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v. disprove
The defense was able to ________ the false testimony of the prosecution's only witness.
Synonyms: break, confound, confute, controvert, disconfirm, evert rebut
Antonyms: none |
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v. banish; cosign to inferior position.
If we ___________ people to positions of unimportance, we shall lose the services of trained personnel.
Synonyms: deport, displace, exile, expatriate, expel, expulse,
Antonyms: none |
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v. abandon.
Joan of Arc refused to ___________ her statements even though she knew she would be burned at the stake.
Synonyms: chuck, desert, forsake, quit, throw over
Antonyms: none |
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reprehensible
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adj. deserving blame.
Your vicious conduct in this situation is _________________.
Synonyms: blameworthy, amiss, blamable, blameful, censurable, culpable, demeritorious, guilty, sinful, unholy
Antonyms: none |
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n. reserve; uncommuniticativeness.
Because of the _____________ of the key witness, the case against the defendant collapsed.
Synonyms: silent, close, close-lipped, close-mouthed, close-tongued, reserved, taciturn, tight-lipped, tight-mouthed
Antonyms: frank, unreticent |
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v. withdraw; take back.
He dropped his libel suit after the newspaper finally _____________ his statement.
Synonyms: back, fall back, retreat, retrocede, retrograde,
Antonyms: protract |
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adj. keen; shrewd; having insight.
He is much too _______________ to be fooled by a trick like that.
Synonyms: wise, discerning, gnostic, insighted, insightful, knowing, knowledgeable, perceptive, sage, sophic, argute, astucious, astute, cagey, heady, perspicacious
Antonyms: dumb, stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, unlearned, untaught, unperceptive, unwise |
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v. approve; ratify.
Nothing will convince me to ____________ the engagement of my daughter to such a worthless young man.
Synonyms: endorsement, fiat, accredit, certify, endorse, OK, authorize, commission, license
Antonyms: ban, disallow, forbid, prohibit, interdict |
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adj. mocking.
The humor of cartoonist Gary Trudeau is often ____________.
Synonyms: lampoonery, raillery, satiricalness, banter, chaffing, causticity, irony, mockery, ridicule, pasquinade, persiflage, squib, parody, spoof, takeoff
Antonyms: none |
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adj. tasty; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable.
Julia's Child recipes enable amateur chefs to create ____________ delicacies for their guests.
Synonyms: palatable, aperitive, appetizing, flavorsome, relishing, sapid, savorous, savorsome, tasty, toothsome, pleasing, tempting, gustful
Antonyms: unsavory, acrid, sharp, strong |
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scrupulous
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adj. conscientious; extremely thorough.
I can recommend him because he is a very _______________ young man.
Synonyms: careful, conscionable, exact, fussy, heedful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, punctual upright, honest, honorable, just, right, true
Antonyms: remiss, careless, undiscriminating, unparticular |
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adj. slavish; cringing.
Uriah Heep was a very ________ individual.
Synonyms: subservient, menial, obeisant, obsequious, slavish, base, abject, despicable, ignoble, low, mean, scurvy, sordid, ugly, vile
Antonyms: authoritative, aggressive |
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v. cast off.
Each spring, the snake ___________(s) off its skin.
Synonyms: shed, exuviate, molt, slip, discard, cashier, cast, jettison, junk, reject, scrap, shed, throw away, throw out
Antonyms: none |
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solemnity
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n. seriousness; gravity.
The minister said that nothing should disturb the ________________ of the marriage service.
Synonyms: earnest, grave, no-nonsense, sedate, somber, sobersided, somber, staid, weighty
Antonyms: none |
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adj. gloomy; depressing.
From the doctor's grim expression, I could tell he had ___________ news.
Synonyms: black, bleak, depressing, depressive, dismal, dispiriting, dreary, funereal, tenebrific, caliginous, dim, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightness, murky, obscure, tenebrous
Antonyms: none |
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spendthrift
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n. someone who wastes money.
Easy access to credit encourages people to turn into _________________ who shop till they drop.
Synonyms: high roller, prodigal, profligate, scattergood, spender, squanderer, unthrift, waster, wastethrift, wastrel
Antonyms: hoarder, miser, saver |
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adj. motionless; stale.
The ________________ water was a breeding ground for disease.
Synonyms: static, immobile, stationary, unmoving
Antonyms: none |
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n. person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain.
The doctor called her patient a ________ because he had borne he pain of the examination without whimpering.
Synonyms: apathetic, impassive, dry, matter-of-fact, phlegmatic, stolid, aloof, detached, unconcerned
Antonyms: none |
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