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| abridge; compendium; cursory; curtail; syllabus; synopsis; terse |
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| apace; abrupt; headlong; impetuous; precipitate |
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| with speed; quickly; swiftly |
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| abet; advocate; ancillary; bolster; corroborate; countenance; espouse; mainstay; munificent; proponent; stalwart; sustenance |
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| (as verb) to approve, support, encourage |
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| to adopt or embrace; to make one's own |
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| bilious; dudgeon; irascible; pettish; petulant; pique; querulous; umbrage; waspish |
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| peevish; irritable; cranky |
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| a feeling of offense or resentment; anger |
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| tending to show sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance |
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| to affect with sharp irritation |
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| offense; annoyance; displeasure |
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| dilettante; fledgling; neophyte; novitiate; proselyte; tyro |
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| a dabbler; someone who takes up an activity merely for amusement |
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| the state of being a novice |
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| a person who has changed from belief, sect, belief to antoher |
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| a beginner in learning anything |
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| burgeoning; callow; engender; inchoate; incipient; nascent |
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| developing quickly; flourishing |
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| immature or inexperienced |
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| not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary |
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| beginning to exist or develop |
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| ascerbic; acidulous; acrimonious; asperity; caustic; mordacious; mordant; trenchant |
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| harsh or sharpness of tone, temper, or manner; roughness |
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| sharp or caustic in style, tone, etc |
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| audacious; courageous; dauntless |
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| banal; fatuous; hackneyed; insipid; mundane; pedestriam; platitude; prosaic; quotidian; trite |
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| a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound |
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| matter-of-fact or unimaginative |
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| usual or customary; commonplace |
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| bacchanalian; debauchery; depraved; dissipated; iniquity; libertine; libidinous; licentious; reprobate; ribald; salacious; turpitude |
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| a noisy or drunken feast or gathering; revelry |
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| a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained; a profligate |
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| full of sexual lust; lewd; lascivious |
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| a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person |
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| vulgar or indescent in speech or language |
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| vile, shameful, or base character |
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| capricious mercurial; volatile |
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| counterpart; emulate; facsimile; factitious; paradigm; precuros; quintessence; simulated; vicarious |
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| not spontaneous or natural; artificial |
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| belittle; berate; castigate; decry; denounce; deride; disparage; excoriate; gainsay; harangue; impugn; inveigh; lambaste; objurgate; pillory; remonstrate; reprehend; reprove; revile; vituperate |
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| to denounce or berate severely |
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| to deny, dispute, or contradict |
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| to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words |
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| to reprimand or berate harshly |
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| to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse |
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| to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval |
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| to reprove or find fault in |
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| aspersion; calumny; defamation; diatribe; obloquy; opprobrium; rebuke; tirade |
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| a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism |
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| a false or malicious statement; slander; defamation |
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| censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing |
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| the disgrace or reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageiously shameful; infamy |
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| bereave; cadaver; defunct; demise; dolorous; elegy; knell; lament; macabre; moribund; obsequies; sepulchral; wraith |
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| to deprive and make desolate, especially by death |
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| a sound or sign announcing death or an end |
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| gruesome and horrifying; ghastly |
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| in a dying state; near death |
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| relating to burial; suggestive of a tomb |
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| abnegate; abstain; ascetic; spartan; stoic; temperate |
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| to relinquish; renounce; to deny oneself |
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| brave; undaunted; austere |
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| authoritarian; despotic; dogmatic; hegemonic; imperious; peremptory; tyrannical |
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| doctrinal; domineering or overbearing |
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| leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal |
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| abstruse; ambiguous; arcane; bemusing; cryptic; enigmatic; esoteric; inscrutable; obscure; opaque; paradoxical; perplexing; recondite; turbid |
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| incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized |
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| dealing with a very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter; obscure |
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| defile; fetid; invidiuos; noisome; odious; putrid; rebarbative |
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| calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful |
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| causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent |
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| articulate; cogent; eloquent; evident; limpid; lucid; pellucid |
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| clear, translucent, and free from obscurity |
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| allowing for maximum passage of light; clear in meaning, expression, or style |
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| aberrant; anachronism; anomalous; iconoclast; discrete; eclectic; esoteric |
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| something out of the correct historical time |
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| a breaker or destroyer of images |
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| abash; chagrin; compunction; contrition; diffidence; expiate; foible; gaucherie; rue |
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| the state of lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness |
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| a minor weakness or failing of character |
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| lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness |
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| equitable; equity; tantamount |
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| apocryphal; canard; chicanery; dissemble; duplicity; equivocate; erroneous; ersatz; fallacious; feigned; guile; mendacious; perfidy; prevaricate; specious; spurious |
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| a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report, or rumor |
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| serving as a substitute; synthetic; artificial meant to replace |
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| telling lies, especially habitually; untruthful |
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| to speak falsely or misleadingly |
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| superficially pleasing or plausible, but lacking merit |
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| not genuine, authentic, or true; counterfeit |
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| conjugal; consanguine; endogamous; filial; fratricide; progenitor; scion |
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| having the same ancestry or descent |
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| relating to marriage within a specific tribe or similar social unit |
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| a person who kills his or her brother |
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| ardor; doctrinaire; fervid; partisan; tendentious; zealot |
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| (as adj) dogmatic about others' acceptance of one's ideals |
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| heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc. |
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| having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose |
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| absolve; acquit; exculpate; exonerate; expiate; palliate; redress; vindicate |
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| to atone for; make ammends or reparation for |
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| to relieve or lessen; mitigate; alleviate |
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| the setting right of what is wrong; relief from wrong or injury |
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| chortle; droll; facetious; flippant; gibe; jocular; levity; ludicrous; raillery; riposte; simper |
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| amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous |
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| not meant to be taken seriously or literally; amusing; humorous |
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| frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity |
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| to utter mocking or scoffing words; to taunt |
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| lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness |
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| good-humored ridicule; banter |
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| a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke |
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| to smile in a silly, self-conscious way |
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| abatement; aperture; fissure; hiatus; interregnum; interstice; lull; orifice; rent; respite; rift |
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| a decrease in the amount of taxation faced by an individual or company |
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| any period of freedom from usual authority, especially as in a ruler |
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| altruistic; beneficent; clement; largess; magnanimous; munificent; philanthropic; unstinting |
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| mild or merciful in disposition or character; lenient; compassionate |
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| generous in forgiving an insult or injury |
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| to do without being frugal; without limit |
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| avaricious; covetous; mercenary; miserly; penurious; rapacious; venal |
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| extremely poor or destitute; extremely stingy; parsimonious |
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| inordinately greedy; predatory |
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| open to bribery; able to be purchased, as in a bribe |
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| asperity; baleful; dour; fell; malevolent; mordant; sardonic; scathing; truculent; vitriolic; vituperation |
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| fierce; cruel; savagely brutal |
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| verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation or condemnation |
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| baleful; baneful; deleterious; inimical; injurious; insidious; minatory; perfidious; pernicious |
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| full of menacing or malign influences |
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| injurious to health; harmful |
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| adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful |
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| deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful |
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| causing insidious harm or ruin; deadly or fatal |
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| cacophony; din; dissonant; raucous; strident |
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| making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking |
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| abhorrence; anathema; antagonism; antipathy; detestation; enmity; loathing; malice; odium; rancor |
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| a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction |
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| intense hatred or dislike especially toward something hated or repugnant |
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| beneficial; salubrious; salutary |
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| favorable to or promoting health |
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| wholesome; conducive to some beneficial purpose |
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| dither; oscillate; teeter; vacillate; waver |
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| antithetic; churlish; curmudgeon; irascible; malevolent; misanthropic; truculent; vindictive |
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| directly opposed or contrasted; opposite |
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| a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person |
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| characterized with hatred toward humankind; unfriendly; surly |
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| credulous; gullible; ingenuous; na |
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| willing to believe or trust too readily; gullible |
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| free from reserve, restraint, or dissimilation; candid; sincere |
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| disingenuous; dissemble; fulsome; ostensible; unctuous |
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| to give false or misleading appearance to; conceal the true nature of |
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| offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross |
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| professed; pretended; apparent, evident, or conspicuous |
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| excessively smooth, suave, or smug; oily |
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| appraise; ascertain; assay; descry; peruse |
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| to see by looking carefully; discern; detect |
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| indolent; inert; lackadaisical; languid; lassitude; lethargic; phlegmatic; quiescent; slothful; torpid |
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| having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; inactive or relatively benign |
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| weariness of body or mind from strain, oppresive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness |
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| being at rest; quiet; inactive or motionless |
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| inactive or sluggish; apathetic; dormant |
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| adventitious; amulet; auspicious; fortuitous; kismet; optimum; portentous; propitiate; propitious; providential; talisman |
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| promising success; favorable |
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| ominously significant or indicative; momentous |
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| to make favorably inclined; appease; concilliate |
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| presenting favorable conditions |
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| opportune, fortunate, or lucky |
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| admonish; cavil; belabor; enjoin; exhort; harangue; hector; martinet; remonstrate; reproof |
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| to caution, advise, or counsel against something |
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| to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unecessarily |
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| to prescribe with authority or emphasis; to direct or order to do something |
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| a blustering, domineering person; a bully |
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| a strict disciplinarian; someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules |
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| askance; awry; careen; carom; circuitous; circumvent; gyrate; labyrinth; meander; oblique; serrated; sidle; sinuous; undulating; vortex |
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| any strike an rebound, as a ball striking a wall and glancing off |
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| to move sideways or obliquely |
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| bombastic; circumlocution; garrulous; grandiloquent; loquacious; periphrastic; prolix; rhetoric; turgid; verbose |
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| high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious |
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| circumlocutory; roundabout |
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| extended to great, unecessary, or tedious length |
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| swollen; distended; inflated |
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| ameliorate; appease; assuage; defer; mitigate; mollify; placate; propitiate; satiate; slake; sooth |
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| to soften in feeling or temper; pacify |
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| euphonious; harmonious; melodious; sonorous |
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| destitue; esurient; impecunious; indigent |
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| having little or no money; penniless |
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| lacking food, clothing, or other necessities of life because of poverty; impoverished |
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| acclaim; accolade; aggrandize; encomium; eulogize; extol; fawn; laud; venerate |
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| to widen in scope; to make greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor |
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| a formal expression of high praise; eulogy |
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| augur; auspice; fey; harbinger; portentous; presage; prescient; prognosticate |
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| a divination or prognostication; support or sponsorship |
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| a herald; anything that foreshadows a future event |
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| a presentiment or foreboding; prophetic significance |
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| knowledge of things before they exist or happen |
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| to forecast or predict from present indications or signs |
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| discomfort; encumber; fetter; forfend; hinder; impede; inhibit; occlude |
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| to defend, secure, or protect; to fend off |
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| to close, shut, or stop up |
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| astute; canny; erudite; perspicacious |
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| characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly |
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| having keen mental perception and understanding |
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| disconsolate; doleful; dolor; elegiac; forlorn; lament; lugubrious; melancholy; morose; plaintive; threnody |
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| expressing sorrow or lamentation |
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| mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an exaggerated way |
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| a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge |
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| implacable; inexorable; intractable; intransigent; obdurate; obstinate; recalcitrant; refractory; renitent; untoward; vexing |
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| not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified |
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| not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable |
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| unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn |
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| resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant |
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| hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient |
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| resisting pressure; persistently opposing |
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| unfavorable or unfortunate |
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| compendious; curt; laconic; pithy; succinct; taciturn |
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| containing the substance of a subject; concise |
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| rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner |
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| inclined to silence; reserved in speech |
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| anachronism; antecede; antedate; anterior; archaic; diurnal; eon; ephermeral; epoch; fortnight; millennium; penultimate; synchronous; temporal |
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| to go before in time, order, rank, etc. |
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| of or pertaining to a day or each day; daily |
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| the space of forteen nights and days |
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| craven; diffident; pusillanimous; recreant; timorous; trepidation |
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| cowardly; contemptibly timid |
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| lacking courage or resolution; faint-hearted |
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| a coward; a renegade or a traitor |
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| trembling or quivering movement; tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation |
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| candor; fealty; frankness; indisputable; indubitable; legitimate; probity; sincere; veracious; verity |
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| integrity and uprightness; honesty |
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| habitually speaking the truth; honest |
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| accordance with fact or reality; something that is true, as a principle, belief, idea, or statement |
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| aberration; anomaly; iconoclast; idiosyncrasy |
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| a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual |
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| ambulatory; itinerant; peripatetic |
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| traveling from place to place, especially as on a circuit (e.g. a minister or salesperson) |
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| walking or traveling about |
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| adulterate; enervate; exacerbate; inhibit; obviate; stultify; undermine; vitiate |
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| to anticipate and prevent or eliminate by effective measures |
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| to make or cause to appear foolish or ridiculous; to render ineffectual |
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| the impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil |
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| adage; aphorism; apothegm; axiom; bromide; dictum; epigram; platitude; sententious; truism |
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| a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; a proverb |
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| a terse saying embodying a general trut or astute observation |
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| a short, pithy, instructive saying |
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| a platitude or trite saying |
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| an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion |
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| any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed |
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| abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims |
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| a self-evident, obvious truth |
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| abeyance; abjure; abnegation; abortive; abrogate; decamp; demur; recant; recidivism; remission; renege; rescind; retrograde |
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| temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension |
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| to renounce, repudiate, or retract; recant |
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| to abolish by formal or official means; to put aside |
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| to depart quickly, secretly, or unceremoniously |
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| to make objection, especially on the ground of scruples; take exception |
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| repeated or habitual relapse, as into crime |
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