj. wise, n. a wise person), astute, aware, careful, clever, contemplative, cunning, discerning, educated, enlightened, experienced, foresighted, informed, insightful, intelligent, intuitive, judicious, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, perceptive, reflective, sagacious, sapient, scholarly, sensible, sharp, shrewd, smart, sound, thoughtful, understanding
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salubrious
(health giving), beneficial, good, healthful, healthy, hygienic, invigorating, salutary, sanitary, wholesome
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salacious
(characterized by lust, suggestive of lust, tending to moral looseness)
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sanction
(authorization, to authorize), : acquiescence, allowance, approbation, approval, assent, authority, backing, confirmation, consent, countenance, encouragement, endorsement, fiat, go-ahead, green light, leave, nod, okay\*, permission, permit, ratification, recommendation, seal of approval, stamp of approval, sufferance, support, wor; (embargo, punishment) ban, boycott, coercive measure, command, decree, injunction, penalty, punitive measure, sentence, writ
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saturate
bathe, douche, douse, imbue, immerse, impregnate, infuse, overfill, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, sate, satiate, soak, sop, souse, steep, suffuse, surfeit, transfuse, wash, waterlog
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secrete
(to hide), bury, cache, conceal, cover, cover up, deposit, disguise, ditch, ensconce, finesse, harbor, hide out, keep quiet, keep secret, keep to oneself, keep under wraps, palm, paper, plant, screen, seclude, secure, shroud, squirrel, stash, stash away, stonewall, stow, sweep under rug, veil, whitewash, withhold, (to give off, emit), discharge, emanate, excrete, extravasate, extrude, exude, perspire, produce, sweat
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shard
(remnant, end, remains)
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skeptic
agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen, heretic, infidel, materialist, misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer, unbeliever
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solicitous
(worried), anxious, appetent, apprehensive, ardent, athirst, attentive, avid, beside oneself, careful, caring, concerned, devoted, eager, earnest, heedful, impatient, keen, loving, mindful, raring, regardful, tender, thirsty, troubled, uneasy, worried sick, worried stiff, zealous
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spectrum
(range), compass, extent, field, gamut, scale, scope, span, sweep
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sporadic
(on and off), bits and pieces, desultory, few, fitful, fits and starts, hit-or-miss, infrequent, intermittent, irregular, isolated, occasional, on-again-off-again, random, rare, scarce, scattered, seldom, semioccasional, spasmodic, spotty, uncommon, unfrequent
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stint
(period of responsibility), assignment, bit, chore, consignment, duty, job, participation, quota, share, shift, spell, stretch, task, term, time, tour, turn, work (v. economize, hold back), be frugal, be parsimonious, be sparing, be stingy, begrudge, confine, cut corners, define, go easy on, grudge, limit, make ends meet, penny-pinch, pinch, restrain, roll back, save, save for rainy day, scrape, scrimp, skimp on, sock away, spare, squirrel, stash, tighten belt, withhold
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stipulate
(decide on conditions), agree, arrange, bargain, condition, contract, covenant, designate, detail, engage, guarantee, impose, insist upon, lay down, lay finger on, make, make a point, name, particularize, pin down, pledge, postulate, promise, provide, put down for, require, settle, slot, specificate, specificize, specify, spell out, state
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striated
(to be streaked)
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strut
flaunt, flounce, grandstand, mince, parade, peacock, play to audience, prance, put on airs, sashay, show off, stalk, stride, swagger, swank, sweep
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substantiate
(back up a statement/idea), : actualize, affirm, approve, attest to, authenticate, bear out, check out, check up, complete, confirm, corroborate, debunk, demonstrate, establish, incarnate, justify, manifest, materialize, objectify, personify, prove, ratify, realize, reify, support, test, try, try on, try out, validate, verify
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supersede
(take the place of; override), abandon, annul, desert, discard, displace, forsake, oust, outmode, outplace, overrule, reject, remove, replace, repudiate, set aside, succeed, supplant, supplement, suspend, take over, usurp
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supposition
(guess, belief), apriorism, assumption, condition, conjecture, doubt, guessing, guesstimate, guesswork, hunch, hypothesis, idea, likelihood, notion, opinion, posit, postulate, postulation, premise, presumption, presupposition, rough guess, shot in the dark, sneaking suspicion, speculation, stab in the dark, suppose, surmise, suspicion, theory, thesis, view
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tangential
digressive, divergent, diverging, extraneous, unrelated
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tenuous
(weak, thin), aerial, airy, attenuate, attenuated, delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine, flimsy, gossamer, insignificant, insubstantial, light, narrow, nebulous, questionable, rare, rarefied, reedy, shaky, sketchy, slender, slight, slim, subtle, twiggy
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tortuous
(complicated, very twisted), anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, vermiculate, winding, zigzag ambiguous, convoluted, cunning, deceptive, devious, indirect, involute, involved, misleading, perverse, roundabout, tricky
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tractable
(manageable), acquiescent, amenable, biddable, complaisant, compliant, controllable, docile, ductile, facile, flexible, game, going along with, governable, hanging loose, malleable, meek, obedient, persuadable, plastic, pliable, pliant, putty in hands, rolling with punches, subdued, submissive, tame, tractile, willing, workable, yielding
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transgression
breach, breaking of the law, contravention, crime, defiance, disobedience, encroachment, erring, error, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, lapse, misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, overstepping, sin, slip, trespass, vice, wrong, wrongdoing
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truculence
(fight, belligerence), aggression, aggressiveness, attack, backbone\*, bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, boldness, combativeness, contentiousness, gameness, hardihood, mettle, militancy, pluck, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, resistance, spirit, truculency, abhorrence, aggression, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerency, bitterness, combativeness, contentiousness, detestation, disaffection, enmity, estrangement, grudge, hatred, hostility, ill will, inimicality, malevolence, malice, militance, militancy, opposition, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, truculency, unfriendliness, venom, virulence, war, warpath
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veracious
(true) accurate, credible, dependable, direct, ethical, factual, faithful, frank, genuine, high-principled, honest, just, kosher\*, legit, like it is, on the level, on the line, on the up and up, open, reliable, right, righteous, straight-arrow, straightforward, strict, true-blue, trustworthy, truthful, undeceptive, up front, valid, veridical
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viable
(reasonable, practible), applicable, doable, feasible, operable, possible, usable, within possibility, workable
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viscous
(sticky, gummy), adhesive, clammy, gelatinous, gluey, glutinous, gooey, mucilaginous, ropy, slimy, stiff, syrupy, tenacious, thick, tough, viscid
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vituperative
(abusive), calumniating, castigating, censorious, contumelious, defamatory, derisive, disparaging, insolent, insulting, invective, libelous, maligning, obloquious, offensive, opprobrious, reproachful, reviling, rude, sarcastic, scathing, scolding, scurrilous, sharp-tongued, slanderous, traducing, upbraiding, vilifying
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warranted
(authorized), allowable, allowed, assured, certified, guaranteed, justified, sanctioned, secured
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wary
(careful, cautious), alert, attentive, cagey, calculating, canny, chary, circumspect, considerate, discreet, distrustful, doubting, frugal, gingerly, guarded, handling with kid gloves, heedful, keeping on one's toes, leery, on guard, on the lookout, on the qui vive, provident, prudent, safe, saving, sly, sparing, suspicious, thinking twice, thrifty, unwasteful, vigilant, walking on eggs, watchful, watching one's step, watching out, wide-awake
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welter
(commotion), confusion, grovel, jumble, overturn, roll, toss, tumble, turmoil, uproar
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zealot
(enthusiast), activist, diehard, extremist, fanatic, fiend, maniac, militant, nut, radical, ultra\*, young Turk
