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v. free; disentangle.
He found that he could not __________ himself from the trap.
Synonyms: clear, clear away, discumber, disembarrass, disembroil, disemcumber, disentwine, unentangle, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine
Antonyms: tangle, clog, fetter, shackle, trammel |
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fallacious
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adj. misleading.
Your reasoning must be ______________ because it leads to a ridiculous answer.
Synonyms: beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, false
Antonyms: veritable |
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fanaticism
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n. excessive zeal.
The leader of the group was held responsible even though he could not control the ___________ of his followers.
Synonyms: extremist, rabid, radical, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionist, ultra, ultraist
Antonyms: none |
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fastidious
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adj. difficult to please; squeamish.
The waitresses disliked serving him dinner because of his very _____________ taste.
Synonyms: dainty, finicky, fussy, particular, pernickety
Antonyms: cursory, uncritical |
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n. glowing ardor.
Their kiss was full of the _________ of first love.
Synonyms: passion, calenture, enthusiasm, fire, hurrah, zeal
Antonyms: apathy, impassiveness, impassivity, aloofness, detachment, indifference, unconcern, languor, lethargy, torpor |
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adj. conspicuously wicked.
We cannot condone such _________ violation of the rules.
Synonyms: egregious, capital, glaring, gross, rank
Antonyms: hidden, inconspicuous, obscure, excusable, unimportant |
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frivolity
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n. lack of seriousness.
We were distressed by his __________ during the recent grave crisis.
Synonyms: lightness, flightiness, flippancy, levity, light-mindedness, volatility
Antonyms: seriousness; staidness |
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adj. mixed up; based on false or unfair selection.
The __________ report confused many readers who were not familiar with the facts.
Synonyms: belie, color, distort, falsify, miscolor, misstate, pervert, twist, warp
Antonyms: none |
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n. seriousness.
We could tell we were in serious trouble from the _________ of her expression.
Synonyms: heavy, severe, weighty, earnest, sedate, sober, solemn, somber, staid
Antonyms: gay |
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gregarious
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adj. sociable.
She was not ___________ and preferred to be alone most of the time.
Synonyms: sociable
Antonyms: none |
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n. deceit; duplicity.
She achieved her high position by _______ and treachery.
Synonyms: cunning, dissemblance, dissimulation, duplicity
Antonyms: ingenuousness; candor |
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adj. commonplace; trite.
The English teacher criticized her story because of its ____________ and unoriginal plot.
Synonyms: bathetic, cliched, commonplace, hack, stale, timeworn, well-worn, worn-out
Antonyms: unhackneyed |
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adj. random; by chance.
His ____________ reading left him unacquainted with the authors of the books.
Synonyms: aimless, designless, desultory, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, irregular, unaimed, unconsidered, unplanned
Antonyms: planned |
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haughtiness
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n. pride; arrogance.
I resent his ______________ because he is no better than we are.
Synonyms: disdain, disdainfulness, hauteur, loftiness, morgue, superbity, superciliousness,
Antonyms: lowliness |
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hedonism
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n. belief that pleasure is the sole aim of life.
_____________ and asceticism are opposing philosophies of human behavior.
Synonyms: carpet knight, pleasuremonger, sybarite, ononistic, self-indulgence, sybaritical
Antonyms: ascetic |
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n. opinion contrary to popular belief.
He was threatened with excommunication because his remarks were considered to be pure _________.
Synonyms: dissent, dissidence, heterodoxy, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, schism, unorthodoxy
Antonyms: orthodox |
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homogeneous
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adj. of the same kind.
Educators try to put pupils of similar abilities into classes because they believe that this ________________ grouping is advisable.
Synonyms: amalgamate, combine, comingle, commingle, commix, composite, concrete, conflate, fuse, homogenize, immingle, immix, incorporate, integrate, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, meld, merge, mingle, mix
Antonyms: break down, break up, separate, unmix |
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hypocritical
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adj. pretending to be virtuous; deceiving.
Resent this ____________ posing as a friend for I know he is interested only in his own advancement.
Synonyms: canting, pecksniffian, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous
Antonyms: sincere |
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