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Entry: pungent
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Definition: flavored
Synonyms: acid, acrid, aromatic, bitter, effluvious, high, hot, nosey, odoriferous, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salty, seasoned, sharp, snappy, sour, spicy, stinging, stinking, strong, tangy, tart, whiffy, zesty
Concept: taste |
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Entry: poignant
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Definition: sharp, affecting
Synonyms: acrid, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, keen, penetrating, peppery, piercing, piquant, pointed, pungent, racy, sarcastic, severe, sharp, snappy, spicy, stinging, tangy, zesty, agitating, agonizing, bitter, distressing, disturbing, emotional, heart-rending, heartbreaking, impressive, intense, moving, painful, passionate, pathetic, perturbing, piteous, pitiful, sad, sentimental, sorrowful, touching, upsetting
Concept: taste, mental sensing |
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Entry: abject
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Definition: hopeless
Synonyms: base, contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable, destitute, dishonorable, downtrodden, fawning, forlorn, groveling, hang dog, hopeless, humbling, humiliating, low, miserable, outcast, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, servile, squalid, stark, submissive, underfoot, worthless, wretched
Concept: negativeness |
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Entry: repudiate
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Definition: reject
Synonyms: abandon, abjure, apostatize, banish, be against, break with, cast, cast off, cut off, decline, default, defect, demur, deny, desert, disacknowledge, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, dishonor, disinherit, dismiss, disown, dump, flush, forsake, nix, oust, rat, recant, refuse, renounce, repeal, reprobate, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, spurn, tergiversate, tergiverse, turn, turn down
Concept: neglect/ignoring |
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Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended; muddy: turbid water.
Heavy, dark, or dense, as smoke or fog.
In a state of turmoil; muddled: turbid feelings |
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Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose.
Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated: a turgid bladder; turgid veins. |
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A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
Lethargy; apathy. See Synonyms at lethargy.
The dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal. |
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Entry: torpid
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Definition: lazy
Synonyms: apathetic, benumbed, comatose, dopey, dormant, drowsy, dull, fainéant, heavy, hebetudinous, idle, inactive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, latent, leaden, lethargic, listless, lymphatic, motionless, numb, paralyzed, passive, slothful, slow, slow-moving, sluggish, slumberous, sodden, somnolent, stagnant, static, stupid, stuporous
Concept: laziness |
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Entry: comatose
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Definition: unconscious
Synonyms: cold, dead, dopey, drowsy, drugged, gorked, hebetudinous, inconscious, insensible, lethargic, loxed out, out, out cold, senseless, sleepy, sluggish, slumberous, somnolent, soporose, stupefied, stupid, torpid, vegged out
Concept: health (poor) |
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Entry: reminiscent
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Definition: suggestive
Synonyms: evocative, implicative, mnemonic, nostalgic, recollective, redolent, remindful, similar
Concept: remembering |
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Entry: omniscient
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Definition: all-knowing
Synonyms: all-seeing, almighty, infinite, knowledgeable, pansophical, pre-eminent, wise
Concept: intelligence |
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Entry: lackadaisical
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Definition: careless
Synonyms: abstracted, apathetic, bathetic, daydreaming, disinterested, dreamy, dull, emasculated, energyless, enervated, fainéant, gushy, half-hearted, idle, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, indolent, inert, laid back, languid, languishing, languorous, lazy, lethargic, limp, listless, moony, passive, romantic, sentimental, slothful, spiritless, spring fever, unconcerned
Concept: carelessness |
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To give up (rights or a claim, for example); renounce.
To deny (something) to oneself: The minister abnegated the luxuries of life. |
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An alarm sounded on a bell.
A bell used to sound an alarm.
A warning; an omen. |
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Entry: decry
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Definition: criticize
Synonyms: abuse, asperse, bad-mouth, belittle, blame, calumniate, censure, condemn, cry down, defame, denounce, depreciate, derogate, detract, devalue, diminish, discount, discredit, disgrace, disparage, downgrade, dump on, hit, knock, lower, malign, mark down, minimize, opprobriate, pan, poor-mouth, put down, rail against, rap, reprehend, reprobate, run down, slam, take away, traduce, underestimate, underrate, undervalue, vilify, write off
Concept: criticizing |
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To catch sight of (something difficult to discern). See Synonyms at see1.
To discover by careful observation or scrutiny; detect: descried a message of hope in her words. |
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Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.
Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind: “the chauvinism... of making extraterrestrial life in our own image” (Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.). |
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| One who hates or mistrusts humankind. |
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| Hatred of women: “Every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny” (Robin Morgan). |
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Entry: antithesis
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Definition: opposite, contrast
Synonyms: antipode, antipole, contra, contradictory, contrary, contrast, converse, counter, flip side, inverse, other side, reverse, antagonism, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, inversion, opposition, opposure, reversal
Concept: oppositeness |
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To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience.
To enslave. |
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| foul-smelling, fetid, rancid, malodorous |
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| deeply religious, dedicated, devout |
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| depiction, representation |
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| change or variation, ups and downs |
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| praise, official approval |
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| change a penalty to a less severe one |
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| infinitesimal (adjective) |
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| convert to a particular belief or religion |
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| unhappy, hopeless, despairing |
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| traitor, person abandoning a cause |
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| power to act as a substitute for another |
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| empty, lacking intelligence, purposeless |
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| spoil, disgrace, dishonor, dirty |
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| sinfulness, moral corruption |
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| restless, uneasy, impatient |
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| readily assuming different forms or characters |
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| ornament worn as a charm against evil spirits |
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| meeting of a group (smaller group within an organization) |
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