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| meantime; Ex. in the interim; ADJ. taking place during an interim; Ex. interim paper |
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| denounce; utter censure or invective; Ex. inveigh against the evils of drink |
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| deceive; lead astray by deception; wheedle(cajole); Ex. inveigle her into joining the club; CF. interest dishonestly |
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| designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy; Ex. invidious comparison |
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| prayer for help (used in invoking); calling upon as a reference or support; act of invoking |
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| call and bring into use (a right or law); call on/upon (a higher power or god) for help; ask for; beg for; conjure (a spirit); Ex. invoke the veto power; Ex. invoke one's advisor/God |
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| exhibiting rainbowlike colors; Ex. iridescent oil slick; N. iridescence |
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| incurable; uncorrectable; impossible to remedy |
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| beyond reproach; blameless; impeccable; Ex. irreproachable conduct |
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| uncertain how to act; weak; lacking in resolution; indecisive; N. irresolution |
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| unalterable; irreversible; impossible to revoke |
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| narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land |
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| chatter rapidly or unintelligibly |
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| poke abruptly with something sharp; punch with short blows |
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| yellowed; prejudiced (envious, hostile, or resentful) from long and disappointing experience of human affairs; Ex. with a jaundiced eye |
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| medical condition in which the skin, the white part of the eyes, etc. turn yellow; V: affect with jaundice; affect with prejudice, envy, or hostility; bias |
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| cheerful and pleased with life; lighthearted; animated; easy and carefree; dapper in appearance; Ex. jaunty person/hat |
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| agree; be in harmony with; gibe |
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| given to(having a tendency of) joking |
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| shove; bump; push against (someone) rather roughly; Ex. jostled by the crowds |
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| push forward; push roughly; Ex. pushing and shoving to get on the bus; N. |
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| ????????? irresistible crushing force; overwhelming advancing force that crushes everything in its path |
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| crisis; point in time; joining point; joint; act of joining |
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| trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense |
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| ?? group of persons joined in political intrigue; cabal; group of military officers ruling a country after seizing power (by force) |
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| right and power to apply the law; authority |
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| central or vital part; core; whole seed (as of corn) |
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| one who spoils the pleasure of others |
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| fate; destiny; Ex. Kismet is the Arabic word for fate. |
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| person who has a compulsive desire to steal |
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| untrustworthy person; rogue?? ; scoundrel; jack; N. knavery |
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| tolling of a bell especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.; sound of the funeral bell; V. |
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| regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times; signal (as a bell) announcing the hour of a curfew |
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make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle; N. CF. crotchet |
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| little round hill; hillock |
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| group of attendants; retinue/bevy/cabal/covern/junta; CF. surround |
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| likely to change; unstable; Ex. emotionally labile; N. lability |
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| demanding much work or care; tedious |
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| scrap of cloth; ADJ. ragged: old and torn; seeming unfinished and imperfect; Ex. ragged debut/performance |
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| lacking interest or effort; lacking purpose or zest; lazy; halfhearted; languid |
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| lacking luster(shine; gloss); dull |
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| slow; sluggish; N: one who lags; straggler |
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stray or fall behind (a main group); spread out in a scattered group; Ex. straggling marathon racer; Ex. straggling branch |
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| laypersons; laymen; persons not connected with the clergy |
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| small surgical tool for making incisions |
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| long and thin; Ex. Lank, gaunt, Abraham Lincoln |
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| take in food or drink with one's tongue; splash gently; Ex. waves lapping the shore; N: front area from the waist to the knees of a seated person |
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| pantry; place where food is kept |
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| careless; negligent; not paying enough attention; Ex. lax service |
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| add leaven to; cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven; N: agent, such as yeast, that causes dough to rise (by fermentation); element that lightens or enlivens |
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| gross lewdness;?? lustfulness; ADJ. lecherous; N. lecher: lecherous man |
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| podium; reading desk or stand for a public speaker |
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| room to move; margin; latitude; Ex. leeway for the deadline |
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| sleight (dexterity) of hand; CF. light of hand ??, ?? trickery |
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| earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding; CF. raise |
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| rise and float in the air (especially by magical means); CF. light |
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| impose (a fine); collect (a payment); impose or collect (a tax); Ex. levy a tax on tobacco |
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| compiler of a dictionary; CF. lexicography: work of compiling a dictionary |
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| contact that keeps parties in communication; communication between groups; one that maintains communication; go-between; secret love affair; V. liaise: keep a connection |
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| defamatory written statement; act of writing something that smears a person's character; V. ADJ. libelous |
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| legal claim or right on a property |
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| extremely small; CF. Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels |
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| region near heaven or hell where certain souls are kept; prison (slang); Ex. Purgatory and Limbo |
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| dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate; Ex. abide by the rules; Ex. I can't abide rude people. |
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| draw; outline; describe; CF. line ? |
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| features especially of the face; distinctive shape or contour of the face; CF. line |
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| treat (a person) as a celebrity |
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| settle accounts; pay off (a debt); clear up; eliminate; kill or abolish |
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| supplicatory prayer; prayer in which the priest calls out and the people replies in the same words |
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| flexible; supple; CF. limber |
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| lawsuit; N. litigant: one party in a lawsuit; V. litigate |
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| ????? understatement for emphasis; Ex. ``not bad(=pretty good)'' |
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| lead-colored; black and blue (as from a bruise); ashen; enraged; extremely angry |
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| metal-bearing vein(long deposit of an ore) |
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| appear or take shape (usually in an enlarged, indistinct, or distorted form); Ex. The shadow of the gallows loomed threateningly. N: apparatus for making thread into cloth |
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| framework from which a noose is suspended (used for execution by hanging) |
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| clumsy person; ADJ. loutish; CF. from countrysides ? |
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| moo; make the sound of a cow |
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| money; profit; Ex. filthy lucre |
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| moment of calm; period of reduced activity; Ex. a lull in the rain; V: cause to become less active; cause to sleep or rest; Ex. lull the opponents into a false sense of security; CF. lullaby |
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| move heavily or clumsily; Ex. The bear lumbered through the woods; N: timber |
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| celebrity (in a specific field); dignitary; object that gives light (as a celestial body) |
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| person of high rank or position |
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| insane; Ex. lunatic asylum |
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| wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome; horrible; Ex. lurid details of the murder |
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| move furtively; ADJ. slinky: stealthy; furtive; sneaky (as in ambush) |
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| pleasing to taste or smell; delicious |
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| shine; gloss (of a polished surface) |
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| abundant; growing healthily and in large amounts; excessively ornate; rich and splendid; fertile; Ex. luxuriant forests/prose; CF. luxurious, luxuriate |
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| gruesome; grisly; ghastly; CF. of death |
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| mortuary; place where bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
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| ?? ceremonial staff used as a symbol of authority; clublike medieval weapon |
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| ????? crafty; double-dealing; of the political doctrine of Machiavelli, which holds that craft and deceit are justified in pursuing political power |
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| pastoral song; song for several singers without instruments |
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| violent whirlpool; violent or tublent situation; CF. stream |
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| authoritative; imperious; commanding; of a magistrate; Ex. magisterial study of Roman law; Ex. magisterial manner |
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| official with power to administer the law |
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| generosity; ADJ. magnanimous: generous |
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| greatness (in size or extent); extent |
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| mutilate; injure lastingly; disable; cripple; Ex. maimed for life |
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| tear or cut to pieces; mutilate or disfigure; Ex. badly mangled bodies |
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| uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health (without any particular pain or appearance of disease) |
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| comic misuse of a word; CF. Mrs. Malaprop |
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| wrongdoing; misconduct (by a public official) |
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| speak evil of; bad-mouth(criticize spitefully); defame; ADJ: harmful; Ex. malign influence |
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| tending to cause death; highly injurious; aggressively malevolent; Ex. malignant tumor |
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| shabby; wretched; suffering from mange; of bad appearance |
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| skin disease (esp. of domestic animals) marked by loss of hair |
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| raging mad; insane; N. maniac: insane person; CF. mania: disorder of the mind; intense enthusiasm |
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| public declaration of principles; statement of policy |
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| many in number or kind; numerous; varied |
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| affected; not natural; Ex. mannered way of speech |
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| emancipate; free from slavery or bondage |
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one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch(pocket of skin or leather); CF. kangaroo, opossum, wombat |
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| warlike; of war; Ex. martial art/law |
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| student at a military school |
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| person who enjoys his own pain; CF. masochism |
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| enroll (in college or graduate school); CF. matrix |
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| point of origin; array of numbers or algebraic symbols; mold or die; Ex. the matrix of Western civilization |
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| handle roughly; batter; injure by beating; Ex. mauled by his overexcited fans; N: heavy long-handled hammer |
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| monumental tomb; large stately tomb; CF. Mausolos |
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| injury to body; crime of willfully maiming or crippling a person; ??????, violent disorder; Ex. mayhem in the zoo; CF. maim |
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| wind or turn in its course; follow a winding or turning course; move aimlessly and idly |
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| element that is a creature's natural environment; nutrient setting in which microorganisms are cultivated; appropriate occupation or means of expression; channel of communication; compromise; middle position between extremes; intervening substance through which something else is transmitted |
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| man who is courting a woman |
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| mania for doing grandiose things; mental disorder characterized by delusions of wealth, power, or importance |
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| token; reminder of the past; keepsake; Ex. memento of your visit |
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| collection of wild animals on exhibition; zoo |
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money or goods given to the poor |
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| suitable for servants; lowly; mean; N: someone who does menial work (esp. servant in a house) |
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| concerning trade or merchants |
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| of the common people; deficient in refinement; not refined; coarse; Ex. vulgar display of wealth; N. vulgarism: vulgarity; crudely indecent word; CF. vulgarian: vulgar person; boor; lout |
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| combination (of two business corporations); act of merging |
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| ???? pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores; N. metallurgy: science that deals with extracting metals from ores |
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| pertaining to speculative philosophy; of metaphysics; N. metaphysics: branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality |
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| measure; distribute; administer; Ex. mete out justice/punishment |
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| swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence; noxious atmosphere or influence |
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| small representative world; world in miniature; Ex. microcosm of English society |
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| ?? social environment; means of expression; Ex. feel out of one's milieu; Ex. His proper milieu is watercolor. |
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| work against; Ex. militate against the chances of promotion; CF. serve as a soldier |
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| army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers |
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| affectedly dainty(delicate); V. mince: cut (esp. meat) into very small pieces; walk with exaggerated primness; walk in an unnatural way, taking little short steps; Ex. The actor minced across the stage; CF. mincemeat; CF. mincer |
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| delicate; of very fine quality ??? |
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| servile dependent; obsequious follower |
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| unreal reflection; optical illusion???? |
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| entangle; stick in swampy ground; stick or sink in mire; N: bog; deep mud; Ex. sucked deeper into the mire |
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| mischance; ill luck; Ex. death by misadventure |
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| despicable; unpleasant; disgusting; Ex. vile slander |
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| mixture of writings on various subjects; collection of various items |
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| made up of a variety of parts |
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| wretch; wrongdoer; villain; Ex. kindness to the miscreant; CF. believe |
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| miserable person; bad or despicable person; ADJ. wretched: miserable; bad; contemptible; vile |
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| immoral behavior; bad management; V. |
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| wrong or improper name; incorrect designation |
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| hater of woman; CF. misogyny |
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| letter; written statement; CF. sent |
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| very small object or insect-like creature; small coin |
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| pertaining to memory; assisting the memory; N: device, such as as formula or rhyme, used as a mnemonic aid |
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| prevailing style; current fashion; manner; way of doing something; Ex. in the latest mode; Ex. simple mode of life |
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| tone down in intensity; change the intensity or tone of; regulate; change from one musical key to another; Ex. modulate from E to G |
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| powerful person; Ex. oil moguls; CF. Mogol, Moghul; CF. Mongolian |
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| painting in only one color; ADJ. |
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| solidly uniform; unchangeable; unyielding; N. monolith: large block of stone |
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| legal delay of payment or action; Ex. declare moratorium on the building of new houses |
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| given to unwholesome or unhealthy thought; moody; characteristic of disease; Ex. morbid curiosity; N. morbidity; CF. disease |
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| biting; sarcastic; stinging; (apprec.) incisive; cutting; Ex. mordant pen/wit |
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| conventions; moral standards; moral customs |
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| dying; at the point of death; CF. death |
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| ill-humored; sullen; sullenly melancholy |
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| ???? undertaker; CF. death |
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| funeral director; one whose business is to arrange burials |
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| small speck (esp. of dust) |
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| theme; recurrent thematic element in a musical or literary work; single or repeated pattern; figure |
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| ability to move spontaneously; ADJ. motile: moving spontaneously |
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| multi-colored (as of a garment worn by a jester); mixed; heterogeneous; CF. jester: one who jests (as a paid fool at medieval courts) |
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| blotched in coloring; spotted; Ex. mottled face; V. mottle: mark with blotches of different colors |
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| charlatan; boastful pretender |
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| travel about selling (wares); CF. foot |
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| confuse; mix up confusedly; N: state of confusion |
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| (of weather) warm and damp |
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| defraud a person of something; swindle; Ex. mulct the boy of his legacy |
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| varied; greatly diversified; Ex. multifarious activities |
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| ponder at length; N: source of inspiration (esp. of a poet) |
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| gather; assemble (troops); Ex. muster up one's strength for the ordeal; N. |
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| stale (in odor or taste); spoiled by age; CF. moist |
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| black magic; sorcery; dealings with the dead; art that professes to communicate with the spirits of the dead so as to predict the future; CF. necromancer; CF. necro+divination; CF. necro-: death; Ex. necropolis |
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| ?? in Buddhist teachings, the ideal state in which the individual loses himself in the attainment of an impersonal beatitude |
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| questionable medicine; quack medicine; CF. our (remedy) |
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| marriageable; of marriageable age; CF. connubial |
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| person who collects coins; N. numismatics: study or collection of money, coins, and medals |
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| related to marriage or the wedding ceremony; N. nuptials: wedding ceremony |
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| stupid awkward person; CF. elf |
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| bow (to show respect and obedience) |
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| ???? tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid |
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| death notice (esp. in a newspaper); ADJ. |
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| indirect; slanting (deviating from the perpendicular or from a straight line); Ex. oblique reference |
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| of or like a slave; servile; showing no originality; copied very closely; Ex. slavish devotion/copy of the original |
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| physician specializing in delivery(assisting in giving birth) of babies; N. obstetrics; CF. midwife |
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| push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude; impose (oneself or one's ideas) on others; butt in; stick out or extrude; thrust out; Ex. obtrude A on B; ADJ. obtrusive; N. obtrusion; CF. unobtrusive |
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| make unnecessary; get rid of; Ex. obviate the need |
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| shut; close; obstruct; Ex. A blood clot occluded an artery. |
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| mysterious; secret; supernatural; beyond human comprehension; CF. mysterious to human ?; OP. bare |
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| physician who specializes in treatment of the eyes |
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| giving off an odor ????, ???, ??, ????? |
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| long, eventful, adventurous journey |
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| government by a privileged few |
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| threatening; of an evil omen |
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| eating both plant and animal food; devouring everything |
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| words formed in imitation of natural sounds |
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| make slight sounds like silk moving or being rubbed together |
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| vicious assault; fierce attack; Ex. unexpected onslaught of the enemy |
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| iridescent; lustrous; like an opal; N. opalescence |
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| medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain; something that relieves emotions or causes inaction; sleep-producing drug containing opium |
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| most favorable; optimal; N: most favorable condition |
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| ??? one who fits glasses to remedy visual defects |
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| extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance; ADJ. opulent: possessing great wealth; abundant |
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| work (esp. musical composition); Ex. magnum opus: masterpiece; CF. opera |
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| of an oracle; prophetic?????; uttered as if with divine authority; mysterious or ambiguous; hard to understand; N. oracle: wiser person; prophecy made by an oracle |
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| dramatic poem set to music; long musical work with singing but without acting; CF. cantata |
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| decree or command; grant holy orders; predestine; install as a minister, priest, or rabbi; N. ordainment; CF. ordination |
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| decree; authoritative order |
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| ceremony conferring holy orders; ceremony of ordaining a priest |
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| mouthlike opening; small opening (esp. to a cavern or passage of the body); CF. mouth |
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| scientific student of birds; N. ornithology: scientific study of birds |
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| correct spelling; CF. ortho-: straight; correct; Ex. orthodontics |
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| apparent; appearing as such; professed(pretended); pretended; Ex. ostensible purpose of the expedition |
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| banish from a group; exclude from public favor; ban; Ex. His friends ostracized him. N. ostracism |
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| expel; drive out; force out; N. ouster: ousting |
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| bizzare; peculiar; unconventional |
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| having a dull edge; abrupt and frank in speech or manner; brusque; V: make or become blunt |
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| bossy; domineering and arrogant; decisively important; Ex. overbearing manner/importance; V. overbear: dominate |
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| nervous or excited; extremely agitated; hysterical; wrought-up; CF. wrought: made or done |
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| of or suitable for a palace; magnificent |
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| parchment or piece of writing material used for second time after original writing has been erased |
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| small poor?? bed; Ex. straw pallet |
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| tangible; (of something bad) easily perceptible; obvious; Ex. palpable blunder |
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| throb; beat rapidly; flutter; tremble; Ex. Her heart began to palpitate. |
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| insignificant; petty; trifling; contemptible; Ex. paltry sum; CF. trash |
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| flair; manner of doing things without any difficulty (causing admiration); flamboyance; bunch of feathers (on a helmet); Ex. with great panache; CF. ÀÜ ¾Æ·¡·Î õÀ» »©³»´Â ¼Ø¾¾ |
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| wild tumult ?? ( commotion); wild noisy disorder; CF. Paradise Lost ??? |
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| acting without dialogue; V. |
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| ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant |
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| short simple story teaching a moral fable |
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| psychosis marked by delusions of grandeur or persecution; N: ADJ: paranoid, paranoiac |
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| equipment; odds and ends used in a particular activity; personal belongings; Ex. photographic paraphernalia; CF. married woman's property exclusive of her dowry |
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| inhabit in numbers large enough to be harmful; Ex. Mice infested the house; Ex. shark-infested waters |
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| social outcast; Ex. Mariah the pariah |
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| equality; close resemblance; CF. disparate |
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| conference (between opponents); CF. speak |
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| narrow in scope or outlook; provincial; related to parishes |
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| area in the care of a single priest and served by one main church |
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| fit or attack of pain, laughter, rage; sudden outburst |
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| floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long narrow piece |
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| ward off a blow; deflect; Ex. He parried the unwelcome question very skillfully; N. CF. ¸·´Â´Ù´Â °³³äÀÌ ¾Æ´Ô |
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| state of being partial; inclination; favorable bias; special fondness; preference |
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| one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party (with dislike of any others); N: strong supporter of a party; guerrilla |
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| upstart; newly rich person ??? |
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| old-fashioned; past the prime |
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| imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing; work of art openly imitating the works of other artists |
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| obvious; easily seen; open for the public to read; of or protected by a patent; Ex. patent to everyone; N. |
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| green crust on old bronze works or copper; tone slowly taken by varnished painting |
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