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to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt
S: acquit, exonerate, vindicate
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a representation (especially a drawing) in which the subject's characteristics features are delibereately exaggerated; to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way
S: burlesque, lampoon |
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a loud, ringing sound; to make a loud ringing noise
S: din |
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side by side, touching; near; adjacent in time
S: abutting |
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an eager desire for something; greed
S: avarice, rapacity, craving
A: contentment, satiation |
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harmful, injurious
S: detrimental, pernicious
A: innocuous |
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to raise to a higher degree; to increase the value or desirability of
S: heighten |
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| to captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave, to imprision |
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to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses
S: mitigate, downplay
A: exacerbate |
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implied or understood though unexpressed; without doubts or reservations, unquestioning; potentially contained in.
S: inferred, tacit
A: explicit |
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sharp, keen, penetrating (with a suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness)
S: trenchant |
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marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy
A: demure, retiring |
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a model of excellence or perfection
S: exemplar, paradigm |
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| to restate inother words; a statemnet that presents a given idea in new language |
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prudent, shrwedly conceived and developed; artful, expedient
S: tactful, judicious, circumspect
A: injudicious, imprudent, rash |
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dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward; characteristic or prose, not poetic
S: tactful, judiciuos, circumspect
A: injudiciuos, imprudent, rash |
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extra, excess, more than is needed; wordy, repetitive; profuse, lush
S: superfluous, prolix
A: succinct, terse, laconic |
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| making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous, canting, holier-than-though |
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| sparkling, twinkling, exceptionally brilliant (applied to mental or personal qualities)A: flat, tame, vapid |
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charming, attractive, pleasing (often suggesting childlike charm and innocence)
S: prepossing |
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