Wordsmart Part1

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Bastion

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Stronghold; fortress; fortified place

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Bane

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Poison; torment; cause of harm

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Beget

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To give birth. To create. To lead to. To cause

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Belabor

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To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent

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Beleaguer

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To surround. To besiege. To harass

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Belie

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To give a false impression of. To contradict

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Belligerent

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Combative. Quarrelsome. Waging war

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Bemused

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Confused. Bewildered

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Bequest

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Smthg left to someone in a will

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Beset

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To harass. To surround

widow was beset by grief

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Blasphemy

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Irreverence; an insult to smthg held sacred; profanity

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Blatant

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Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring

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Blight

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A disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys

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Blithe

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Carefree. Cheerful

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Bourgeois (boor zHWAH)

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Middle class, usually in pejorative sense; boringly conventional

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Bovine 
Equine 
Feline 
Porcine
Ursine

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Cow like 
Horse
Cats
Pig 
Bear

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Broach

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To open up a subj for discussion, often a delicate subj

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Bureaucracy

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A system of govt admin consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, esp one run according to inflexible or inefficient rules; any large administrative system charac by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape

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Burgeon

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To expand; to flourish

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Burlesque

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Ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation

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Cadence

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Rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds

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Cajole

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To persuade someone to do smthg he or she doesn’t want to so

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Candor

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Truthfulness; sincere honesty

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Capitulate

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To surrender; to give up/ give in

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Castigate

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To criticize severely

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Categorical

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Unconditional. Absolute

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Catharsis

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Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal

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Charlatan

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Fraud. Quack. Con man

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Chasm

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A deep, gaping hole. A gorge

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Celibacy

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Abstinence from sex

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Chastise

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To inflict punishment on; to discipline

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Censure

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To condemn severely for doing smthg bad

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Chicanery. 시케이너리

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Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice esp legal or political

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Cerebral

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Brainy; intellectually refined

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Chimera

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An illusion ; a foolish fancy 카이미얼어

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Chagrin

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Humiliation; embarrassed; disappointment

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Choleric

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Hot tempered; quick | To anger

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Circuitous

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Roundabout; not following a direct path

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Circumlocution

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An indirect expression. Use of wordy or evasive lang.

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Circumspect

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Cautious

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Circumvent

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To frustrate as though by surrounding

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Clemency

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Mercy. Forgiveness. Mildness

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Coalesce

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To come together as one. To fuse. To unite.

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Coerce

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To force someone to do or not to do smthg

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Cogent

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Powerfully convincing

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Collusion

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Conspiracy. Secret cooperation

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Commensurate

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Equal. Proportionate

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Compendium

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A summary. An abridgment (yr book)

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Complacent

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Self-satisfied. Overly pleased with oneself; contented to a fault.

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Condescend

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To stoop to someone else's level usually in a offensive way; to patronize

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Condone

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To overlook; to permit to happen

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Complicity

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Participation in wrong doing; the act of being an accomplice

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Conducive

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Promoting

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Confluence

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A flowing together esp of rivers; the place where they begin to flow together

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Conciliatory

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Making peace. Attempting to resplve a dispute through good will

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Congenial

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Agreeably suitable; pleasant

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Congenital

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Describing a trait/condition acquired between conception & birth. Innate

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Consonant

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Harmonious. In agreement

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Congregate

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To come together

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Construe

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To interpret

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Conjecture

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To guess. To deduce or infer on slight evidence

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Consummate

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Perfect. Complete. Supremely skillful

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Contentious

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Argumentative. Quarrelsome

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Contiguous

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Side by side. Adjoining

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Consecrate

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To make or declare sacred

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Contingent

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Dependent. Possible

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Contrite

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Admitting guilt esp feelung remorseful