Verbal Advantage Flashcards

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ostensible

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Apparent, appearing to be true, professed or declared as true without being demonstrated or proved.

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paraphrase

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to restate

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Digress

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To wander, stray from the point

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archaic

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old-fashioned

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uncanny

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eerie, strange, weird, mysterious

Something that is strange in an unnatural or unearthly way.

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candor

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frankness, openness, sincere pression

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Morose

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Gloomy, moody, glum, grumpy, ill tempered, depressed.

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Misanthropy

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Hatred of humankind, a spiteful or pessimistic attitude about the human race.

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