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lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make
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| renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility) |
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| deviation from the normal; mental disorder |
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(of a condition) wretched; as low as possible;
lacking pride; very humble; showing lack of selfrespect;
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| renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation |
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| rubbing away; tending to grind down |
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| sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
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| obscure; profound; difficult to understand |
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| enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit |
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| adjust to climate or environment; adapt |
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| sharp upslope of a hill; OP. declivity |
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| approach and speak first to a person |
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growth or increase in size by gradual addition;
growth; increase; increase by natural growth; Ex.
towers and other accretions of the castle; V. accrete |
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bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic:
bitter; acrid (in taste, manner, or tone) |
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slightly sour (in taste or manner); sharp;
caustic |
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| peak; pinnacle; highest point |
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assent; agree passively; comply without
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| bitter (to the taste or smell); sharp; bitterly pungent |
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stinging; caustic; bitter in words or manner;
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| calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics |
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| someone who advises insurance companies |
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| motivate; activate; cause to act |
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| sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) |
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addition; appendix to book; something that
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make or become confused; muddle; drive crazy;
become rotten (egg) |
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something attached to but holding an inferior
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solemn urging; V. adjure: entreat earnestly;
enjoin solemnly |
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| staff officer assisting the commander; assistant |
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| skillful (in using mind or hand) |
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flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary
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| accidental; casual; happening by chance |
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| going against; opposing; unfavorable; hostile |
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| shield; protection; defense |
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| nest of a large bird of prey |
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easily approachable; easy to talk to; warmly
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insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect; V:
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collection; heap; V. agglomerate: gather
into a rounded mass; N. aggolmeate: jumbled mass;
heap |
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make greater; increase in power, wealth,
rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement |
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| filled with great surprise or fear; horrified |
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| nimbleness; ability to move quickly |
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| highly excited; intensely curious |
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| cheerful promptness without reluctance |
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story, play, or picture in which characters are
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| set aside (money or time) for a particular purpose |
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mixture as of metals; something added that lowers
in value or purity; V: mix; make less pure; lower
in value or quality; spoil; CF. unalloyed: not in mixture
with other maetals; pure; complete; unqualified; Ex. unalloyed
happiness |
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| pertaining to soil deposits left by running water |
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| upward; high up in the air |
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(of societies or groups) combine; unite in
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| collect (gradually, in a very large amount) |
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walking at an easy unhurried pace; V: walk
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obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive;
willing to be led; answerable or accountable
legally; responsible; able to be tested by; Ex. amenable
to sensible suggestions; Ex. He is very amenable; Ex.
amenable to the usual tests |
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| wrong; faulty; Ex. something amiss; ADV |
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| friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations |
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moved by sexual love; loving; of sexual love;
Ex. amorous advances |
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| formless; lacking shape or definition |
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| in a state of rage; Ex. run amok |
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charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect
against evil, bad luck |
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an error involving time in a story; something
or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic |
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| causing insensitivity to pain; N. |
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| condition of being unable to feel pain |
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solemn curse; someone or something regarded
as a curse; V. anathematize |
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| secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; N. anchorage |
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| serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; N |
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| short story of an amusing or interesting event |
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| acute pain; extreme suffering |
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sharp-cornered; having an angle; not rounded
(body); bony; lean; gaunt; stiff in manner |
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critical remark; V. animadvert: comment
critically with disapproval |
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hostile feeling or intent; animosity; hostility;
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| records arranged in yearly parts; history |
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