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| repair or make whole by using a metal alloy; N: metal alloy (usually tin and lead) used in the molten state to join metallic parts |
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| [image]nonstandard grammatical construction; construction that is flagrantly incorrect grammatically; violation of social etiquette |
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| entreat; request earnestly; seek to obtain; Ex. solicit votes; CF. solicitor: one who solicits; chief law officer |
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| anxious; worried; concerned; eager; Ex. solicitous to do something; N. solicitude |
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| talking to oneself (esp. in a play); CF. monologue: soliloquy; long speech by one person (often monopolizing a conversation) |
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| point or time at which the sun is farthest from the equator |
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| able to pay all depths; N. solvency |
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| pertaining to the body; bodily; physical |
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| dark; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; CF. shadow |
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| sleepwalker; V. somnambulate; N. somnambulism |
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| half asleep; drowsy; N. somnolence |
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| resonant; producing a full deep sound; producing sound |
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| of sound or its speed in air; CF. subsonic, supersonic |
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| teacher of philosophy; quibbler; employer of fallacious reasoning; N. sophism: plausible but fallacious argument |
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| seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning; sophism |
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| filthy; foul; base; vile; Ex. sordid bed/story |
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| small shiny metallic piece sewn to clothing for ornamentation |
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| not thick; thinly scattered; scanty |
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| fitful; periodic; of or like a spasm; N. spasm: sudden involuntary muscular contraction; sudden burst of energy or emotion |
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| squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
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| sudden flood or rush; Ex. spate of accidents |
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| lay eggs (in large numbers); produce offspring (in large numbers); N: eggs of aquatic animals |
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| seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally) |
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| ghostly; N. specter: spectre; ghost; phantom |
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| join together end to end to make one continuous length; fasten together; unite; Ex. splice two strips of tape; N. |
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| [image]???? accidental transposition of sounds in successive words; Ex. ``Let me sew you to your sheet'' for ``Let me show you to your seat''; CF. William Spooner |
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| playful; frolicsome; merry; CF. sport: play or frolic; CF. sportsmanlike |
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| neat and trim in appearance; smart; Ex. Be spruce for your job interview; V. |
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| (esp. of older people) vigorously active; nimble |
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| quick in movement; agile; quick in understanding; Ex. nimble climber/mind |
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| false; counterfeit; forged; illogical; Ex. spurious arguments |
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| reject disdainfully; scorn; Ex. She spurned all offers of help. |
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| minor quarrel; bickering; V: engage in a minor quarrel; Ex. squabbling children |
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| condition of being squalid; filth; degradation; dirty neglected state; ADJ. squalid: dirty; sordid; morally repulsive; Ex. squalid story |
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| short and thick; stocky; Ex. ugly squat tower; V. N. |
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断音的, 不连贯的
played in an abrupt manner; marked by abrupt sharp sound; Ex. staccato applause |
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(of music) played smoothly |
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| serious and sedate; sober; Ex. staid during the funeral ceremony |
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| physically strong; brawny; steadfast; strong in mind or determination; Ex. stalwart supporter; N: stalwart follower |
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| power of endurance; strength; staying power |
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| stop or check flow of blood; Ex. stanch the gushing wound |
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| having no motion; unchanging; lacking development; N. stasis: stable state |
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| law enacted by the legislature |
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| created by statute or legislative action; regulated by statute; Ex. statutory age limit |
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| steadily loyal; unswerving; steady |
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| perfectionist; person who insists things be exactly right |
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| suppress; extinguish; inhibit; smother or suffocate |
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| bombastic; stiffly pompous; Ex. stilted rhetoric; CF. stiff: formal |
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| set limits in amount or number; be thrifty; ADJ. stinting, unstinting; CF. stint:savings |
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| 节省, 限制supply; allotted amount of work; assigned portion of work; limitation; Ex. two-year stint in the army; Ex. without stint |
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| paint or draw with dots or short strokes |
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规定, 保证
state as a necessary condition (of an agreement); make express conditions; specify; Ex. He stipulated payment in advance |
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| wooden enclosure or pen; fixed line of posts used as defensive barrier |
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| dull; stuffy; boringly conservative; Ex. stodgy book |
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| stoical; impassive; unmoved by joy or grief; N. CF. stoicism |
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| stir up a fire or furnace; feed plentifully |
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| dull; impassive; showing little emotion when strong feelings are expected |
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| layer of earth's surface; layer of society; PL. strata |
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| spread randomly; sprinkle; scatter; Ex. flower girl strewing rose petals |
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| severe and adverse criticism; critical comments; limit or restriction |
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| loud and harsh; insistent; N. stridency |
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| (of rules) binding; rigid; marked by scarcity of money; Ex. stringent economic conditions |
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| pompous walk; V: walk in a self-important manner |
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| supporting bar; CF. airplane wingÀ̳ª building µîÀ» support |
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| make stupid in mind; cause to appear or become stupid or inconsistent; suppress; frustrate or hinder; Ex. stultifying effect of uninteresting work; Ex. stultify free expression |
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| stun; make numb (as with a drug); amaze |
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| state of being stupefied; state of apathy; daze; lack of awareness |
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| stun as with a blow or shock; bemuse; benumb; N. |
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| unpleasantly dark; gloomy; hellish; deathly; CF. Styx: the chief river in the subterranean land of the dead |
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| thwart; present an obstacle; stump |
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| base of a tree trunk left after the rest has been cut down; V: walk in a heavy manner; baffle; puzzle |
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| urbanity; polish; ADJ. suave: smooth and courteous |
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| conquer; bring under control |
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| refine; purify; replace (natural urges) with socially acceptable activities; change between a solid state and a gaseous state |
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| causing deep feelings of wonder, joy, respect, etc.; exalted; noble and uplifting; utter |
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| below the threshold of conscious perception; Ex. subliminal advertisement |
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| persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury); N. subornation |
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| writ(written command issued by a court) summoning a witness to appear in court; V: summon with a subpoena |
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| behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious; subordinate; N. subservience |
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| sink to a lower level; settle down; sink to the bottom (as a sediment); descend; grow quiet; become less; moderate; abate |
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| serving to assist; subordinate; secondary; of a subsidy; N. |
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| direct financial aid by government, etc.; V. subsidize: assist with a subsidy |
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| existence; means of subsisting; means of support; livelihood; V. subsist: exist; maintain life (at a meager level) |
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| substantial; essential; pertaining to the substance; substantial; considerable; Ex. substantive issues |
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| include (as a member of a group); encompass |
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| stratagem(deceptive scheme); pretense; evasion; Ex. resort to a harmless subterfuge |
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| tending to overthrow or ruin; V. subvert: overthrow completely (an established system); destroy completely; CF. undermine ? |
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| assist (someone in difficulty); aid; comfort; N. |
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| juicy; full of juice or sap; full of richness; N: succulent plant such as a cactus |
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| [image]advocate of the extension of voting rights (for women); CF. suffrage |
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| spread through or over (with a color or liquid); charge; Ex. A blush suffused her cheeks. |
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| defile; soil; tarnish; Ex. sully one's hands in menial labor |
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| make or become dull or discolored; N. |
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| (of weather) hot; sweltering; sensual; voluptuous |
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| grand suggesting great expense; lavish; rich; Ex. sumptuous feast |
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| [image]miscellaneous; various; several; N. sundries: small miscellaneous items |
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| retired or disqualified because of age; outmoded; obsolete |
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| haughty; arrogant; condescending; patronizing; CF. eyebrow, cilium |
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| superfluous; more than needed or demanded |
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| place over something else |
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| person or thing excess of what is necessary; extra; ADJ: additional to the usual or necessary number |
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| replace; cause to be set aside; make obsolete; N. supersession |
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| lying on back; passive; inactive; Ex. The defeated pugilist lay supine; Ex. supine acceptance of the decision |
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| take the place of unfairly; usurp; replace |
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| entreating; beseeching; N. |
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| assumption; hypothesis; surmise; V. suppose |
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| assumed; counterfeit; hypothetical |
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| put an end to forcibly; subdue; stifle; overwhelm; inhibit the expression of; check; prevent from being published or made public; Ex. suppress a smile; Ex. suppress the magazine/truth |
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| close observation of a person (esp. one under suspicion); watching; guarding |
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| sustaining; means of livelihood, support, food, nourishment; something that maintains life; food |
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| stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing; V: sew together a wound |
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| (of a skin or complexion) dark; dusky; Ex. swarthy Italian ? |
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| swath; wrap around; bandage; Ex. one's head swathed in bandages |
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| (of a person) suffer from oppressive heat; be oppressed by heat |
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| deviate; turn aside sharply from a straight course; Ex. swerve from the principle; Ex. The car swerved to the right. |
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| logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion; deceptive or specious argument |
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| pertaining to the woods or the country |
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| imbalanced heavier or larger on one side than the other; Ex. lopsided way of walking |
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| combining parts or separate things into a whole; the whole so formed; PL. syntheses; V. synthesize |
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| not natural; artificial; resulting from synthesis; Ex. synthetic fiber; N. |
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| person who turns animal hides into leather |
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| convert (hide) into leather; make brown by exposure to the sun |
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| tease; excite by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach; torture with disappointment; CF. Tantalus: Greek mythological figure |
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| equivalent in effect or value; Ex. This invasion is tantamount to a declaration of war; CF. amount |
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| very thin candle; gradual decrease in the width of a long object; V. make or become gradually narrower toward one end |
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| linger; delay in starting or going; dawdle |
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| tight; strained; tense; ready; OP. slack |
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| needlessly repetitious; Ex. ``It was visible to the eye''; N. tautology: needless repetition of the same sense; statement that is always true |
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| specialist in classifying (animals, etc.); CF. taxonomy: science of classification |
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| boredom; weariness; ADJ. tedious |
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| practice of abstaining totally from alcoholic drinks; N. teetotaler;; ADJ. teetotal; CF. T + total |
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| boldness; nerve; rashness; Ex. temerity to ask for a pay increase after only three day's work |
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| moderate; make less severe; tone down or restrain; toughen (steel) as by alternate heating and cooling |
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| moderate; restrained; self-controlled; moderate in respect to temperature; CF. temperance: moderation and self-restraint; abstinence of alcoholic drinks; Ex. temperance society |
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| stormy; violent; impassioned; N. tempest: violent storm |
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| of time; not lasting forever; limited by time; temporary; secular; worldly |
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| gain time as by postponing an action; avoid committing oneself |
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| promoting a particular point of view; biased; having an aim; designed to further a cause; Ex. tendentious rather than truth-seeking; CF. tend: move in a certain direction |
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| capable of being stretched; of tension; Ex. tensile rubber |
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| holding of an office or real estate; time during which such an office is held |
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| lukewarm; slightly warm; ¹ÌÁö±ÙÇÑ; half-hearted; not eager; Ex. tepid reaction to the new film; Ex. tepid supporter |
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| last stop of railroad; end |
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[image]mosaic; inlaid; Ex. tessellated pattern |
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| maker of a will; CF. testatrix |
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| irritable; impatient and bad-tempered; short-tempered; N. testiness |
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| tie (an animal) with a rope or tether; N: rope or chain to which an animal is tied; limit of one's endurance; Ex. the end of one's tether |
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| government run by religious leaders |
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| [image]pertaining to drama; N: actor or actress |
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| slave; bondage; slavery; Ex. Her beauty held him in thrall; CF. enthrall |
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| worn through till the threads show; shabby and poor; hackneyed; Ex. threadbare excuses |
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| crowd (of people or things); V. |
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| strangle; regulate the speed of with a throttle; N: valve that regulates the flow; CF. throat ? |
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| kill by choking or suffocating; suppress |
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| miser; excessively frugal person |
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| handle used to move boat's rudder (to steer) |
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| quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument (which distinguishes it from others of the same pitch) |
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| drink (alcoholic beverages) frequently; N: alcoholic drink |
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| tax of one-tenth (contributed to a church); V: pay a tithe |
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| tickle; excite pleasantly; Ex. not to titillate the audience but to enlighten it |
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| nervous giggle; nervous laugh; V. |
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| of a title; in name only; nominal; having the title of an office without the obligations; Ex. titular head of the company |
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| shaving of the head especially by person entering religious orders; V. |
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| 地势, 剖析图physical features of a region (such as the shape and height); CF. topo-: place |
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| underwater explosive apparatus; V. |
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| twisting force; force producing rotation |
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| (of weather) hot or scorching; passionate; Ex. torrid love affairs |
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| shake or move unsteadily; sway as if about to fall |
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| stone used to test the fineness of gold alloys; criterion; standard |
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| promote or publicize (one's goods or service); praise excessively (as a form of advertisement); CF. advertise |
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| e.g.: tracts of lands; propaganda pamphlet (esp. by a religious or political group); expanse of land; region of indefinite size; system of related organs; Ex. digestive tract |
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| exceeding ordinary limits; superior; surpassing; V. transcend: go beyond; exceed; surpass; N. transcendancy |
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| going beyond common thought or ideas; impossible to understand by practical experiences or practices; known only by studying thoughts or intuition; OP. empirical; CF. transcendentalism |
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| violation of a law; sin; V. transgress: go beyond (a limit); violate; do wrong |
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| [image]staying for a short time; momentary; temporary; N: one that is transient |
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| transform; change; convert to something different |
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| (of a fact) become known; be revealed; happen; give off (watery waste matter) through pores |
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| strong emotion; rapture; Ex. in a transport/transports of; V: move to strong emotion; enrapture |
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| outward decorations; ornaments (as an outward sign of rank) |
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| strenuous work; toil; painful labor; labor of childbirth |
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| 歪曲copy or example of something that completely misrepresents the true nature of the real thing; comical parody or imitation; treatment aimed at making something appear ridiculous; Ex. travesty of justice; OP. paragon |
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article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly |
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| long shallow trench made by a plow; deep wrinkle in the skin; V. |
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| suffering; ordeal; distress; trial |
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| official of ancient Rome elected by the plebians to protect their rights; protector of the people |
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| 贡品, 称赞, 敬意, 礼物tax levied by a ruler; payment made by one nation to another in acknowledgment of submission; mark of respect (such as praise or gift); Ex. pay tribute to |
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| something of little importance or value; small amount; Ex. a trifle; V: treat without seriousness; flirt |
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| group of three related works (connected by a shared subject but each complete in itself) |
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| pledge of good faith especially in betrothal; betrothal; Ex. by my troth |
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| long narrow container for feeding farm animals; lowest point (of a wave, business cycle, etc.); long narrow depression as between waves |
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| aggressiveness; ferocity; ADJ. truculent: aggressive; pugnacious; fierce |
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| meeting arranged by lovers; arrangement between lovers to meet |
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| (of a part of the body) swollen; distended; bombastic; pompous |
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| commotion of a great crowd; riot; noise; uproar; ADJ. tumultuous: noisy and disorderly |
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| rolling treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America |
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| (of a liquid) having the sediment disturbed; muddy; thick |
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| deep dish for serving soup |
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| depravity; baseness; Ex. moral turpitude |
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| guardianship; training; function of a tutor; instruction |
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| protective; pertaining to a guardianship; Ex. tutelary deities |
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| intentionally hidden; beyond what is evident; situated beyond; unstated and often questionable; Ex. ulterior motive |
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| resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult; Ex. take umbrage at his rudeness |
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| complete agreement; ADJ. unanimous |
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| modest; Ex. the champion's unassuming manner |
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| violent; uncontrolled; Ex. unbridled rage/greed |
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| [image]harness fitted about a horse's head (used to restrain); curb; check; V: put a bridle on; control or restrain; show anger |
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| unity of pitch (in musical performance); complete accord; Ex. The choir sang in unison. |
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| disheveled; uncared for in appearance; not combed; CF. comb |
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| not knowing; unaware; unintentional; Ex. She was their unwitting accomplice; Ex. unwitting insult; CF. wit: know |
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| unaccustomed; unusual; Ex. He arrived with unwonted punctuality. |
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| mischievous child (usually a boy); CF. urchin: hedgehog; CF. porcupine: pig with spikes ?; CF. sea urchin |
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| bearlike; pertaining to a bear |
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| seize another's power or rank (without legal authority); supplant; appropriate; N. usurpation; CF. take for one's own use |
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| lending money at illegal high rates of interest |
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| imaginary remote paradise on earth; CF. Lost Horizon |
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| excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife; CF. uxor: wife |
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| waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro; N. vacillation |
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| empty; lacking in ideas; inane; stupid; Ex. vacuous expression; N. vacuity |
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| wanderer (without a permanent home); tramp |
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| capricious happening; caprice; whim; CF. wander |
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| wandering from place to place; roving; stray; moving in a random fashion; Ex. vagrant thoughts; N. vagrancy |
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| boastful; excessively conceited; N. vainglory: great vanity |
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| forerunners; foremost position of an army; advance forces; foremost position in a trend or movement; CF. rearguard |
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| group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
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| lacking liveliness; dull and unimaginative; insipid and flavorless; Ex. vapid lecture |
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| servant/ in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord; subordinate or dependent |
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| boasted; bragged; highly publicized; V. vaunt: boast; brag |
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| change in direction; swerve |
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| capable of being bribed; corrupt; CF. vernal |
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| thin surface layer (of good quality wood, glued to a base of inferior material); cover; surface show; fa\c{c}ade; V. |
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| pompous array of words; too many unnecessary words; wordiness |
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| green; covered with green plants or grass; lush in vegetation; Ex. verdant meadows |
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| [image]green coating or patina on copper which has been exposed to the weather |
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| border; edge, rim, or margin; Ex. on the verge of: very near to; V: border on |
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| being truly so; real or genuine; actual; not false or imaginary |
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| quality of being true; lasting truth or principle; Ex. the verity of his testimony; Ex. one of the eternal verities |
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| living language (as compared to the official language); language spoken in a country or region; natural style; Ex. lapse into the vernacular |
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| enthusiasm (as in artistic performance or composition); liveliness; vigor |
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| trace; remains; Ex. vestiges of some ancient religion |
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| reject/deny; vested power to reject a bill; exercise of this right; V: prevent or forbid by exercising the power of veto |
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| parish priest; representative |
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| change (esp. from good to bad); change of fortune; CF. the last emperor of China |
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| food; provisions; V. victual: provide with food |
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| watchful; on the alert; watchfully awake; alert to spot danger; N. vigilance |
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| slander; speak evil of; N. vilification |
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| clear from blame; free from blame or accusation (with supporting proof); exonerate; substantiate; justify or support; avenge; Ex. vindicate one's client; Ex. vindicate one's claim; CF. vindicator |
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| wine merchant; winemaker; seller of wine |
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| (of a disease or poison) extremely harmful or poisonous; (of a feeling) hostile; bitter; N. virulence; CF. virus; CF. venom |
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| spoil the effect of; make inoperative; corrupt morally |
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| of glass; pertaining to or resembling glass; V. vitrify: change into glass; CF. petrify |
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| causing sharp pain to the mind; caustic; corrosive; sarcastic; of vitriol; N. vitriol: sulphuric acid (which burns flesh deeply); bitterly abusive expression; caustic expression; CF. glass |
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| abusive; scolding; V. vituperate: berate; scold; rail against abusively |
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| female fox; ill-tempered woman; CF. shrew |
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| clamorous; noisy; V. vociferate: cry out loudly (when complaining) |
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| act of using one's will; act of making a conscious choice; Ex. She selected this dress of her own volition. |
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| religion practiced chiefly in Haiti |
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| ravenous; eating large quantities of food; exceedingly eager; insatiable; Ex. voracious animal/reader |
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| whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged |
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| give a personal guarantee; Ex. I can vouch for his integrity; N. voucher |
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| move gently (in air or in seas) by wind or waves; Ex. leaves wafting past the window |
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| homeless child or animal; Ex. waifs and strays |
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| trail of ship or other object through water; path of something that has gone before; Ex. hunger followed in the wake of the war |
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| roll in mud; indulge in; (of a ship) roll in a rough sea; become helpless; Ex. wallow in the mud/luxury |
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| achieve by cleverness or trick; wiggle out; fake; Ex. She tried to wangle an invitation to the party. |
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| unrestrained; gratuitously cruel; willfully malicious; unchaste; sexually improper; promiscuous; Ex. wanton spending/killing; CF. having no just cause |
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| act of lying in wait to attack by surprise; sudden attack made from a concealed position; Ex. lie in ambush; V. |
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| raised mark from a beating or whipping |
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| confusion; turmoil; confused mass; bewildering jumble; Ex. welter of data |
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| wallow (as in mud or high seas); lie soaked (as in blood); Ex. The victims weltered in their blood. |
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| deceive, persuade, or obtain by flattery; cajole; coax; Ex. wheedle a promise out of her |
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| young animal (esp. of the dog or cat family |
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