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(v.) - to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
She absconded from boarding school with her boyfriend.
They absconded with £10 000 of the company's money. |
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(adj.) - deviating from the norm (noun form: aberration)
aberrant behaviour/sexuality |
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(n.) - eager and enthusiastic willingness.
She accepted the money with alacrity. |
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(n.) - deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality (adj. form: anomalous)
Statistical anomalies can make it difficult to compare economic data from one year to the next.
The anomaly of the social security system is that you sometimes have more money without a job. |
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(n.) - an expression of approval or praise
The council has finally indicated its approbation of the plans. |
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(adj.) - strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort
an arduous climb/task/journey |
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(v.) - to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
The government has tried to assuage the public's fears. |
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(adj.) - daring and fearless; recklessly bold (noun form: audacity)
He described the plan as ambitious and audacious.
an audacious remark/suggestion |
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(adj.) - without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic (noun form: austerity)
an austere childhood during the war
The courtroom was a large dark chamber, an austere place.
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(adj.) - taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth (noun form: axiom)
It is an axiomatic fact that governments rise and fall on the state of the economy.
It seems axiomatic that everyone would benefit from a better scientific education. |
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| (adj.) - following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards (noun form: canon) |
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(adj.) - inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
a capricious child
He was a cruel and capricious tyrant. |
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(v.) - to criticize severely; to officially rebuke
Ministers were censured for their lack of decisiveness during the crisis. |
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(n.) - trickery or subterfuge
The investigation revealed political chicanery and corruption at the highest levels. |
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| (n.) - an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
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| (adj.) - complex or complicated |
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(v.) - to undeceive; to set right
If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their
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(adj.) - conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. |
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(adj.) - fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
Connecting disparate thoughts, purely by means of resemblances in the words expressing them. |
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(n.) - extreme boldness; presumptuousness
Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery |
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| (adj.) - well-spoken; expressive; articulate (noun form: eloquence) |
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| (v.) - to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
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| (n.) - dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom of apathy |
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| (v.) - to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent (adj. form: equivocal) |
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| (adj.) - very learned; scholarly (noun form: erudition) |
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| (v.) - exonerate; to clear of blame |
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| (adj.) - urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
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| (adj.) - imporvised; done without preparation |
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| (n.) - intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
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| (v.) - to loudly attack or denounce |
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| (adj.) - artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
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| (adj.) - accustomed to accepting something undesired |
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| (adj.) - easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
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| (v.) - to praise highly (adj. form: laudatory) |
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| (adj.) - clear; easily understood |
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| (n.) - the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving (adj. form: magnanimous) |
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| (adj.) - associated with war and the armed forces |
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| (adj.) - of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary |
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| (adj.) - coming into being; in early developmental stages |
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| (adj.) - vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
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| (n.) - a new word, expression, or usage; the creation of use of new words of senses |
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| (adj.) - harmful; injurious |
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| (adj.) - lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear of precise in thought or expression |
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| (v.) - to anticipate and make unnecessary |
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| (adj.) - troubling; burdensome |
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| (n.) - a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving |
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| (n.) - a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and art |
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| (adj.) - recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
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| (n.) - intentional breach of faith; treachery (adj. form: perfidious) |
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| (adj.) - cursory; done without care or interest |
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(adj.) - acutely perceptive; having less discernment (noun form: perspicacity)
(v.) - to cause or happen before anticipated or required |
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| (v.) - to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
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| (adj.) - acting with excessive haste or impulse |
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| (n.) - a disposition in favor of something; preference |
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| (n.) - foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occuring (adj. form: prescient) |
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| (v.) - to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead |
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| (n.) - misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
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| (v.) - to retract, esp. a previously held belief |
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| (v.) - to disprove; to successfully argue against |
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| (v.) - to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position |
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| (adj.) - quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
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| (adj.) - concerned and attentive; eager |
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| (adj.) - characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul |
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| (adj.) - occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances |
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| (v.) - to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
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| (adj.) - not moving, active, or in motion; at rest |
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| (v.) - to stun, baffle, or amaze |
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| (n.) - the combination of parts to make a whole (verb form: synthesize) |
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| (n.) - a force that causes rotation |
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| (adj.) - winding; twisting; excessively complicated |
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| (adj.) - fierce and cruel; eager to fight |
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| (n.) - truthfulness; honesty |
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| (adj.) - extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
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| (adj.) - having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
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| (v.) - to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
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