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| grow rapidly; grow forth; send out buds; Ex. burgeoning computer industry; CF. bludgeon ?? |
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| ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a round cylinder; Ex. work of very high caliber |
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| any ulcerous sore; ulcer??; any evil; CF. cancer |
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| sore place appearing on the skin inside or outside the body; Ex. stomach ulcer; ADJ. ulcerous; V. ulcerate |
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| insincere speech or expression of piety; jargon of thieves; special words used by a particular group of people (esoteric) |
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| story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio) ??? |
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| division of a long poem ? |
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| determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.; go through (a region) to solicit votes or orders; conduct a survey; N. |
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| having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine and slender; Ex. capillary attraction; N: very fine hairlike tube; CF. capillarity |
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| surrender; give up all resistance |
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| causing cancer; N. carcinogen |
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| drunken revel; V. carouse |
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| rotting flesh of a dead body; CF. vulture |
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| one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige (???)???? |
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| serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle |
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| deluge; upheaval; earthquake; violent and sudden event or change ???, ??, (?????)??? |
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| slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult ??? |
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| throw forcefully; shout out violently |
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| great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a gradual loss of eyesight) [?]??? |
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| shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V. |
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| book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; V. catechize |
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| private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy; CF. the Caucus club of Boston ???? |
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| make watertight (hermetic) (by blocking up cracks as in a ship) |
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| burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection ?? |
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| procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry (?, ?, ??)?? |
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| casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
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| quibble; fastidious make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
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| yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
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| abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy ????? |
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| mythical figure, half man and half horse |
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| radiating; departing from the center hub hubris |
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| machine that separates substances by whirling them |
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| Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) ???(????????????) |
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| warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; N. |
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| worthless products of an endeavor; husk(outer seed cover) separated from grain; Ex. separate the wheat from the chaff, Joke |
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| annoyance and disappointment; vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride) ?? |
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| lizard that changes color in different situations |
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| support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.) ??? |
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| ornament a metal surface by indenting; follow rapidly to catch ?? |
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| framework and working parts of an automobile; framework to which components are attached ?? |
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| discipline; punish in order to correct; CF. castigate |
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| stop motion; curb or restrain |
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| scold; rebuke (someone who has done wrong) ?? |
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| fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature ??? |
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| swindle or cheat; N: wedgelike tool for cutting |
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| daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping); unpleasant task |
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| boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo |
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| having minute hairs; CF. cilium; CF. cilia: eyelash ???? |
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| nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; V. |
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| small ring; band of gold, silver, jewel, etc. (worn on the head, arms, or neck as decoration) |
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| outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around |
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| having foresight; fortuneteller; N. clairvoyance |
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| climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble |
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| loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous |
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| older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman |
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| loud resounding noise; sound of repeated clanging |
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| striker (tongue) of a bell |
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| split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to; N. cleavage; ADJ. cloven |
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| platitude; chemical compound used to calm excitement |
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| relating to the highest point; N. climax; CF. climatic |
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| great influence (especially political or social); hard blow with fist |
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| treat gently; indulge excessively; pamper; mollycoddle; baby; cook in water just below boiling point; Ex. coddled eggs |
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| supplement to the body of a will; later addition to a will ?? |
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| arrange (laws or rules) as a code; classify; N. code: system of words used instead of ordinary writing; collection of laws, rules, established social customs |
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| living at the same time as; existing during the same period of time; contemporary; of the same age |
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| having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental processes; N. cognition: the mental process of knowing |
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| knowledge; ADJ. cognizant; having knowledge; aware |
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| examine and compare in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order (the sheets of a book before they are bound) ?? |
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| security given for loan ?? indemnity ; ADJ: secondary; descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters ??? |
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| a light meal; collating ?? |
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| gigantic statue; person or thing of great size or importance |
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| in a coma; extremely sleepy |
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| easily burned; N. CF. combustion |
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| something fit to be eaten |
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| deserts; well-deserved punishment or misfortune; rebuke ???? |
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| courtesy; civility; Ex. comity of nations |
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| take (private property) for military use without needing permission or giving payment; draft for military purposes ?? |
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| current of air (through a room or to a fire); act of pulling roads; act of swallowing liquid or amount of liquid swallowed at a time ?? |
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| equal in extent; of the same size |
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| feel or express pity or sympathy for |
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| small (often rural) community whose members share work and income; V: exchange thoughts or feelings; Ex. commune with nature ???????? |
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| agreement; contract; ADJ: tightly packed; firm; brief; concise; Ex. compact statement |
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| compelling; strong desire that is difficult to control; irresistible impulse |
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| brief, comprehensive summary; ADJ. compendious |
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| self-satisfaction; smugness; ADJ. complacent |
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| participation; involvement (in a questionable act or a crime) |
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| bear one's self; behave; Ex. comport oneself; N. comportment |
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| force into less space; squeeze; contract; put into fewer words; N: thick mass of cloth pressed to part of the body to stop bleeding or swelling, reduce fever, etc. |
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| remorse; strong uneasiness caused by guilt |
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| admit; acknowledge as being true (often reluctantly); yield; grant; Ex. concede a goal |
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| vanity or self-love; too high opinion of one's own value; extravagant metaphor (in poetry) |
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| full of self-admiration; conceited; without result; unsuccessful; N. vanity |
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| mutually agreed on; done together by agreement; Ex. concerted effort; CF. in concert: working together |
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| prepare by mixing or combining; make up in concert; devise (something false) so as to deceive; Ex. concoct an elaborate excuse for being late; N. concoction |
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| that which accompanies; Ex. Deafnes is a frequent concommitant of old age; ADJ: existing or happening together with something else |
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| adequate; (of punishment) severe and well deserved |
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| helpful; contributive; V. conduce; Ex. conduce to/towards |
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| aqueduct; passageway for fluids ?? ?? |
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| trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret) |
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| seize; take possession of (private property) by official order (usu. as a punishment); commandeer ??, ?? |
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| pleasant; friendly; in agreement with one's tastes and nature; Ex. congenial weather |
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| pine tree (usu. evergreen); cone-bearing tree; ADJ. coniferous; CF. deciduous; CF. evergreen |
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| pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend; V. connive: feign ignorance (of a wrong); cooperate secretly in an illegal action; conspire ?? |
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| pertaining to marriage or the matrimonial state |
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| property inherited from a father |
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| kinship; relationship by birth |
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| draftee; person forced into military service; V. |
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| dedicate; sanctify; declare as sacred; Ex. consecrate one's life to helping the poor |
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| send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially; entrust; put into the care of another; set apart (for a special purpose); N. consignment; CF. consignor, consignee |
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| lessen sadness or disappointment; give comfort; allay the sorrow of; N. consolation |
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| supporter; voter; member of a constituency; component |
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| voters represented by an elected official; district so represented; group of supporters (or constituents) |
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| explain; interpret; Ex. construe her silence as meaning that she agreed; CF. misconstrue |
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| struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly |
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| assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition |
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| quarrelsome; controversial; likely to cause arguments |
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| self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent |
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| dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; N: a group of soldiers, ships to a larger force; CF. contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; Ex. prepare for every contingency |
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| twistings; distortions; V. contort: twist violently out of shape; CF. contortionist |
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| illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods; ADJ. |
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| unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous; Ex. The ending was rather contrived. |
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| something contrived; machine or apparatus; clever deceitful plan; scheme |
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| oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict; ADJ. controversial; N. controversy |
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| familiar with; having knowledge of |
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| vehicle; transfer; act of conveying; Ex. public conveyance |
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| judgment that someone is guilty of a crime inculpate; strongly held belief |
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| call together; Ex. convoke Parliament; N. convocation ?? |
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| ??violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness); V. convulse; ADJ. convulsive |
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| flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V. |
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| extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress; ???; V. |
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| natural consequence (which naturally follows from something else) |
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| group that meets socially; select circle; close group of people with shared interests retinue,coven |
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| approve; support; tolerate; Ex. countenance his rude behavior; N: face; appearance |
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| highly successful action or sudden attack; coup(s) d'\'etat; CF. coup de gr\^ace: deathblow or shot which kills ??, ?????, |
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| binding agreement between two groups or people; compact; V: enter into a covenant; promise |
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| avaricious; desirous of (someone else's possessions); V. covet: desire eagerly (someone else's possessions) |
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| shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer¸¦ ¹Þ¾ÒÀ» ¶§ |
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| sour; bad-tempered; peevish; difficult to read as handwriting |
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| very unrefined; grossly insensible; crude and undiscriminating; Ex. crass behavior |
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| musical introduction to a long musical piece; first offer or proposal (to begin talks in the hope of reaching an agreement); Ex. overtures for peace |
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| (of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; N. crotchet: odd or whimsical notion |
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| essential or main point; Ex. the crux of the problem; ADJ. crucial: of deciding importance |
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| secret recess or vault usually used for burial; underground room (under a church) |
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| ??, ??pick out from others (to kill the weakest members); reject; select; collect (information); N. |
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| highest point; climax; V. culminate in: reach the highest point in; end in; Ex. a series of minor clashes culminating in war |
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| greed (for wealth); CF. cupid; CF. Cupid |
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| superintendent; manager (in charge of a museum or a library) |
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| ??, ???;???object of general attention; person or thing that is a center of attention; CF. Ursa Minor |
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| work at in a nonserious fashion; splash around; move noisily in a liquid |
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| ??,raised platform for speakers or other important people |
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| ????neat and trim (in appearance); (of small men) neat in appearance and quick in movements; neat; spry |
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| smear (as with paint); cover with something sticky; Ex. daub one's clothes with mud/paint; N: small bit of sticky substance; Ex. a daub of paint |
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| loiter; hang around; waste time doing nothing |
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| standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces; stalemate |
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| sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
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| degrade; reduce in quality or value; degenerate; lower in esteem; disgrace; N. debasement |
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| corrupt morally; seduce from virtue; N. debauchery: wild behavior (with sex and alcohol) |
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| weaken (esp. through heat, hunger, illness); enfeeble |
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| ????? (of men) friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed; aiming to please; CF. of good disposition |
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| ?? expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule |
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| young woman making formal entrance into society |
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| pour off gently (wine or liquid) |
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| ????? falling off at a specific season or stage of growth as of leaves; Ex. deciduous tree/teeth |
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| ?????(of a dress) having a low-cut neckline; CF. d\'ecolletage: low neckline (on a dress) |
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| ?? authoritative order; edict; judgment of a court of law; V: order or judge by decree |
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| ?? state of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age |
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| express strong disapproval of; condemn openly (something dangerous to the public); disparage; Ex. decry the violence of modern films descry: ?? |
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| derived by reasoning; V. deduce: infer; derive by reasoning |
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| give in respectfully; submit; delay till later; exempt temporarily; N. deferment; CF. show respect, comply with, courteous |
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| ?? pollute; make filthy or dirty; corrupt morally; profane; desecrate; N: narrow passage or gorge through mountains |
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| turn aside; turn away from a straight course |
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| destroy leaves; deprive of leaves (by the use of chemicals); N. defoliant |
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| provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay |
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| strip a priest or minister of church authority; unfrock |
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| long loose garment (worn by monks) |
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| dead; no longer in use or existence |
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| (of a woman or child) grave???; quiet and serious; coy; pretending to be demure |
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| condemn; criticize; N. denunciation |
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| regret; express sorrow and severe disapproval for something bad; Ex. deplore their violent behavior; ADJ. deplorable: very bad; deserving severe disapproval; Ex. deplorable living condition |
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| ??, ??spread out (troops) in an extended though shallow battle line; distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically |
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| dethrone; remove from office; give a deposition; testify |
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| extreme corruption; wickedness; V. deprave |
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| ?? express disapproval of; deplore; protest against; belittle; ADJ. deprecatory |
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| ?? plundering; destruction |
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| unoriginal; obtained from another source; Ex. derivative prose style; N. |
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| (of a place) deserted; unpopulated; (of a person) lonely; forlorn; joyless |
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| ??? reckless, desperate outlaw |
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| ?? plunder; sack; Ex. despoil the village |
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| tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler; CF. despotism |
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| extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence; utterly lacking; devoid; Ex. destitute of any experience |
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| ??, ? slandering; aspersion; detracting; CF. detractor |
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| ?? deputize; pass or be passed to others (power, work, or property); Ex. devolve on/upon/to |
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| work or appoint as a deputy; N. ??deputy: person who has the power to take charge when the leading person is away |
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| diabolic; devilish; fiendish |
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