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| good-natured banter/ridicule |
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| clairvoyant, prognosticate, adumbrate, augur, call, forecast, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, soothsay, vaticinate |
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| capable of causing laughter |
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| with a fondness for alcohol |
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corrupt and open to bribery
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| a condition of listelessness or indifference - sluggishness - phlegmatic - torpid. |
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| given to tears or weeping |
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| done in a routine way - a perfunctory smile |
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| to conciliate; to appease |
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| device for punishing offenders publicly |
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| insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
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| very difficult to understand |
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| hardhearted - asperity - baleful - inclemency |
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| very generous - largess - clement |
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| doctrinaire - fervid - zealot |
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| to raise minor objections to |
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| the collection or study of money |
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| a state of fitness or order |
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| Having to do with a coastal or shore region |
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| disposed to follow slavishly |
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| disposed to follow slavishly |
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| straying away from the normal |
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| to adorn in a cheap, showy manner |
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| full of proverbs - moralistic |
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| to anticipate/prevent or make unnecessary |
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| to make soft by soaking in water |
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| to give a false impresion |
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| caused by factors within the system |
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| wise and clear-sighted, discerning, sapient |
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| uniform - without extreme variation |
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| promising, boding well, encouraging |
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| priase, approval, admiration |
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| feeling of strong disapproval |
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| a serene and peaceful calm |
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| a prolonged and depressing inactivity |
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| to regain the good favor of |
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| festive, friendly, jovial |
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| dissatisfaction and reslessness resulting from boredom/apathy |
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| dissatisfaction and reslessness resulting from boredom/apathy |
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| to loudly attack or denounce |
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| accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
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| rustic and pastoral - agrestic - campestral - outland |
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| to obtain by deceiption or flattery |
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| penny-punching and thrifty |
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| happening by accident or chance |
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| relevant to the subject at hand |
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| immunity from punishment or penalty |
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| unfortunate or inappropriate |
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| the essential or central par |
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| bitter, long-lasting resentment |
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| an overabundant supply; to feed or supply to excess |
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| hastily or rashly energetic |
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| adherence to highest principles |
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| radiant; shiny; brilliant |
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| diligent; persistent; hard-working |
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| one who spends money wastefully |
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| brief and precise in meaning |
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| bring up, announce, begin to talk about |
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| to tolerate, endure, countenance - to approve of and tolerate |
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| to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
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| a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop |
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| to sag or droop, to become spiritless - think windless flag |
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| a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide - thing guide |
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| to tilt or lean to one side: The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind. |
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to move heavily and clumsily:
Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers. |
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fitting, proper:
It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame. |
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| exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
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| to be established, accepted or customary |
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multicolored, usually in blotches:
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| courage, spunk, fortitude |
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| to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force. |
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| the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
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| to remove from consideration |
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| to proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation |
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| to foreshadow vaguely or intimate |
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| soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts |
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| farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
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| to slander, make a false accusation |
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| disposed to point out tivial faults - calculated to cofuse or entrap in argument |
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| speed, alacrity; think accelerate |
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| insult, scorn, aspersion - insubordinate, rebellious |
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disuse
After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use. |
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| random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
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| vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile |
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| lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery |
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| cheap, gaudy tawdry, flashy, showy |
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| to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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| cheap, miserly: A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty |
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| the concluding part of a speech: flowerly, rhetorical speech. |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| pounding, thundering, resounding |
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| lustful lascivious, bawdy |
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| remedial, wholesome, causing improvement |
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| cheeful, confident, optimistic |
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| gloomy, dark, sullen, morose, stygian |
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| toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite |
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| a novice - tyro - neophyte |
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| to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language |
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| awaiting a chance to entrap |
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| firmly established by long persistance |
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| a soothing or healing salve |
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| the returns one receives as compensation |
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| setting something at an angle |
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| careful and mindful in execution |
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| without premeditation or preparation |
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| temperamentally disinclined to talk |
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| mournful - especially exaggerated mournfulness |
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