words Flashcards
(255 cards)
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Aggrandize
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To increase in power, influence, or reputation
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Abscond
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To leave secretly
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Amalgamate
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To combine; to mix together
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Anomaly
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Deviation from what is normal
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Antipathy
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Extreme dislike
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Abate
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To reduce in amount, degree, or severity
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Anachornism
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Something out of place in time
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Analogous
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Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
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Ameliorate
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To make better; to improve
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Ardor
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Intense and passionate feeling
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Attenuate
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To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
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Assauge
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to make something unpleasant less severe
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Audacious
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Fearless and daring
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Austere
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Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
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Apathy
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Lack of interest or emotion
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Bolster
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To support; to prop up
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Bombastic
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Pompous in speech and manner
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Cacophony
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Harsh, jarring noise
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Capricious
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Changing one’s mind quickly and often
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Castigate
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To punish or criticize harshly
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Chicanery
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Deception by means of craft or guile
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Caustic
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Biting in wit
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Banal
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Boring, predictable, clichéd
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Corroborate
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To provide suporting evidence
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Credulous
Too trusting; gullible
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Deference
Respect, courtesy
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Crescendo
Steadily increasing volume or force
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Convoluted
Intricate and complicated
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Desiccate
To dry out thoroughly
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Desultory
Jumping from one thing to another: disconnected
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Diatribe
An abusive, condemnatory speech
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Diffident
Lacking self-confidence
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Dilatory
Intended to delay
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Dillettante
Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
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Dirge
A funeral hymn or mournful speech
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Disabuse
To set right; to free from error
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Discern
To perceive; to recognize
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Disparate
Fundamentally different; entirely unlike
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Dissemble
To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or charracter
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Dissonance
A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds
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Dogma
A firmly held opinion
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Dogmatic
Dictatorial in one's opinions
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Efficacy
Effectiveness
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Elegy
A sorrowful poem or speech
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Eloquent
Persuasive and moving, especially in speech
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Enervate
To reduce in strength
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Engender
To produce, cause, or bring about
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Enigma
A puzzle; a mystery
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Enumerate
To count, list, or itemize
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Ephermeral
Lasting a short time
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Equivocate
To use double meaning; to mislead
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Erratic
Wandering and unpredictable
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Erudite
Learned, scholarly, bookish
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Esoteric
Known or understood by only a few
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Eulogy
Speech in praise of someone
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Euphemism
Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
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Exculpate
To clear from blame; prove innocent
| i.e. - Exonerate
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Exigent
Urgent; requiring immediate action
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Exonerate
To clear of blame
| i.e. - Exculpate
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Fanatical
Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestionable devotion
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Fawn
To grovel
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Fervid
Intensely emotional; feverish
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Florid
Excessively decorated or embellished
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Foment
To arouse or incite
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Garrulous
Tending to talk a lot
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Gregarious
Outgoing, sociable
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Guile
Deceit or trickery
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Iconolast
One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
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Imperturbable
Not capable of being disturbed
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Impervious
Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
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Impetuous
Quick to act without thinking
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Implacable
Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
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Inchoate
Not fully formed; disorganized
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Ingenuous
Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
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Inimical
Hostile, unfriendly
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Innocuous
Harmless
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Insipid
Lacking interest or flavor
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Intransigent
Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled
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Irascible
Easily made angry
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Laconic
Using few words
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Lament
To express sorrow; to grieve
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Laud
To give praise; to glorify
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Loquacious
Talkative
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Lucid
Clear and easily understood
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Malinger
To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
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Meticulous
Extremely careful about details
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Misanthrope
A person who dislikes others
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Mitigate
To soften; to lessen
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Mollify
To calm or make less severe
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Oburate
Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuation
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Obsequious
Overly submissive and eager to please
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Obstinate
Stubborn, unyielding
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Obviate
To prevent; to make unnecessary
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Occlude
To stop up; to prevent the passage of
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Onerous
Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
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Opprobrium
Public disgrace
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Ostentation
Excessive showiness
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Paradox
Contradiction or dilemma
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Paragon
Model of excellence or perfection
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Pedant
Someone who shows off learning
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Perfidious
Willing to betray one's trust
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Perfunctory
Done in a routine way; indifference
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Placate
To sooth or pacify
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Pragmatic
Practical as opposed to idealistic
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Precipitate
To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation
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Prevaricate
To lie or deviate from the truth
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Prodigal
Lavish, wasteful
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Proliferate
To increase in number quickly
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Propitate
to appease
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Propriety
Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
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Prudence
Wisdom, caution, or restraint
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Pungent
Sharp and irritating to the senses
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Quiscent
Motionless
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Rarefy
To make thinner or sparser
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Repudiate
To reject the validity of
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Reticent
Silent, reserved
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Rhetoric
Effective writing or speaking
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Satiate
To satisfy fully or overindulge
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Soporific
Causing sleep or lethargy
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Specious
Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Stolid
Unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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Sublime
Lofty or grand
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Tacit
Done without using words
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Taciturn
Silent, not talkative
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Torpor
Extreme mental and physical sluggishness
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Transitory
Temporary, lasting a brief time
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Vacillate
To sway physically; to be idecisive
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Venerate
To respect deeply
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Veracity
Filled with truth and accuracy
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Verbose
Wordy
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Vex
To annoy
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Volatile
Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
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Waver
To fluctuate between choices
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Whimsical
Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
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Zeal
Passion, excitement
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Attestation
Evidence
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Acerbic
Sharp or forthwright
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Brusque
Abrupt or offhand
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Orotund
Full, round or imposing
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Depilation
Removal of
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Sanguine
Optimistic
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Megalithic
Prehistoric
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august
Magnificent, respected, impressive
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Harbinger
A foreshadower
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Effigy
Sculpture of a person
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Reticent
Not revealing thoughts/feelings readily
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Deluge
A sever flood
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Quile
Sly or cunning intelligence
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Quaff
Guzzle
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Picayune
Minute
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Egregious
Negative moral value
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Ebbing
To reduce
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Capitulated
To give up; to stop
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Averred
Plea; allege as fact
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Exigencies
Urgent need or demands
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Conflagaration
Fire or war
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Repudiation
To deny or reject
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Pithy
A brief paper
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Blithe
Joyous, lighthearted
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Parsimonious
An unwillingness to party with one's goods
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Avaricous
Greedy for wealth or material gain
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Covetous
Having an extreme desire to possess something
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Penurious
Poor
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Rapacious
Greedy; grasping
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Assauging
To make something unpleasant less severe
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Inimical
Hostile/unfriendly
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Abtruse
Obscure
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Scurrilous
Damaging/attacing
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Abjurred
Renounce
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Fatuous
Silly, pointless
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Ribald
Sexual - amusingly rude
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Ignomious
Deserving or causing public disgrace
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Acument
Mentally sound, good judgement
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Acridity
Unpleasantly strong taste or smell
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Trechancy
Rigorous or incisive
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Mellifluous
Pleasant
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Strident
Loung, harsh, or grating
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Extirpate
End completely
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Recondite
Little known, obscure
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Detritus
Waste/debris
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Punctilious
Attention to detail or behavior (punctual)
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Vociferous
Vehement or clamorous
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Convalescing
Recuperate (recover health)
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Enfeebled
Weakened
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Salubrious
Healthy or pleasant
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Paragyrical
Publicly spoken
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Ebullient
Cheerful, full of energy
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Apogee
Climax
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Scope (of paragraph)
Narrow, specific aspect
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Topic (of paragraph)
Broad, general
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ABBREVIATED COMMUNICATION
Abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
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ACT QUICKLY
Abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
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ASSIST
Abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
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BAD MOOD
Bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
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BEGINNER/AMATEUR
Dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
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BEGINNING/YOUNG
Burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
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BITING (AS IN WIT OR TEMPERAMENT)
Acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, renchant
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BOLD
Audacious, courageous, dauntless
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BORING
Banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
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CAROUSAL (PARTY)
Bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
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CHANGING QUICKLY
Capricious, mercurial, volatile
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COPY
Counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
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CRITICIZE/CRITICISM
Aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride, derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirage, vituperate
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DEATH/MOURNING
Bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
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DENYING OF SELF
Abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
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DICTATORIAL
Authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
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DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
Abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
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DISGUSTING/OFFENSIVE
Defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
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EASY TO UNDERSTAND
Articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
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ECCENTRIC/DISSIMILAR
Aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast
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EMBARRASS
Abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
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EQUAL
Equitable, equity, tantamount
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FALSEHOOD
apocryphal
canard
chicanery
dissemble
duplicity
equivocate
erroneous
ersatz
fallacious
feigned
guile
mendacious/mendacity
perfidy
prevaricate
specious
spurious
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conjugal
consanguine
distaff
endogamous
filial
fratricide
progenitor
scion
FAMILY
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ardor/ardent
doctrinaire
fervid
partisan
tendentious
zealot
FAVORING, NOT IMPARTIAL
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absolve
acquit
exculpate
exonerate
expiate
palliate
redress
vindicate
FORGIVE
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chortle
droll
facetious
flippant
gibe
jocular
levity
ludicrous
raillery
riposte
simper
FUNNY
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abatement
aperture
fissure
hiatus
interregnum
interstice
lull
orifice
rent
respite
rift
GAPS/OPENINGS
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altruistic
beneficent
clement
largess
magnanimous
munificent
philanthropic
unstinting
GENEROUS/KIND
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avaricious
covetous
mercenary
miserly
penurious
rapacious
venal
GREEDY
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asperity
baleful
dour
fell
malevolent
mordant
sardonic
scathing
truculent
vitriolic
vituperation
HARD-HEARTED
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baleful
baneful
deleterious
inimical
injurious
insidious
minatory
perfidious
pernicious
HARMFUL
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cacophony
din
dissonant
raucous
strident
HARSH SOUNDING
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abhorrence
anathema
antagonism
antipathy
detestation
enmity
loathing
malice
odium
rancor
HATRED
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beneficial
salubrious
salutary
HEALTHY
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dither
oscillate
teeter
vacillate
waver
HESITATE
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antithetic
churlish
curmudgeon
irascible
malevolent
misanthropic
truculent
vindictive
HOSTILE
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credulous
gullible
ingenuous
naive
novitiate
tyro
INNOCENT
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disingenuous
dissemble
fulsome
ostensible
unctuous
INSINCERE
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appraise
ascertain
assay
descry
peruse
INVESTIGATE
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indolent
inert
lackadaisical
languid
lassitude
lethargic
phlegmatic
quiescent
slothful
torpid
LAZY/SLUGGISH
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adventitious
amulet
auspicious
fortuitous
kismet
optimum
portentous
propitiate
propitious
providential
talisman
LUCK
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admonish
belabor
cavil
enjoin
exhort
harangue
hector
martinet
remonstrate
reproof
NAG
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fetid
noisome
noxious
NASTY
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askance
awry
careen
carom
circuitous
circumvent
gyrate
labyrinth
meander
oblique
serrated
sidle
sinuous
undulating
vortex
NOT STRAIGHT
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bombastic
circumlocution
garrulous
grandiloquent
loquacious
periphrastic
prolix
rhetoric
turgid
verbose
OVERBLOWN/WORDY
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ameliorate
appease
assuage
defer
mitigate
mollify
placate
propitiate
satiate
slake
soothe
PACIFY/SATISFY
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euphonious
harmonious
melodious
sonorous
PLEASANT SOUNDING
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destitute
esurient
impecunious
indigent
POOR
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acclaim
accolade
aggrandize
encomium
eulogize
extol
fawn
laud/laudatory
venerate/veneration
PRAISE
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augur
auspice
fey
harbinger
portentous
presage
prescient
prognosticate
PREDICT
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discomfort
encumber
fetter
forfend
hinder
impede
inhibit
occlude
PREVENT/OBSTRUCT
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astute
canny
erudite
perspicacious
SMART/LEARNED
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disconsolate
doleful
dolor
elegiac
forlorn
lament
lugubrious
melancholy
morose
plaintive
threnody
SORROW
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implacable
inexorable
intractable
intransigent
obdurate
obstinate
recalcitrant
refractory
renitent
untoward
vexing
STUBBORN
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compendious
curt
laconic
pithy
succinct
taciturn
TERSE
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anachronism
antecede
antedate
anterior
archaic
diurnal
eon
ephemeral
epoch
fortnight
millennium
penultimate
synchronous
temporal
TIME/ORDER/DURATION
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craven
diffident
pusillanimous
recreant
timorous
trepidation
TIMID
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candor/candid
fealty
frankness
indisputable
indubitable
legitimate
probity
sincere
veracious
verity
TRUTH
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aberration
anomaly
iconoclast
idiosyncrasy
UNUSUAL
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ambulatory
itinerant
peripatetic
WALKING ABOUT
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discursive
expatiate
forage
itinerant
peregrination
peripatetic
sojourn
WANDERING
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adulterate
enervate
exacerbate
inhibit
obviate
stultify
undermine
vitiate
WEAKEN
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adage
aphorism
apothegm
axiom
bromide
dictum
epigram
platitude
sententious
truism
WISDOM
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abeyance
abjure
abnegation
abortive
abrogate
decamp
demur
recant
recidivism
remission
renege
rescind
retrograde
WITHDRAWAL/RETREAT
