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- sharpness (mind/sense)
SYN: keenness, acuteness |
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- to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail
- to represent pictorially
SYN: depict, picture, render |
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- marked by evil/corruption
- devoid or moral principles
SYN: perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt |
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- to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, physical vigor of
SYN: impair, cripple, paralyze |
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- intended/understood by only a select few
- secret
SYN: occult, cryptic, arcane, recondite |
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- fruitful in offspring or vegetation
- intellectually productive
SYN: fertile, teeming, prolific |
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- arbitrary order or decree
- command or act of will
SYN: edict, dictum, ukase |
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- fabrication of mind
- arbitrary notion
SYN: creation, invention, fancy |
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- to acquire as result of effort
- gather and store away for future use
SYN: collect, accumulate, accrue |
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- to set apart as holy
- sanctify, to honor greatly
SYN: revere, venerate, bless |
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- peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
SYN: eccentricity, quirk, mannerism |
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- shame and disgrace
SYN: dishonor, humiliation, disrepute, odium |
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- earthly, wordly, relating to practical and material affairs
- concerned with what is ordinary
SYN: prosaic, humdrum, routine, sublunary |
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- subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality) delicate gradation or difference
SYN: shade, nicety, refinement |
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- conceited, presumptuous, excessive, immoderate
SYN: arrogant, unbridled, inflated |
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- strong attraction or inclination
SYN: proclivity, propensity, pedilection |
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- according to reputation or general belief
- having widespread acceptance and good rep
- alleged
SYN: putative, reputable, supposed |
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- reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound
SYN: specious reasoning |
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- costly, rich, magnificent
SYN: lavish, munificent, opulent, splendid |
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- present or exsisting everywhere
SYN: omnipresent, pervasive, universal |
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