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10/01/2009
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abeyance
 Definition
suspended action
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abstemious
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sparing in eating or drinking; temperate
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adulterate
 Definition
to make impure by adding inferior of tainted substances
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alacrity
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promptness in response, cheerful readiness
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ameliorate
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to make better or more tolerable
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antipathy
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aversion or dislike
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approbation
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approval
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ascetic
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practicing self-denial, austere
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assiduous
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dilligent
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attenuate
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to make thinner, weaken or lessen
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aver
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to verify or prove
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bombastic
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pompous, using inflated language
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burgeon
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to grow or expand rapidly
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burnish
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to make shiny of lustrous
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castigation
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to subject to severe punishment, reproof for criticism
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cogent
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convincing
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commensurate
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corresponding in extend or degree or amount, proportionate
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craven
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cowardly
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desultory
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aimless, haphazard
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diatribe
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a bitter and abusive speech or writing
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dissemble
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to hide under a false appearance, to put on the appearance of
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distend
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expand, swell out
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ebullient
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enthusiastic
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eclectic
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selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
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efficacy
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power to produce a desired effect
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effrontery
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insolence, shameless boldness
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endemic
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prevailing among a specific group of people
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enervate
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weaken
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erudite
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learned, scholarly
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esoteric
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hard to understand, known only to the chosen few
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exculpate
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clear from blame
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exigency
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urgent situation, pressing needs or demands, state of requiring immediate attention
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facetious
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joking, often inappropriate
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fatuous
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silly
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felicitous
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pleasant, delightful; well suited or expressed
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foment
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to stir up, instigate
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gainsay
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contradict, opppose
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garrulous
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pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
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grandiloquent
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pompous, bombastic
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inchoate
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recently begun, rudimentary
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insipid
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lacking flavor, dull
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insularity
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narrow mindedness, isolation
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intractable
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not easily managed or directed
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inured
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accustomed, or hardened
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invective
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abuse
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irascible
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irritable
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laconic
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brief and to the point
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lassitude
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languor, weariness
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loquacious
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talkative, wordy
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malingerer
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one who feigns illness to escape duty
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mendacious
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lying
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obdurate
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stubborn
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obsequious
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slavishly attentive, servile, sychophantic
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obviate
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to anticipate and prevent or to make unnecessary
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officious
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volunteering one's services when they are neither asked nor needed
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opprobrium
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infamy, villification
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paucity
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fewness, dearth
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penury
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severe poverty; stinginess
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perfidious
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treacherous
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perfunctory
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characterized by routine or superficiality; mechanical; lacking in interest or enthusiasm
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phlegmatic
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calm, not easily disturbed
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plasticity
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ability to be molded
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platitude
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trite remark; commonplace statement
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precipitate
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rash, premature, hasty, sudden
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prevaricate
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to deviate from the truth
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probity
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uprightness, incorruptibility
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prodigal
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wasteful, reckless with money
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propitiate
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appease
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quiescent
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at rest, dormant, temporarily inactive
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rarefied
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made less dense
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recondite
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abstruse, profound, secret
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refractory
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stubborn, unmanageable
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reprobate
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person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency
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reticent
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reserved, uncommunicated
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salubrious
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healthful
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solicitous
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lustful
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soporific
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sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness or lethargy
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stolid
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unemotional, impassive
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torpor
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lethargy, sluggishness, dormancy
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truculence
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aggressiveness, ferocity
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vituperative
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abusive and scolding
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welter
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to wallow
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