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| subside or moderate. Rathern than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate. |
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| abnormal or deviant. Givent eh aberrant nature of the data, we came to doubt hte validity of the entire experiment. |
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| suspended action. The deal was held in abeyance until her arrival. |
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| depart secretely and hide. The teller who absconded with teh bonds went uncaptured until someone recognized him from his photograph on America's Most Wanted. |
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| sparing in eating and drinking; temperate. concerned weather her vegetarian son's abstemious diet provided him with sufficient protein, hte worred mother pressed food on him. |
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| make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances. It is a crime to adulterate foods without informing the buyer. |
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| warn; reprove. He admonished his listeners to change their wicked ways. |
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| artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating hte beautiful. The beauty of Tiffany's stained glass appealed to Alice's aesthetic sense. |
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| gather; accumulate. Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time. |
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| cheeful promptness; eagerness. Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van wiht alacrity. |
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| relieve. Thsi should alleviate the pain; if it does not, we shall have to user stronger drugs. |
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| combine; united in one body. The unions will attempt to amalgamate their groups into one national body. |
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| unclear or doubtful in meaning. His ambiguous instructions misled us; we did not know which road to take. |
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| the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes. Torn between loving her parents one minute, and hating them the next, she was confused by the ambivalence of her feelings. |
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| improve. Many social workers have attempted to ameliorate the conditions of people living in the slums. |
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| something or someone misplced in time. Shakespeare's reference to clocks in Julius Caesar is an anachronism; no clocks existed in Caesar's time. |
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| comparable. She called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation and recommended that we do the same. |
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| absence of governing body; state of disorder. The assassination of the leaders led to a period of anarchy. |
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| abnormal; irregular. She was placed in the anomalous position of seeming to approve procedures that she despised. |
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| aversion; dislike. Tom's extreme antipathy for disputes keeps him from getting into arguments with his wife. |
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| lack of caring; indifference. A firm believer in dmocratic government, she could not understand the apathy of people who never bothered to vote. |
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| formless; lacking shape of definition. |
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| moved by sexual love; loving. "Love them and leave them" was the motto of the amorous Don Juan. |
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