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| stronghold; something seen as a source of protection; Ex. the last bastion of male chauvinism |
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| rebel; nonconformist (in a group) |
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| drowsy; dull; N. lethargy: state of sluggishness and inactivity |
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| equipment; odds and ends used in a particular activity; personal belongings; Ex. photographic paraphernalia; CF. married woman's property exclusive of her dowry |
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| conventions; moral standards; moral customs |
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| lack of self-confidence or courage |
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| state with less truth than seems warranted by the facts; Ex. He understated the seriousness of the crime; N. understatement; OP. overstate |
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| diplomatic etiquette; ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats; first copy of a treaty before its ratification; Ex. Protocol demands that the queen meet him at the airport. |
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| plait; interweave strands or lengths of; make by weaving strands together; N: braided segment (as of hair) |
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| assent; agree passively; comply without protest |
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| display of partiality toward a favored person |
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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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| current of air (through a room or to a fire); act of pulling roads; act of swallowing liquid or amount of liquid swallowed at a time |
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| signify; indicate; be a sign of |
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| enclosure for birds; large cage |
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| humorous; mischievous; tricky |
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| make or become suitable for a specific use; alter; modify; adjust; N. adaptation: act of adapting; composition recast into a new form; Ex. The play is an adaption of a short novel. |
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| bugbear; object of baseless terror |
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| masses of leaves; CF. defoliate |
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| small body revolving around a larger one |
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| mismanage; blunder; botch; blow; spoil by clumsy behavior |
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| restore to a previous condition or position |
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| pertaining to memory; assisting the memory; N: device, such as as formula or rhyme, used as a mnemonic aid |
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| draftee; person forced into military service; V. |
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| struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly |
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| made for practical use only (without decoration); functioning; Ex. functional modern furniture; CF. functionalism |
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| minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points; stressing niceties of conduct or form; N. punctilio, punctiliousness: careful attention payed to every small exact detail |
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| weakness of mind; state of being an imbecile; N. imbecile: stupid person; fool |
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| scold harshly; criticize severely |
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| easily accomplished; ready or fluent; superficial; not deep; Ex. facile solution to a complex problem; Ex. facile speaker; N. facility: ability to do something easily and well; ease in doing resulting from skill or aptitude; something that facilitates an action; amenity; Ex. with great facility |
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| (of people or animals) sturdy; robust; (of plants) able to stand inclement(stormy) weather |
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| extreme poverty; stinginess; ADJ. penurious: very poor; stingy |
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| capable of being bribed; corrupt; CF. vernal |
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| fly; fly or move lightly or quickly; dart lightly; pass swiftly by; Ex. a bee flitting from flower to flower |
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| person of prominence or influence; powerful or influential person (in business or industry); Ex. oil magnate |
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| beggar; ADJ: living as a beggar |
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| stupid awkward person; CF. elf |
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| Peeping Tom; person who derives sexual gratification from observing the sexual acts of others |
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| obedient; easily managed; submissive |
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| spoil the effect of; make inoperative; corrupt morally |
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| related to telling a story; N: narrated account; story; V. narrate: tell (a story); CF. narration |
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| ridicule; ADJ. derisive; CF. derisory |
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| greed (for wealth); CF. cupid; CF. Cupid |
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| pleasant in taste; tasty; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable; Ex. savory reputation |
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| offensive in odor or flavor |
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| traitor who aids invaders; CF. Vidkun Quisling |
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| skill or sensitivity in dealing with people without causing offence |
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| false; based on a fallacy; misleading; N. fallacy: false idea or notion; false reasoning; Ex. popular fallacy; Ex. fallacy of the argument |
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| make neat or tidy by clipping; reduce by removing what is unnecessary; ornament; decorate (round the edges); Ex. trim the cost; Ex. jacket trimmed with fur; N. ADJ: tidy; in good order |
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| one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided |
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| informal discussion; conversation |
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| renovate; make clean, bright, or fresh (make new) again; make bright by polishing; Ex. refurbish an old theater; CF. furbish: polish |
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| make desolate; forsake; abandon and desert |
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| move the fingers and hands awkwardly (in search of something); mishandle or drop a ball that is in play; bungle; botch; spoil by mishandling; N. |
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| error; misunderstanding; V. misapprehend |
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| narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land |
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| skulduggery(skullduggery) |
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| dishonest behavior or action; Ex. skulduggery in the election |
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| abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
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| detestation; quality of being odious; hatefulness; disrepute (resulting from hateful conduct) |
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| rendering; translation; artistic interpretation of a song, etc |
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| temporary invasion; CF. excursion: short journey |
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| on or relating to the earth |
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| token of disgrace; brand; V. stigmatize: mark with a stigma; characterize as disgraceful |
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| total; fragrant; clearly wrong; (of people's behavior) coarse; corpulent; Ex. gross insolence/behavior; V: earn as a total amount; N: 12 dozens |
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| teachings in general; particular principle (religious, legal, etc.) taught; dogma; tenet; ADJ. doctrinal |
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| wrong or improper name; incorrect designation |
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| grow rapidly (in numbers); spread; multiply; N. proliferation |
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| understanding the nature of an event after it has actually happened |
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| easily understood; clear; intelligible; N. lucidity |
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| not able to be pierced or entered; beyond understanding; impossible to understand; Ex. impenetrable mystery |
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| horrible; terrifying; resembling ghosts; CF. aghast |
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| overbright in color; unpleasantly bright; gaudy |
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| sweet sound; ADJ. euphonious |
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| concise and meaningful; substantial; meaty |
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| distance around something; circumference |
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| take in food or drink with one's tongue; splash gently; Ex. waves lapping the shore; N: front area from the waist to the knees of a seated person |
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| flattery; admiration that is more than is necessary or deserved |
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| marshal; draw up in order; arrange in order; clothe splendidly; adorn; N: fine clothes; ordered group; Ex. in battle array |
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| rubbing away by friction; gradual decrease in numbers or strength; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment; Ex. a war of attrition |
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| withdrawal; V. secede: withdraw formally from membership |
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| quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion; ADJ. poignant: touching; deeply moving; (of sorrow, grief, etc.) painful; keenly distressing to the mind; Ex. poignant memory/anxiety; CF. prick |
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| coarse food for cattle, horses, etc.; feed for livestock; CF. food |
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| tunnels in which rabbits live; overcrowded living area; crowded conditions in which people live |
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| reserved or aloof; cold in manner; Ex. distant greeting; ADV. distantly |
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| put under a spell(condition caused by magical power); carry away(fill with strong feeling) with emotion; put into a trance; fill with delight |
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| dissimilar; mixed; not homogeneous; consisting of dissimilar elements or plants |
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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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| compelling charm; ADJ. glamorous |
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| unprejudiced; free from bias and self-interest; objective |
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| picture made of small colorful inlaid tiles; ADJ. |
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| unrepressed; free in behavior and feelings |
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| pardon (allowed by government to political criminals) |
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| supply; allotted amount of work; assigned portion of work; limitation; Ex. two-year stint in the army; Ex. without stint |
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| rotate swiftly; make (thread) by twisting (cotton, wool, etc.); N. |
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| complain; mutter discontentedly; grouch; N. |
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| abstruse; not easily understood; profound; secret |
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| lasting; surviving; V. endure: bear (pain or suffering) for a long time; remain alive (in spite of difficulties); last; survive |
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| hollow; curved inwards; OP. convex |
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| eye defect which prevents proper focus; OP. stigmatism |
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| being only one; individual; unique; extraordinary; odd; Ex. singular beauty/behavior |
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| omen; prophecy; sign of coming events; V. augur: predict; foretell; be a sign of (something in future) |
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| suffering; ordeal; distress; trial |
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| provide food and drink (for); cater to: try to satisfy (desires of a bad kind) |
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| pertaining to tailors or tailoring; Ex. a man of great sartorial elegance; CF. sartor: tailor |
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| slander; insult to one's character or reputation; V. |
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| person or animal of pursuit; victim; object of a hunt; prey |
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| line (of waiting people or vehicles) |
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| sad; solemn; suitable for a funeral |
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| particular variety of art or literature |
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| able to live both on land and in water; N. |
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| irresistible; not to be escaped; unavoidable |
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| condition of being unable to feel pain |
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| give up (a position, right, or claim); submit (oneself) passively |
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| sudden sharp feeling of pain |
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| lacking self-restraint; not continent; licentious |
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| perfectionist; person who insists things be exactly right |
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| tending or leaning toward; bent; V. incline: slant; dispose; be disposed; tend |
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| (of a story or play) loosely connected; made up of separate and loosely connected parts; N. episode: incident in the course of an experience |
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| occurring at the proper time or season; opportune; Ex. seasonable intervention in the dispute |
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| binding; causing contraction (stopping bleeding); harsh or severe; stringent; Ex. astringent criticism |
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| daily; commonplace; customary; Ex. quotidian routine |
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| division of a poem (composed of two or more lines) |
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| Scandinavian myth; any legend; long heroic narrative |
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| hereditary nobility; privileged class; government by nobility; N. aristocrat |
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| indirect or subtle (derogatory) hint; insinuation; Ex. sexual innuendo |
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| scrap of cloth; ADJ. ragged: old and torn; seeming unfinished and imperfect; Ex. ragged debut/performance |
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| helpful; contributive; V. conduce; Ex. conduce to/towards |
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| insult to one's dignity; snub; V: treat as if of small importance; insult; snub; ADJ. small in size; of small importance |
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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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| disgust; strong dislike; loathing; ADJ. repugnant: arousing disgust; repulsive |
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| word or signal (as in a play to prompt another actor's speech or entrance); reminder or hint; V: give a cue to |
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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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| bearing of fruit; fulfillment; realization; Ex. come to/be brought to fruition |
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| periodic; on and off; stopping and starting at intervals |
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| given to(having a tendency of) joking |
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| irreverence; sacrilege; cursing; bad language about God or holy things; V. blasphem; ADJ. blasphemous; CF. sacrilege |
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| self-important; significant; consequent; following as a result; Ex. consequential air; CF. subsequent |
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| pleasantly merry; festive; joyous; gay; characterized by joviality; jovial |
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| stare foolishly; look in open-mouthed awe |
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| be unfaithful; reveal (unconsciously or unwillingly); Ex. Her trembling hands betray her anxiety. |
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| yielding to another; ceding |
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| display ostentatiously; Ex. ``Honey, if you've got it, flaunt it !'' |
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| older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman |
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| take part in a conspiracy; (of events) work together; combine; Ex. Events conspired to produce great difficulties. |
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| disposition to be lenient in deciding punishments; mildness as of the weather; ADJ. clement |
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| questionable medicine; quack medicine; CF. our (remedy) |
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| examine closely and critically; N. scrutiny |
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| prototype; primitive pattern |
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| arrange (laws or rules) as a code; classify; N. code: system of words used instead of ordinary writing; collection of laws, rules, established social customs |
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| below the threshold of conscious perception; Ex. subliminal advertisement |
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| double-dealing; hypocrisy; being dishonest and deceitful; ADJ. duplicitous |
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| word or phrase characteristically used to describe a person or thing; descriptive phrase to characterize a person (often contemptous) |
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| landless agricultural worker; bond servant; menial worker; N. peonage |
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| of a theme; relating to a unifying motif or idea |
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| difficult condition; condition or state (esp. a bad state or condition); predicament |
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| group of people who share some common quality; armed band; a group of between 300 and 600 soldiers under one commander (in the ancient Rome) |
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| likely to change; unstable; Ex. emotionally labile; N. lability |
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| formal praise; encomium; Ex. I don't deserve such panegyrics. |
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| formal demand or request; Ex. requisition for more computing equipment; V. |
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| enough; abundant; spacious; large in size; Ex. ample opportunity/garden; N. amplitude: quality of being ample; abundance; largeness of space |
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| religion practiced chiefly in Haiti |
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| long shallow trench made by a plow; deep wrinkle in the skin; V. |
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| government ruled by old people |
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| made less dense (of a gas); V. rarefy: make less dense; N. rarefaction |
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| pastoral song; song for several singers without instruments |
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| having many languages; fluent in several languages |
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| die or kill from lack of air; suppress |
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| standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces; stalemate |
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| brief and to the point; using few words; terse |
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| not genuine; N: one that is not genuine; impostor; sham; V: counterfeit; Ex. fake the results of the experiment/the signature |
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| abusive; obscene; indecent; Ex. scurrilous remark |
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| diabolic; devilish; fiendish |
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| (of a plant) dry up from loss of moisture; lose freshness; shrivel; decay |
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| painting on wet plaster (usually fresh) |
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| person who enjoys his own pain; CF. masochism |
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| sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter |
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| prominent; projecting beyond a line; conspicuous; Ex. salient features |
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| tolerate; endure; Ex. brook no interference; N: small stream |
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| malleable; pliable; (of metals) easily pulled into shape; flexible; (of someone) easily influenced or controlled |
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| tending to overthrow or ruin; V. subvert: overthrow completely (an established system); destroy completely; CF. undermine ? |
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| sameness leading to boredom; monotonousness; ADJ. monotonous; CF. monotone |
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| destroy or wear away gradually by chemical action (over a long period) |
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| in Buddhist teachings, the ideal state in which the individual loses himself in the attainment of an impersonal beatitude |
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| marked by vulgar lewd humor; wanton; profane; N. ribaldry: ribald language or joke |
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| able to spring back into shape; quick to recover (as from disappointment); able to adapt to change; Ex. elastic plans; N: elastic material |
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| boxer; CF. pugilism: boxing |
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| expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death; V. eulogize |
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| walk lamely; ADJ: lacking firmness; weak |
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| shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer¸¦ ¹Þ¾ÒÀ» ¶§ |
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| decree or command; grant holy orders; predestine; install as a minister, priest, or rabbi; N. ordainment; CF. ordination |
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| foul smelling; very unpleasant; unwholesome |
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| outward appearance; guise; Ex. We called in the troops to bring a/some semblance of order to the city. |
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| state strongly or positively; demand recognition of (rights, claims, etc.); make a claim to (by forceful action); Ex. assert one's independence |
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| defeat; frustrate; prevent from being successful; thwart; CF. fail |
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| prayer for help (used in invoking); calling upon as a reference or support; act of invoking |
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| repay in kind (usually for bad treatment); V. retaliate |
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| participation; involvement (in a questionable act or a crime) |
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| able to be touched; real; concrete; palpable; possible to realize or understand; Ex. tangible proof |
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| person who collects coins; N. numismatics: study or collection of money, coins, and medals |
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| take the place of unfairly; usurp; replace |
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| children; offspring; descendants |
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| tilt (as of a ship); lean over (to one side) |
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| call and bring into use (a right or law); call on/upon (a higher power or god) for help; ask for; beg for; conjure (a spirit); Ex. invoke the veto power; Ex. invoke one's advisor/God |
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| shackle; restrict the freedom of; N. chain or shackle for the foot of a prisoner; CF. foot |
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| teaching; art of education |
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| narrow opening in a large mass; break in a friendly relation; Ex. through a rift in the clouds; OP. reconcilation |
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| compensation (for loss or wrong); amends; Ex. make reparation for the damage; CF. repair |
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| arousing strong dislike; hateful(causing hatred); vile |
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| move in search of plunder; Ex. marauding army |
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| marked by formality; extremely formal and polite; CF. ceremony: conventional social courtesy |
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| lacking liveliness; dull and unimaginative; insipid and flavorless; Ex. vapid lecture |
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| appease; conciliate; make peaceful; ADJ. propitiatory |
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| inexperienced; N: young bird that has acquired wing feathers and is learning to fly; inexperienced person |
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| spotless; flawless; absolutely clean |
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| quantity of motion of a moving body; impetus; moving force |
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| brave and successful act; deed or action, particularly a brave deed; CF. crossing the Atlantic ocean |
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| prophetic; oracular; N. sibyl: woman prophet (in the ancient world) |
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| having a sawtoothed edge; Ex. serrated leaf |
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| in a spirited manner; with courage; Ex. fight gamely against a superior boxer; ADJ. game |
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| reject disdainfully; scorn; Ex. She spurned all offers of help. |
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| school of the fine arts (especially music or drama); glass-enclosed area; CF. conservancy |
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| person dissatisfied with existing state of affairs; discontented person; ADJ: discontented |
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| grouch; spoilsport; one who intentionally spoils the pleasure of others |
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| serious speech, writing, or conversation; formal discussion (either written or spoken); conversation; V. |
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| profitable; producing wealth |
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| uneasy feelings; misgivings; uneasy fears especially about matters of conscience; Ex. I have no qualms about giving this assignment to Helen. |
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| union; coalition; V. fuse |
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| shrill, trumpetlike sound; kind of trumpet used in former times |
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| angelic; innocent-looking; N. cherub; CF. seraph: winged angel of the highest order |
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| animal or plant living on another; toady; sycophant; CF. para-: beside |
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| decay; V. decompose: decay; break and separate into simple parts |
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| diligent; hard-working; N. industry |
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| pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores; N. metallurgy: science that deals with extracting metals from ores |
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| (of people or their behavior) respectful; obedient (filled with a sense of duty) |
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| signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
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| dissolve; disperse; (of a group) break up and separate; Ex. The club has disbanded. |
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| assumed; counterfeit; hypothetical |
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| tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler; CF. despotism |
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| become unsteady and fall down |
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| slow; sluggish; not on time; late; Ex. tardy arrival |
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| maker and seller of eyeglasses |
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| testimony under oath; deposing; dethroning |
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| explanatory list of symbols on a map |
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| preventing infection; having a cleansing effect |
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| broad comedy; mockery; humorous play full of silly things happening; ADJ. farcical |
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| bitter (to the taste or smell); sharp; bitterly pungent |
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| story-teller; one who tells stories with wit and skill |
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| diminish; bring to a weaker or more difficult condition; demote; lower in rank; separate into components by analysis; Ex. reduced to the ranks; Ex. reduce the house to rubble; N. reduction |
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| move or throw suddenly and quickly |
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| full of learning; erudite; like a scholar; Ex. scholarly journal |
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| tendency to keep together |
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| unfounded false rumor; exaggerated false report |
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| throw lightly; move or lift (the head) with a sudden motion; flip (a coin) to decide something |
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| formation of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears; group of men packed together (for attack or defense) |
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| railing in a courtroom; legal profession; vertical line dividing a staff into equal measures; Ex. prisoner at the bar; V: shut in or out with bars; forbid; exclude; CF. barrister |
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| features especially of the face; distinctive shape or contour of the face; CF. line |
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| make valid; confirm; ratify |
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| overpowering; irresistible in effect; holding one's attention; that compels one to do something; Ex. a compelling adventure story; V. compel |
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| art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances |
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| frenzy; great anger and excitement; CF. fury |
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| death notice (esp. in a newspaper); ADJ. |
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| relating to the art of debate; mutual or reciprocal; Ex. dialectical situation; N. dialectic: art of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments |
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| dramatic poem set to music; long musical work with singing but without acting; CF. cantata |
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| slow moving tree-dwelling mammal; laziness; ADJ. slothful: lazy; indolent |
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| monkeylike; N: ape or monkey |
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| public official who investigates any death thought to be of other than natural causes |
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| clearness of expression; freedom from ambiguity |
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| juicy; full of juice or sap; full of richness; N: succulent plant such as a cactus |
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| search thoroughly; pillage (going through a place); Ex. Enemy soldiers ransacked the town. |
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| relating to the back of an animal; Ex. dorsal fin |
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| able to take on many forms; versatile; CF. Proteus: sea god to change his shape at will |
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| scrupulous; through and careful; Ex. conscientious worker |
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| open widely; open the mouth wide; stare wonderingly with the mouth open; CF. agape |
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| purposely continuing to do something wrong; stubbornly wrongheaded; perverted; directed away from what is right; wicked and unacceptable; Ex. perverse satisfaction; Ex. Hannibal Lecter in a perverse mood; N. perversity |
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| concerning trade or merchants |
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| impossible to estimate; (apprec) invaluable; of immeasurable worth |
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| idealistic but impractical; CF. Don Quixote |
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| aversion; dislike or opposition |
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| morally pure; virginal; abstaining from illicit sexual acts; modest; simple (of a style of writing); not highly decorated; austere |
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| event; event that causes a crisis |
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| upset; distracted by anxiety; very anxious and troubled almost to the point of madness; Ex. distraught with grief/worry |
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| disloyal; cowardly; N: disloyal and cowardly person |
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| amuse; Ex. disport oneself; CF. divert |
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| authorized agent; authority to act for another |
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| offer formally; extend; Ex. tender one's resignation/the exact fare; N: formal offer; money; Ex. legal tender; ADJ: young and vulnerable; sensitive to the touch; sore; soft; delicate; Ex. child of tender years; Ex. tender wound |
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| main impact or shock (of an attack or blow); Ex. brunt of the argument |
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| group of persons joined in political intrigue; cabal; group of military officers ruling a country after seizing power (by force) |
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| preoccupation with physical comforts and things; excessive regard for worldly concerns (rather than spiritual matters) |
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| causing insensitivity to pain; N. |
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| file of documents on a subject or person; file; CF. bundle of papers labeled on the back |
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| permitting light to pass through freely; easily detected; obvious; clear; Ex. transparent lie |
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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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| blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully; speak in a noisy or bullying manner; CF. breeze, gust, gale |
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| treacherous plot; secret plan against the law (by two or more people) |
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| reading desk or stand for a public speaker |
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| operatic solo; a song sung by one person in an opera or oratorio |
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| without an equal; single in kind |
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| descendants; future generations; Ex. go down to posterity; CF. posterior, anterior |
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| one opposed to force; antimilitarist; ADJ. N. pacifism: opposition to war as a means of resolving disputes |
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| not easily satisfied; unquenchable; Ex. insatiable appetite |
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| invigorating and refreshing; cheering; V. exhilarate: make cheerful and excited; Ex. exhilarated by the ride in the sports car |
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| unconventional (in an artistic way) |
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| unworthy; not noble; dishonorable; Ex. ignoble deed |
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| rush wildly; go at full speed |
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| mixture of writings on various subjects; collection of various items |
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| deliverance from a charge; V. acquit: free from a charge or accusation; discharge from a duty; conduct (oneself) in a specified manner |
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| nervous giggle; nervous laugh; V. |
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| overstock; fill beyond capacity (with food); fill to excess; N: oversupply |
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| roundabout; erratic; deviating from the straight course; not straightforward; not completely honest; Ex. devious route |
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| frugality; thrift; economy; agriculture; farming; Ex. animal husbandry; CF. husbandman |
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| ungrateful person (not expressing thanks) |
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| bear one's self; behave; Ex. comport oneself; N. comportment |
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| severe disapproval; CF. approbation |
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| chief; first; Ex. archbishop |
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| arsonist; ADJ: causing fire; of arson; Ex. incendiary bomb |
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| brief explanation of words used in the text |
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| steering wheel of a ship; position of control |
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| bravery; ADJ. valiant: possessing valor; brave |
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| predicament(dangerous condition) from which there is no escape; situation allowing for no further progress |
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| premonition of evil; feeling of coming evil; V. forebode: be a warning of (something unpleasant) |
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| courting favor by cringing and flattering; V. fawn: exhibit affection as a dog; seek favor or attention by obsequiousness |
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| story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable |
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| keep; maintain possession of; employ (esp. a lawyer or advisor); N. retainer: servant; fee paid to retain an advisor |
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| radiating; departing from the center |
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| scolding woman; very small mouselike animal |
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| filthy; foul; base; vile; Ex. sordid bed/story |
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| right or privilege granted by authority; right to vote; license to sell a product in a particular territory |
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| substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness; N. anesthesia |
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| decay; fall to a lower level (of morality, civilization, or art); ADJ. decadent |
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| exclamation; abrupt ejection (to discharge sperm); V. ejaculate |
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| study of language or words |
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| amoral; lewd and lascivious; unrestrained |
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| face (as showing the character and the mind); art of judging human character from facial features |
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| unexplicable; impossible to account for; unreasonable or mysterious |
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| be suited to; be incumbent upon; be right and necessary; Ex. It behooves one to do. |
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| pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of mountain animal |
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| temporary stay; V: stay for a time |
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| nearsighted; lacking foresight; N. myopia |
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| bad-tempered; showing ill-humor; angry |
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| low, indistinct, continuous sound; V. CF. mumble |
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| be annoyed or vexed; Ex. fret over your poor grades; N: irritation of mind; ADJ. fretful |
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| strip (as of clothes); deprive (as of rights); dispossess; N. divestiture(divestment) |
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| blessedness; state of great happiness |
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| well-paid position with little responsibility; CF. sine cure: without care; CF. San Serif |
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| arousing anger or sexual interest; annoying; Ex. provocative in tight jeans; V. provoke: incite to anger; cause (an unpleasant action or feeling); N. provocation |
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| frustrate; put to rout; defeat; disconcert; embarrass; perturb |
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| linger; delay in starting or going; dawdle |
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| successful; rich; affluent; well-to-do; well-off |
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| slanderous remark; Ex. cast aspersions on |
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| imitate or mimic (a person's behavior or manner) |
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| give; deliver; provide; represent in verbal or artistic form; depict; perform; make; translate; Ex. render the song beautifully |
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| chain or strap used with a bit to restrain a horse; something that checks; V: check; restrain |
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| strike forcefully; slap; batter; knock out; N: table with food set out for people to server themselves; meal at which people help themselves to food that's been set |
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| state of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age |
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| protrusion; swelling; bulge |
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| advantage; anything that brings helpl, advantage, or profit; money provided by the government to the people; fund-raising public entertainment; Ex. unemployment benefit; V: receive benefits; be beneficial to; give benefits |
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| based on theory; not practical or applied; hypothetical |
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| authority on a subject; expert; learned person |
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| one regarded as embodying a set image or type; fixed and unvarying representation; standardized mental picture often reflecting prejudice; Ex. stereotype of the happy slave; V: make a stereotype of; represent by a stereotype; Ex. It is wrong to stereotype people; Ex. stereotyped answer |
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| muscular; having well-developed muscles |
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| come to one as a gain; accumulate over time; come about by addition; Ex. benefits that accrue from scientific research; Ex. interest accruing in a bank account; N. accrual |
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| change position or place; exchange (one thing) for another; change in direction or position; Ex. shift the stolen goods; N. group of workers which takes turns with other groups; working period of such a group |
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| surrender of prisoner by one state to another; Ex. extradition treaty; V. extradite |
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| sudden sharp turn or twist; startling twist; caprice; idiosyncrasy; peculiarity of behavior; Ex. by a quirk of fate |
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| seek to attain (position or status); long for; Ex. aspire to become president; Ex. aspire to/after the leadership |
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| pride; haughtiness; ADJ. arrogant: unpleasantly self-important (with a strong confidence in one's own importance and a lack of respect for other people) |
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| flood; overflow; submerge; cover completely; Ex. inundated with work |
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| in agreement; harmonious; corresponding; coinciding exactly; CF. congruous |
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| sceptic; doubter; person who suspends judgment until he has examined the evidence supporting a point of view; ADJ. skeptical; N. skepticism; scepticism |
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| mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer; V: put or make compost |
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| opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion; ADJ. heretical; CF. heretic |
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| raging mad; insane; N. maniac: insane person; CF. mania: disorder of the mind; intense enthusiasm |
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| ring of leaves around stem; ring; circular arrangement; Ex. whorls on the fingers |
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| kill (usually one out of ten or every tenth man); destroy or kill a large part of |
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| decide; settle; solve; separate; make a determined decision; N. resolution |
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| face courageously; Ex. brave the storm |
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| (of a liquid) thick and sticky; gluey; viscid; CF. consistency |
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| conformity in fulfilling requirements; readiness to yield; disposition to yield to others; V. comply |
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| one incapacitated(disabled) by a chronic illness; ADJ: incapacitated by illness; not valid; null; V: allow to leave (a military force) because of ill-health |
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| false; counterfeit; forged; illogical; Ex. spurious arguments |
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| gross lewdness; lustfulness; ADJ. lecherous; N. lecher: lecherous man |
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| periodically shed or cast off hairs or feathers (for replacement by a new growth) |
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| talk at length; speak or write in detail |
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| 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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| with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval or distruct); Ex. look askance at |
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| chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order |
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| paste of flour and water (eaten when baked) |
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| science and practice of the promotion and preservation of health; ADJ. hygienic: showing careful attention to cleanness (to prevent disease); Ex. hygienic condition |
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| tendency of a system or organism to maintain relative stability or internal equilibrium; CF. homeo-: constant; Ex. homeotherm |
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| person who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands |
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| indignation; bitterness; displeasure; V. resent: feel anger about |
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| parchment or piece of writing material used for second time after original writing has been erased |
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| turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc.) |
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| lacking interest or effort; lacking purpose or zest; lazy; halfhearted; languid |
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| serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle |
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| size or volume (esp. when very large); main part; Ex. The bulk of the work has already been done; ADJ. bulky: having great size |
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| moral correctness; moral uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment |
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| boastful; excessively conceited; N. vainglory: great vanity |
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| particle removed by a file |
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| denounce; utter censure or invective; Ex. inveigh against the evils of drink |
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| causing sadness, compassion, pity; touching |
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| one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality |
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| wild drunken revelry; unrestrained indulgence in an activity; Ex. orgy of shopping |
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| boisterous mirth(merriment; laughter); ADJ. hilarious: full of laughter |
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| strikingly bright; shining with intense heat; emitting visible light when heated; Ex. incandescent light bulb; CF. candle |
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| disfranchise; deprive of a civil right; OP. enfranchise |
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| (esp. of a flower or leaf) many-colored |
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| selected passage (written or musical) taken from a longer work; V. |
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| bankrupt; lacking money to pay; N. insolvency |
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| conference (between opponents); CF. speak |
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| brief, comprehensive summary; ADJ. compendious |
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| slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult |
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| seeker after position or status |
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| official with power to administer the law |
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| one who supplicates; ADJ. |
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| make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle; N. CF. crotchet |
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| perfect example or embodiment; brief summary; Ex. epitome of good manners; V. epitomize: make an epitome of; be an epitome of; embody |
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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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| hesitate; weaken in purpose or action; walk or move unsteadily through weakness; N. |
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| ruddy; (of a complexion) reddish; flowery; very ornate; CF. rose |
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| stamp-collector; N. philately: stamp collecting |
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| fantastic; comically hideous; strange and unnatural (causing fear or amusement) |
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| easy to approach; obtainable |
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| silly; senseless; Ex. inane remarks; N. inanity |
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| act of finding oneself in society; orienting |
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| slightly sour (in taste or manner); sharp; caustic |
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| sour; bad-tempered; peevish; difficult to read as handwriting |
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| shallow body of water or lake near a sea; lake separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs |
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| sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) |
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| make whole; combine; make into one unit |
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| speediness; prompt execution; message sent with all due speed; V: send to a specified destination; finish promptly; kill |
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| mix; work dough; mix and work into a uniform mass (with the hands); Ex. knead dough |
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| marked by kindness or consideration; kind and compassionate; humanitarian |
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| servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man; ADJ. sycophantic |
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| word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
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| composed (with no excitement); grave; V: administer a sedative to; CF. sedative |
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| beyond what is normal in nature; supernatural; Ex. preternatural strength/forces |
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| plunder; sack; Ex. despoil the village |
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| having great volume (as of a garment or container); bulky; large |
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| neat and trim (in appearance); (of small men) neat in appearance and quick in movements; neat; spry |
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| silently showing ill humor or resentment; dark; gloomy |
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| solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse; V. anathematize |
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| extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence; utterly lacking; devoid; Ex. destitute of any experience |
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| absolutely necessary; that must be done; critically important; expressing command; Ex. It is imperative that; N: something that must be done |
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| disown; renounce claim to; deny; CF. disclaimer |
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| cause to accept a doctrine without questioning it; Ex. indoctrinated with mindless anti-communism |
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| kill by choking or suffocating; suppress |
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| supposed; reputed; generally regarded as such; Ex. putative father of the child |
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| change voting district lines in order to favor a political party; N. CF. Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander |
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| incriminate; involve incriminatingly; show to be involved (in a crime); Ex. implicate someone in the crime |
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| obscurity; condition of being completely forgotten; forgetfulness |
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| inharmonious; N. incompatibility |
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| related to seed or semen; germinal; creative; providing a basis for further development; influencing future developments; Ex. seminal research in a new field |
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| wooden enclosure or pen; fixed line of posts used as defensive barrier |
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| stop or check (the flow of); Ex. stem the bleeding from the slashed artery; N: main axis of a plant; stalk |
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| capricious happening; caprice; whim; CF. wander |
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| teach (ideas or principles); instill |
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| cancel; revoke (an order) |
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| narrow-mindedness; isolation; ADJ. insular: of an island; isolated; narrow-minded; CF. peninsula |
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| able to see differences; discerning; prejudiced; N. discrimination |
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| grant condescendingly; guarantee; Ex. vouchsafe your fair return on your investment |
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| repetition; memorization through repetition without understanding; Ex. learn poetry by rote |
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| offer or kill as a sacrifice (by fire) |
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| tending to cause death; highly injurious; aggressively malevolent; Ex. malignant tumor |
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| brawl; fight; V: wear away or unravel by rubbing; have loose threads developing; cause to become worn out (a person's temper or nerves); CF. rub |
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| collection; heap; V. agglomerate: gather into a rounded mass; N. aggolmeate: jumbled mass; heap |
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| major classification, second to kingdom, of plants and animals; category ranking below a kingdom and above a class; division |
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| gap; pause; gap or interruption in space or time; break |
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| something contrived; machine or apparatus; clever deceitful plan; scheme |
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| one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs; N. apostasy |
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| approve formally; confirm; verify |
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| room or space under the roof; attic |
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| mentally quick and observant; having insight; perceptive; able to make good judgments; V. discern: perceive |
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| authoritative; imperious; commanding; of a magistrate; Ex. magisterial study of Roman law; Ex. magisterial manner |
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| observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation; SG. phenomenon: observable fact; very unusual person, thing, or event; marvel; wonder; CF. phenomenons; ADJ. phenomenal: very unusual; extraordinary; of a phenomenon; Ex. phenomenal strength |
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| praise; enthusiastic approval; round(succession or series) of applause; ADJ. plauditory; CF. applaud |
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| waste material thrown away (as bits of paper scattered untidily); V: cover untidily with scattered litter |
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| stone used to test the fineness of gold alloys; criterion; standard |
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| (of a place) be filled with sound; (of a sound) sound loudly; sound back; echo; Ex. hall resounded with laughter |
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| partnership; league; union of separate political parties |
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| harm someone's reputation; malign; speak evil of; slander; N. defamation; ADJ. defamatory |
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| process of nourishing or being nourished; CF. malnutrition |
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| sustaining; means of livelihood, support, food, nourishment; something that maintains life; food |
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| give up temporarily; yield; N. waiver: waiving a right or claim; document that waives a right or claim |
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| help bring about; make less difficult |
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| gather leavings; gather grain left behind by reapers; gather bit by bit (facts or information) often with difficulty |
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| something new; newness; ADJ. novel: new; original |
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| take vengence for something or on behalf of someone; Ex. They avenged his death by burning the village; Ex. He swore to avenge his brother; Ex. They avenged themselves on their enemy. |
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| immoral behavior; bad management; V. |
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| cruel; (of a disease) deadly |
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| vow; promise; use profane oaths; use offensive words |
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| resistant to; free or exempt from; N. immunity |
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| express strong disapproval of; condemn openly (something dangerous to the public); disparage; Ex. decry the violence of modern films |
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| terminology(system of specialized words); system of names or naming things |
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| harass; tease; torment; Ex. badger baiting; N: food or other lure used to catch fish or trap animals |
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| in name only; of a name; trifling; (of a sum of money) very small; CF. nominate: propose as a candidate; appoint |
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| shameless and noticeable; blatant; bold; unconcealed; having no covering on the face; Ex. barefaced lie |
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| authoritative order; edict; judgment of a court of law; V: order or judge by decree |
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| use sparingly; conserve; save; Ex. husband one's energy; CF. house holder |
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| give up something (with reluctance); yield; release; Ex. relinquish power/the claim to the land/his hold on my arm |
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| unutterable; not to be uttered; taboo; that cannot be expressed in speech; indescribable; unspeakable; inexpressible; Ex. ineffable name/joy |
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| lack of caring; indifference; lack of concern or interest in important matters; Ex. He was sunk in apathy after his failure; ADJ. apathetic |
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| conceal; hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism; CF. secretive |
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| like a meteor; swift; momentarily brilliant; Ex. meteoric rise to fame; N. meteor |
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| summit; highest point; PL. vertices |
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| making a harsh noise; grating; harsh |
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| having the weight of authority; regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted; reliable; peremptory and dictatorial; Ex. authoritative dictionary/manner; CF. definitive |
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| torn piece of cloth; ADJ. tattered: (of clothes) old and torn; (of a person) dressed in old torn clothes |
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| widespread; affecting the majority of people; N: pandemic disease; CF. all people |
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| enormous; marvelous; extraordinary; Ex. prodigious amount/memory |
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| fluent (with insincerity or superficiality); facile; slick |
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| written symbols; number; amount represented in numbers; outline or silhouette of a thing or human body; person (well-known); impression; diagram; pattern; group in a dance; Ex. figure of speech; V. calculate with numbers; adorn with figures; appear; consider; Ex. My name did not figure in the list. |
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| urge on; drive with a goad; cause (someone) to do something by continued annoyance; Ex. They goaded him into doing it by saying he was a coward; N: sharp-pointed stick for driving cattle; stimulus; CF. annoy continually |
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| make return for; repay; reciprocate; revenge; N. requittal |
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| burn unsteadily or fitfully; move waveringly; N: flickering movement or light; brief sensation; Ex. flicker of excitement |
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| mutual; given and received in return; exchangeable; interacting; Ex. reciprocal trade agreement |
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| praise; N. ADJ. laudable: praiseworthy; ADJ. laudatory: expressing praise |
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| cancel; remove a word or name (from a book or list); erase |
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| instituting; (building for the) organization; established custom, practice, or relationship in a society; mental hospital; Ex. institution of marriage |
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| stubborn; hard to control or treat; Ex. obstinate cough; N. obstinacy |
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| holding one's attention; absorbing; engrossing |
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| ceremonious quality; ceremonious adherence to rules; something done just for form's sake; Ex. mere formality |
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| back country; inner part of a country; OP. foreland |
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| half-human, half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus (resembling a goat), portrayed as wanton(unrestrained) and cunning; lecher; CF. faun; CF. goat: lecherous man |
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| strangle; regulate the speed of with a throttle; N: valve that regulates the flow; CF. throat ? |
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| party; clique (within a large group); dissension |
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| restrain or immobilize by binding the wings or legs; N: bird's wing |
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| steal (things of small value) |
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| playful; frolicsome; merry; CF. sport: play or frolic; CF. sportsmanlike |
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| lack of premeditation; naturalness; freedom from constraint; ADJ. spontaneous: self-generated; unpremeditated; happening without being planned |
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| admit; acknowledge as being true (often reluctantly); yield; grant; Ex. concede a goal |
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| large three-masted sailing ship |
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| disguise; hide the real nature of; pretend |
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| letter; written statement; CF. sent |
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| gain time as by postponing an action; avoid committing oneself |
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| truthfulness; adherence to the truth |
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| pertaining to farewell; N: farewell address (esp. at graduation exercises) |
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| tax of one-tenth (contributed to a church); V: pay a tithe |
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| compiler of a dictionary; CF. lexicography: work of compiling a dictionary |
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| the smallest particle (one or more atoms) of a substance that has all the properties of that substance |
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| extreme confusion; great commotion and confusion; Ex. throw the country into turmoil |
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| provide with some quality; endow |
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| stinginess; excessive frugality; ADJ. parsimonious |
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| tear out; cut out (as if with a gouge); Ex. gouge his eyes out; N: chisel for cutting out hollow areas in wood |
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| not good-looking; unattractive |
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| path taken by a projectile; Ex. trajectory of a bullet |
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| sum; total; ADJ. V: gather into a mass or whole; accumulate; add up to; Ex. aggregate 100 dollars |
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| short story of an amusing or interesting event |
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| gift for finding valuable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck; CF. The Three Princes of Serendip |
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| lacking luster(shine; gloss); dull |
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| droop; grow feeble; decline in vigor or strength; ADJ. flagging; CF. unflagging |
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| excessive interest in one's self; belief that one should be interested in one's self rather than in others; selfishness; ADJ. egoistic, egoistical |
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| official periodical publication; newspaper |
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| contemptible; despicable; N: disease caused by deficiency of Vitamin C |
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| (of rules) binding; rigid; marked by scarcity of money; Ex. stringent economic conditions |
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| not knowing; unaware; unintentional; Ex. She was their unwitting accomplice; Ex. unwitting insult; CF. wit: know |
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| local or provincial dialect |
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| demand and obtain by force; Ex. exact a promise from him; N. exaction |
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| mythical figure, half man and half horse |
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| bend or hang downward; become weakened; Ex. His shoulders drooped with tiredness; N. |
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| slavery; compulsory labor imposed as a punishment |
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| indulge; comply with the wishes of; N. quality that makes something amusing; state of mind; mood; Ex. in a bad humor; Ex. out of humor |
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| hard unpleasant work; menial work |
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| tip; summit; climax; highest point |
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| small surgical tool for making incisions |
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| intelligent; quick and energetic; fashionable; Ex. smart pace/restaurant; V: cause or feel a sharp pain; N: smarting pain |
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| very bad or disagreeable; very dirty; Ex. foul smell/flavor/temper/language/air/deed/weather/means; N. act against the rules; V. make or become foul; commit a foul |
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| cancel out; nullify; cause to have no effect; deny; N. negation |
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| something fit to be eaten |
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| pleasantly fat; nicely rounded |
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| compelling immediate action; pressing; persistent; importunate; Ex. urgent in his demands |
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| varying from of an element |
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| eager enjoyment; zest; enthusiasm |
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| one who considers traditional beliefs to be groundless and existence meaningless; absolute skeptic; revolutionary terrorist; CF. nihilism: belief that nothing has meaning or value; belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement |
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| destroy completely; wipe out; Ex. obliterate the village |
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| pry; move with a lever; value highly; esteem; Ex. his most prized possession; N: something captured during war-time (esp. an enemy ship) |
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| great joy and delight; ecstasy; ADJ. rapturous |
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| soften by soaking in liquid; waste away; Ex. macerate powdered wood to make paper |
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| arouse to action; goad; motivate; induce to exist; Ex. incite a riot/the crowd to rebellion |
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| very unrefined; grossly insensible; crude and undiscriminating; Ex. crass behavior |
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| time long past; Ex. in the days of yore |
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| heat-producing; N. calorie |
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| without exceptions; made without any doubt in mind; unqualified; absolute |
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| warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; N. |
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| faultfinding; too critical |
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| take possession of (often for public use and without payment) |
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| conceal in the palm of the hand; palm off: pass off; Ex. palm off some bad oranges onto the lady/the painting as a real Renoir |
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| intermediate; acting as a mediator; N: mediator; go-between |
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| burst inward; CF. vaccum tube |
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| comic misuse of a word; CF. Mrs. Malaprop |
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| pretentiousness; claim (without foundation); Ex. I make no pretensions to skill as an artist. |
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| set limits in amount or number; be thrifty; ADJ. stinting, unstinting; CF. stint:savings |
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| deprived of (someone beloved through death) |
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| someone who eats too much; ADJ. gluttonous: given to gluttony; greedy; CF. gluttony: habit of eating too much |
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| stealthily lie in waiting; slink; exist unperceived |
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| deep; not superficial; complete; Ex. profound thinker/remark/silence/deafness; N. profundity |
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| charlatan; boastful pretender |
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| writing material made from the skin of a sheep or goat |
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| casual; hastily done with little attention to detail |
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| slander; speak evil of; N. vilification |
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| condemnation to a severe penalty; ruin; fate (esp. a tragic or ruinous one); V. |
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| poison (of an animal); hatred; Ex. remarks full of venom; ADJ. venomous |
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| conceivably true; having a show of truth but open to doubt; specious |
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| annoy; exasperate; chafe; N: skin sore caused by rubbing (as on the skin of a horse); exasperation |
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| rear; bring up (for a certain period only); encourage; promote the development of (feelings or ideas); Ex. help foster friendly relations; ADJ: giving parental care although not related by blood; Ex. foster parents |
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| related to thinking about something constantly; of an obsession; preoccupying; N. obsession: compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea; compulsive idea; V. obsess: preoccupy the mind of excessively |
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| divine gift; great popular charm or appeal; magnetism |
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| trader; V. barter: trade; exchange good for other goods rather than money |
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| basic; primary; essential |
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| unfriendliness; hatred; enmity; ADJ. hostile |
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| produce young; rear; bring up; produce (an undesirable condition); N: kind or sort of animal or plant |
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| object (because of doubts, scruples); raise an objection (showing qualms); hesitate; Ex. demur at the idea of working on Sunday |
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| express condolences; N. condolence: sympathy for someone who has experienced great sorrow |
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| having a sharp or acid taste; acid; tart; bad-tempered; V. |
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| surviving remnant (from an extinct culture); memento; keepsake; relics: corpse; Ex. ancient relics; Ex. relics of his travel; Ex. His relics are buried at X. |
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| contemptible; morally bad; inferior in value or quality; Ex. base motives/conduct; Ex. base metal such as iron |
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| philosopher who studies the nature of knowledge; N. epistemology |
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| pertaining to the improvement of race; N. eugenics: study of hereditary improvement of the human race |
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| scholar who overemphasizes book learning, trivial details of learning, or technicalities |
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| obstruct; prevent the free movement of; N: ½Ä·áÇ°À̳ª ÀǺ¹ µîÀ» ´ã´Â ¹Ù±¸´Ï |
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| support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.) |
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| language used by special group; technical terminology; gibberish; nonsensical or incoherent talk |
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| immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning; ADJ. intuitive; V. intuit: know by intuition |
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| correct spelling; CF. ortho-: straight; correct; Ex. orthodontics |
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| pertaining to country people; unsophisticated; simple; crude; uncouth; (of furniture) rough with the bark left on; N. rural person; rustic person |
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| wordy; verbose; rambling; spread out (like a gas); V: spread out in all directions; disperse; N. diffusion; CF. suffuse |
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| speak evil of; bad-mouth(criticize spitefully); defame; ADJ: harmful; Ex. malign influence |
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| person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people; CF. demagoguery |
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| willful; stubborn; unyielding; determined to have one's own way; CF. no 'excessive' |
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| purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; ADJ. |
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| tolling of a bell especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.; sound of the funeral bell; V. |
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| confusion; turmoil; confused mass; bewildering jumble; Ex. welter of data |
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| medical condition in which the skin, the white part of the eyes, etc. turn yellow; V: affect with jaundice; affect with prejudice, envy, or hostility; bias |
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| sparkle; flash; be animated; be full of life; Ex. scintillating conversation |
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| collection (of writings or information); Ex. the corpus of Shakespear's works; Cf. corpse |
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| loiter; hang around; waste time doing nothing |
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| incipient; coming into being or existence; Ex. nascent ability in music |
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| logically convincing; sound; legally acceptable; effective; Ex. valid reasoning/passport |
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| (place or scene of) complete disorder or ruin; wreck; mess; Ex. After the hurricane, the coast was a shambles. |
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| brief explanation note or translation of a difficult expression; V. |
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| take (private property) for military use without needing permission or giving payment; draft for military purposes |
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| arrangement of masts and sails; V: equip (a ship) with rigging; ADJ. rigging: ropes that hold up a ship's sails |
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| with reference to; regarding; Ex. remarks apropos (of) the present situation; ADJ. ADV. |
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| marked by great changes in fortune; with many changes of fortuene; CF. checked: having a pattern of squares |
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| hint; imply; suggest indirectly; creep in; introduce or insert (oneself) by artful means; Ex. insinuate himself into the boss's favor; CF. ingratiate |
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| pertaining to hell; devilish; N. inferno: place of fiery heat or destruction |
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| exaggerated; pompous; enlarged (with air or gas) |
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| speaking several languages; multilingual; Ex. polyglot person/society; N. |
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| frozen rain drop; V: salute or greet; precipitate hail |
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| determined; Ex. bent on advancing in the business; N: natural talent or inclination |
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| disposed to revenge; vengeful; out for revenge; spiteful; intended to cause harm; malicious; Ex. vindictive streak |
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| done routinely and with little care; superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; Ex. perfunctory kiss |
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| front or face (of building); superficial or false appearance |
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| indecent; obscene; about sex in a rude funny way; CF. bawd |
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| ease pain (without curing); make less severe or offensive (a crime or illness) |
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| fair; impartial; OP. inequitable |
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| of a prophet or prophecy; having to do with predicting the future; N. prophecy; V. prophesy; N. prophet |
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| without feeling; expressionless; imperturbable; stoical; Ex. impassive face |
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| eat away; wear away gradually by abrasion; Ex. The sea erodes the rocks. |
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| pucker; contract (lips) into wrinkles; N: wallet |
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| cause; produce; give rise to |
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| experiencing nausea; nauseated; easily nauseated; squeamish; Ex. feel a little queasy |
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| continued loud noise; V: make a din; instill by wearying repetition |
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| contradict; give a false impression; disguise; Ex. The poor sales belied our high hopes; Ex. Her smile belies her true feeling of displeasure. |
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| compelling; strong desire that is difficult to control; irresistible impulse |
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| meat of a deer; CF. cow: beef; CF. pig: pork, ham, bacon; CF. calf: veal; CF. sheep: mutton; CF. lamb: lamb |
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| feeling of exaggerated or unfounded(ungrounded; baseless) well-being; feeling of great happiness or well-being (when unreasonable); ADJ. euphoriaric |
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| someone who bears the blame for others; whipping boy; CF. escape+goat |
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| push forward; push roughly; Ex. pushing and shoving to get on the bus; N. |
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| leap or spring; limit or confine; constitute the limit of; Ex. bounded by Canada; N: leap or jumping; boundary; ADJ: certain; having a duty to do something (legally or morally); confined by bonds; Ex. We are bound to be late; Ex. I am bound to say my opinion; CF. bounce, rebound |
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| protective; pertaining to a guardianship; Ex. tutelary deities |
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| long, eventful, adventurous journey |
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| sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
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| windstorm; gust of wind; emotional outburst (laughters, tears); Ex. gale of laughter |
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| swayed by sentiment; appealing to the sentiments |
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| sharp projection from fishhook, arrow, or other object; openly cutting remark |
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| helpful; useful; advantageous |
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| large wave of water; a great swell or surge (of smoke); V: surge, swell, roll in billows |
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| having the appearance of truth or reality; probable or likely to be true; plausible |
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| devastate; plunder; despoil; Ex. crops ravaged by storms |
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| hopelessly sad (at the loss of something) |
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| chew over and over (mentally or, like cows, physically); mull over(ponder) |
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| witty thought or saying, usually short |
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| indirect in speech (when something unpleasant must be said); hypocritical; evasive |
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| infallibly; ADJ. unerring: making no mistakes |
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| esoteric; secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated; Ex. arcane ritual; Ex. arcane process closed to the uninitiated listener |
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| person who establishes (an organization or business) |
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| short quick cut with scissors; V: cut with scissors |
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| elliptic; oval; of an ellipse; containing an ellipsis; ambiguous either purposely or because key words have been left out |
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| docile; easily managed; (of something) easily changed or molded; N. tractability |
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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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| modest; Ex. the champion's unassuming manner |
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| distinctive behavioral trait; affected style in art (according to a set of styles) |
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| not to be taken away; nontransferable; Ex. inalienable rights |
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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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| given to unwholesome or unhealthy thought; moody; characteristic of disease; Ex. morbid curiosity; N. morbidity; CF. disease |
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| affectedly grand; pretentious; high-flown; ridiculously exaggerated; impressive; great in size or scope; grand; Ex. grandiose ideas |
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| wandering; traveling from place to place (to perform work); Ex. itinerant preacher |
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| vicious assault; fierce attack; Ex. unexpected onslaught of the enemy |
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| person designated to execute the terms of a will; ¿¹¼ú ÀÛÇ°ÀÇ Á¦ÀÛÀÚ |
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| put into words; ADJ. verbal: of words; spoken rather than written; oral; of a verb |
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| show by example; furnish an example; serve as an example of; Ex. His pictures exemplify that sort of painting. |
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| protest; remonstrance; reasoning with someone to correct or dissuade; V. expostulate |
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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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| one who hates mankind; misanthropist |
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| operate with one's hands; control or play upon (people, forces, etc.) artfully; maneuver; Ex. how to manipulate publicity and men; ADJ. manipulative |
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| bitterness of feeling; nerve; effrontery; ´ãÁó(bile); CF. gall bladder |
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| slander; disgrace; infamy |
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| slight degree of color; V: give a tint to |
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| (of a bird with large wings) wave (the wings) lightly, rapidly, and irregularly; vibrate rapidly or erratically; fly by waving quickly; flitter; N. |
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| (of a fact) become known; be revealed; happen; give off (watery waste matter) through pores |
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| kind in a generous way (to someone less important) |
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| lessen sadness or disappointment; give comfort; allay the sorrow of; N. consolation |
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| swagger; assumed air of defiance; false show of bravery |
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| distasteful; disagreeable; morally offensive; Ex. unsavory activity/reputation |
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| connected with history; based on events in history (whether regarded as important or not) |
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| work out carefully; add more detail or information; ADJ. |
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| blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval |
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| ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living |
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| offensive; disagreeable; Ex. obnoxious smell |
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| small chamber used for sleeping or work |
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| remaining; left over; of a residue; N: residue |
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| popular fashion; Ex. Jeans became the vogue. |
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| doctor specializing in ailments of the heart |
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| furnisher of foodstuffs; caterer; V. purvey: supply (eg. food); furnish; CF. provide |
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| hypnotic state; ecstatic state; detachment from one's physical surrounding (as in contemplation or daydreaming); CF. transition |
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| burn the surface of; char or burn; brand; parch; cause (a plant) to wither |
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| fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature |
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| mania for doing grandiose things; mental disorder characterized by delusions of wealth, power, or importance |
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| ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a round cylinder; Ex. work of very high caliber |
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| conflict; lack of harmony; dissonance (when musical notes are played) |
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| disobedience; rebelliousness; ADJ. insubordinate |
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| legal delay of payment or action; Ex. declare moratorium on the building of new houses |
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| not willing to accept ways of thinking different from one's own; CF. tolerant; CF. tolerate |
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| dispute; argue about the rightness of; compete for; try to win; Ex. contest the election results; Ex. contest a seat in Parliament; N. |
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| neatly or smartly dressed; dapper; smart; Ex. natty dresser |
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| excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife; CF. uxor: wife |
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| deceive; mislead or delude; cheat; pass time pleasantly; charm or attract; Ex. beguiling smile |
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| environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature |
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| shake repeatedly from side to side; Ex. The dog wagged its tail; N: humorous person; wit |
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| explore with a probe or tools; investigate; N: slender instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity; device designed to investigate an unknown region; thorough investigation; Ex. space probe |
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| inflict; Ex. wreak one's vengeance on |
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| swath; wrap around; bandage; Ex. one's head swathed in bandages |
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| group of people who sing together (esp. during religious services); place for choir |
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| violate (a law); encroach (the right of another person) |
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| riddle; difficult problem |
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| plan in advance; Ex. premeditated murder |
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| fenced enclosure for animals; confining space; Ex. sheep pen; V: confine in a pen; enclose |
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| group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
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| social or moral custom; established practice; formal meeting; international agreement |
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| weaken (esp. through heat, hunger, illness); enfeeble |
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| small piece or mark; Ex. speck of dust in the eye |
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| become popular with; bring (oneself) in favor of another; Ex. ingratiate himself with the boss |
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| oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt; make enough space for; ADJ. accommodative; CF. accomodating: helpful and obliging |
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| group of animals; crowd; one who looks after a herd; Ex. shepherd/goatherd; Ex. herd instinct; Ex. herdsman; V: come together in a herd; look after a herd; Ex. herd cattle |
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| be thankful for; increase in worth; be thoroughly conscious of; ADJ. appreciable: enough to be felt; Ex. appreciable difference |
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| belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivet\'e; ADJ. credulous |
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| action of moving secretly or unseen; slyness; sneakiness; secretiveness; ADJ. stealthy |
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| dining hall; room where meals are served (in a school) |
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| be violently disturbed; boil; (of a liquid) move about wildly as if boiling; Ex. The nation was seething with discontent. |
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| leather pistol case (that hangs on a belt around the waist) |
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| having a dull edge; abrupt and frank in speech or manner; brusque; V: make or become blunt |
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| study of the sociological phenomena associated with old age |
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| shove; bump; push against (someone) rather roughly; Ex. jostled by the crowds |
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| flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V. |
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| projection; conjecture; V. extrapolate: infer (unknown information) from known information |
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| wanderer (without a permanent home); tramp |
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| worldly wise and urbane; refined; complex; N. sophistication; V. sophisticate |
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| point or time at which the sun is farthest from the equator |
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| favoring success; giving signs of future success; Cf. auspices |
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| physician specializing in children's diseases; N. pediatrics |
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| explain; make clear; clarify; enlighten; CF. lucid |
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| rash; reckless; foolishly daring |
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| mistaken; wrong; incorrect |
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| name (of a book, film, etc.); mark of rank; formal appellation as of rank or office (such as Lord or General); right or claim to possession; championship; Ex. title as head of the family; Ex. title to the estate |
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| payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce |
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| army composed of ordinary citizens rather than professional soldiers |
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| bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together |
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| banish to the country; dwell in the country |
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| heat; passion; zeal; ADJ. ardent |
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| of sound or its speed in air; CF. subsonic, supersonic |
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| add leaven to; cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven; N: agent, such as yeast, that causes dough to rise (by fermentation); element that lightens or enlivens |
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| persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury); N. subornation |
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| cut away the outer covering or skin of (with a knife); trim; Ex. pare apples/expenses |
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| minor crime; misdeed; wrongdoing |
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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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| star that suddenly becomes much brighter and then returns to its original brightness |
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| enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality; N: taste or smell; distinctive quality |
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| having an aversion or lack of concern for political affairs |
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| cowlike; placid and dull; slow-thinking; calm |
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| meaningless word; interjection; profane oath; swear-word |
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| ridicule; N: written attack ridiculing or satirizing a person, group, or institution |
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| strong point or special talent in a person's character |
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| destroy leaves; deprive of leaves (by the use of chemicals); N. defoliant |
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| send (something) spinning, often into the air, by striking with a light quick blow; turn over; Ex. flip over |
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| forecasted course of a disease; prediction; CF. prognostic |
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| struggle and thrash about; proceed clumsily or falter (as in water, mud, snow, etc.); proceed in confusion |
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| small light sailboat or rowboat |
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| fiendish; cruel; N. demon: evil supernatural being; devil |
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| trick to deceive; stratagem |
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| isolate; segregate; seclude; retire from public life |
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| violation of a law; sin; V. transgress: go beyond (a limit); violate; do wrong |
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| selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources; selecting individual elements from a variety of sources; N. eclecticism |
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| tear or cut to pieces; mutilate or disfigure; Ex. badly mangled bodies |
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| move or swing back and forth; be uncertain or unsteady in decision or movement; Ex. wavering between accepting and refusing |
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| peaceful; calm; Ex. placid child/lake |
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| difficult to understand; impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious |
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| coloring matter (usually powder to be mixed with water or oil) |
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| inconstant; capricious; frivolous; not serious; Ex. charming but skittish young woman; CF. skit |
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| practical rule guiding conduct; Ex. mother's precept |
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| stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court) |
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| comfort in sorrow or trouble; consolation; V: comfort or console in time of sorrow or trouble |
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| state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering; V. afflict: inflict grievous suffering on |
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| looking within oneself; N. introspection: self-examination |
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| contradict; oppose; violate (a rule, law, or custom); N. contravention |
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| intimidate; frighten; discourage; dishearten |
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| highest point; the point farthest from the earth; OP. perigee |
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| characteristic frame of mind; disposition; emotional excess; ADJ. temperamental: of temperament; having frequent changes of temper; Ex. temperamental dislike of sports; Ex. temperamental actress |
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| mischance; ill luck; Ex. death by misadventure |
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| light stroke as with a whip; V: move with a light quick blow; strike with a light quick blow (as from a whip); Ex. flick the switch |
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| abundance; plenty; great amount; completeness; fullness; CF. plenary, plenty |
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| absurd; completely unreasonable; ridiculous |
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| gift giver; patron; person who does good or who gives money for a good purpose |
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| state of being undecided; anxiety or apprehension resulting from uncertainty |
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| liberate; free from chains; V. unfetter |
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| act of assuming a human body and human nature; one who personifies something; personification; Ex. previous incarnation/reincarnation |
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| board on which painter mixes pigments(coloring matters) |
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| (of a person or book) learned; full of learning; scholarly; N. erudition |
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| crookedly; slanted; at an angle |
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| apparent; appearing as such; professed(pretended); pretended; Ex. ostensible purpose of the expedition |
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| shrink back as if in fear; cower |
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| something long-lasting; perennial plant; ADJ: lasting through the year or many years; lasting for a long time; enduring |
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| estimate value of; N. appraisal |
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| person administering capital punishment |
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| strange; mysterious; Ex. uncanny knack |
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| 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern |
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| adjust or settle by making mutual concessions; endanger the interests or reputation of; put into danger, disrepute, or a dishonorable position; Ex. compromise one's principle; N. |
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| addition; appendix to book; something that is added (as at the end of a speech or book) |
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| state of being nameless; anonymousness; ADJ. anonymous |
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| bordering on(adjacent to) the sea; nautical; of the ships or the sea; Ex. Maritime Provinces |
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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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| smugly and unconsciously foolish; inane; silly; N. fatuity, fatuousness |
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| deeply established; firmly rooted; Ex. ingrained dirt/prejudice |
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| stormy; unkind; unmerciful; CF. clement |
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| sharply painful to the body or mind; Ex. biting wind/remarks |
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| distinct; very noticeable; Ex. pronounced limp |
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| refrain; withhold from participation; intentionally not use one's vote; ±â±ÇÇÏ´Ù |
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| reflection; thought; V. meditate |
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| put through a sieve to separate fine from coarse particles; sort or examine carefully |
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| subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will; Ex. authoritarian regime/father |
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| reddish; (of the face) reddish and healthy-looking |
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| fix or manipulate; manipulate dishonestly for personal gain; Ex. rig the election |
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| associate with; keep company; N: husband or wife (or a ruler) |
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| tube in which patterns made by the reflection in mirrors of colored pieces of glass, etc. produce interesting symmetrical effects; series of changing events; Ex. kaleidoscope of European history; CF. beautiful |
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| pious; deeply religious; sincere; earnest; Ex. my devout hope |
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| decisive; ending all debate |
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| hasty; rash; headfirst; ADV. |
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| made in an earlier period and usu. valuable; N: object that was made in an earlier period and that is rare or valuable |
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| large in quantity; generous; Ex. handsome reward |
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| hidden danger; concealed trap |
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| aimless follower of an art or a field of knowledge (not taking it seriously); amateur; dabbler; CF. delight |
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| firm statement that something is certainly true; promise or pledge; certainty; confidence in one's own ability; self-confidence; Ex. In spite of all his assurances, he did not come back; Ex. assurance of his loyalty; Ex. The teacher lacked assurance in fron of his class; V. assure; tell firmly with confidence; ensure; make (something) certain to heappen; make (someone) feel sure; give confidence to; ADJ. assured: self-assured; confident in one's own ability; showing certainty |
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| beyond reasonable limits; unrestrained; excessive; Ex. inordinate demands |
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| gruesome; grisly; ghastly; CF. of death |
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| honor the memory of; serve as a memorial to; Ex. commemorate the 100th anniversary/those who died in the war |
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| harp on; dwell on tediously; explain or go over excessively or to a ridiculous degree; assail verbally; beat severely; attack physically |
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| dormant; temporarily inactive; at rest; N. quiescence |
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| self-satisfaction; smugness; ADJ. complacent |
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| seize; take possession of (private property) by official order (usu. as a punishment); commandeer |
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| arrangement by rank or standing; authoritarian body divided into ranks; body of persons having authority |
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| conspicuous; worthy of note; remarkable; important; distinguished; noted |
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| fragment generally of broken pottery (glass, clay bowl, or cup) |
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| lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect |
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| indifference; lack of concern; composure; ADJ. nonchalant: unconcerned; cool; indifferent; Ex. nonchalant attitude to his debts |
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| agreement between two groups or people; something for sale at a price advantageous to the buyer; V: negotiate; trade; Ex. bargaining power |
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| distorted; crooked; bent; Ex. Our plans have gone awry. |
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| act of turning aside; pastime; V. divert: turn aside from a course; distract; amuse |
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| recover; put right; find and bring in; regain; Ex. retrieve the situation |
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| pretense (of strength); deception; high cliff; ADJ: rough but good-natured |
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| main wooden stem of a tree; human body excluding the head and limbs; torso; prehensile nose of an elephant |
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| bored with pleasure or dissipation; uninterested or bored |
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| teacher of philosophy; quibbler; employer of fallacious reasoning; N. sophism: plausible but fallacious argument |
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| warning of disaster; disastrous; (of needs and dangers) very great; urgent; Ex. dire prediction/need of food |
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| navigation tool used to determine a ship's latitude and longitude (by measuring the altitudes of stars) |
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| cautious; careful; prudential |
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| sordid; base; filthy; unwholesome; Ex. seamy side of city life |
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| voters represented by an elected official; district so represented; group of supporters (or constituents) |
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| furthest behind; farthest to the rear |
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| soft wet land; V: hinder or be hindered; Ex. bogged down in the mud |
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| hermit; loner; ADJ. reclusive |
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| admit fresh air into to replace stale air |
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| restraint; compulsion; repression of feelings; reticence; V. constrain: hold back; restrain; compel; oblige; confine forcibly; imprison |
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| wild tumult(commotion); wild noisy disorder; CF. Paradise Lost |
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| improperness; unsuitableness |
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| banish from a group; exclude from public favor; ban; Ex. His friends ostracized him. N. ostracism |
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| narrow valley with steep sides; gorge; CF. gully, canyon |
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| watchful; on the alert; watchfully awake; alert to spot danger; N. vigilance |
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| swing from side to side; influence (someone) to change one's opinion; N. |
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| find out for certain; make certain |
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| irregular; odd; unconventional; whimsical; bizarre; not concentric |
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| (of a sound) grate on (eg. nerves); make a harsh noise; have an unpleasant effect; rub with something rough; Ex. The cat's tongue rasped my hand. |
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| reconstruct (a sentence, story, statue, etc.); fashion again |
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| inner excitement or exuberance; showing high spirits; emitting bubbles forming inside; bubbling from fermentation or carbonation; ADJ. effervescent; V. effervesce |
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| yield (to something overwhelming); give in; die; Ex. succumb to the illness |
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| encode; convert a message into code; put into cipher |
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| trying to please; obliging; willing to please others |
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| so small, trifling, or unimportant as to be easily disregarded |
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| significance; importance; meaning |
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| climb up; ascend; remove or come off in scales; N: flake of epidermis; ascending or descending series of musical tones |
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| steep; overhasty; precipitate |
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| lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy; ADJ. torpid: lethargic; lazy; inactive; (of an animal) dormant; hibernating |
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| complete happiness; ADJ. blissful |
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| having absolute unchecked power; dictatorial; N. autocrat, autocracy |
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| religious group; unit in a system; name or designation; CF. denominator: common trait or characteristic |
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| (of buildings) likely to break or fall apart; of rickets; CF. rickets; CF. vitamin D |
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| talk dully; buzz or murmur like a bee; N. |
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| insolent; rude; not pertinent; N. impertinence |
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| nation governed by the people; republic; people of a nation |
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| not working; not employed or busy; lazy; without purpose; useless; lacking substance; baseless; not based on truth; Ex. idle worker; Ex. talk idly; V. |
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| urge (by strong argument or advice); Ex. The general exhorted his men to fight bravely; N. exhortation |
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| put to rout; stampede; drive out; N: complete defeat and disorderly retreat |
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| rolling treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America |
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| too certain to be disputed; beyond doubt |
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| humoring; yielding; lenient; showing indulgence |
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| drive or force onward; drive to take action; urge to action |
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| conscientious; extremely thorough; Ex. scrupulous worker |
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| hard and unbending; stiff and unyielding; fixed in behavior or views; strict; rigorous; Ex. rigid rule |
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| having many talents; capable of working in many fields; having many uses or functions; N. versatility |
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| something that nourishes; food |
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| traditional; (of someone) conservative in belief; adhering to an established doctrine |
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| cover with a thin and shiny surface; apply a glaze to; N: thin, smooth, shiny coating (as for pottery); Ex. unglazed pottery |
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| something, such as a monument or holiday, intended to honor the memory of a person or event; ADJ: commemorative |
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| satisfy fully (physical needs such as hunger); sate; N. satiety: condition of being satiated |
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| punishment; severe criticism or disapproval |
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| endowed with flesh; invested with bodily form; personified; Ex. devil incarnate; V: give bodily form to; embody |
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| done with speed; quick; N. expedition |
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| domestic; made at home; spun or woven at home; simple and ordinary; Ex. homespun philosophy |
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| symbol of immortality or rebirth; Ex. phoenix rising from its ashes |
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| insightful; showing a good ability at perceiving and understanding; aware; wise; of perception |
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| deride or provoke; challenge in derision; N. |
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| horn (or horn-shaped container) overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance; horn of plenty |
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| correct (usually a text); N. emendation: correction of errors; improvement |
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| nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; V. |
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| rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat; regular beat of sound; rhythm |
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| fugitive from the law (excluded from legal protection); V: declare (someone) to be an outlaw; deprive of the protection of the law; declare illegal; Ex. Drinking has been outlawed. |
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| free; without charge; ADJ. |
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| deadlock; situation in which further action is blocked |
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| prevent; avoid; turn away (eyes or thought); Ex. An accident was averted by his quick thinking; Ex. She averted her eyes from the terrible sight. |
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| cold or cheerless; frigid; unlikely to be favorable; depressing |
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| wasteful; reckless with money; profuse; Ex. a mind prodigal of ideas; N. prodigality |
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| (of things and place) dirty and dull; Ex. dingy street/curtain |
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| self-assurance; calm unworried feeling based on a strong belief in one's abilities; strong belief in the ability of a person or plan; trust or faith in a person or thing; something confided; secret; Ex. confidence in your ability; Ex. I'm telling you this in confidence; Ex. exchange confidences about their boyfriends; ADJ. confident |
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| make oneself tidy in appearance; feel self-satisfaction or pride; (of a bird) smooth or clean (feathers) with the beak; Ex. preen oneself on; CF. prune |
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| one who feigns illness to escape duty; V. malinger: feign illness to avoid work |
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| (of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; N. crotchet: odd or whimsical notion |
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| family descent; ADJ. ancestral |
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| without attention to comfort; lacking luxury and comfort; sternly disciplined; Ex. spartan living condition/life |
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| done secretly; secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden |
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| weaken gradually; sap; dig a mine beneath |
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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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| given to complaining; complaining; fretful; whining |
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| drug that relieves pain or trouble; opiate; ADJ. Ex. anodyne statement |
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| deserts; well-deserved punishment or misfortune; rebuke |
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| generous gift (given to people who do not have enough) |
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| approve; support; write one's signature on the back of; N. endorsement; CF. dorsal |
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| become boring; grow tiresome |
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| wild; distraught as from fear or worry; Ex. frantic with fear |
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| sensual; of or giving sensual pleasure; indulging in sensual pleasures; Ex. voluptuous lines; Ex. voluptuous life of the Romans; N. voluptuary: voluptuous person |
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| cut off with shears; fasten; N: something clipped off (as a short extract from film); clasp or fastener |
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| doctor who treats ailments of the feet; chiropodist; N. podiatrics |
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| narrow-minded person, uncultured and exclusively interested in material gain; uncultured person who is indifferent to artistic and cultural values; member of an ancient people in Palestine; OP. aesthete |
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| lift by pushing up from below; increase; raise; N: push upward; increase |
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| vary; go in different directions from the same point; ADJ. divergent: differing; deviating |
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| build; lie; make up (a story) in order to deceive; Ex. fabricate the whole story; CF. fabric: underlying structure; Ex. fabric of society |
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| happening in the near future; ready; willing to help; Ex. No answer was forthcoming. |
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| seine net; net for catching fish |
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| in love; Ex. enamored of his own beauty; V. enamor: inspire with love |
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| speak with involuntarily pauses or repetitions |
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| a person who governs in place of a ruler who is ill, absent, or still a child; ADJ. Ex. the Prince regent |
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| ing\'enue; young innocent girl |
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| deep feeling of dislike; Ex. grudge fight; V. |
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| transmit (money) in payment; free someone from a debt or punishment |
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| (of something bad) highly conspicuous; harshly bright; shining intensely and blindingly |
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| come together; assemble; call to meet; Ex. convene the council |
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| less intense; quieter; Ex. subdued lighting; Ex. subdue: conquer; make less intense; quiet; Ex. subdue one's anger |
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| control; rule; enjoy a commanding position in; overlook from a height; ³»·Á´Ùº¸´Ù |
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| stinging; caustic; bitter in words or manner; N. acrimony: bitter ill-natured animosity in speech or behavior |
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| unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly |
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| obsolete; old-fashioned; outdated |
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| sediment in a liquid; lees; worthless residue |
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| one who has equal standing with another; nobleman; V: look intently; N. peerage; CF. peeress |
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| disease passed on by the bite of an infected animal (causing madness and death) |
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| of or suffering rabies; like a fanatic; extremely zealous; furious; CF. rabies: hydrophobia |
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| complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative; Ex. absolute honesty/ruler; CF. absolutism |
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| deceive; lead astray by deception; wheedle(cajole); Ex. inveigle her into joining the club; CF. interest dishonestly |
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| good fortune and financial success; physical well-being |
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| loud or harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light |
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| frankness; open honesty; ADJ. candid |
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| charm; object believed to give supernatural powers to or protect its bearer |
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| being everywhere; omnipresent; N. ubiquity |
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| state of being numerous or multiple; large number; Ex. multiplicity of details; ADJ. multiple: of more than one element |
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| restore to good condition; renew |
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| connected with birth; CF. prenatal; CF. postnatal |
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| of marriage or the wedding ceremony; N; nuptials; wedding ceremony |
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| forewarning; presentiment; foreboding |
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| stormy; violent; impassioned; N. tempest: violent storm |
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| heavy substance used to add stability or weight; V. supply with ballast |
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| award of merit; strong praise and approval |
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| those of gentle birth; high social class; refinement; quality of being genteel |
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| holding; able to retain things (esp. facts in the mind); having a good memory |
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| having lost all hope; despairing; reckless and violent because of loss of hope or despair; undertaken as a last resort |
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| public declaration of principles; statement of policy |
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| secret; hidden; implied; OP. overt |
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| wring from; get money by threats, etc.; obtain by force or threats; CF. extortionate: exorbitant |
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| something of little importance or value; small amount; Ex. a trifle; V: treat without seriousness; flirt |
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| stinging; acrid; sharp in taste or smell; (of speech or writing) caustic; N. pungency |
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| surround; include; Ex. His activities encompass publishing and computers. |
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| (of an animal) feed on growing grass; cause (an animal) to feed on grass; scrape (esp. the skin) or touch lightly in passing; brush; Ex. We can't graze the cattle till summer; N: surface wound |
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| state of being partial; inclination; favorable bias; special fondness; preference |
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| one who harvests grain; Ex. the Grim Reaper; V. reap: cut and gather (crop); harvest a crop |
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| moment of calm; period of reduced activity; Ex. a lull in the rain; V: cause to become less active; cause to sleep or rest; Ex. lull the opponents into a false sense of security; CF. lullaby |
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| prudent; judicious; well judged; expedient; well devised |
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| ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant |
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| seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally) |
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| self-evident truth; something assumed without proof; V: assume the truth of (as a basis of an argument) |
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| record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry |
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| (of words or a voice) sweetly or smoothly flowing; melodious; having a pleasant tune |
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| absorb; take (food) into the body and digest it; understand (knowledge) completely and be able to use properly; cause to become homogeneous (the people of a country or race in the wasy of behaving or thinking) |
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| trifle with; toy with; treat without the necessary seriousness; procrastinate; waste time |
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| strange; eccentric; deviating from the normal |
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| official of ancient Rome elected by the plebians to protect their rights; protector of the people |
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| comprehend; investigate; determine the depth of; N. unit of measurement for the depth of water |
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| announce; proclaim a doctrine or law; make known by official publication |
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| of or coming from the side |
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| words formed in imitation of natural sounds |
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| elementary; not developed; crude; N. rudiment: fundamental element or principle; Ex. rudiments of the language |
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| romp; skip about; leap about playfully; frolic; N. |
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| tending to include all; all-inclusive; Ex. inclusive charge |
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| speak equivocally about an issue; N. |
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| not thick; thinly scattered; scanty |
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| agonizing; distressing; traumatic; V. harrow: break up and level (soil) with a harrow; inflict great distress on; agonize; N: farming machine to break up the earth |
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| able to be dissolved in a liquid; able to be worked out or solved |
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| haughty; arrogant; condescending; patronizing; CF. eyebrow, cilium |
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| extremely small; CF. minutes: official record of the proceedings at a meeting |
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| exhibiting rainbowlike colors; Ex. iridescent oil slick; N. iridescence |
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| lessen in value; belittle; represent as of little value |
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| charming (in a childlike way); agreeable; gracious; engaging |
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| person who looks on the bright side; N. optimism |
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| begin formally; install in office; induct into office by a formal ceremony; N. inauguration; ADJ. inaugural |
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| not applicable; unrelated |
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| odd in an old-fashioned way; odd; old-fashioned; picturesque |
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| carefully contrived; calculated; unspontaneous; deliberate; thoughtful; Ex. studied remark |
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| soothe; make calm or quiet; subdue; bring peace to |
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| clash or conflict in opinion; rubbing against |
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| plot outline; screenplay(script for a movie); opera libretto; outline of possible future events |
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| an act of yielding; conceding; something conceded; point, right, etc. given unwillingly; privilege of maintaining a business in a certain place; Ex. oil concessions in the North sea; CF. concessionaire |
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| calmness; placidity; ADJ. serene |
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| suitable for servants; lowly; mean; N: someone who does menial work (esp. servant in a house) |
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| cut off part of body; prune (a limb) |
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| going beyond what is right; excessively forward; arrogant; taking liberties |
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| having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental processes; N. cognition: the mental process of knowing |
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| expressing sorrow; mournful; Ex. plaintive song |
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| small stream; CF. rill < rivulet < river |
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| guarantee; assurance by seller |
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| period of equal days and nights; the beginning of spring and autumn; Ex. vernal/autumnal equinox; ADJ. equinoctial |
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| full of life; animated; vibrant and lively; critical; of great importance; necessary to stay alive; of life; living; breathing; N. vitality; V. vitalize |
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| dispute or contradict (often in an insulting way); attack as false or questionable; challenge; gainsay; CF. fight |
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| strong desire; longing; urge; Ex. yen for travel |
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| cut down; cut down expenses; economize |
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| chatter idly or foolishly; make continuous sounds like water running gently over rounded stone; N. |
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| art and science of preparing and serving good food; CF. gastronome |
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| someone who can make his or her voice seem to come from another person or thing (without moving lips or jaws); N. ventriloquism, ventriloquy |
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| black magic; sorcery; dealings with the dead; art that professes to communicate with the spirits of the dead so as to predict the future; CF. necromancer; CF. necro+divination; CF. necro-: death; Ex. necropolis |
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| motherly; N. maternity: motherhood |
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| stun as with a blow or shock; bemuse; benumb; N. |
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| one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige |
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| imprison; shut up in confinement; CF. wall |
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| speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner; Ex. rhapsodize over the beauty of the scenery |
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| state of being stupefied; state of apathy; daze; lack of awareness |
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| relapse; backslide; turn back to; return to the former owner; N. reversion |
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| floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long narrow piece |
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| changeable (in affections or friendship); faithless |
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| (of someone) unfriendly; hostile; (of something) harmful; detrimental; CF. enemy |
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| harmonious; in agreement; N. |
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| clumsy (in social behavior); coarse and uncouth |
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| make (something written) false by changing |
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| fret; complain; be annoyed; Ex. repine over the undone work |
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| complete; necessary for completeness; Ex. integral part |
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| bearlike; pertaining to a bear |
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| swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence; noxious atmosphere or influence |
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| turn away from (a principle, norm); move away from an accepted standard; swerve; depart; diverge; N. deviation; Ex. deviation of the path of light by a prism |
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| hasty and careless; haphazard; sloppy(carelessly done) |
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| mutilate; injure lastingly; disable; cripple; Ex. maimed for life |
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| unruly; difficult to manage; Ex. intractable problem/child |
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| warmly friendly; gracious; heartfelt; Ex. cordial welcome |
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| one-sided; involving or affecting only one side; Ex. unilateral declaration |
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| shaving of the head especially by person entering religious orders; V. |
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| evolve as in prenatal growth; N. gestation: period of development from conception until birth |
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| art of effective communication; art of using language effectively and persuasively; style of speaking or writing; grandiloquent language; Ex. political rhetoric; ADJ. rhetorical; CF. rhetorical question: question to which no answer is expected as ``Who knows it ?'' |
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| gloomy; morose; blue; N. ADJ. melancholic; CF. melancholia |
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| shy and reserved (of a person); modest; Ex. her retiring personality |
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| pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform |
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| felt in one's inner organs; N. viscera: internal body organs; CF. eviscerate |
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| roof of the mouth; sense of the taste |
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| split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to; N. cleavage; ADJ. cloven |
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| rise and float in the air (especially by magical means); CF. light |
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| sudden outburst of an illness or feeling; convulsion caused by epilepsy |
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| failure to act; failure to perform a task or be present; V. |
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| sudden frenzied rush (of panic-stricken animals or people); V: participate in or cause stampede; Ex. stampede before the price rises |
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| artificial; produced artificially; sham; false; Ex. factitious tears |
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| point of view; view from a particular place; expectation for the future; prospect; Ex. outlook on life; Ex. pleasing outlook; Ex. weather outlook |
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| conciseness; shortness of duration |
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| whim; tendency to behave amusingly strangely; Ex. story full of whimsy |
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| strong abrupt rush of wind; V. CF. bluster |
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| knickknack; bauble; cheap jewelry |
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| not planned; impromptu; extempore |
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| characterizing or affecting all; general; present everywhere; of the universe; cosmic; Ex. universal agreement; Ex. a subject of universal interest |
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| question closely; cross-examine; cross-question |
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| agitation; commotion(noisy and excited activity); unrest (of a political kind); V. produce by fermentation; undergo fermentation; cause (a state of trouble) |
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| worthless products of an endeavor; husk(outer seed cover) separated from grain; Ex. separate the wheat from the chaff |
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| gain for the performance of service or labor; gain (something that one deserves); deserve |
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| introductory; of a preface |
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| long, passionate, and vehement speech; V. |
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| rotting flesh of a dead body; CF. vulture |
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| introduce as a subject; moot; open up |
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| strip a priest or minister of church authority; unfrock |
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| skill (esp. with one's hands); skill in deceiving people; guile; ADJ. crafty: cleverly deceitful; cunning |
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| security given for loan; ADJ: secondary; descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters |
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| emit (an unpleasant odor or smoke); give off an unpleasant odor; give out smoke; Ex. reeking chimney; N: unpleasant odor; stench |
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| serious and sedate; sober; Ex. staid during the funeral ceremony |
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| form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly |
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| lawyer in the lower court of law |
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| combining parts or separate things into a whole; the whole so formed; PL. syntheses; V. synthesize |
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| group sharing a common cause or opinion |
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| capable of maintaining life; feasible; practical or workable; Ex. viable scheme |
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| pine tree (usu. evergreen); cone-bearing tree; ADJ. coniferous; CF. deciduous; CF. evergreen |
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| burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection |
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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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| connoisseur of food and drink; gourmet; ADJ. epicurean; CF. Epicurus |
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| church dignitary; priest of high position in the church (esp. bishop) |
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| shortcoming; V: desert (in order to join the opposite one) |
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| accuse of or implicate in a crime; serve as evidence against; cause to seem or make guilty of a crime; Ex. incriminating evidence |
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| of a sect; narrow-minded; parochial; N: member of a sect; narrow-minded person |
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| desert; abandon; renounce |
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| pertaining to the body; bodily; physical |
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| metal block used for shaping metal or plastic; device for stamping or impressing; mold; CF. dice |
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| hammerlike tool; mallet(wooden hammer) used by a presiding officer or an auctioneer; V. |
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| painting in only one color; ADJ. |
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| beat with a whip or flail; defeat utterly; talk about thoroughly in order to find the answer; move wildly or violently; Ex. The fishes thrashed about in the net. |
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| medical treatment and care of old age |
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| prudence; ability to adjust actions to circumstances; freedom of action or judgment; ADJ. discreet; CF. discretionary |
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| authoritative and weighty statement (made by a judge in court); saying; maxim; CF. obiter dictum: incidental, nonbinding remark (something said in passing) |
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| hostile feeling or intent; animosity; hostility; disposition |
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| applaud; praise; greet with great approval; announce with great approval; Ex. The new drung has been acclaimed as the most important discoveries for years; N: strong expression of approval and praise |
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| morally disapproved person; person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency; CF. disapproved by God ? |
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| person who has a compulsive desire to steal |
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| wealthy and powerful businessperson; wealthy leader; magnate; Ex. business tycoon |
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| patiently submissiveness; statement that one is quitting a job; ADJ. resigned: acquiescent |
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| small representative world; world in miniature; Ex. microcosm of English society |
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| lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact(concerned with facts, not imagination or feelings); factual; CF. prose |
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| trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
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| sympathy for the suffering of others; ADJ. compassionate |
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| manlike; resembling a human being; N. |
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| (of land) plowed but not sowed (to improve the quality); uncultivated |
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| confuse; upset; embarrass; perturb |
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| disobedient; lawless; difficult to control |
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| dose (of liquids); liquid dose |
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| one who is intolerant (in matters of religion or politics) |
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| naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated; candid |
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| deceiving; based on illusion; causing illusion; deceptive |
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| get one's bearings; adjust; make familiar with a situation; orientate |
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| clothing; garments; Ex. I have no raiment fit to wear. |
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| the ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus |
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| gather into wrinkles or folds; N: wrinkle or fold |
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| happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; Ex. casual reader/labor/remark |
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| pommel; beat or pound with fists |
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| churlish, miserly individual; bad-tempered old person |
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| highly successful action or sudden attack; coup(s) d'\'etat; CF. coup de gr\^ace: deathblow or shot which kills |
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| shine erratically; twinkle; N: dim or unsteady light; faint indication; Ex. glimmer of hope |
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| similarly timed; simultaneous with; occurring at the same time; V. synchronize |
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| drink with zest; drink with relish(zest; hearty enjoyment); ²Ü²©²Ü²© ¸¶½Ã´Ù; CF. sip |
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| foremost in importance; supreme; CF. para-: beyond; above; Ex. paranormal |
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| break (a law); defile; desecrate; assault sexually; Ex. violate graves |
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| pertaining to the stars; of a star performer; outstanding; Ex. stellar attraction of the entire performance |
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| waver; shift; rise and fall as if in waves; change or vary irregularly |
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| killing of animals for food; massacre; V: butcher (animals) for food; kill in large numbers |
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| earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding; CF. raise |
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| decorate with needlework; ornament (a story) with fancy or fictitious details; embellish |
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| hybridize; N: hybrid; CF. interbreed; CF. inbreed |
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| tending toward the center |
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| loquacious; wordy; talkative; N. garrulity |
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| extremely small; CF. Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels |
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| excessively modest or proper person (who is easily shocked by improper things, esp. of a sexual nature); N. prudery; ADJ. prudish: excessively concerned with propriety |
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| pale; wan; Ex. pallid complexion |
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| hesitate; shrink back (in fear of something unpleasant); Ex. She did not flinch in the face of danger. |
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| play or frolic boisterously; gambol; N. |
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| bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste, manner, or tone) |
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| growing by addition; accumulative |
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| person of high rank or position |
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| mad with violent anger; frenzied; madly excited |
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| lose animation or strength |
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| fringes; outer borders (as of a city); Ex. outskirts of Boston |
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| psychosis marked by delusions of grandeur or persecution; N: ADJ: paranoid, paranoiac |
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| something apparently contradictory in nature (that may nonetheless be true); statement that looks false but is actually correct |
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| wear a mask or disguise; pretend; N: costume party or ball at which masks are worn; pretense; disguise |
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| slight difference in degree; nuance; degree of color; Ex. shades of meaning/grey |
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| good quality deserving praise; merits: aspect of character or behavior deserving approval or disapproval; Ex. judge each plan on its own merits; V: deserve; earn |
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| quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine) |
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| gift made by a will; something handed down from an ancestor |
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| spread through or over (with a color or liquid); charge; Ex. A blush suffused her cheeks. |
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| introduction; introductory performance or event; forerunner |
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| (of writing) flowing; running; having the successive letters joined |
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| one who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously); one who works solely for compensation; Ex. hireling politician |
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| of or suitable for a palace; magnificent |
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| curse; express abhorrence for; detest |
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| untidy (of hair or clothing); V. dishevel |
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| cheerfulness; kindliness; sympathy; ADJ. genial: cheerful and good-tempered |
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| bloody; with much bloodshed |
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| hindrance; stumbling-block; speech defect preventing clear articulation; Ex. speech impediment |
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| slow-thinking stupid person; CF. dull |
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| desecrating; profane; N. sacrilege: desecration, misuse, or theft of something sacred |
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| falling to pieces; in a bad condition; ruined because of neglect; Ex. dilapidated old car/castle; N. dilapidation |
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| great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a gradual loss of eyesight) |
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| lending money at illegal high rates of interest |
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| attribute; ascribe; charge; N. imputation |
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| yellowed; prejudiced (envious, hostile, or resentful) from long and disappointing experience of human affairs; Ex. with a jaundiced eye |
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| cord used to draw and tie together two opposite edges (as of a shoe); delicate fabric made of fine threads; V: draw together by tying a lace |
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| used to prevent disease; N: something prophylactic; condom; N. prophylaxis: prevention of disease |
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| fit or attack of pain, laughter, rage; sudden outburst |
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| transform; change; convert to something different |
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| place under water; dip; go under water; cover completely (as with water); Ex. submerged in work |
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| vain about dress and appearance; N. fop: man who takes too much interest in his clothes and appearance |
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| pertaining to mental dearrangement; N. psychopath: person with an antisocial personality disorder |
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| soft food made by boiling oatmeal |
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| of religion; (of a person) pious; having reverence for a deity |
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| heavy and awkward to carry or wear; burdensome; Ex. cumbersome parcel/uniform |
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| simultaneous discharge of a number of shots; V. |
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| sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river) |
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| shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V. |
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| one that achieves unexpected success; something originally of little value or importance that in time becomes very valuable |
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| fully filled; filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied; Ex. report replete with errors |
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| jaunty; stylish; sporty; morally corrupt; dissolute; Ex. He wore his hat at a rakish and jaunty angle. |
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| twist in coils; contort in pain |
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| cause to become sick; fill with disgust; fill nausea |
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| confuse; mix up confusedly; N: state of confusion |
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| paint used to coat a surface with a glossy film; glossy coating produced by using this substance; Ex. nail varnish; V. |
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| expand; dilate on/upon: speak or write at length on (a subject) |
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| government under a single ruler |
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| man who is not a cleric; man who is nonprofessional |
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| unlikely occurrence; stroke of fortune; accidental stroke of good luck; ADJ. fluky |
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| scientific student of birds; N. ornithology: scientific study of birds |
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| heap; piled-up mass; embankment; lateral tilting (as of an aircraft in turning); V: pile up; protect with a bank; tilt in turning |
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| pitiless; merciless; cruel |
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| make necessary; require; necessitate; involve; limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs; Ex. entail A on/upon B |
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| art of versification; study of the metrical structure of verse |
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| peak; pinnacle; highest point |
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| deceptive; likely to delude; misleading; raising vain hopes; Ex. delusive promises |
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| trunk of statue with head and limbs missing; human trunk |
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| stupid; Ex. asinine remarks |
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| make impure or of poorer quality by adding inferior or tainted(contaminated) substances |
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| efficiency or conciseness in using something; thrifty management of resources |
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| negligent; (of someone) neglectful of duty; (of something) deserted by an owner; abandoned; N: abandoned property; homeless or vagrant person |
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| intense sexual desire; intense eagerness; V. |
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| kindle; light; catch fire or set fire to |
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| sure of one's own righteousness; moralistic |
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| burning; corrosive; able to burn by chemical action; sarcastically biting; (of remarks) intended to hurt; bitter; harmful; OP. harmless |
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| religious image; idol; image or representation |
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| having no motion; unchanging; lacking development; N. stasis: stable state |
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| food; provisions; V. victual: provide with food |
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| boredom; listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; CF. annoy |
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| time of greatest success or power; prime |
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| excessively fat; N. obesity |
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| proverb; truth pithily stated |
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| stun; make numb (as with a drug); amaze |
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| rapture; very strong feeling of joy and happiness; any overpowering emotion; ADJ. ecstatic: causing or experiencing ecstasy |
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| weak; ineffective; lacking in physical strength or power |
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| deep dish for serving soup |
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| law enacted by the legislature |
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| bend forward and down; lower or debase oneself; fall to a lower standard of behavior by doing something; condescend; Ex. stoop to lying |
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| fragrant; having a sweet smell; N. aroma: strong pleasant smell |
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| thwart; defeat; prevent from accomplishing a purpose |
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| person who does things too quickly without thinking; ADJ. hotheaded |
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| lawsuit; N. litigant: one party in a lawsuit; V. litigate |
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| catch sight of (something distant) |
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| easily shocked or sickened by unpleasant things; fastidious; Ex. A nurse should not be squeamish. |
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| question severely; cook on a grill; broil; N: cooking surface of parallel metal bars |
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| reconciling; soothing; V. conciliate: reconcile; soothe; win the friendly feelings (by removing anger) |
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| grow rapidly; grow forth; send out buds; Ex. burgeoning computer industry; CF. bludgeon |
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| pirate or plunderer who makes war in order to grow rich |
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| injure without breaking the skin; N. |
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| formless; lacking shape or definition |
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| conduct or language inciting rebellion; rebellion; resistance to authority; insubordination; ADJ. seditious |
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| man employed to take care of horses; V: make neat and trim; clean and brush (an animal) |
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| resolve; firmness of purpose; measurement or calculation; decision |
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| having no equal; incomparable |
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| movable; not fixed; N. mobility |
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| (of weather) hot; sweltering; sensual; voluptuous |
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| hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; clich\'ed |
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| capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around); Ex. prehensile tails |
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| the act of anointing with oil; Ex. extreme unction |
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| distaste; disgust; act of driving back; ADJ. repulsive: causing disgust; tending to drive away; V. repel (not `repulse') |
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| consider; ponder; ADJ: done on purpose; slow |
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| glass water bottle; decanter |
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| allowing much freedom; lenient; Ex. permissive society |
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| causing a feeling of pity or sympathy; pathetic; V. touch: cause to feel pity or sympathy; ADJ. touched |
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| arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained; congruity; ADJ. symmetrical |
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| winding; twisting; of or like a serpent; Ex. serpentine course of the river; N. serpent: snake |
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| thwart; present an obstacle; stump |
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| determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.; go through (a region) to solicit votes or orders; conduct a survey; N. |
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| first in rank or importance; principal; earliest in time; Ex. primary stages; N. CF. first |
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| dedicate; sanctify; declare as sacred; Ex. consecrate one's life to helping the poor |
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| one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch(pocket of skin or leather); CF. kangaroo, opossum, wombat |
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| expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule |
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| of good upbringing; well-mannered and refined |
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| forerunner (which foreshadows what is to come) |
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| (of a building or vehicle) poorly constructed; rickety; falling apart |
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| general agreement; opinion reached by a group |
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| autopsy; ADJ: occurring after death; of a postmortem |
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| cut into small parts; cut (a body) apart limb from limb |
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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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| related; belonging to the same group; similar in nature or character; Ex. kindred languages; N: relative; kin; kinship |
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| put or force in without being asked; trespass; enter as an uninvited person; Ex. intrude one's own opinion into the report; CF. thrust in |
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| handle roughly; batter; injure by beating; Ex. mauled by his overexcited fans; N: heavy long-handled hammer |
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| reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises; V. ratiocinate: reason logically |
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| ponder at length; N: source of inspiration (esp. of a poet) |
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| small roofed structure for storage and shelter; V: pour forth; lose by natural process; repel without allowing penetration; radiate; cast; Ex. shed tears/light/water/skin/leaves |
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| said or done in jest or playfully; marked by joking |
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| acquire; take possession of for one's own use without permission; set aside for a particular purpose; allocate; CF. misappropriate |
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| disheveled; uncared for in appearance; not combed; CF. comb |
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| give; use; refrain from harming; save from experiencing; exempt; Ex. spare me 5 minutes; Ex. Take this money and spare my life; Ex. The emperor was spared the onus; ADJ: kept in reserve; free for other use; unoccupied; Ex. spare time |
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| counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law; CF. bar |
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| (of a liquid) having the sediment disturbed; muddy; thick |
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| male sheep; V. strike or drive against with a heavy impact |
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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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| pertaining to the Pharisees, who paid scrupulous attention to tradition; self-righteous; hypocritical |
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| justification; written order that serves as authorization (esp. a judicial writ); Ex. search/death warrant; V: justify; guarantee |
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| attack or defense of an opinion; controversy or refutation; argument in support of point of view; N. polemics: art of debate or controversy |
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| drink (alcoholic beverages) frequently; N: alcoholic drink |
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| inquire impertinently (someone else's private affairs); use leverage to raise or open something; prize; N. pries: tool for prying |
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| good judgment with composure; balance; V: place in a carefully balanced position |
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| ignore or behave coldly toward; Ex. I made a suggestion but she snubbed me; N. |
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| slovenly; careless; sloppy; untidy; shabby; Ex. slipshod work |
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| having vertical parallel grooves (as in a pillar); V. flute: make long parallel inward curves in; N. flute: long rounded groove incised on the shaft of a column |
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| decay of body tissue caused by insufficient blood supply (usually following injury); ADJ. gangrenous |
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| energetic; vigorously active |
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| excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause; N. fanatic; ADJ. fanatic |
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| one who is zealous; fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal |
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| matchless; not able to be imitated |
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| agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged; CF. catalysis |
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| not natural; artificial; resulting from synthesis; Ex. synthetic fiber; N. |
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| (of a person or speech) using high sounding or important-sounding language; pompous; bombastic |
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| state of being alone; seclusion; ADJ. solitary: existing or living alone (esp. by choice); remote or secluded; single; sole; Ex. solitary life/inn; Ex. no solitary piece of proof |
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| envy; give or allow unwillingly; grudge; Ex. We shouldn't begrudge him his success. |
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| mental or bodily powers; teaching staff |
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| notoriously bad; notorious; well known for being bad; Ex. infamous behavior; N: infamy: infamous act; evil fame or reputation |
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| urging; always demanding; troublesomely urgent or persistent |
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| person who uncritically conforms to the customs of a group; OP. nonconformist: one who does not conform to accepted beliefs of norms |
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| crafty; cunning; artful; N. wile: deceitful stratagem |
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| combination (of two business corporations); act of merging |
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| not noticing; disregarding |
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| place of origin; origin or source of something; Ex. Gunpowder is of Chinese provenance; CF. come |
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| emotionally removed; free from emotional involvement; calm and objective; physically separate; N. detachment; CF. attachment |
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| weaken; destroy; make invalid; nullify |
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| turn upside down or inside out; reverse the position or condition of |
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| steal another's ideas or writings and pass them off as one's own; Ex. ideas plagiarized from my article; N. plagiarism; CF. kidnap |
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| suitable to debate or courts of law; of or used in legal proceedings and the tracking of criminals; Ex. forensic science/medicine |
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| artificial channel for water; drain crossing under a road |
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| characteristic of an entire class or species; of a genus |
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| combine; fuse; N. coalescence |
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| pertaining to passionate love or sexual love |
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| enrage; infuriate(make furious); make extremely angry; outrage; N: aromatic substance burned to produce a pleasant odor |
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| talk idly; babble; N. CF. prate |
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| lack of balance or symmetry; disproportion |
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| pen name; fictitious name assumed by an author; ADJ. pseudonymous |
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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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| transient; impermanent; fleeting; N. transitoriness |
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| cheerful promptness without reluctance |
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| remitting of money; amount of money remitted |
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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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| revive; bring back to life or consciousness; Ex. resuscitate the drowned child |
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| highest point; climax; V. culminate in: reach the highest point in; end in; Ex. a series of minor clashes culminating in war |
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| small ornamental statuette(very small statue) |
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| fall apart into tangles; entangle; unravel or untwist |
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| arise from; originate from |
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| decode; CF. indecipherable |
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| make beloved; Ex. endear her to everyone; ADJ. dear: loved; cherished; high-priced |
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| so high as to prohibit purchase or use; tending to prevent the purchase or use of something; prohibiting; inclined to prevent or forbid; Ex. prohibitive tax |
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| stubborn; refusing to change one's belief |
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| thousand-year period (as in the New Testament); hoped-for period of happiness and prosperity |
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| small amount (of money); small allowance or wage |
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| warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; reprove |
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| posion; cause of ruin; ADJ. baneful: harmful; poisonous |
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| phrase dulled in meaning by repetition; platitude; ADJ. clich\'ed |
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| complete independence and self-government (of a country); supremacy of authority; power to govern |
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| of the law and its administration; CF. judicial: of courts of law; CF. judiciary |
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| ceremonial staff used as a symbol of authority; clublike medieval weapon |
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| hard coating or crust; V. incrust: encrust; cover with a crust |
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| (of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble; showing lack of self-respect; Ex. abject apology |
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| deviation from the normal; mental disorder |
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| reckless, desperate outlaw |
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| happening at the same time; in agreement |
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| behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious; subordinate; N. subservience |
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| having to do with citizens; not military or religious; courteous and polite; Ex. married in a civil ceremony; Ex. civil strife/disorder/law; N. civility; CF. civic |
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| defile; soil; tarnish; Ex. sully one's hands in menial labor |
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| have a tendency; take care of; minister; serve at; apply one's attention; attend |
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| inclined to; likely to (suffer); prostrate; lying with the front downward; Ex. prone to disease/make mistakes; Ex. accident-prone |
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| resonant; producing a full deep sound; producing sound |
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| suffering from a disease; destroyed |
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| long and thin; Ex. Lank, gaunt, Abraham Lincoln |
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| changing its habitat; wandering; Ex. migrant birds/workers; N: one that migrates |
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| work of art put together from fragments |
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| sleepwalker; V. somnambulate; N. somnambulism |
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| redden; blush; flow suddenly and abundantly; wash out by a rapid brief flow of water; N: reddish tinge; blush; brief rush; rush of strong feeling; Ex. flush of pride; ADJ: having surfaces in the same plane; even; blushing |
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| eliminate from consideration; no longer consider; put out of court without further hearing; reject; discharge from employment; direct to leave; ADJ. dismissive; N. dismissal |
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| text of an opera or oratorio; CF. book |
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| live in a monotonous way (without interests or activity); CF. vegetation: plants of an area; CF. vegetarian; CF. vegan |
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| (of a body of water) wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; (of a ship or aircraft) able to be steered |
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| lascivious; lustful; Ex. salacious monk |
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| new or newly coined word or phrase |
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| supplement to the body of a will; later addition to a will |
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| stretching; condition of being stretched; mental strain; strained relationship between groups or people |
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| extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress; (¾î±ú¿¡¼ °Üµå¶û ¹ØÀ¸·Î °ÉÄ¡´Â) Àå½Ä ¸®º»; V. |
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| act or state of separation; disunity; CF. disjunctive: expressing a choice between two ideas; CF. conjunction; CF. conjunctive |
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| effect; produce; achieve; Ex. effectuate a reconciliation |
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| striker (tongue) of a bell |
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| (of a dress) having a low-cut neckline; CF. d\'ecolletage: low neckline (on a dress) |
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| behave in a way that attracts (sexual) attention; deal triflingly with; N: one (or woman) given to flirting; ADJ. flirtatious |
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| steadiness of effort; persistent hard work |
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| draw; outline; describe; CF. line ? |
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| purely spiritual; theoretical; without sensual desire |
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| similar; analogous; corresponding; N: parallel line; person or thing that is parallel (to another); similarity; Ex. know of no parallel to the case; Ex. without parallel; V: be similar to; make parallel; Ex. Your experience parallels mine; CF. unparalleled |
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| returning something (lost or stolen) to the rightful owner; reparation; indemnification; compensation for loss, damage, or injury |
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| being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native; indigenous; N. aborigine |
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| narrate or tell (a story); count over again |
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| state of disorder; a disorderly or untidy state; Ex. with her clothes in disarray |
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| coiled around; twisted; involved; complicated; intricate; complex; N. convolution: twist; one of the convex folds of the surface of the brain |
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| yield to; gratify; allow oneself a special pleasure; Ex. indulge one's every whim/a child/in a big cigarette; N. indulgence |
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| motion; gesture; V. gesticulate: make gestures (while speaking) |
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| female fox; ill-tempered woman; CF. shrew |
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| excessively exacting; too critical (without noticing good qualities) |
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| meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services; overly eager in offering unwanted services or advices; Ex. officious bellboy |
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| (of a style of art) showing things as they actually appear in real life |
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| violation (of a rule or regulation); breach |
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| separate; part; CF. asunder |
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| bombastic; stiffly pompous; Ex. stilted rhetoric; CF. stiff: formal |
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| pollute; make filthy or dirty; corrupt morally; profane; desecrate; N: narrow passage or gorge through mountains |
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| long for; yearn; languish from longing or grief; decline |
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| sudden strong feeling of disgust; sudden violent change of feeling; negative reaction; Ex. revulsion from the scenes of torture |
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| unmanageable; disobedient and stubborn; Ex. refractory horse |
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| propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners; appropriateness of behavior or conduct |
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| long angry denunciatory speech; diatribe; harangue; extended scolding; denunciation |
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| model; example that serves as a model; pattern; list of all the inflectional forms of a word |
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| produce a splashing sound (when stepping through mud); crush; squash; CF. ÁøÈëÀ» À§¿¡¼ ¹âÀ» ¶§ |
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| remove (forcibly); force out of a position; Ex. dislodge the food caught in his throat; CF. lodge |
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| careless; negligent; not paying enough attention; Ex. lax service |
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| laugh (at); mock; ridicule; Ex. scoff at their threats |
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| domineering; too commanding; haughty; CF. imperial/emperor |
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| rural; of rural life; idyllic; of a pastor |
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| one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property; N. sabotage: destruction of property (usually carried out secretly) |
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| regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times; signal (as a bell) announcing the hour of a curfew |
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| social outcast; Ex. Mariah the pariah |
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| satisfy (thirst); quench; sate |
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| common; vulgar; pertaining to the common people; N: common people in ancient Rome; CF. patrician |
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| ridicule; deride; imitate often in derision |
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| the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events; V. coincide: happen at the same time; be in agreement; CF. coincident; CF. coincidental |
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| make pregnant; fill thoroughly; saturate |
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| empty; lacking in ideas; inane; stupid; Ex. vacuous expression; N. vacuity |
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| enthusiastic follower; enthusiast; Ex. devotee of Bach |
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| change in direction; swerve |
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| (of a sound) echoing; resounding(sounding loudly); deep and full in sound; producing resonance; Ex. resonant voice; N. resonance |
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| gold and silver in the form of bars |
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| dark; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; CF. shadow |
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| division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) |
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| shack; small wretched house |
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| exhibiting art or skill; deceitful; cunning; CF. artifice |
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| state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc.; ADJ. responsive: readily reacting; Ex. responsive to treatment |
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| cliff; dangerous position; Ex. on the edge of the precipice |
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| mysterious; secret; supernatural; beyond human comprehension; CF. mysterious to human ?; OP. bare |
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| work (esp. musical composition); Ex. magnum opus: masterpiece; CF. opera |
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| decorative edge of hanging threads; edge |
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| sharpen; stimulate; Ex. whet someone's appetite |
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| little round hill; hillock |
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| black form of carbon used in lead pencils |
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| put forth for consideration or analysis; set forth; Ex. propound a problem/theory |
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| (of voice) harsh and unpleasant; (of people) disorderly and boisterous; Ex. raucous shouts |
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| evil; malignant in intent or effect; deadly; having a malign influence; portending evil; ominous; threatening; Ex. baleful look |
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| remedy; compensation; Ex. seek redress for the damage to your car; V: put right; remedy or rectify (a wrong); make amends for |
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| final outcome; final development of the plot of a play or other literary work; the end of a story when everything is explained |
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| influenced by personal feelings; occurring or taking place within the mind; unreal; Ex. subjective sensation of the ghostly presence |
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| hostile invasion; advance that lessens the quantity or difficulty of something; Ex. The long illness made serious inroads on his savings; CF. raid |
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| 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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| small bit or fragment; discarded waste material; fight; Ex. a scrap of paper/cloth; V: break into parts for disposal; discard as worthless; fight; quarrel |
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| insignificant; unimportant |
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| make friendly again (after quarrel); make consistent (two ideas in opposition); correct inconsistencies; Ex. reconcile one's political principles with one's religious beliefs |
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| large group; Ex. a bevy of starlets |
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| call forth (memory or feeling); Ex. That old film evoked memories of my childhood; N. evocation |
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| legislating branch of government; CF. legislate: make laws |
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| punishing; Ex. punitive measures |
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| position giving an advantage (such as a strategic point); CF. vantagepoint |
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| without previous preparation; off the cuff(end of a sleeve); on the spur of the moment |
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| contaminate; cause to lose purity; modify with a trace of something bad; Ex. tainted reputation; N: stain; touch of decay or bad influence; CF. touch |
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| severe and adverse criticism; critical comments; limit or restriction |
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| concerning the sense of smell |
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| of the production of electricity by the action of an acid on a metal; having the effect of an electric shock; Ex. galvanic cell; galvanic effect; CF. Luigi Galvani |
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| long loose garment (worn by monks) |
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| something hinted at or suggested; implying; implicating |
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| in confusion; disorderly; Ex. dash pell-mell |
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| shining (esp. in the dark); issuing light; Ex. luminous paint/road signs |
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| small poor bed; Ex. straw pallet |
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| miserable person; bad or despicable person; ADJ. wretched: miserable; bad; contemptible; vile |
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| worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday; of the ordinary; Ex. mundane existence; CF. world |
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| place of refuge; shelter; shrine; holy place; Ex. The outlaw was granted sanctuary in the church. |
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| resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult; Ex. take umbrage at his rudeness |
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| lively; inducing excitement; stirring; V. rouse: waken; arouse from sleep or depression; excite; stir up |
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| look at amorously; make eyes at; Ex. old men ogling young girls |
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| blotched in coloring; spotted; Ex. mottled face; V. mottle: mark with blotches of different colors |
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| outward sign; Ex. a token of our gratitude |
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| place into a case; insert into or provide with a sheath; Ex. He sheathed his dagger; N. sheath: case for a blade |
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| unrefined; coarse; of earth; Ex. earthy remarks; OP. ethereal |
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| chances; probability; disagreement; Ex. The odds are that it will rain. Ex. at odds with |
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| urbanity; polish; ADJ. suave: smooth and courteous |
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| powerful person; Ex. oil moguls; CF. Mogol, Moghul; CF. Mongolian |
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| like an emperor; related to an empire; CF. imperialism |
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| astonish (making dumb); ADJ. dumbfounded, dumfounded, dumbstruck |
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| pretend; feign; ADJ: not genuine; fake; Ex. sham jewelry; N: something that is not what it appears; impostor; pretense; Ex. The agreement was a sham. |
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| wasting away; V: weaken and lose flesh and muscle (through lack of blood or lack of use) |
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| drink of the gods; sweet liquid collected by bees |
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| morose; gloomy; Ex. Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance. |
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| lover of luxury; person devoted to pleasure and luxury; CF. Sybaris: an ancient Greek city in Italy |
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| raid; sudden raid or military advance; V. |
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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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| positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath; V. affirm; ADJ. affirmative; CF. affirmative action: positive discrimination |
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| uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health (without any particular pain or appearance of disease) |
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| fertility; fruitfulness; ADJ. fecund: very productive of crops or young |
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| ornamental horizontal band on a wall |
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| self-control; self-restraint; formal but distant manner; reticence; Ex. without reserve: freely and openly; ADJ. reserved: shy and uncommunicative |
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| departure (of a large number of people) |
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| examine and compare in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order (the sheets of a book before they are bound) |
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| pare; cut away thin bits (from wood); fashion in this way; reduce gradually; trim |
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| Christian religious ceremony; CF. Mass: ceremony of the Eucharist |
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| pertaining to speculative philosophy; of metaphysics; N. metaphysics: branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality |
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| resulting from compulsion |
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| obligatory; imposed as an obligation; currently holding an office; N: person who holds an office |
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| turn into a god; make a god of; idolize; Ex. Kings were deified; CF. deity |
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| weak and in bad condition from old age or hard use; Ex. decrepit old chair/man |
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| mental or physical ability; role; position or duty; ability to accommodate; Ex. in my capacity as president |
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| prevent in advance; head off(forestall); forestall by acting first; appropriate for oneself before others; supplant; take the place of; displace; Ex. preempt any attempts; ADJ. preemptive |
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| maker of a will; CF. testatrix |
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| debauched person; dissolute or licentious person; rou\'e; CF. free |
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| unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger; V. consolidate: merge; strengthen |
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| vested power to reject a bill; exercise of this right; V: prevent or forbid by exercising the power of veto |
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| disgrace; N. ADJ. dishonorable |
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| husk; dry outer covering of a seed; frame or body of a ship |
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| foretell; be a warning or sign of; N: presentiment; foreboding; omen |
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| private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy; CF. the Caucus club of Boston |
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| (of colors or surfaces) not bright; cloudy; overcast; boring; (of edge or sound) not sharp; not rapid; sluggish; slow in thinking and understanding; stupid; V. |
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| young animal (esp. of the dog or cat family); young wolf, dog, tiger, etc. |
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| kill from lack of air; suppress; cover thickly; Ex. smothered in little stickers |
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| ability to change in form; fickleness; ADJ. mutable: able to change; fickle; CF. mutate; CF. mutant |
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| believing that pleasure is good and suffering is bad and should be avoided; N. |
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| accustom a baby not to nurse; accustom (the young of a mammal) to take nourishment other than by suckling; give up a cherished activity; cause to gradually leave (an interest or habit); Ex. wean oneself from cigarettes |
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| substance which propels or drives forward (such as an explosive charge or a rocket fuel) |
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| relating to paradise; blissful |
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| attach; add to a large thing; take possession of; incorporate (territory) into a larger existing political unit (by force); N: building added to a large one |
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| effulgent; brilliant; brightly shining; gleaming; Ex. refulgent moon |
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| turn to for help; Ex. resort to violence; N. |
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| of different colors; mottled; spotted in different colors (esp. in black and white); Ex. piebald horse; CF. pie+bald |
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| disintegration; reduction to a liquid form; looseness in morals; sensual indulgence; debauchery; ADJ. dissolute: lacking in moral restraint; leading an immoral life |
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| evasive; not frank; baffling; hard to grasp, catch, or understand; V. elude: escape from; escape the understanding or grasp of; Ex. elude the hunter; Ex. His name eludes me. |
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| official or legal permission; latitude of action or speech; excessive freedom that causes harm or damage; V. |
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| (of speech or writing) intended to teach a moral lesson; teaching; instructional; N. didacticism |
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| pass into or through; penetrate or enter (an organization) sneakily; Ex. infiltrate the troops into enemy territory; CF. infiltrator |
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| something taken for granted; the taking over or taking possession of; Ex. her assumption of power; V. assume |
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| hug; clasp with the arms; adopt or espouse; accept readily; encircle; include; Ex. embrace the cause/socialism; Ex. all-embracing; CF. brace; CF. bracelet |
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| celebrity (in a specific field); dignitary; object that gives light (as a celestial body) |
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| exercising the most influence; high and easily seen; stronger than the other part of a system; not recessive |
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| person who pretends to be sophisticated, elegant, etc., to impress others; person who poses; CF. pose |
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| indirect; slanting (deviating from the perpendicular or from a straight line); Ex. oblique reference |
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| beat (cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains from the straw |
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| make secure against damage or loss; compensate for damage or loss; CF. make uninjured |
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| hunt through discarded materials for usable items or food; search, especially for food; N. scavenger: one who scavenges; animal that feeds on refuse and carrion |
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| rhythmical throbbing of arteries; brief sudden change in a normally constant quantity; V: pulsate |
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| exit; opening for going out; act of going out; OP. ingress |
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| pride; arrogance; ADJ. haughty |
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| arrange into categories or grades; divide into marked intervals (for use in measurement); Ex. graduated ruler |
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| in a state of rage; Ex. run amok |
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| enthusiasm (as in artistic performance or composition); liveliness; vigor |
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| violent whirlpool; violent or tublent situation; CF. stream |
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| machine that separates substances by whirling them |
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| of the same kind; uniform in composition throughout |
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| decree (especially one issued by a sovereign); official command |
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| border; room; allowance beyond what is needed; Ex. margin of safety |
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| move furtively and secretly; Ex. He skulked through the less fashionable sections of the city. |
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| fall or let fall in drops; shed drops; N: action or sound of falling in drops; liquid that falls in drops |
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| refutation; response with contrary evidence; V. rebut: refute; disprove |
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| determine in advance; predestine; settle or decide beforehand; influence markedly |
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| restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words |
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| stoical; impassive; unmoved by joy or grief; N. CF. stoicism |
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| strike the palms of the hands together with a sudden explosive sound; come together suddenly with a sharp sound; put or send promptly; Ex. clap the thief in jail; N: clapping; loud or explosive sound; CF. applause |
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| flexible; easily influenced; yielding; adaptable |
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| teacher; CF. child leader |
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| leader or noticeable supporter of an idea; chief character in a play or story |
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| (of something bad) not moderated; unrelieved or immoderate; without qualification; absolute; Ex. unmitigated disaster |
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| tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid |
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| talkative boaster; braggart |
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| absence of governing body; state of disorder |
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| person convicted of a grave crime; CF. felony: serious crime |
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| superintendent; manager (in charge of a museum or a library) |
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| quick in movement; agile; quick in understanding; Ex. nimble climber/mind |
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| damnation; complete ruin; hell |
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| persuade by praise or false promise; coax; wheedle |
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| (of a place) dilapidated; in a bad condition; (of a person) weak or exhausted |
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| snip off; stop something's growth or development; bite; make numb with cold; Ex. nip the plan; Ex. A guard dog nipped the postman; Ex. fingers nipped by the extreme chill |
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| upstart; newly rich person |
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| not wise; not expedient; not politic |
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| (of work) compensating; rewarding; profitable; well-paid; V. remunerate: reward; pay (someone) for work or trouble |
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| long heroic poem, novel, or similar work of art (celebrating the feats of a hero); ADJ: (of stories or events) resembling an epic; grand |
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| difference; condition of inequality; OP. parity |
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| scatter; drive away; cause to vanish |
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| trademark; mark burned on the hide of an animal; mark burned into the flesh of criminals; mark of disgrace; V: mark with a brand; give a lasting bad name; stigmatize; Ex. The press branded him a liar. |
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| approach and speak first to a person |
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| a great quantity; Ex. scads of clothes |
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| restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking; CF. abstention: act of abstaining from vote |
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| (of a snake) shed or cast off (dead outer skin); N: outer layer that is shed |
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| put into effect; carry out; kill as a lawful punishment; N. execution |
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| narrow in scope or outlook; provincial; related to parishes |
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| written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law) |
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| clergyman attached to a chapel |
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| group of attendants; retinue; CF. surround |
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| place formally in office; install; admit as a member; initiate; N. induction: inducting; process of deriving general principles from particular facts |
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| blues; listlessness(lack of spirit or energy); slack(inactive) period; period of stagnation; ocean area near the equator where ships cannot move because there is no wind; Ex. in the doldrums |
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| sweet sounding; pleasing to the ear; melodious |
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| word blindness; learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to read |
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| (of a metal) capable of being shaped by pounding(beating); pliable; (of someone) impressionable(easily influenced); easily controlled; tractable |
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| happening at last as a result; Ex. eventual victory |
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| weightless; that cannot undergo precise evaluation; CF. pound |
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| corrupt; turn from right to wrong; misuse; Ex. perverted sexual desire/scientific knowledge; N: person whose sexual behavior is not natural |
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| relating to the highest point; N. climax; CF. climatic |
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| of the surface; not deep; shallow; not thorough; trivial; Ex. superficial analysis/knowledge |
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| slang; speech spoken by only a small group of people |
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| division of animals or plants, below a family and above a species |
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| introverted; retiring; remote |
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| study industriously; ponder; scrutinize; Ex. pore over the book; N. |
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| ability to identify with another's feelings, ideas, etc.; identification with and understanding of another's feelings; V. empathize; CF. sympathy |
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| exaggeration; overstatement; ADJ. hyperbolic: of hyperbole; of a hyperbola |
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| join together; unite; N: crossbar used to joining two draft animals |
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| grieve; express sorrow; N. lamentation |
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| animal, plant, or natural object serving as a symbol of a clan or family; representation of this; Ex. totem pole |
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| examination of a dead body; postmortem; V. |
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| (of a person) bold; adventurous; daring; (of an action) risky |
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| tireless; untiring; showing no sign of getting tired |
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| unconscious; unresponsive; insensitive; unaware; imperceptible; Ex. insensible of his danger/to pain; Ex. insensible change; CF. not the opposite of sensible |
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| minor quarrel; bickering; V: engage in a minor quarrel; Ex. squabbling children |
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| changeable; of a quickly changing nature (as of temper); mercurial; tending to violence; evaporating rapidly; Ex. volatile character/situation in the street |
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| avaricious; desirous of (someone else's possessions); V. covet: desire eagerly (someone else's possessions) |
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| submissive; patient and long-suffering |
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| violent; hasty; rash; impulsive; without careful thought; Ex. impetuous decision |
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| miscellaneous; various; several; N. sundries: small miscellaneous items |
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| move hastily; hurry; move briskly |
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| not effective; not having a desired effect; weak |
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| powerful; convincing; persuasive; greatly influential |
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| barrier laid down by artillery fire; overwhelming profusion; large number of questions or statements; Ex. a barrage of criticism |
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| secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; N. anchorage |
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| pertaining to the art of delineating; vividly described |
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| clever in deceiving; sly; N: cleverness in deceiving; deceit |
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| conquer; bring under control |
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| swollen; distended (as from liquid) |
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| case for a sword blade; sheath |
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| strongly opposed to social or political change; opposing progress; politically ultraconservative; N. OP. radical |
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| moving with a wavelike motion; V. undulate; CF. und: wave |
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| present falsely; represent falsely to be |
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| intruder; one who interferes |
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| walk through a substance, such as water, that impedes movement |
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| false belief; hallucination; deluding; Ex. delusions of grandeur; Ex. under the delusion that |
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| causing deep feelings of wonder, joy, respect, etc.; exalted; noble and uplifting; utter |
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| call together; Ex. convoke Parliament; N. convocation |
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| effectual; producing a strong response; striking; in operation; in effect; Ex. effective speech/photograph |
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| encouraging; exhortive; marked by exhortation; CF. exhort |
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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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| temporary encampment; camp without tents; V. |
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| acute pain; extreme suffering |
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| harshness; intensity; sternness; austerity; ADJ. severe: harsh; strict; extremely violent or intense |
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| eating both plant and animal food; devouring everything |
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| spread or cover with a sticky substance; N: mark made by smearing |
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| building (of imposing size) |
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| bad-tempered complaint; person who keeps complaining; V: complain; grumble |
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| boredom; weariness; ADJ. tedious |
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| causing cancer; N. carcinogen |
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| raised platform used in preaching (in a church) |
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| take pleasure in great comfort |
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| read or glance through quickly; touch lightly in passing; brush; remove from the surface of a liquid |
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| vice; tool for holding work in place; clamping device |
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| squander; waste foolishly; scatter |
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| sharp to the taste; acid-tasting; caustic; sarcastic; Ex. tart apple/reply |
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| wretch; wrongdoer; villain; Ex. kindness to the miscreant; CF. believe |
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| denying the existence of God; N. atheism |
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| having no inhibitions; free in behavior and feelings |
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| prankish; gay; playful; merry; frisky |
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| relentless; unyielding; implacable; not capable of being changed by entreaty or efforts; Ex. inexorable price rises |
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| powerful movement of or like a wave; V. |
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| substitute; person or thing used in place of another; Ex. surrogate mother; ADJ. |
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| outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
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| expressing irony; occurring in an unexpected and contrary manner |
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| causing a problem; open to doubt; doubtful; unsettled; questionable; Ex. Whether the arena will ever be completed is problematic. |
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| place of spiritual expiation; temporary state or place in which the souls must expiate their sins |
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| unwholesome; not healthful; Ex. insalubrious place |
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| interfering; V. meddle: interfere |
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| student at a military school |
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| neat and trim in appearance; smart; Ex. Be spruce for your job interview; V. |
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| facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust, etc; V. |
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| of low rank or position; modest; having a low opinion of oneself and a high opinion of others; unassuming; not proud; V. humiliate: make humble; cause to feel ashamed or to lose the respect of others |
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| wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome; horrible; Ex. lurid details of the murder |
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| diligent attention; diligence; V. apply oneself |
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| mental disorder; ADJ. N. psychotic |
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| waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro; N. vacillation |
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| strong and firm (in the body) |
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| ornament richly (a shield or flag); N. emblazonment |
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| one who fits glasses to remedy visual defects |
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| moving force; momentum; force of a moving body; incentive; stimulus; impulse |
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| not compulsory; left to one's choice; N. option: act of choosing; choice; freedom or power to choose; something available as a choice; Ex. have no option; Ex. two options |
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| lowest point; point on the celestial sphere diametrically opposite the zenith |
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| moo; make the sound of a cow |
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| imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing; work of art openly imitating the works of other artists |
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| careful in choosing; having an effect only on certain things; not general; Ex. eclectic weed killer |
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| swirling current of water, air, etc.; V. |
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| lacking energy or vitality; weary; sluggish; listless |
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| trace; remains; Ex. vestiges of some ancient religion |
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| one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party (with dislike of any others); N: strong supporter of a party; guerrilla |
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| understood but not stated; implied; unquestioning and complete; Ex. implicit trust |
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| opinion put forward and supported by reasoned arguments |
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| interdependent relationship (between groups, species) often mutually beneficial; ADJ. symbiotic; CF. together + life |
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| move, give, or take in a quiet, stealthy way; N: one who sneaks; ADJ. sneaky |
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| petty or trivial details; CF. minutia |
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| old-fashioned; past the prime |
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| denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) |
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| small amount; smallest speck; Ex. not a whit of |
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| gully; narrow channel formed by rainwater |
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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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| temporary expedient or substitute (in the case of urgent need); Ex. makeshift shelter |
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| angry; CF. ire: anger; wrath |
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| assuming a false identity; masquerade; CF. impostor |
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| flowing; series of changes; fluctuation; Ex. in a state of flux |
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| strong wall built for defense; earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends |
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| tiresome dwelling on a subject; V. harp: dwell on(think or speak a lot about) tediously |
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| violate; desecrate (something holy); treat unworthily; be profane for; ADJ: secular; nonreligious; irreverent for holy things |
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| affectedly dainty(delicate); V. mince: cut (esp. meat) into very small pieces; walk with exaggerated primness; walk in an unnatural way, taking little short steps; Ex. The actor minced across the stage; CF. mincemeat; CF. mincer |
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| incomplete; favoring one side over another; having a liking for something |
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| requiring sitting; done while sitting; not moving from one place to another; settled; Ex. sedentary job/population |
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| convert (hide) into leather; make brown by exposure to the sun |
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| balance; balancing force; equilibrium |
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| recover; return to health; regain; Ex. recuperate losses |
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| command; arbitrary order; Ex. presidential fiat; CF. let it be done |
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| fitness; quality of being proper; correct conduct; conformity to prevailing customs and usages; CF. proprietor, proprietary |
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| element that is a creature's natural environment; nutrient setting in which microorganisms are cultivated; appropriate occupation or means of expression; channel of communication; compromise; middle position between extremes; intervening substance through which something else is transmitted |
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| spread out (troops) in an extended though shallow battle line; distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically |
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| set right; correct; CF. rect-: right |
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| chatter rapidly or unintelligibly |
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| turn to stone; cause to become stonelike; stun or paralyze |
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| overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse |
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| pompous walk; V: walk in a self-important manner |
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| work together; cooperate treasonably with the enemy |
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| make rational; devise false reasons for (one's behavior); offer an excuse; give a plausible reason for an action in place of a true, less admirable ones; N. rationalization |
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| process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance; V. sensitize: make or become sensitive |
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| overregulated administrative system marked by red tape; ADJ. bureaucratic |
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| strict disciplinarian; person who demands total obedience to rules and orders; CF. Jean Martinet |
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| mischievous child (usually a boy); CF. urchin: hedgehog; CF. porcupine: pig with spikes ?; CF. sea urchin |
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| make perpetual; make something last for a long time; preserve from extinction; N. perpetuity |
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| having human form or characteristics |
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| undistinctive; ordinary; ordinary-looking; Ex. nondescript fellow in a crowd |
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| predict (according to present indications) |
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| highly excited; intensely curious |
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| evident; easily seen or understood; appearing as such; Ex. apparent improvement |
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| counterfeit; not authentic; intentionally false; Ex. bogus interview |
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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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| appease; moderate; make or become less in force or intensity |
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| not influenced by emotions; fair; N: goal; aim |
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| speech or writing with no meaning; foolish behavior or language; Ex. make (a) nonsense of: spoil; cause to fail |
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| self-imposed punishment for sin; Ex. do penance for one's sins; CF. penitent |
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| yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
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| shine brightly with flashing points of light; Ex. glittering diamond ring; N: sparkling light; attractiveness; glamor; Ex. glitter of the sun on the waves |
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| delaying; tending to delay |
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| unsuited; inappropriate; lacking skill; incompetent; CF. inapt: (of statements or ideas) inappropriate |
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| stuff oneself (with food); glut; CF. gorgeous: dazzlingly beautiful |
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| small opening; outlet (as of fumes or a gas); Ex. He gave vent to his anger by kicking the chair. |
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| provide or use scantily; live very economically; Ex. skimp on necessities; ADJ. skimpy: inadequate in amount; scanty; stingy; niggardly |
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| explain; interpret; Ex. construe her silence as meaning that she agreed; CF. misconstrue |
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| put into effect; enforce; carry out; supply with tools; Ex. implement the plan/suggestion; N: tool or instrument |
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| examination of accounts of a business; official examination; V. |
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| run-down; decrepit; disreputable; having many seeds; Ex. seedy downtown hotel |
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| having a backbone or spinal column; N: group of animals having a segmented spinal column |
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| inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone) |
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| entangle; stick in swampy ground; stick or sink in mire; N: bog; deep mud; Ex. sucked deeper into the mire |
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| cancel; retract; CF. irrevocable |
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| read through with care; N. perusal |
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| anger at an injustice; Ex. righteous indignation; ADJ. indignant |
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| spend too much time on minor points (esp. when finding fault); find fault; Ex. niggle over details; ADJ. niggling |
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| into parts; apart; V. sunder |
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| shabby and dirty; flimsy; insubstantial; Ex. sleazy back-street hotel/fabric |
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| delusion; false idea; false perception of objects with a compelling sense of their reality; objects so perceived; V. hallucinate; ADJ. hallucinatory |
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| impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed; incapable of being affected (in one's opinions); Ex. impervious to water/criticism |
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| pertaining to heat; producing heat; warm; Ex. thermal bath; N: rising current of warm air |
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| stamp out(put an end to); thwart; hinder; Ex. scotch the rumor; CF. cut; CF. È°µ¿À» ÁÙÀÌ´Â ÀÇ¹Ì |
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| shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film |
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| awkward (to carry or move); cumbersome; unmanageable |
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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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| oversensitive; easily offended; irasible; delicate; needing delicate handling; Ex. touchy situation |
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| play and jump about happily; frisk; Ex. frolicking young lambs |
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| exile; someone who has withdrawn from his native land; V: exile; banish; leave one's country |
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| clumsy; not skillful; awkward; bungling |
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| unit of light energy (one candle's worth) |
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| separate; cut off (a part) from a whole; break up (a relationship); N. severance; CF. severance pay: extra pay given an employee upon leaving a position |
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| daily; occurring during the daytime |
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| predatory animal or bird; predatory person; creature that seizes and devours another animal; person who robs or exploits others; ADJ. predatory: living by preying on other organisms; plundering; N. predation |
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| ability to move spontaneously; ADJ. motile: moving spontaneously |
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| understatement for emphasis; Ex. ``not bad(=pretty good)'' |
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| state of depression or melancholy; style of slow, mournful music (evolved from southern Black American songs) |
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| that which accompanies; Ex. Deafnes is a frequent concommitant of old age; ADJ: existing or happening together with something else |
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| vanity or self-love; too high opinion of one's own value; extravagant metaphor (in poetry) |
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| trembling; slight quiver (as of the earth or from nervous agitation) |
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| agree; coincide; happen at the same time |
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| melt (ore) for separating and removing the metal; melt or blend ores changing their chemical composition |
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| derived by reasoning; V. deduce: infer; derive by reasoning |
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| pithy maxim or saying; ADJ. aphoristic |
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| brief statement used to express a principle |
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| flowing together; the place where two rivers flow together; crowd; gathering together |
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| club; heavy-headed weapon; V. |
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| despicable; unpleasant; disgusting; Ex. vile slander |
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| shine intensely and blindingly; stare fixedly and angrily; N. |
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| one who has adopted a different religion or opinion; V: change into another form; (persuade to) adopt a particular religion or belief |
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| swindle or cheat; N: wedgelike tool for cutting |
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| secondary or minor occupation |
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| beautiful clothes for a special occasion |
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| (of a plant or grass) growing very well |
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| soft fatty tissue that fills most bone cavities and is the source of blood cells |
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| of the common people; deficient in refinement; not refined; coarse; Ex. vulgar display of wealth; N. vulgarism: vulgarity; crudely indecent word; CF. vulgarian: vulgar person; boor; lout |
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| salary; payment for an office; compensation |
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| procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry |
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| individual trait usually odd in nature; behavioral peculiarity; eccentricity; attitude, behavior, or opinion peculiar to a person; anything highly individual or eccentric; ADJ. idiosyncratic |
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| constituting; system of laws; composition of something; physical makeup or structure of a person; Ex. men with strong constitutions |
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| full of initiative; showing enterprise |
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| incapable of injury; impossible to damage or injure |
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| period of ideal or peak condition; earliest or beginning stage; Ex. in the prime of life; Ex. prime of the year(spring); ADJ: first in importance or rank; first; V: make ready; prepare |
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| natural consequence (which naturally follows from something else) |
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| rich, figured(patterned) fabric |
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| torn ragged wound; V. lacerate: tear (the skin as with broken glass); wound |
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| ostentatious; showy; pompous; making unjustified claims; overambitious; Ex. pretentious films that claim to be art |
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| Pharisee: member of an ancient Jewish group that emphasized strict observance of the Mosaic law (considering themselves very holy); hypocritical self-righteous person |
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| daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping); unpleasant task |
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| having a common origin; related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature; Ex. cognate languages; N. |
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| (of water) not flowing (often bad-smelling); motionless; stale; not developing; inactive; dull; Ex. stagnant industrial output |
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| (of weather) hot or scorching; passionate; Ex. torrid love affairs |
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| mental disorder marked by confusion; uncontrolled excitement; ADJ. delirious |
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| slight knowledge; small scattered number or amount; Ex. smattering of German |
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| crowd (of people or things); V. |
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| provide written evidence (for a claim); record with documents; N. |
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| plant or animal (esp. a dog) of mixed breed; ADJ. |
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| make blind with a sudden intense light; amaze; fill with wonder |
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| give a personal guarantee; Ex. I can vouch for his integrity; N. voucher |
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| heavier or larger on one side than the other; Ex. lopsided way of walking |
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| native; Ex. plant indigenous to the New World |
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| metal pin used for fastening metal plates together; V: fasten with a rivet; engross |
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| musical introduction to a long musical piece; first offer or proposal (to begin talks in the hope of reaching an agreement); Ex. overtures for peace |
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| nonstandard grammatical construction; construction that is flagrantly incorrect grammatically; violation of social etiquette |
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| cheerful and pleased with life; lighthearted; animated; easy and carefree; dapper in appearance; Ex. jaunty person/hat |
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| based on experience; of or acquired through practice (rather than theory); useful; Ex. practical man |
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| handyman; person who does all kinds of work; CF. do everything |
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| short simple story teaching a moral |
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| fluent; talkative; glib; N. volubility |
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| remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person) |
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| wishing evil; exhibiting ill will; N. malevolence |
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| good-fellowship; CF. comrade |
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| irritate; annoy; vex; ADJ. nettlesome |
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| vote against (an applicant); ostracize; N: negative vote |
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| ecological community together with its environment |
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| defame; disgrace; destroy confidence in; disbelieve; N. CF. discreditable: causing discredit; shameful |
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| suffering from indigestion; sick from having too much bile; irritable; easily irritated |
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| ornate; highly decorated; N. CF. 18th century |
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| disapproval; condemnation |
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| remove (fleece or hair) by cutting; remove the hair or fleece from; cut with or as if with shears; N: shears; pair of scissors |
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| pompous array of words; too many unnecessary words; wordiness |
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| treat with scorn or contempt |
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| made of inferior material; sham; not genuine; inferior; dishonest; Ex. shoddy goods/trick |
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| calm and unexcitable; not easily disturbed; CF. phlegm: sticky mucus produced in the respiratory tract |
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| physical features of a region (such as the shape and height); CF. topo-: place |
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| suckle; take care of (as a nurse); bear in mind; Ex. nursing mother; Ex. nurse a hope/grudge against someone |
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| unruly; peevish; cranky; bad-tempered; Ex. fractious horse |
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| neglect; failure to take reasonable care; ADJ. negligent: neglectful; lax; not taking enough care |
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| outward decorations; ornaments (as an outward sign of rank) |
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| nonmoral; having no understanding of right and wrong |
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| controlling influence; position of controlling influence; CF. in the ascendant |
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| (of a person) suffer from oppressive heat; be oppressed by heat |
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| make use of, sometimes unjustly; N. exploitation |
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| hit quickly with the flat part of the hand; N. CF. smack |
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| greatness (in size or extent); extent |
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| defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements; V. ADJ. slanderous |
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| wakefulness; inability to sleep |
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| condition or period of flowering |
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| (of power) complete; full; fully attended by all qualified members; Ex. plenary power |
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| foretell; presage; be a sign or warning of; N. portent: sign; omen; forewarning |
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| boasted; bragged; highly publicized; V. vaunt: boast; brag |
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| very harmful; deadly; very destructive; Ex. pernicious effect/anemia |
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| lover of mankind; doer of good; N. philanthropy |
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| increase in size or effect; expand; broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger; Ex. amplify one's remarks with a graph |
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| pierce; put a hole through |
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| present but not yet noticeable or active; dormant; hidden; N. latency; CF. potential |
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| mar; spoil the beauty or perfection of; N: flaw or defect (that spoils perfection); Ex. blemishes in the crystal; CF. unblemished |
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| mock; make jeering remarks; N: jeering remarks |
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| make drunk; intoxicate; N. intoxicated person |
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| (esp. of an expression of the face) twisted; with a humorous twist (expressing displeasure) |
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| untidy (of a woman or clothes); slovenly; dressed in an unattractive way; shabby; CF. unattractive woman |
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| loss of speech due to injury or illness |
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| endanger; imperil; put at risk; N. jeopardy: danger |
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| repeat aloud (something learned); describe; Ex. recite his complaints; N. recitation |
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| binding agreement between two groups or people; compact; V: enter into a covenant; promise |
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| existing at the beginning (of time); rudimentary |
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| generator for producing electricity; energetic person |
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| wandering; V. migrate: move from one region and settle in another; move periodically from one region to another |
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| advance in rank; advance; help to flourish; advocate; help actively in forming; publicize or popularize; Ex. Milk promotes health; Ex. promote a match/bill; Ex. promote a new product |
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| (of music) played smoothly |
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| limited quantity; small amount; Ex. He does not have a modicum of sense; CF. moderate |
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| understood (without actually being expressed); not put into words; Ex. tacit agreement |
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| precision; accuracy; minute distinction or difference; Ex. to a nicety: exactly; precisely; Ex. distinguish between niceties |
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| irreverence; lack of respect for God or piety |
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| collect (gradually, in a very large amount) |
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| confuse; muddle; cause confusion; make needlessly complex; make so confused as to be difficult to understand |
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| capable of sensation and conscious; aware; sensitive; Ex. sentient creature; N. sentience |
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| ghastly; horrifying; Ex. grisly remains of the bodies |
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| full of vigor or energy; vibrating |
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| brutal deed; ADJ. atrocious |
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| displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness; N. sanctimony: hypocritical piety |
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| long narrow channel made in a surface to guide the movement of something; Ex. groove of the record |
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| argue about prices (in an attempt to bargain) |
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| devout; religious; N. piety |
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| complicated situation (as in a play); painful or complex misunderstanding (as in a play); entanglement; confused mass (as of papers); V. embroil |
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| (of the voice) extremely loud; CF. Stentor: a loud herald in the Iliad |
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| (of water) cover completely; defeat completely by much greater force; Ex. overwhelmed by grief |
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| person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness; ADJ. CF. hypochondria: neurosis that one is or is becoming ill; CF. abdomen |
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| tell in confidence (to a person one trusts); be confident about |
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| soak; saturate; Ex. steep the fabric in the dye bath; ADJ: precipitous |
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| fleeting or transitory; lasting only a short time; roving(wandering); running away or fleeing as from the law; N: one who flees; Ex. fugitives at large |
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| uneasiness; anxiety; V. disquiet: make anxious |
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| cutting ironic remark; scornful remarks; stinging rebuke; ADJ. sarcastic |
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| one who voluntarily suffers death for his or her religion or cause; great sufferer; Ex. martyr to his rheumatism |
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| drive or hunt out of hiding; hunt with ferrets; drive out (as from a hiding place); expel; uncover or discover by searching; Ex. ferret out the secret; N. small fierce animal which catches rats and rabbits by going into their holes |
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| regret; lament; mourn; Ex. He will rue the day; N. ADJ. rueful |
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| dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate; Ex. abide by the rules; Ex. I can't abide rude people. |
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| suitable (for a particular purpose although not necessarily morally correct); practical; politic(prudent); N: something expedient |
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| very thin piece, usually of wood (cut from a surface with a sharp blade) |
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| combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth |
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| (of a person) outgoing and sociable; broad and extensive; able to increase in size |
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| manner of walking or running; speed |
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| person competent to act as a judge of art, etc. (whose judgments are respected); a lover of an art |
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| mixture as of metals; something added that lowers in value or purity; V: mix; make less pure; lower in value or quality; spoil; CF. unalloyed: not in mixture with other maetals; pure; complete; unqualified; Ex. unalloyed happiness |
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| artificial channel for directing or controlling the flow of water (with a gate to regulate the flow) |
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| plan of a trip; record of a trip |
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| tone down in intensity; change the intensity or tone of; regulate; change from one musical key to another; Ex. modulate from E to G |
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| injury to body; crime of willfully maiming or crippling a person; violent disorder; Ex. mayhem in the zoo; CF. maim |
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| settle a dispute through the services of an outsider; act as an intermediary; produce by mediating; Ex. mediate a cease-fire |
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| nonsense; nonsensical or unintelligible talk or writing; babbling |
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| distribute; prepare and give out (medicines); N. dispensation: dispensing; religious system; official exemption from an obligation or a rule |
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| pertaining to a germ; creative; Ex. germinal idea |
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| use equivocal language to deceive people; lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth; N. equivocation |
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| sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
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| person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will |
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| unwilling; reluctant; stingy(giving reluctantly) |
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| platitude; chemical compound used to calm excitement |
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| pitcher; container for holding liquids |
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| prophetic; pertaining to revelations especially of disaster; N. apocalypse |
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| lash; whip (formerly used for punishment); source of severe punishment; V: whip; afflict |
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| disgustingly excessive; offensively flattering; Ex. fulsome praise/expressions of admire |
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| cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied; CF. guide |
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| gaiety; cheerfulness; ADJ. jolly: merry; gay |
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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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| move (a railway train) from one track to another; turn aside; divert; sidetrack; Ex. shunt traffic around an accident; N. |
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| (esp. of a girl or young woman) impertinent; forward; trim; jaunty; Ex. pert young miss/hat |
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| not naive; not candid; sophisticated; worldly wise; OP. ingenuous |
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| pause; temporary cessation; alcove; secret inner place; Ex. parliament in recess; V. CF. recessive |
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| pertaining to the universe; vast |
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| please; satisfy; Ex. gratify a desire |
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| moving slowly; sluggish; inactive; (of a rope) loose; negligent; lax; Ex. slack season; Ex. slack in one's work; N. V. |
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| aggressiveness; ferocity; ADJ. truculent: aggressive; pugnacious; fierce |
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| possessing good health; healthful |
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| crush into mash; convert into mash; N: mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl |
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| one devoted to the promotion of human welfare; CF. humanism |
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| charmingly carefree; simple and happy; Ex. idyllic scene |
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| ornament a metal surface by indenting; follow rapidly to catch |
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| work against; Ex. militate against the chances of promotion; CF. serve as a soldier |
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| wise; shrewd; keen; seeing quickly something that is to one's advantage |
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| loose sleeveless outer garment; cloak; something that covers or envelops; the layer of the earth between the crust and the core |
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| not open to attack; impregnable; not subject to question |
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| dwarf; underground spirit who guards treasure hoards |
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| trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret) |
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| choosing of a lot or card |
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| approve; ratify; N: permission; penalty intended to enforce compliance |
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| correct; change ; generally for the better |
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| hidden sarcasm or satire; use of words that seem to mean the opposite of what they actually mean; use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning |
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| stimulate or shock by an electric current; stimulate by shock; shock into action; stir up; coat with rust-resistant zinc by using electricity |
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| rub out; remove the surface of |
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| wind or turn in its course; follow a winding or turning course; move aimlessly and idly |
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| in essence; existing in essence though not in actual form; for practical purposes; Ex. virtual ruler/space |
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| shine with a flickering light; glimmer intermittently; Ex. The moonlight shimmered on the water; N. |
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| produced by imagination; fanciful; mystical; showing foresight; N: one having foresight; one given to speculative impractical ideas |
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| become successful (esp. financially); thrive; grow well; Ex. children prospering under his care |
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| braid; interwine; interweave strands or lengths of; make by weaving strands together; Ex. plaited hair; N: braided length as of hair o fabric; CF. pigtail, ponytail |
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| capricious; quick and changing; fickle; containing the element mercury; Ex. mercurial temper; CF. mood |
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| important in history; Ex. historic battle |
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| wriggle; move from side to side with irregular twisting motions |
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| conceited person; N. narcissism; CF. narcissus |
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| (of a word or phrase) suggesting that someone is of little value; negative in connotation; having a belittling effect; Ex. Many women now considers ``housewife'' a pejorative expression, because it patronized them. |
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| fixed portion; V: distribute as rations |
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| lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity; lightness of manner |
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| bog; marsh; soft, wet, boggy land; predicament; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself |
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| poise; composure in difficult situations; assurance; self-confidence |
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| stick fast; be a devotd follower; N. adhesion: adhering; devotion; loyality |
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| unclear or doubtful in meaning; having more than one possible interpretation |
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| obtain by pulling violently; pull away; take by violence; Ex. wrest victory from their grasp |
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| sudden flood or rush; Ex. spate of accidents |
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| split into opposite extremes or camps |
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| (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
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| agreeable; lovable; warmly friendly |
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| state of being deprived of something valuable or beloved; state of being bereaved or bereft |
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| after death (as of child born after father's death or book published after author's death); coming or occurring after one's death; Ex. posthumous fame/novel |
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| engrossed; absorbed; enchanted; Ex. rapt listener |
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| people of standing(rank or position); people of good family or high social position; class of people just below nobility |
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| expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words; distinctive style (of expression); Ex. idiom of the modern popular music; ADJ. idiomatic |
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| disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error; Ex. recant one's faith/a statement |
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| place of refuge or shelter; protection (religious or political) |
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| arrogance; excessive self-conceit |
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| mildness; permissiveness; ADJ. lenient: not severe in judgment or punishment |
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| suggest a meaning not expressed; signify |
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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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| dark; not transparent; N. opacity |
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| object believed to have spiritual powers; object of excessive attention or reverence; CF. fetishism |
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| (of a fault or sin) forgivable; trivial |
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| rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek |
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| perceptiveness; ingenuity; delicacy; ADJ. subtle: delicate; so slight as to be difficult to detect; able to make fine distinctions; clever; Ex. subtle mind/differences in meaning |
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| spread randomly; sprinkle; scatter; Ex. flower girl strewing rose petals |
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| abusive; scolding; V. vituperate: berate; scold; rail against abusively |
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| force into less space; squeeze; contract; put into fewer words; N: thick mass of cloth pressed to part of the body to stop bleeding or swelling, reduce fever, etc. |
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| smooth viscous mixture as of flour(powder made by crushing grain) and water (used as an adhesive); V: cause to adhere by applying paste |
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| someone who wastes money; CF. thrift: accumulated wealth |
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| affected; not natural; Ex. mannered way of speech |
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| of a margin; barely within a limit; Ex. marginal effect/writing ability |
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| last demand; last warning; last statement of conditions that must be met; Ex. They have ignored our ultimatum. |
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| cause to stop for a period; interrupt; hold in abeyance; defer; hang from above; exclude for a period from a position; Ex. suspended state; Ex. suspend judgment; Ex. suspended from the team; N. suspension |
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| irritation; resentment from wounded pride (eg. loss in a contest); V: provoke; arouse; annoy; cause to feel resentment; Ex. pique her curiosity |
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| lack of consistency or agreement as between facts; difference; Ex. discrepancy between two descriptions |
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| broad; including a lot or everything; thorough; inclusive |
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| situation that requires a choice between equally unfavorable options; problem; choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives |
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| begin; originate; receive into a group; introduce to a new field or activity; Ex. initiate someone into the mysteries of a secret religion; N: one who has been initiated |
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| beautiful writing; excellent penmanship |
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| hesitant; faltering; not fluent; Ex. halting steps/voice; V. halt: proceed or act with uncertainty; falter; hesitate; waver; stop |
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| open to view; public; not secret; CF. covert |
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| (sitting or standing) straight up; honest; moral |
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| tender sorrow; pity; quality in art or literature that produces these feelings; Ex. pathos that runs through the novel |
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| uprightness; honesty; incorruptibility |
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| divided into classes; arranged into strata; V. stratify |
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| throw into confusion; involve in strife, dispute, or quarrel; entangle; CF. imbroglio |
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| raise in rank or dignity; praise highly; inspire; Ex. exalt the imagination; ADJ. exalted; N. exaltation |
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| hesitate for ethical reasons; fret about; Ex. She did not scruple to read his diary; N: uneasy feeling arising from conscience; conscience |
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| wilful; intentional; headstrong |
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| tomb; V: place in a sepulcher; ADJ. sepulchral |
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| petty criticism; fault-finding; fretful complaining; quibble |
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| money; profit; Ex. filthy lucre |
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| weird; causing fear because strange |
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| study of artifacts and relics of early mankind |
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| one who installs and repairs pipes and plumbing(pipes) |
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| direct a speech to; speak to; deal with or discuss; direct one's efforts or attention to; make with a destination; N: formal speech |
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| step on heavily (so as to crush or extinguish); put an end to; imprint or impress with a mark, design, or seal; shape with a die; characterize; Ex. machine stamping out car bodies; Ex. newspaper stamping him as a liar; N. stamping; implement used to stamp; impression stamped; mark; Ex. Her remarks bear the stamp of truth. |
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| ability to foretell the future; knowledge of actions before they occur; ADJ. prescient |
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| change (esp. from good to bad); change of fortune; CF. the last emperor of China |
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| corrupt morally; seduce from virtue; N. debauchery: wild behavior (with sex and alcohol) |
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| break a promise; deny; go back on; Ex. renege on the contract/paying off the debt |
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| trifles; unimportant matters |
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| inactive; lacking power to move; unable to move or act; Ex. chemically inert; N. inertia: state of being inert; force which keeps a thing in the position or state |
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| hard; strenuous; Ex. arduous work |
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| graze; feed on growing grass; skim or glance at casually |
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| holding tenaciously to an action; stubborn; persistent |
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| property inherited from a father |
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| beat with or as if with a flail; move wildly; thresh grain by hand; strike or slap; toss about; N: threshing tool consisting of a stick swinging from the end of a long handle |
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| enclose; surround; N. environs: surrounding area (as of a city) |
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| act of providing; something provided; preparatory measure; provisions: necessary supplies (esp. food); stipulation; condition in an agreement; Ex. According to the provisions of the agreement |
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| soft and mild (of air); fragrant |
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| deep regret for wrongdoing; guilt; self-reproach |
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| unintelligible; muddled; unable to express one's thoughts in an orderly manner; illogical; lacking cohesion; not coherent |
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| make liquids murky by stirring up sediment; disturb |
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| short poem idealizing rural life; simple happy period of life (in the country); scene from such a time; Ex. idyll of two young lovers |
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| boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo |
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| distinguish; make distinctions on the basis of preference |
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| (of the skin) yellowish and unhealthy-looking; sickly in color; Ex. sallow complexion due to jaundice |
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| widespread damage; disorder; chaos |
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| cautious; unwilling to take risks; sparing or restrained about giving; OP. bold |
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| state of violent agitation; ADJ. turbulent: violently agitated or disturbed |
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| flexible; supple; CF. limber |
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| abundant; growing healthily and in large amounts; excessively ornate; rich and splendid; fertile; Ex. luxuriant forests/prose; CF. luxurious, luxuriate |
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| step heavily with the feet; crush under the feet |
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| invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation); manage; Ex. contrive to attract his attention |
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| start; urge; provoke; incite; Ex. instigate a search/quarrel |
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| theme; recurrent thematic element in a musical or literary work; single or repeated pattern; figure |
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| flexible; pliant; slender; CF. willow |
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| one who writes in defense of a cause or institution; N. apologia |
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| distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental; V. cloy: become unpleasant through too much sweetness or excess |
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| pass slowly through small openings; ooze; trickle; N. seepage |
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| experienced as if one were taking part in the experience of another; done by a deputy for other people; acting as a substitute; Ex. vicarious thrill at the movies; Ex. the vicarious sufferings of Christ |
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| too particular; fussy; difficult to please; too concerned with unimportant details or quality; Ex. finicky about her food |
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| deserving blame; blameworthy |
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| human muscle; muscular strength; sturdiness |
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| discipline; punish in order to correct; CF. castigate |
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| deduce; conclude; N. inference |
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| pay out (as from a fund); N. disbursement; CF. purse |
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| (of a position, esp. in an argument) indefensible; not able to be maintained |
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| of or pertaining to the people |
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| paste that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls; V. |
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| dirty matter; ADJ. filthy |
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| think up; invent; plan; bequeath; N: bequest |
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| pertaining to a bishop or pope; pompous or pretentious; CF. pontiff: pope; bishop |
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| respectful; worshipful; V. revere: regard with reverence; N. reverence: profound respect |
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| mix together; jumble; move (something) from one place to another; slide (the feet) along the ground while walking; Ex. shuffle papers from one pile to another; N. |
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| funeral song; slow mournful piece of music (sung over a dead person) |
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| crafty; double-dealing; of the political doctrine of Machiavelli, which holds that craft and deceit are justified in pursuing political power |
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| green crust on old bronze works or copper; tone slowly taken by varnished painting |
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| dummy; likeness of a person made of wood, paper, or stone; Ex. burn an effigy of the President |
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| nourishing substance; ADJ: providing nourishment |
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| noisy party with a lot of drinking |
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| highly skilled artist (esp. in music); Ex. piano virtuoso |
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| kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); Ex. benign tumor |
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| deceive, persuade, or obtain by flattery; cajole; coax; Ex. wheedle a promise out of her |
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| essential; inherent; built-in |
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| collection of wild animals on exhibition; zoo |
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| throb; beat regularly; vibrate regularly |
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| (of a heart or machine) beat rapidly or violently; N. Ex. hearthrob: heartbeat; sweetheart |
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| father and ruler of a family or tribe |
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| act or manner of using; accepted practice; way in which words are actually used |
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| inhabit in numbers large enough to be harmful; Ex. Mice infested the house; Ex. shark-infested waters |
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| equality; close resemblance; CF. disparate |
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| indisputable; impossible to dispute; not open to question; unquestionable |
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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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| showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; N. ebullience; N. ebullition: state of boiling |
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| treacherous; stealthy; sly; working or spreading harmfully in a stealthy manner; Ex. insidious spreading of dry rot |
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| feeling of sickness and desire to vomit; disgust; CF. seasickness |
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| make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of |
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| hard to understand; known only to the chosen few, esp. initiates; N. esoterica |
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| twistings; distortions; V. contort: twist violently out of shape; CF. contortionist |
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| loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous |
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| friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations |
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| giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin |
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| self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent |
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| consecrate; put oil on (in a religious ceremony) |
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| one who studies the skin and its diseases |
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| (of a person) having reason; (of ideas) based on reason; logical |
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| honor at a festival; celebrate or honor with a feast; N. (outdoor) festival or feast; CF. feast |
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| whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged |
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| one who builds or works with stone or brick; N. masonry: work of a mason; stonework or brickwork |
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| not native; from another part of the world; strange; intriguingly unusual; Ex. exotic flower/dress |
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| echo repeatedly; resound; Ex. The thunder reverberated across the valley. |
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| fundamental reason or principle (on which a system or principle is based); fundamental reason or justification; grounds for an action |
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| substance or rich soil formed by decaying vegetable matter; CF. soil |
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| give in respectfully; submit; delay till later; exempt temporarily; N. deferment; CF. show respect, comply with, courteous |
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| meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore |
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| revere; treat with great respect |
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| free from worries; having no problems |
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| disloyal; lacking loyality; V. disaffect: cause to lose affection or loyalty |
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| wandering (esp. in search of adventure); straying from proper moral standards; Ex. knight-errant |
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| angle of a slope; V: slant from the perpendicular |
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| analyze (to discover what materials are present); evaluate (soil or ore) |
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| cause; urge; provoke; provide a cue (for an actor); ADJ: done without delay; done at the right time; punctual; on time; N: reminder or cue |
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| territory enclosed within an alien land |
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| wet thoroughly; ADJ. bedraggled: draggled |
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| destruction by fire; CF. burnt whole; CF. Holocaust |
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| mushy(sentimental) and gushy; icky-sticky sentimental; excessively and objectionably sentimental |
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| contact that keeps parties in communication; communication between groups; one that maintains communication; go-between; secret love affair; V. liaise: keep a connection |
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| enroll (in college or graduate school); CF. matrix |
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| guardianship; training; function of a tutor; instruction |
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| staff officer assisting the commander; assistant |
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| youthful; immature; inexperienced |
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| psychic and emotional energy or urges behind human activity; sexual desire |
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| continue steadily in spite of difficulties |
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| large isolated system of stars, such as the Milky Way; collection of brilliant personalities |
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| conducive to mental or physical health; healthful |
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| person who verbally harasses others; V. heckle: verbally harass as with gibes (by interrupting a speaker or speech) |
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| substantial; essential; pertaining to the substance; substantial; considerable; Ex. substantive issues |
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| madly excited; N. frenzy: violent wild excitement |
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| of or causing sepsis; putrid; producing putrefaction; N. sepsis: poisoning of part of the body (producing pus) |
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| pantomime(act without dialogue); mimicry; mimer; V: mimic; pantomime |
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| raised platform for speakers or other important people |
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| secret; hidden; not public; made a participant in something secret; Ex. privy chamber government; Ex. be privy to a discussion; CF. private |
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| program as for trial; book where such entries are made; list of things to be done; agenda; label fixed to a package listing contents or directions; V: describe in a docket |
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| suppress; extinguish; inhibit; smother or suffocate |
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| support; act superior toward; treat in a condescending manner; be a customer of; N. patron: one that supports; regular customer; N. patronage; CF. boycott |
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| pertaining to conversational or common speech; informal; N. colloquialism: colloquial expression |
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| rankle; produce irritation or resentment; (of a cut or wound) generate pus or rot; Ex. His insult festered in my mind for days. |
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| minor fight; minor battle in war; V. |
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| declare openly; N. avowal |
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| produce a design in raised relief; decorate with a raised design |
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| fastening or lock consisting of a movable bar that fits into a notch; V: close with a latch |
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| meantime; Ex. in the interim; ADJ. taking place during an interim; Ex. interim paper |
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| call by bugles or trumpets; showy display; spectacular public display |
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| mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet; N. rune: one of the letters of an alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples (cut on stone or wood); magic charm |
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| (of land) dry; barren; unproductive |
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| assume a particular posture; put forward; present; affect a particular attitude (to impress others); Ex. pose a threat; N. |
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| lacking in spirit or energy; languid |
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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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| exactly vertical; N: weight on the end of a line; V: examine very carefully or critically in order to understand; measure depth (by sounding); Ex. plumb the depth of |
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| oval building with tiers of seats; CF. arena |
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| support on which a lever rests or pivots |
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| (of beliefs) against accepted opinion; unorthodox; unconventional |
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| earliest form of an organism; seed or bud; something that may develop into something larger or more important; microbe |
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| ornate; highly elaborate; richly colored; ostentatious; showy; CF. flame |
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| generosity; ADJ. magnanimous: generous |
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| willingness to take new ventures; initiative; business organization; plan (that is difficult or daring); Ex. their latest enterprise to sail round the world in a small boat |
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| rate of occurrence; particular occurrence; Ex. high incidence of infant mortality |
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| saturate(soak thoroughly); fill; Ex. imbue someone with feelings |
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| fast; rapid; N. ADJ. fleeting: passing quickly; ephemeral |
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| suitable; to the point; relevant |
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| related to population balance; N. demography: statistical study of human population |
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| dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes |
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| life after death; later part of one's life |
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| limit; independent variable; Ex. parameters of the problem; Ex. within the parameters of the budget |
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| spoken or written in secret; trusted with private matters; Ex. confidential secretary |
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| isolation of a person, place, or ship to prevent spread of infection; V: isolate in quarantine |
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| not active; acted upon; receiving an action without acting in return; accepting without resistance |
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| half asleep; drowsy; N. somnolence |
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| person celebrated for wisdom; wise person; ADJ: wise |
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| switch (a railroad car) to a siding; divert from a main issue; N. CF. siding: short section of railroad track connected by switches with a main track |
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| region near heaven or hell where certain souls are kept; prison (slang); Ex. Purgatory and Limbo |
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| sociable; (of an animal) tending to form a group |
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| make smooth or glossy; N: smooth surface; Ex. oil slick; ADJ: smooth; glossy; deftly executed; adroit; glib |
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| privilege; unquestionable right; CF. ask before |
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| model of perfection; Ex. paragon of virtue |
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| animal-biting fly; irritating person |
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| misleading vision or visual image; false idea or belief; CF. delusion |
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| object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced |
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| wandering; N. nomad: tribe who migrates from place to place |
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| act of finding the total; summing-up; summary (esp. one given by the judge at the end of a trial) |
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| contract into wrinkles; grow together; join together closely; make (a fabric or garment) by interwining yarn or thread; Ex. knit the brow; Ex. The bones should knit together in a few weeks. |
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| an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people); ADV. alias |
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| counterfeit; reproduce fraudulently; form by heating in a forge and hammering into shape; move with a sudden increase of speed or power; Ex. forged ahead in the last two years; N: furnace where metals are heated |
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| essential or main point; Ex. the crux of the problem; ADJ. crucial: of deciding importance |
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| piebald; variegated(many-colored); multicolored |
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| excessive or uncontrollable excitement; N. hysteric: person suffering from hysteria; CF. hysterics: attack of hysteria |
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| (derog.) bestow courtesies with a superior air; descend to the level of one considered inferior |
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| close observation of a person (esp. one under suspicion); watching; guarding |
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| stop short, as if faced with an obstacle, and refuse to continue; foil; stop or get in the way of; frustrate |
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| complete; consummate; make perfect; N. |
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| bind as servant or apprentice to master; bind by indenture; N: contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified time (as between an apprentice and his master) |
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| walk or behave with an over-confident manner |
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| excessively or elaborately decorated |
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| effort; expenditure of much physical work; V. exert oneself: make a great effort |
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| study of humankind; study of the different races of human beings; CF. anthropology |
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| prudent; cautious; acting after careful thought |
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| d\'ebut; first public appearance; formal presentation of a young woman to society |
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| specialist in classifying (animals, etc.); CF. taxonomy: science of classification |
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| lacking in flavor; lacking interest; dull; Ex. insipid food/character |
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| dreamily or deeply thoughtful; sadly thoughtful; thoughtful with a hint of sadness; contemplative; CF. think over |
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| rubble; wreckage; scattered remains of something broken or destroyed |
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| take for granted; assume; act overconfidently; take liberties; presume on/upon: take unfair advantage of (someone's kindness or connection); N. presumption |
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| of a pivot; central; critical; crucial |
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| noticeable; targeted for vengeance or attack; Ex. marked improvement/man |
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| abandon; give up (by formal announcement); disown; repudiate; Ex. renounce one's claim to the property/one's religion; N. renunciation |
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| blessing; benefit; something very helpful |
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| ban on commerce or other activity |
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| alleged; claimed; reputed or rumored; Ex. purported Satanists |
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| agree; be in harmony with; gibe |
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| belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control; ADJ. fatalistic; CF. fatal: causing death |
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| conclusion of an oration; perorating; V. perorate: conclude a speech; speak at great length |
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| explain in detail; interpret; clarify; CF. explicable |
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| extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance; ADJ. opulent: possessing great wealth; abundant |
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| feel or express pity or sympathy for |
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| meaning; distinguishing by name; V. denote: indicate; refer to directly; mean; CF. connotation |
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| frown angrily; N: angry frown |
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| isolation; solitude; V. seclude: set apart from others; isolate |
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| begin to grow; give off shoots or buds; N: new growth on a plant; shoot |
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| overwhelming; unbeatable; insuperable |
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| homeless child or animal; Ex. waifs and strays |
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| uncertain how to act; weak; lacking in resolution; indecisive; N. irresolution |
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| stealthy; quiet and secret (trying to escape notice); sneaky; Ex. furtive glance |
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| amount produced; crop; income on investment; profit obtained from an investment; V: produce; give in; surrender |
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| division of a city for election or police purposes; precincts: space that surrounds a building; Ex. precincts of the college |
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| decorate; add a garnish to; decorate (food or drink) with small items such as lemon slices; N. |
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| announce; proclaim; utter or speak, especially distinctly; pronounce clearly; articulate; Ex. This theory was first enunciated by him. |
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| done or active at night; Ex. nocturnal animals/raids; CF. nocturne |
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| reject with rudeness or coldness (an offer or friendship); drive back (an enemy attack); CF. repulse $\neq$ cause repulsion |
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| an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic |
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| bar; forbid; exclude; Ex. debarred from jury services |
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| one that pays rent to use property owned by another |
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| honesty; uprightness; wholeness; state of being whole and undivided; completeness |
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| unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding; marked by inflexible attachment to a doctrine without regard to its practical difficulties |
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| (of liquid) pour out in large quantities from a hole; make an excessive display of feeling (without true feeling); Ex. Blood gushed from the wound. |
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| room to move; margin; latitude; Ex. leeway for the deadline |
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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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| listing of information in tabular or book form; compiling |
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| unable to be doubted; which cannot be doubted; unquestionable |
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| stir up a fire or furnace; feed plentifully |
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| give an inclination toward (in advance); make susceptible to; Ex. predispose people to certain cancer; N. predisposition |
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| laughable; ridiculous; trifling |
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| easily burned; N. CF. combustion |
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| attempt to gain; seek; woo; risk; behave so as to invite; attempt to gain the favor of by attention; Ex. court disaster |
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| oppression; cruel government; ADJ. tyrannical: of a tyrant or tyranny; despotic; V. tyrannize: treat tyrannically; oppress |
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| attacking cherished traditions; N. iconoclast: one who attacks traditional ideas; one who destroys sacred images |
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| insolent; without shame; bold; Ex. brazen lie; V: face with bold self-assurance or with unshamed confidence |
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| iridescent; lustrous; like an opal; N. opalescence |
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| restraining rope fastened to the collar of an animal (to control it); Ex. a dog on a leash |
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| point of origin; array of numbers or algebraic symbols; mold or die; Ex. the matrix of Western civilization |
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| causing plague; tending to cause death; baneful; N. pestilence: fatal epidemic disease (esp. bubonic plague) |
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| diagram of the positions of stars at a given moment (eg. of a person's birth) used by astrologers |
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| detached plant shoot used in grafting; descendant |
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| eyesight; foresight; mental image produced by the imagination; experience of seeing the supernatural |
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| impatiently restless (induced by external coercion or restriction); restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting control; Ex. restive horses because of wolves; CF. not a general synonym for `restless' |
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| door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric; large roll of cloth; V: dash or dart off; fasten (a |
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| vehicle; transfer; act of conveying; Ex. public conveyance |
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| ecclesiastical; pertaining to the church; N: minister; priest; cleric; clergyman |
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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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| capture; enslave; captivate; hold the complete attention of (as if magic); hold spellbound |
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| lively or animated; sprightly |
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| scatter; Ex. disperse the cloud/crowd |
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| strong inclination; strong liking (esp. for something that is disapproved of by other people); Ex. penchant for fast cars |
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| outsmart; defeat by behaving more cleverly |
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| cover with a thin layer of gold |
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| protest; objection; V. remonstrate: say in protest |
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| disagreement of opinions causing strife within a group |
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| temporary platform for workers (to work at heights above the ground); bracing framework; platform for execution |
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| besiege or attack (with an army); harass; beset |
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| put in order; guide ceremoniously to the correct place; Ex. marshal the children into the museum; N: military officer; official |
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| avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger |
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| chemical reaction that splits complex organic compounds; unrest; agitation |
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| ridicule; treat with contempt; make fun of; OP. respect |
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| feather, esp. large or showy one; something that rises into the air (like the shape of a feather); Ex. plume of smoke: ¹ö¼¸ ±¸¸§ |
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| partial shadow (in an eclipse); CF. almost shadow |
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| dry food for livestock; fodder |
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| imitate; rival; try to equal or excel (through imitation) |
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| cheap and gaudy; Ex. tawdry jewelry |
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| smirk; smile in a silly way; smile affectedly |
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| all-powerful; having unlimited power |
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| resting; state of being at rest; calmness; V: lie at rest; relax; put or place; Ex. repose our hopes in a single man |
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| point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth; CF. apogee |
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| filled with excited joy and pride; overjoyed; in high spirits; joyful and proud; Ex. elated crowd; V. elate; N. elation |
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| separate religious body; faction; group of people with common beliefs within a larger group |
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| (of a place) deserted; unpopulated; (of a person) lonely; forlorn; joyless |
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| mortuary; place where bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
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| make shiny by rubbing; polish |
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| small bunch (of hair); faint streak (of smoke) |
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| malicious misrepresentation; slander |
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| push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude; impose (oneself or one's ideas) on others; butt in; stick out or extrude; thrust out; Ex. obtrude A on B; ADJ. obtrusive; N. obtrusion; CF. unobtrusive |
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| agreement; contract; ADJ: tightly packed; firm; brief; concise; Ex. compact statement |
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| flashy; tawdry; attractive on the surface but of no real value; Ex. metericious argument/jewel; CF. prostitute |
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| one who has more than one spouse at a time; CF. bigamy; CF. polyandry |
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| taking pains; showing hard work; taking great care; very careful and through |
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| (of meat) tough; strong and firm; muscular; N. sinew: tendon; strong cord connecting a muscle to a bone |
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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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| having a sharp biting taste; ¾´; causing sharp pain to the body or mind; filled with resentment, disappointment, or other unpleasant feelings; Ex. bitter wind/sorrow/tears |
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| pick out from others (to kill the weakest members); reject; select; collect (information); N. |
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| persuade; lead to do something; bring about; N. inducement |
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| trivial; unimportant; very small; small-minded; petty-minded |
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| instruct; correct morally |
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| practice of abstaining totally from alcoholic drinks; N. teetotaler;; ADJ. teetotal; CF. T + total |
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| force or push out; thrust out; shape (plastic or metal) by forcing through a die |
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| heterogeneous mixture; medley; mixture of dried flower petals a pot (to give a pleasant smell to a room) |
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| occurring irregularly; intermittent |
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| long established as a disease |
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| increase in the volume or intensity as in a musical passage; climax; CF. crescent |
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| suspend until a later time; move from one place to another |
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| arrangement of words in the form of poetry (by accentual rhythm) |
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| ordinary; dull; unimaginative(lacking in imagination); going on foot; Ex. pedestrian prose; N. |
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| impossible to recover or regain; CF. retrieve |
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| argumentative; fond of argument |
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| great sorrow; deep inconsolable grief; affliction; suffering; Ex. financial woes |
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| burden; very worriying problem; mental care; nightmare; male devil; CF. succubus |
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| joking (often inappropriately); unserious; humorous |
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| mysterious; hidden; secret |
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| shake or move unsteadily; sway as if about to fall |
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| prose or verse composition to be performed by actors; play; exciting and unusual situation |
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| slavishly attentive; servile; full of servile compliance; sycophantic |
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| humiliate by embarassing excessively; shame; punish the flesh; discipline (one's body) by self-denial; Ex. mortified by her blunder; Ex. mortify the flesh; CF. cause to die |
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| book of literary selections by various authors; CF. omnibus |
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| make secret plans; plot; arouse the curiosity of; N: secret scheme; plot; secret love affair |
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| provide with food necessary for life and growth |
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| complain (in a sad voice); make a high sad sound (as in pain or supplication) |
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| designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy; Ex. invidious comparison |
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| depravity; baseness; Ex. moral turpitude |
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| smoulder; burn slowly without flame; be liable to break out at any moment; exist in a suppressed state; Ex. smoldering anger |
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| boisterous merrymaking; V. revel: engage boisterous festivities; enjoy greatly; N: boisterous festivity or celebration |
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| fate; destiny; Ex. Kismet is the Arabic word for fate. |
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| charge (a public official) with crime in office; raise doubts about; indict; Ex. impeach a witness's credibility |
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| cause to appear by magic; summon (a devil or a spirit) by magical power; practice magic (esp. by very quick movement of the hands); evoke; conjure up: bring into the mind; Ex. The magician conjured a rabbit out of his hat. |
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| boorish; clumsy in speech or behavior; outlandish |
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| renounce under oath; abandon; make a solemn promise to give up; CF. abjure |
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| any ulcerous sore; ulcer; any evil; CF. cancer |
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| act stupidly; play the fool; N. |
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| waste matter; worthless impurities |
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| not able to be perceived by touch; vague |
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| cheating; deceitful; Ex. fraudulent means; N. fraud: deception; swindle |
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| trace; minute amount; shred; least bit; Ex. There is not a scintilla of truth; CF. spark |
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| dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; N: a group of soldiers, ships to a larger force; CF. contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; Ex. prepare for every contingency |
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| treasury; Ex. Chancellor of the exchequer |
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| lose a small piece from the surface or edge; N: small piece broken off something; CF. French fry; Potato chip/crisp |
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| change the appearance of (by marking with different colors) |
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| favoritism (to a relative); CF. nephew |
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| conclusion; concluding part |
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| approve; support; tolerate; Ex. countenance his rude behavior; N: face; appearance |
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| practicing self-denial; avoiding physical pleasures and comforts; austere; Ex. ascetic life of Buddhist monks; N. asceticism |
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| possession of land or building by rent; period of a tenant's occupancy |
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| full of self-admiration; conceited; without result; unsuccessful; N. vanity |
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| object of general attention; person or thing that is a center of attention; CF. Ursa Minor |
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| ransack; thoroughly search |
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| marked by commotion or uproar; very noisy (esp. with laughter); hilarious; causing loud laughter; extremely funny |
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| list of works of music, drama, etc., a performer is prepared to present; CF. repertory |
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| courage; V: pull off or out; pull out the hair or feathers of; ADJ. plucky: courageous; brave |
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| settle comfortably; place comfortably (in a secure place) |
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| pertaining to the aurora borealis; CF. aurora australis |
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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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| first rough form; conscription; draught; V: make a draft of; conscript |
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| demanding and leaving no choice; imperative; Ex. peremptory decree/knock |
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| let down; lessen the force of; moderate; restrain; Ex. with bated breath; CF. abate |
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| mar the appearance of; spoil |
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| prevailing style; current fashion; manner; way of doing something; Ex. in the latest mode; Ex. simple mode of life |
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| determination; resolution; firmness of purpose |
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| disconcert; dismay; embarrass |
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| meeting arranged by lovers; arrangement between lovers to meet |
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| very generous in giving; Ex. munificent benefactor; N. munificience |
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| assemble; gather; accumulate; make (a report or a book) from facts and information found in various places; Ex. compile a dictionary |
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| song of praise or joy; Ex. paeans celebrating the victory |
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| colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism; broad and continuous range; Ex. whole spectrum of modern thoughts |
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| mechanism that imitates actions of humans; machine that works by itself |
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| release or discharge through a vent; express (esp. unfairly); utter; Ex. He vented his wrath on his family. |
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| opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed; action made to produce a future advantage |
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| silent; without speech; not pronounced; unable to speak; N: one who is incapable of speech; V: soften the sound, color, shade of |
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| vessel in which substances are crushed with a pestle |
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| menacing; arousing fear; threatening; difficult to defeat; Ex. formidable foe/question |
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| (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V. |
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| express evil satisfaction; look at or think about with evil satisfaction; view malevolently; Ex. The thief gloated over the stolen jewels. |
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| portray; depict; sketch; describe; N. delineation |
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| speak in favor of; support (an idea or plan); urge; plead for |
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| breeder or dealer of animals; one who has a special interest, as for raising specific plant or animal |
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| reply; retort; comeback; V. rejoin: say in reply |
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| (of words or statements) ambiguous; intentionally misleading; (of behavior) questionable; OP. unequivocal |
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| writings preceding and following the passage quoted; circumstance in which an event occurs |
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| threatening; of an evil omen |
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| secure grasp or hold; firm grasp or footing |
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| pronounce indistinctly; speak indistinctly; mumble |
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| not biased; fair; N. impartiality |
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| slight offense or fault; CF. sin |
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| hatch; warm (eggs) with the body to promote hatching; maintain at optimal environment conditions for development; be holding in one's body an infection which is going to develop into a disease; N. incubation; CF. incubation:disease |
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| (of men) friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed; aiming to please; CF. of good disposition |
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| dig into (to get stone); N: mine; ä¼®Àå |
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| strategem to gain an advantage; tactic; Ex. management ploy |
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| supposed; Ex. reputed father of the child; V. repute: consider; N. repute: reputation; esteem |
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| idle person who lives on other people's work; male bee |
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| rebound; reaction; reverberation; Ex. serious repercussion |
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| make drunk; stimulate or excite; Ex. intoxicated by all the money he might win |
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| essential quality; V: ascribe; explain |
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| disobedient or resisting authority even after being punished; obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly; Ex. recalcitrant child |
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| vague; hazy; cloudy; of a nebula; Ex. nebulous proposal |
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| insane; Ex. lunatic asylum |
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| give a slight degree of a color or quality to; N: slight degree of a color or quality; Ex. tinged with grey/jealousy |
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| title or heading (in red print); directions for religious ceremony; protocol |
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| fall sharply; fall straight down; Ex. Stock prices plummeted. |
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| start a fire; ignite; inspire; arouse |
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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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| give protection (by giving food and shelter); provide a refuge for; hide; keep in mind (thoughts or feelings); Ex. harbor a grudge/criminal; N: place of shelter; refuge |
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| obscure; profound; difficult to understand |
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| illusive; deceptive; not real |
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| close relationship; emotional closeness; harmony |
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| preceding events that influence what comes later; ancestors or early background |
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| dark and gloomy; thick with fog; vague; Ex. murky night/fog; N. murk: partial or complete darkness; gloom |
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| sudden capricious idea; fancy |
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| additional object; useful but not essential thing |
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| unmoved or unconcerned by; having no interest in; mediocre; neither good nor bad |
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| of or like a slave; servile; showing no originality; copied very closely; Ex. slavish devotion/copy of the original |
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| ability to foresee future happenings; prudence in providing for the future |
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| deserving high respect; commanding respect; CF. command: deserve and get |
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| something that relieves pain; oily liquid with a pleasant smell from trees |
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| 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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| sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals; N: sound of a bell; fixed tax or charge |
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| pertaining to disease; N. pathology: study of disease |
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| patience; forgiveness; V. forbear: refrain from (in a generous and forgiving way); be patient; Ex. forbear to send him to prison |
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| make coins; invent or fabricate (a word or phrase); N. coinage: word or phrase recently invented |
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| solemn wonder; feeling of respect mixed with wonder and fear; V: fill with awe; ADJ. awesome |
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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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| humiliation; debasement; degeneration; V. degrade: debase; disgrace; degenerate; reduce (something) in worth; demote (someone); reduce in rank |
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| absence of contradictions; uniformity; degree of thickness or firmness; Ex. consistency of thick cream; CF. viscous |
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| command; utter (a greeting); offer as a price; N: offer of a price; amount offered; earnest effort to gain something; Ex. bid for freedom |
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| monumental tomb; large stately tomb; CF. Mausolos |
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| make impossible; prevent; exclude; eliminate |
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| nearing; approaching; about to happen |
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| renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility) |
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| multi-colored (as of a garment worn by a jester); mixed; heterogeneous; CF. jester: one who jests (as a paid fool at medieval courts) |
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| great amount; plenty; overabundance; excess; lavish expenditure; Ex. profusion of choices; ADJ. profuse: plentiful; copious; giving or given abundantly; extravagant |
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| having importance; pertinent; referring to the case in hand; N. relevance, relevancy |
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| solidly uniform; unchangeable; unyielding; N. monolith: large block of stone |
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| conceited smile; offensively self-satisfied smile (often at someone else's misfortune); V. |
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| exclamation; Ex. ``Ouch'' |
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| unity of pitch (in musical performance); complete accord; Ex. The choir sang in unison. |
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| nourish; feed; educate; rear; care for while it is growing or developing; foster; cultivate; N: something that nourishes; rearing |
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| imaginary; non-existent; purposely invented to deceive; untrue; Ex. fictitious name/boyfriend; CF. fictional |
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| evident; visible; obvious; V: show plainly |
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| practical person; N. pragmatism: pragmatic way of dealing with things |
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| records arranged in yearly parts; history |
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| laypersons; laymen; persons not connected with the clergy |
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| block legislation or prevent action in a lawmaking body by making very slow long speeches; N; freebooter |
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| miser; excessively frugal person |
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| untrustworthy person; rogue; scoundrel; jack; N. knavery |
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| young woman making formal entrance into society |
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| prank; flighty conduct; reckless adventure that disobeys rules |
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| group of closely located islands |
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| not spacious; inconvenient |
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| handle used to move boat's rudder (to steer) |
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| staying for a short time; momentary; temporary; N: one that is transient |
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| well-bred; elegant; striving to convey an appearance of refinement; Ex. genteel poverty |
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| bookish; showing off learning; marked by an excessive ostentatious concern for book learning; N. pedantry |
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| not yet decided or settled; impending; Ex. pending decision; PREP. while awaiting; until; Ex. delay the decision pending his return |
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| spot; blot; CF. blot+botch |
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| twist out of shape; give a false account of; misrepresent; N. distortion |
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| shell covering the back (of a turtle, tortoise, crab, etc.) |
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| cause of complaint; complaint |
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| move suddenly or involuntarily; Ex. start at the sight of a snake |
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| ravenous; eating large quantities of food; exceedingly eager; insatiable; Ex. voracious animal/reader |
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| supporter; backer; opposite of opponent |
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| mass of material sticking together |
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| border; edge, rim, or margin; Ex. on the verge of: very near to; V: border on |
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| delicate; very finely made; extremely beautiful; Ex. exquisite piece of jewelry |
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| remove or get rid of something or someone unwanted; eliminate; free from blame or guilt; cleanse or purify (esp. of sin, guilt, or defilement); N. |
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| rustic; country bumpkin; Ã̳ð |
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| hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog; Ex. make someone's hackles rise |
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| murder of a king or queen |
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| overcharge (with high price); extort from; Ex. gouge the public; CF. usury |
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| give a bodily form to; incorporate; include |
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| teasing conversation; banter; joking talk |
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| complain; fuss; grumble; grouch; N: plump chickenlike game bird |
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| fear; nervous apprehension |
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| decree; authoritative order |
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| watch over and direct; supervise; N. oversight: unintentional failure to notice or do something; supervision |
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| small model; small painting; ADJ: small |
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| (of light or color) bright and distinct; evoking lifelike mental images; Ex. vivid red hair/description |
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| half-stifled(suppressed) laugh; V. |
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| sleep throughout the winter; N. hibernation |
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| split; tear apart; N. rent; CF. heartrending: causing deep sorrow |
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| violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness); V. convulse; ADJ. convulsive |
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| explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
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| stipulation; condition in an agreement; provision |
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| most reliable; authorative and complete; that cannot be improved; conclusive; decisive; definite; Ex. definitive decision by the supreme court |
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| outer boundary; length of the outer boundary; circumference |
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| sharp-cornered; having an angle; not rounded (body); bony; lean; gaunt; stiff in manner |
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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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| lawyer using questionable methods; unscrupulous practioner |
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| (animal, person, or plant) inhabitant or resident of a particular place; regular visitor |
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| superiority of power, quantity, etc.; V. preponderate: be greater in power, weight, or importance; ADJ. preponderant |
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| slow; sluggish; N: one who lags; straggler |
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| means; effort; Ex. by dint of hard work |
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| line of ancestors; ancestry; lineage; ADJ. (of an animal) descended from of a chosen family; Ex. pedigree dog; CF. crane's foot |
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| freedom from punishment or harm; CF. punish |
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| impose (a fine); collect (a payment); impose or collect (a tax); Ex. levy a tax on tobacco |
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| harmonious; in harmony with; able to exist together |
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| power to produce desired effect; ADJ. efficacious: effectual |
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| composed; calm; self-possessed |
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| someone easily fooled or deceived; V: deceive |
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| courage (to continue bravely in spite of difficulties); spirit; ADJ. mettlesome |
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| tending to improve; beneficial; wholesome; Ex. The punishment had a salutary effect on the boy; CF. health |
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| give an imitation that ridicules; imitate mockingly |
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| nest of a large bird of prey |
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| hugeness (in a bad sense); excessive wickedness; Ex. enormity of the crime; ADJ. enormous |
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| healthful; conducive to health or well-being; socially desirable; Ex. salubrious area; CF. health |
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| of glass; pertaining to or resembling glass; V. vitrify: change into glass; CF. petrify |
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| elevated position; altitude; height; flat upright side of a building; angle made by pointing a gun; Ex. The elevation of her style is much admired; Ex. front elevation of the house |
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| narrow canyon; steep rocky cleft; ravine (made by a stream which runs through it) |
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| scorn; disdain; ADJ. contemptuous; CF. contemptible |
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| seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning; sophism |
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| small drawing placed at the beginning or end of a chapter; picture; short literary sketch; short written description of a character or scene |
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| praise very highly; glorify |
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| large quantity or number; Ex. slew of errands left |
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| payment or expense; expending; something expended; output; Ex. receipt for the expenditure; Ex. expenditure of all the energy |
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| devoutness; reverence for God; ADJ. pious |
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| soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body |
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| skeptical or distrustful of human motives; N. cynicism; CF. cynic: person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness |
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| habitually intoxicated; drunk; N. inebriety |
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| avoid habitually; Ex. eschew alcoholic drinks |
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| unable to be restrained or held back; impossible to hold back |
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| (of costs or demands) excessive; exceeding reasonable bounds |
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| quick or willing to receive (ideas, suggestions, etc.); Ex. receptive to the proposal |
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| mak less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) |
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| since; owing to the fact that |
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| public revelation of something discreditable |
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| abstract; concise summing up of main points; concise summary of a text |
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| done slyly and secretly (being dishonest) |
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| resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback; ADJ. atavistic |
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| school for training future ministers; secondary school, especially for young women |
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| attractive (in personality or appearance) |
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| (of weather) warm and damp |
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| stench; V: emit a strong foul odor |
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| forcible restraint, especially unlawfully; coercion by threat; illegal coercion; Ex. a promise made under duress |
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| bad-tempered; irritable; V. peeve: make angry |
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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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| notch; deep recess; V. indent; CF. tooth |
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| dilemma; state of uncertainty; Ex. She is in a quandary about whether to go. |
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| (of a woman or child) grave; quiet and serious; coy; pretending to be demure |
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| optimistic; cheerful; hopeful; of the color of blood; red |
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| attack (as with missiles or bombs); V. bombard |
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| flabby; lacking firmness; weak; Ex. flaccid muscles |
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| not earthly; supernatural; weird; ghostly |
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| total failure; CF. bottle |
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| sign or warning (of coming danger); Ex. threat of rain; V: express a threat; give warning of (something bad); Ex. The cloud threatens rain. |
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| regret; express sorrow and severe disapproval for something bad; Ex. deplore their violent behavior; ADJ. deplorable: very bad; deserving severe disapproval; Ex. deplorable living condition |
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| deserved punishment for wrongdoing; punishment for offenses; compensation; vengeance; CF. pay back |
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| tickle; excite pleasantly; Ex. not to titillate the audience but to enlighten it |
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| outward demonstration; manifesting; indication of the presence of something; Ex. manifestation of his pronounced musical bent |
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| indisputable; incontrovertible; undeniable |
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| loud resounding noise; sound of repeated clanging |
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| without definite purpose, plan, or aim; haphazard; Ex. random shots; Ex. chosen at random |
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| deserving reverence; N: priest |
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| employed; busy; betrothed; involved in conflict |
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| admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote); CF. franchise |
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| entreating; beseeching; N. |
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| growing or spreading uncontrollably; growing in profusion; unrestrained; Ex. rampant lawlessness/weed |
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| simultaneous firing or outburst (of missiles, questions, etc.) |
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| refusal to yield; resistance; V. defy; ADJ. defiant |
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| correct a false impression; undeceive; free from a wrong belief |
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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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| varied; greatly diversified; Ex. multifarious activities |
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| clever and imaginative (in dealing with difficult situations); N. resource, resourcefulness |
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| lead away from proper conduct; entice; ADJ. seductive |
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| taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax); (of a law) having effect on the past as well as the future |
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| legal official of high rank; CF. chancellery(chancellory): position of a chancellor |
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| extremely (offensively) obvious; loudly offensive; Ex. blatant lie; N. blatancy |
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| full-bosomed; plump; jolly |
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| slavish; cringing; N. servility |
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| Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) |
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| loiter or dawdle; be slow in leaving; delay going; continue or persist; be slow to disappear; Ex. The smell lingered for days. |
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| concluding section of a musical or literary composition |
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| assumption; postulate; proposition upon which an argument is based |
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| marked with parallel bands; striped; grooved; Ex. striated rocks; V. striate; N. stria: thin groove or line |
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| mixed indiscriminately; indiscriminate; not choosing carefully; indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners; irregular, particularly sexually; Ex. promiscuous life/girl; N. promiscuity |
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| person who turns animal hides into leather |
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| having foresight; fortuneteller; N. clairvoyance |
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| superfluous; more than is necessary; verbose; excessively wordy; repetitious |
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| questionable; (of something) causing doubt; (of someone) filled with doubt; N. dubiety |
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| draw out fact or information (by discussion or from someone) |
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| unreasonable or capricious; random; tyrannical; Ex. arbitrary ruler |
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| unaccustomed; unusual; Ex. He arrived with unwonted punctuality. |
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| intentionally hidden; beyond what is evident; situated beyond; unstated and often questionable; Ex. ulterior motive |
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| delicate; of very fine quality |
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| clever in deceiving; secretive; not telling one's intentions |
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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 as judge (at the request of both sides) |
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| spotted; stained; CF. immaculate |
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| brief flash of light; glow; V. |
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| quality of being very old; ancient times; °í´ë |
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| incapable of being pacified; impossible to appease; Ex. implacable enemy |
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| marked by inventive skill; clever; resourceful; N. ingenuity |
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| sociable; eager to mix socially with others |
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| smooth and shining; N. gloss: shiny brightness on a surface; superficially attractive appearance; Ex. gloss of good manners |
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| susceptible to wounds or attack; N. vulnerability |
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| childish; immature; CF. puer: boy |
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| flexible; easily influenced |
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| evil schemes or plots; schemes or plots to achieve an evil end; V. machinate |
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| move heavily or clumsily; Ex. The bear lumbered through the woods; N: timber |
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| forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; Ex. a monk's austere life; Ex. austere grandeur of the cathedral; N. austerity |
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| similarity; parallelism; comparing two similar things |
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| invigorate; give energy to; make forceful and active |
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| remedy to counteract a poison or disease; Ex. antidote to the economic troubles |
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| act of keeping watch; high place commanding a wide view; person who keeps watch |
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| missile; fired or thrown object (such as stone or bullet) |
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| acting without dialogue; V. |
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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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| untidy; careless in work habits; slipshod; N. sloven: one who is habitually untidy or careless |
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| coarsely insulting; physically harmful |
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| lure; persuade to do (something wrong); attract; tempt |
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| pretending to be virtuous; deceiving; N. hypocrisy: profession of beliefs one does not possess; CF. hypocrite |
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| postponement or cancelation of a punishment; temporary stay; V: postpone or cancel the punishment of |
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| delicate ornamental lacelike metalwork |
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| something that discourages or deters |
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| revert (to bad habits); N. reverter |
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| change of form; Ex. metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly; V. metamorphose: change by metamorphosis |
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| subordinate possessions; something added to a more important thing |
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| critical remark; V. animadvert: comment critically with disapproval |
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| use of force to get someone to object; compelling; V. coerce |
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| suppress; put an end to; put down forcibly; extinguish; quiet; Ex. ``Army Quells Rebellion'' in newspaper; CF. kill |
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| terms used in a science or art; study of nomenclature |
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| hang about; (of birds or aircraft) stay in the air in one place; (of people) wait nearby; stay around one place; waver; be in an uncertain state |
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| bony growth on the head of a deer |
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| tangible; (of something bad) easily perceptible; obvious; Ex. palpable blunder |
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| agreeable; pleasing to the taste |
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| incinerate (a corpse); N. crematory, crematorium |
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| small round piece of medicine; flat piece of stone or metal bearing an inscription; Ex. stone tablet on the wall |
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| utter a deep guttural sound (as a pig does); N. |
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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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| comment; make explanatory notes |
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| represent (an inanimate object) as a person; be the embodiment or perfect example of; Ex. She is evil/patience personified; N. personification |
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| gather; assemble (troops); Ex. muster up one's strength for the ordeal; N. |
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| treat gently; indulge excessively; pamper; mollycoddle; baby; cook in water just below boiling point; Ex. coddled eggs |
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| adjust to climate or environment; adapt |
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| impressionable; easily influenced; sensitive; having little resistance as to a disease; likely to suffer; receptive to; capable of accepting; Ex. susceptible to persuasion/colds; Ex. The agreement is not susceptible of alteration; N. susceptibility |
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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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| representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols; puzzle in which pictures or letters stand for words; Ex. ``R U 18'' is a rebus for ``Are you 18''. |
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| tear or be torn quickly and violently; Ex. The sail ripped under the force of the wind; N. |
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| uppermost edge of a cup; projecting rim (as on a hat); Ex. The glass was full to the brim; V: be full to the brim |
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| artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or building); CF. aesthete; CF. aesthetics |
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| division into factions (esp. within a religious body); split |
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| clothing or equipment for a special purpose; Ex. cowboy outfit |
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| fond of books and reading |
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| style of cooking; Ex. French cuisine |
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| dying; at the point of death; CF. death |
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| reprimand; severely scold |
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| humorous imitation; spoof; takeoff; travesty; V. |
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| good-natured; merry; cheerful |
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| light-hearted; not serious; frivolous; dizzy; causing dizziness; Ex. giddy youth; Ex. giddy climb/height |
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| unlikely (to be true); unbelievable; Ex. implausible alibi |
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| do drudgery; N: person who drudges |
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| man who is courting a woman |
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| too improbable to be believed; implausible; Ex. far-fetched story |
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| frighten; N. intimidation |
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| ideal place, state, or society; ADJ. utopian |
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| strong; violent and severe; Ex. drastic changes/measures |
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| infringe; encroach; influence; touch; collide with; Ex. The effects are impinging on every aspect of our lives. |
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| apparatus for making sounds; womanlike creature |
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| one part at a time; gradually; in stages; Ex. read a novel piecemeal |
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| prescribed course of diet or exercise; prescribed diet and habits; Ex. daily regimen of a dancer |
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| of time; not lasting forever; limited by time; temporary; secular; worldly |
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| put into a lower or worse place; banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign; Ex. relegate the old furniture to the children's room; Ex. relegated to the second division |
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| giving or showing bliss; blissful |
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| hostility; active opposition; V. antagonize: cause to become an enemy; N. antagonist: person who is opposed to another; opponent; adversary; principal character in oppostion to the protagonist |
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| (of desire, wish, plan) recently begun; not explicit; at the beginning of development; rudimentary; elementary; Ex. inchoate mass |
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| 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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| expressing a meaning; important; Ex. significant smile; N. significance: importance; meaning; V. signify: denote; mean; signal; make known; matter; be significant |
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| apart; not open in one's relationship with other people; reserved; ADV. |
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| layer of earth's surface; layer of society; PL. strata |
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| stand, sit, or lie in a lazy, relaxed way |
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| hanging down from something; pending; N: ornament (hanging from a necklace etc.) |
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| fashionable; conforming to the current fashion |
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| outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around |
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| lead-colored; black and blue (as from a bruise); ashen; enraged; extremely angry |
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| (of someone) suspicious; wary; cautious |
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| keeping watch (during normal sleeping hours); Ex. all-night vigil |
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| language; manner of speaking; idiom; Ex. in legal/common parlance |
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| supplicatory prayer; prayer in which the priest calls out and the people replies in the same words |
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| attacking; insulting; distasteful; V. offend: violate; hurt the feelings of; N. offense: offending; violating of a moral or social code; crime; attack; Ex. first offense |
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| strong foul odor; reek; stink |
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| disable; N. incapacity: lack of capacity |
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| walk with a heavy step; travel on foot; N: vagrant; one who travels aimlessly about; long walk; sound of heavy walking |
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| official (who performs a particular function) |
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| voracious; ravenous; taking everything one can; excessively grasping; plundering; subsisting on live prey; Ex. rapacious birds |
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| dethrone; remove from office; give a deposition; testify |
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| aqueduct; passageway for fluids |
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| (esp. of a woman's behavior) capricious; often changing, esp. from one lover to another; impulsive |
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| direct vote by all the people |
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| engrossed in matters of this earth; not spiritual; of the material world |
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| unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous; Ex. The ending was rather contrived. |
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| underlying character of a culture, group, etc.; character or ideas peculiar to a specific person, group, or culture; Ex. the company ethos |
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| disconnected; lacking coherence; V. disjoint: disconnect; disjoin |
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| blessed; consecrated; Ex. hallowed ground; V. hallow: set apart as holy |
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| person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment; person concerned with the detrimental effects of human civilization on the environment; CF. ecology |
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| tired after long work; V. |
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| gradual intrusion; Ex. I resent all these encroachments on my valuable time; V. encroach: take another's possessions or right gradually or stealthily; intrude; Ex. encroach on/upon |
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| baffle or confuse by a difficult problem; ponder over a problem in an effort to solve; clarify or solve by reasoning; Ex. puzzle out the answer; N. |
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| censure; rebuke; N. reproof |
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| study of prehistoric life or fossils; CF. paleo-: ancient or prehistoric; Ex. paleography: study of ancient written documents |
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| rather fat; strong in body; sturdy; resolute; determined; strong in determination; Ex. stout stick/supporter |
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| direct vote by the entire electorate (on an important issue) |
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| indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly) |
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| large group of insects moving in a mass; crowd of people or animals; V: move in a crowd or mass |
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| vague statement; general statement which is not detailed; quality of being general; greater part; most; Ex. generality of people |
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| being truly so; real or genuine; actual; not false or imaginary |
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| time for rest; interval of relief; delay in punishment; reprieve |
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| practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with practical worth or impact of something; Ex. pragmatic test of the skill |
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| large sled drawn by work animals |
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| of a particular season; Ex. seasonal rise in employment |
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| move or develop more slowly; straggle; Ex. lag behind the rest; N. |
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| careful no to cause offence; OP. tactless |
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| having no previous example; novel; unparalleled |
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| medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain; something that relieves emotions or causes inaction; sleep-producing drug containing opium |
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| having the odor of musk; N. musk: odorous substance secreted by an Asian deer |
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| waste (time or money on unimportant things) |
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| wave around (a weapon); flourish |
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| combativeness; disposition to fight; ADJ. pugnacious: (of people) belligerent; combative in nature |
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| vex; annoy or make angry (by testing the patience) |
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| token; reminder of the past; keepsake; Ex. memento of your visit |
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| survey of enemy by soldiers; reconnoitering; V. reconnoiter: make a preliminary inspection of (esp. to gather military information) |
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| solemn promise; blasphemous use of sacred words to express strong feelings; swear-word; Ex. ``For Christ's sake'' |
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| block or hinder; baffle; frustrate |
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| forceful; intensely emotional; with marked vigor; strong; N. vehemence |
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| illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods; ADJ. |
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| twist; pull; strain; Ex. He wrenched the gun out of her hands. |
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| delicate; delicately beautiful; fastidious; not easy to please; Ex. dainty movement/dress |
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| ambush; lie in wait for and attack |
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| penitent; repentant; N. contrition |
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| keep as precious; cherish |
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| place where a river can be crossed on foot; V. |
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| noble; aristocratic; N: person of high rank; aristocrat; CF. member of the governing classes in ancient Rome; CF. plebian |
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| lack of physical or mental energy; lassitude; depression |
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| give an indication beforehand; be a sign of (what is coming); portend; prefigure |
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| pertinent; bearing upon(having connection with) the case at hand; appropriate |
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| deserving blame; blameworthy; V. reprehend: blame |
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| long period of time; an age; longest division of geologic time containing two or more eras |
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| smear (as with paint); cover with something sticky; Ex. daub one's clothes with mud/paint; N: small bit of sticky substance; Ex. a daub of paint |
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| occupying a lower rank; inferior; submissive; N. V: put in a lower rank or class |
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| antiquated; extremely ancient |
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| formal; ceremonious; grand in style or size; majestic |
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| adage; someone or something well known for notoriety; ADJ. proverbial: of a proverb; widely known; ADV. proverbially |
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| location; place (of a crime, trial, gathering, etc.); CF. come |
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| honor; excellence; difference; contrast; discrimination; Ex. graduated with distinction; Ex. a writer of real distinction |
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| approach; tend to meet; come together |
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| state of being self-contradictory; lack of uniformity or steadiness; ADJ. inconsistent: displaying a lack of consistency; erratic; contradictory; incompatible |
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| remembering; honoring the memory of; Ex. commemorative stamp |
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| introduce something into a larger whole; include; embody; give material form to; ADJ. |
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| sharpen (a tool); N: whetstone for sharpening a tool |
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| convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies |
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| reluctant; disinclined; not liking or opposed; Ex. averse to cats/doing the house work |
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| unable for the moment to speak (because of strong feeling); Ex. speechless with anger |
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| attractive; CF. preoccupying ? |
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| being in debt; money that should have been paid; work that should have been done |
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| quality of being provident; divine care; god's care; Providence: god; Ex. It seemed like providence that the doctor happened to be there; ADJ. providential: of divine providence; fortunate |
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| witty saying; wisecrack(clever joking remark) |
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| color; aspect; Ex. opinions of every hue |
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| interpret incorrectly; misinterpret; misjudge |
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| offering or providing help; additional or subsidiary; N: helper; assistant |
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| expressing a low opinion; disparaging; V. derogate: detract; disparage |
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| perceive intuitively (by or as if by magic); foresee the future; foretell; dowse; ADJ. N. divination |
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| grant a share of; make known; Ex. news to impart |
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| severe dizziness; giddiness |
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| predecessor; one that comes before and indicates the approach of another |
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| renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation |
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| suggestive of something (in the past); of reminiscence |
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| plant disease; V: infect with blight; ruin; destroy |
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| doctor who treats mental diseases |
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| producing motion; of motion |
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| confirm; support; strengthen |
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| (particular form of) political organization; form of government of nation or state; Ex. student polity |
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| disregard; regard (a story or news) as unimportant; deduct from a cost |
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| expel; drive out; force out; N. ouster: ousting |
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| organization for a special purpose; V: establish |
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| honor; glory; acclaim or praise for exceptional achievement |
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| bitter prolonged quarrel (usually between two peoples or families); V. CF. Romeo and Juliet; CF. feudal, feudalism |
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| objectionable; likely to cause dislike; offensive; CF. unexceptionable: entirely acceptable |
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| send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially; entrust; put into the care of another; set apart (for a special purpose); N. consignment; CF. consignor, consignee |
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| state of being parallel; similarity; analogy |
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| denial; disclaiming; repudiating; disowning; V. disavow; CF. disclaim |
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| unbeliever (with respect to a particular religion) |
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| joking talk; good-naturedly ridiculing; N.V. banter |
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| moved by sexual love; loving; of sexual love; Ex. amorous advances |
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| random; by chance; happening in an unplanned manner; Ex. haphazard growth of the town |
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| recollection; V. reminisce: recollect the past |
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| moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction |
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| sleeping; temporarily inactive; lethargic; latent |
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| hit or knock against with force; N. |
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| look on with scorn; regard as worthless or distasteful; ADJ. despicable: contemptible |
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| not requited; not reciprocated; Ex. unrequited love |
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| motivated solely by money or gain; N. |
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| ordinary; typical; not nuclear; Ex. conventional weapons |
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| moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness |
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| arranged by degrees (of height, difficulty, etc.) |
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| pertaining to drama; N: actor or actress |
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| happiness; appropriateness (of a remark, choice, etc.); quality of being felicitous |
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| wrongdoing; misconduct (by a public official) |
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| make stupid or confused as with alcholic drink; N. in a fuddle: confused |
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| insignificant; petty; trifling; contemptible; Ex. paltry sum; CF. trash |
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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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| pierce with holes; permeate or spread throughout; Ex. The gunman riddled the car with bullets; Ex. The whole report is riddled with errors; N. large sieve (separating earth from stone) |
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| unharmed; Ex. escape the accident unscathed |
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| person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority |
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| supporting bar; CF. airplane wingÀ̳ª building µîÀ» support |
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| appearance of truth; quality of appearing to be true or real; likelihood; Ex. verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth |
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| deputize; pass or be passed to others (power, work, or property); Ex. devolve on/upon/to |
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| atrocious; wicked; hatefully bad; Ex. heinous crime |
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| going against; opposing; unfavorable; hostile |
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| severity; Ex. rigors of the Russian winter |
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| grand suggesting great expense; lavish; rich; Ex. sumptuous feast |
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| lazy; slow; inactive; lethargic; CF. slug: nail with no shell |
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| flow or fall in drops; let saliva flow out slowly from the mouth; move a ball; N. |
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| give shape to; make; Ex. fashion the pot out of clay |
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| arrest (a criminal); dread; perceive; N. apprehension |
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| cure-all; remedy for all diseases |
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| occurring again and again |
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| excess; overabundance; Ex. a plethora of excuses |
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| poke (with a pointed object); stir up; urge; goad to action; N: pointed object used to prod; prodding |
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| unfairness; ADJ. inequitable |
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| disgrace; humiliate; debase in dignity; behave |
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| twisting force; force producing rotation |
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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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| stir up; incite; instigate; promote the growth of (something evil or unpleasant) |
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| showy; gaudy; giving a momentary brilliance |
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| kingdom; field or sphere; Ex. not within the realms of possibility |
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| condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles; ADJ. anemic |
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| squeeze between the thumb and a finger, or other edges; Ex. I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. N: amount that can be held between the thumb and a finger |
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| odd; irregular in movement or behavior; unpredictable |
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| smoothness of speech; ADJ. fluent |
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| producing offspring or fruit in abundance; fertile; fecund; abundantly fruitful; producing abundant works; Ex. prolific writer |
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| complain or whine tearfully; run at the nose; snuffle; Ex. Don't come back sniveling to me. |
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| long-lasting hatred; bitterness; Ex. negotiation without rancor; ADJ. rancorous |
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| throb; beat rapidly; flutter; tremble; Ex. Her heart began to palpitate. |
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| walk; trample; N: grooved face of a tire; horizontal part of a step |
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| not shiny; matte; having a dull finish; N: flat piece of material used as a floor covering; V. |
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| pretend; conceal by feigning; dissemble |
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| (cause to) join the armed forces; obtain (help, sympathy, or support) |
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| come or bring together; call up or summon (forces, vital powers, etc.); revive or recuperate (after illness or difficulty); N: act of rallying; mass gathering |
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| top (as of a hill or wave); showy feathers on the head of a bird |
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| act of extreme violence or viciousness; resentful anger; V: commit an outrage on; produce anger in; ADJ. outrageous: offensive |
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| do or give something in return; repay in kind; give or take mutually; interchange; move backwards and forwards; Ex. reciprocate his invitation by inviting him; N. reciprocity: reciprocal relationship; mutual interchange of advantages between two groups; Ex. reciprocity in trading rights |
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| behavior (of children) causing trouble with no serious harm; damage; harm; Ex. mischief to the crops; ADJ. mischievous: causing mischief; playfully troublesome |
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| very small object or insect-like creature; small coin |
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| harmless substance prescribed as a dummy pill |
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| part that forms the end; railroad or bus station; ADJ. forming an end; ending in death; fatal; Ex. terminal cancer |
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| invention; something invented; imaginary thing; Ex. figment of your imagination |
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| disprove; prove to be false; N. refutation |
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| feign; pretend to: claim to possess; make pretensions to; Ex. I don't pretend to much expertise; N. pretense |
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| (the stated person's) habit or custom; habitual procedure; ADJ. wonted: customary |
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| unconquerable; unyielding |
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| practical; able to be carried out; practicable |
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| treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity, respect; offensive or insulting treatment; humiliating or degrading treatment; Ex. I suffered the indignity of having to say that in front of them. |
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| senility; feeblemindedness of old age; Ex. In one's dotage |
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| small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth); V. |
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| hateful; spiteful; expressing malice; N. malice: desire to harm others; spite |
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| distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds) |
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| causing great fear; unrelenting; determined in spite of fear; Ex. grim smile |
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| liberal; wasteful; generous or wasteful in giving or using; abundant; profuse; great; Ex. decorated lavishly; V. give in abundance |
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| of substance; material; solid; essential or fundamental; ample; considerable; well-to-do; wealthy |
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| feeling of kinship; similarity; Ex. strong affinity for her; Ex. many affinities between two languages |
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| person having administrative authority; one branch of government executing laws; ADJ: relating to executing |
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| direct financial aid by government, etc.; V. subsidize: assist with a subsidy |
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| imaginary remote paradise on earth; CF. Lost Horizon |
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| countercharges; V. recriminate |
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| postpone; delay or put off |
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| formal systematic inquiry; explanation of the results of a formal inquiry; long formal speech or written report |
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| wrong; faulty; Ex. something amiss; ADV. |
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| unspoiled; remaining in a pure state; characteristic of earlier times; primitive; Ex. an old book in pristine condition |
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| honor; tribute; great respect; Ex. pay/do homage to |
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| hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered; CF. cholera |
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| pay attention to; N: close attention |
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| not essential; irrelevant; superfluous; external; coming from the outside; Ex. extraneous details/noise/to the subject |
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| advocate of the extension of voting rights (for women); CF. suffrage |
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| delicate skill; V: handle with finesse |
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| increase in number by producing young; multiply; spread; Ex. Most plants propagate by seed; Ex. newspaper propagating their ideas |
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| contrast; one that by contrast enhances the distinctive characteristics of another |
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| exceeding ordinary limits; superior; surpassing; V. transcend: go beyond; exceed; surpass; N. transcendancy |
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| small boat (often ship's boat) |
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| nearness (in space or relationship); proximity; kinship |
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| change; something newly introduced; introduction of something new; V. innovate: begin or introduce (something new); be creative; ADJ. innovative |
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| written command issued by a court (telling someone to do or not to do something) |
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| of a schema or scheme; relating to an outline or diagram; using a system of symbols; N. schema: diagrammatic representation; outline |
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| one's opinion of oneself; self-esteem |
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| number of points; written form of a musical composition; reason; group of 20; notch or incision; Ex. full/vocal score; Ex. Don't worry on that score; V: mark with lines or notches; Ex. score the paper to make it easy to fold |
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| risk; expose to risk; dare; undertake a risk; N. |
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| mixed up; jumbled; distorted; V. garble: mix up or distort (a message) to such an extent as to make misleading or unintelligible |
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| wicked; immoral; unrighteous; N. iniquity; Ex. den of iniquity |
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| pertaining to existence; pertaining to the philosophy of existentialism |
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| (of likings and interests) universal; general; broad; including many different parts; wide-ranging liberal; Ex. catholic opinions/tastes |
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| unreal reflection; optical illusion |
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| someone who advises insurance companies |
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| former occupant of a post |
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| self-evident truth requiring no proof |
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| lottery; V: award as a prize in a raffle; Ex. raffle off a new car |
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| marked by indecision; inconclusive; Ex. indecisive battle |
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| thoroughly soaked; dull or stupid as if from drink |
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| preceding (in time, rank, etc.) |
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| grow well; prosper; make sweeping gestures; wave; brandish; Ex. The trees flourished in the sun. N: showy movement or gesture; embellishment or ornamentation (esp. in handwriting) |
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| repeal; annul; cancel (a law, decision, or agreement) |
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| resorting to help when in trouble; Ex. without recourse to |
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| repetition of beginning sound in poetry |
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| stray or fall behind (a main group); spread out in a scattered group; Ex. straggling marathon racer; Ex. straggling branch |
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| pleasantly tart-tasting; spicy; pleasantly stimulating; Ex. piquant situation when my old enemy asked for my help |
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| remorse; strong uneasiness caused by guilt |
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| limit; confine; draw a line around |
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| burlesque; act of leaving the ground |
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| run away secretly with the intention of getting married |
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| enhance the flavor of by adding a spice, etc.; inure; harden; N. seasoning: something used in seasoning |
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| imagination (of a whimsical or fantastic nature); capricious liking; V: imagine; be fond of; ADJ. decorative; elaborate |
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| comic; crazy; N: clown; comical person (given to outlandish behavior) |
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| without guile; open and honest |
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| false testimony while under oath; V. perjure oneself: testify falsely under oath |
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| wise; perceptive; shrewd; having insight; N. sagacity |
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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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| worship of idols; excessive admiration or devotion; ADJ. idolatrous |
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| one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life; CF. hedonism: practice of living one's life purely for pleasure |
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| bravery; courage; strength of mind |
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| pertaining to fishing; CF. Pisces |
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| reject; mock; show contempt for; scorn; Ex. flout the rules |
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| one who is introspective or inclined to think more about oneself; ADJ. introverted |
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| (of a word or remark) apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
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| poke abruptly with something sharp; punch with short blows |
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| flair; manner of doing things without any difficulty (causing admiration); flamboyance; bunch of feathers (on a helmet); Ex. with great panache; CF. ÀÜ ¾Æ·¡·Î õÀ» »©³»´Â ¼Ø¾¾ |
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| stop or check flow of blood; Ex. stanch the gushing wound |
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| irritable; impatient and bad-tempered; short-tempered; N. testiness |
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| story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio) |
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| obligatory; compulsory; of a mandate |
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| (of someone) having insight; penetrating; astute |
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| deep prolonged unconsciousness caused by disease, poison, or a severe blow |
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| withdraw; take back; draw back; Ex. retract a statement/an offer/claws; N. retraction; CF. retractile |
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| group that meets socially; select circle; close group of people with shared interests |
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| green; covered with green plants or grass; lush in vegetation; Ex. verdant meadows |
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| shyness; lack of self-confidence; timidity; ADJ. diffident |
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| obligatory; that must be done |
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| calm; peaceful; Ex. halcyon days |
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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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| diminish; weaken; undermine the foundations of (a fortification); Ex. The element kryptonite sapped his strength. |
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| accidental; by chance; N. fortuity |
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| come between; interfere; Ex. intervened to prevent a fight; N. intervention |
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| insincere speech or expression of piety; jargon of thieves; special words used by a particular group of people |
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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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| produced by fire; of fire; volcanic; (of rocks) formed from lava; Ex. igneous meteorite |
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| thought; working of the brain |
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| entirely acceptable; not offering any basis for criticism |
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| struggle confusedly; move off in a confused hurry; N. CF. scuffling twins ? |
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| trite remark; commonplace statement; ADJ. platitudinous |
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| quality of pleasing; amulet; action or formula thought to have magical power; spell; V: attract; cast a spell on; bewitch |
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| confused uproar; loud noise; din |
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| unscrupulous; not guided by conscience; excessive; beyond reason; Ex. unconscionable demand |
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| ill-humored; sullen; sullenly melancholy |
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| strategic military or naval movement (done for training purposes); carefully planned process; stratagem; V: carry out a military maneuver; use maneuvers in gaining an end |
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| clumsy person; ADJ. loutish; CF. from countrysides ? |
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| support or base as for a pillar or statue |
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| warlike; of war; Ex. martial art/law |
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| piece of burning wood; hothead; troublemaker; person who stirs up trouble |
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| fits of depression or gloom; ADJ. moody: given to changeable moods; subject to periods of depression; gloomy CF. mood: |
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| not literal but metaphorical; using a figure(impression) of speech |
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| travel about selling (wares); CF. foot |
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| not done politely without due formalities |
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| joyous; celebratory; relating to a feast or festival |
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| tropical hurricane or cyclone |
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| a place where bees are kept |
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| homesickness; longing for the past; Ex. nostalgia for the clothes of 1920s; ADJ. nostalgic |
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| self-important behavior; acting like a stuffed shirt(pompous person); ADJ. pompous: self-important |
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| overflowing abundance; joyful enthusiasm; flamboyance; lavishness; ADJ. exuberant: high-spirited and lively; growing abundantly and strongly |
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| life-size, three-dimensional scene from nature or history; three-dimensional scene with modeled figures against a painted background |
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| held in common; public; of a group of people; of a commune |
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| rising above others; high; lofty; distinguished; Ex. eminent position |
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| beginning; forming of an idea; fertilization; V. conceive: form an idea in the mind; devise; become pregnant; CF. inception |
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| imitation of a real object used as a substitute; effigy |
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| intention; purpose; meaning; V: claim; profess; Ex. order which purports to be signed by the general |
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| defamatory written statement; act of writing something that smears a person's character; V. ADJ. libelous |
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| singing or chanting of magic spells; magical formula; (the saying of) words used in magic; CF. enchant |
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| skin disease (on the face) |
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| metric; written in the form of poetry; Ex. metrical translation of Homer |
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| invulnerable; impossible to capture or enter by force; Ex. impregnable fort/argument; CF. take |
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| dexterity; CF. sleight of hand: legerdemain; quickness of the hands in doing tricks |
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| calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics |
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| shining; brilliant; Ex. lustrous hair |
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| drive or force forward (by causing impulses); drive to take action; impel; entreat earnestly; Ex. urge horses; N: impulse that prompts action |
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| deck opening; lid covering a deck opening; V: emerge from an egg; produce (young) from an egg |
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| one who studies reptiles; CF. herpetology: branch of zoology that deals with reptiles and amphibians |
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| pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend; V. connive: feign ignorance (of a wrong); cooperate secretly in an illegal action; conspire |
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| green coating or patina on copper which has been exposed to the weather |
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| cowardly; lacking courage; fainthearted |
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| small exclusive group of people |
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| correspondence of parts; harmonious relationship; CF. congruity |
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| old age; feeblemindedness of old age; ADJ. senile: resulting from old age; showing the weakness of body or mind from old age; Ex. senile dementia |
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| fear or hatred of foreigners; N. xenophobe |
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| playful remark or act; V. act or speak playfully |
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| explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition |
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| book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; V. catechize |
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| bossy; domineering and arrogant; decisively important; Ex. overbearing manner/importance; V. overbear: dominate |
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| assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition |
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| article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly |
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| flow out slowly; discharge (gradually); give forth; N. exudation |
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| system of religious or ethical belief |
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| order; charge; authoritative command; power to govern another country; power to given to a government; region under administration; V: give a mandate to; place under a mandate; Ex. mandated territory |
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| able to float; cheerful and optimistic; N. buoyancy; Ex. buoyancy of wood/water/American market |
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| stretch out full on ground; make prostrate; enervate; Ex. prostrating illness; ADJ: lying face down; having lost all strength |
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| undeveloped; rudimentary; N. embryo: organism in the early stage of development |
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| explanation, especially of biblical(of the bible) passages |
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| curious; suggesting puzzlement (without saying); questioning; teasing; mocking; bantering; Ex. quizzical glance |
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| looking back on the past; N. retrospection; V. retrospect |
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| minor objection or complaint; V: raise minor objections; carp; cavil |
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| oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict; ADJ. controversial; N. controversy |
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| ceremony conferring holy orders; ceremony of ordaining a priest |
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| living at the same time as; existing during the same period of time; contemporary; of the same age |
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| make invalid; make null; invalidate |
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| tedious wordiness; verbosity; ADJ. prolix: wordy; verbose; diffuse |
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| fairness; justice; OP. inequity |
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| unoriginal; obtained from another source; Ex. derivative prose style; N. |
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| hint; suggest; imply; ADJ: marked by close relationship; familiar; private; personal; Ex. intimate knowledge/thoughts in the diary; N: close friend or confidant; CF. intimacy |
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| work at in a nonserious fashion; splash around; move noisily in a liquid |
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| enter into; pierce; permeate; see through; grasp the inner significance of; understand |
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| wetland; marsh; V: flood; overwhelm; drench in with liquid |
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| trick; shift; sham blow; feigned attack to draw away defensive action; V. |
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| beyond reproach; blameless; impeccable; Ex. irreproachable conduct |
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| join; unite; OP. uncouple |
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| whim; sudden change of mind without any real cause |
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| combine; produce by combining; increase; make worse by adding to or increasing; exacerbate; Ex. compound an error; ADJ: consisting of two or more parts; N: combination of two or more parts; area enclosed by a wall containing a group of buildings; Ex. factory compound; CF. complex |
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| person of no importance; nonexistence |
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| defraud a person of something; swindle; Ex. mulct the boy of his legacy |
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| notorious; conspicuously bad or shocking |
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| alert and watchful; listening carefully; paying attention; considerate; thoughtful; politely helpful; Ex. attentive audience; Ex. He was attentive to the old lady; N. attentions: act of courtesy and consideration |
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| favorable; auspicious; advantageous; fortunate; Ex. propitious day/sign |
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| providing a general overview; summary; N. synopsis |
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| infamy; disgrace arising from shameful conduct; vilification(slander); scorn; contempt; Ex. opprobrium hurled against him; ADJ. opprobrious: expressing contempt; shameful or infamous |
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| without hope and courage; depressed; gloomy; N. despondency: loss of hope with gloom; dejection |
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| egotistic; excessively self-centered(egocentric); self-important; conceited |
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| overwhelmingly favorable review; V: talk wildly as if mad; Ex. raving lunatic |
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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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| readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others; yielding; comforming to requirements |
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| be excessively fond of; show signs of mental decline |
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| physician specializing in delivery(assisting in giving birth) of babies; N. obstetrics; CF. midwife |
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| stale (in odor or taste); spoiled by age; CF. moist |
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| surface texture; completeness of execution |
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| of an oracle; prophetic; uttered as if with divine authority; mysterious or ambiguous; hard to understand; N. oracle: wiser person; prophecy made by an oracle |
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| money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage |
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| return of part of a payment; discount; V. |
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| corporation made up of several different companies in diversified fields; mass of various material gathered together; rock consisting of small stones held together by clay; V. |
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| tune(melody) in which a number of words are sung on the same note; V: sing (a chant); utter (a slogan) in the manner of a chant |
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| affecting or relating to the sense of taste |
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| spur; motive; something which encourages one to greater activity |
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| in good condition; showing good judgment or good sense; thorough; complete; Ex. sound mind/investment/training |
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| worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal |
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| freedom from narrow limitations |
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| resembling a horse; Ex. equine face |
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| period between two successive reigns or governments |
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| memoirs; autobiography; biography |
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| filled with great surprise or fear; horrified |
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| method of system or government |
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| part of stage in front of curtain; front arch of a stage |
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| window projecting upright from roof; CF. sleeping room |
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| denoting an unobstructed and comprehensive view; N. panorama: unbroken view of a wide area |
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| prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country; peculiar to a particular region or people; CF. pandemic |
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| phrase repeated throughout a song or poem |
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| exclude; N. exception: objection; exclusion; ADJ. exceptional: unusual; of unusually high quality |
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| glowing ardor; intensity of feeling; quality of being fervent or fervid; zeal; intense heat |
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| suave; refined in manner; elegant |
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| quote; commend; Ex. cited for bravery in an official record |
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| deep disgrace; shame or dishonor; ADJ. ignominious; Ex. ignominous defeat |
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| accustomed; hardened; Ex. inured to the Alaskan cold; V. inure: make used to something undesirable; harden; CF. unfeeling |
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| dig up; discover (facts) by careful searching; Ex. He unearthed some secrets about her; OP. conceal |
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| chaplain (in the armed forces) |
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| difficult situation; tricky or dangerous situation; dilemma |
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| underwater explosive apparatus; V. |
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| respect or admiration; impression produced by achievements or reputation; ADJ: causing admiration; ADJ. prestigious: having prestige |
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| systematic plan; plot; clever dishonest plan; orderly arrangement of elements; Ex. health insurance scheme; Ex. a scheme to escape taxes; Ex. a color scheme; Ex. a story with no scheme; V: contrive a scheme |
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| excessively enthusiastic expression of feeling; musical composition of irregular form (as if made up as one plays it) |
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| take (one's attention) off something; upset emotionally; make anxious; ADJ. distracted |
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| student of the history and science of humankind |
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| quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
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| dock; wharf; pier; landing place (for boats) |
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| social environment; means of expression; Ex. feel out of one's milieu; Ex. His proper milieu is watercolor. |
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| inclined to silence; uncommunicative; reserved; Ex. He was reticent about the reasons; N. reticence |
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| temporary moderation (of disease symptoms); remitting of a debt or punishment; cancelation of a debt; pardon; Ex. The disease went into remission; Ex. Christians pray for the remission of sins. |
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| (of a person) worthy of esteem; admirable; deserving esteem; possible to estimate |
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| reluctant; unwilling; disinclined; Ex. Romeo and Juliet were both loath for him to go. |
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| unselfishly generous; concerned for others; N. altiruism: unselfish concern for the welfare of others; unselfishness; OP. egoism |
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| 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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| unruly; rebellious; Ex. mutinous teenagers; N. mutiny: open rebellion; CF. mutineer |
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| hard outer covering (as of earth or snow) |
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| pledge of good faith especially in betrothal; betrothal; Ex. by my troth |
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| record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities; section of a trunk; V. |
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| complain bitterly; scold; rant; Ex. the weaker railing against injustices |
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| lack of harmony; absurdity; ADJ. incongruous: lacking in harmony; inappropriate |
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| make a harsh noise; have an unpleasant effect; shred by rubbing against a rough surface; Ex. grated cheese N: framework of metal bars to hold fuel in a fireplace |
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| effective; distinct; expressing ideas clearly; having clear sounds; having joints; Ex. articulate speech; V: express thoughts and feeling clearly; pronounce clearly; unite by joints |
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| person with power to decide a matter in dispute; judge who is in a position ot make influential judgments; Ex. supreme arbiter of fashion in beachware |
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| brighten; clear up or make understandable; enlighten; enable to understand; Ex. illuminating remarks |
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| study of fish; CF. ichthyo-: fish |
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| wasted away; gaunt; Ex. haggard faces of the rescued miners |
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| member of the working class; blue collar guy; N. proletariat: working class (who have to work for wages) |
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| taking for one's own use in violation of trust; stealing (of money placed in one's care) |
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| entrance; a way in; right to enter; main dish of a meal; Ex. entree into the exclusive circle |
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| servile flatterer; yes man; sycophant; V: be a toady to; fawn |
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| letdown in thought or emotion; something unexciting, ordinary, or disappointing coming after something important or exciting |
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| questioner (especially harsh); investigator; person making an inquisition |
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| scornfully mocking; disdainful; sarcastic; cynical; Ex. sardonic smile |
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| charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck |
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| copy; write a copy of; N. transcription |
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| speak violently or excitedly; rave; talk excitedly showing anger; scold; make a grandiloquent speech; Ex. The priest ranted about the devil. |
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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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| nonsense; foolishness; V: talk nonsense |
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| making no attempt to change one's bad practices |
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| place of safety; refuge; harbor; Ex. tax haven |
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| insert improperly; impose upon another by coercion; palm off; pass off as genuine or worthy; CF. fist |
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| infection (by contact); ADJ. contagious; CF. infectious: that can be passed by infection in the air |
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| stratagem(deceptive scheme); pretense; evasion; Ex. resort to a harmless subterfuge |
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| fallen fruit; unexpected lucky event |
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| paint or draw with dots or short strokes |
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| irritable; easily angered |
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| group of three related works (connected by a shared subject but each complete in itself) |
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| drunken revel; V. carouse |
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| mouthlike opening; small opening (esp. to a cavern or passage of the body); CF. mouth |
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| twisting; winding; bending in and out; not morally honest |
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| put at a loss; bring to a halt by confusion; perplex; CF. no more |
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| of this earth; terrestrial; worldly; not divine; possible; Ex. no earthly reason |
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| use a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals |
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| made up of a variety of parts |
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| generous; graciously generous; showing bounty |
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| like a glacier; of an ice age; extremely cold; Ex. glacial epoch; CF. iceberg |
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| administrative division of a city; division in a hospital or prison; incompetent person placed under the protection of a guardian; V: guard; ward off: avert |
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| lacking proper seriousness; Ex. flippant remarks about death; N. flippancy |
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| adorn; ornament; enhance as a story (by adding fictitious details) |
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| not being a person; not showing personal feelings; Ex. impersonal force/manner/organization |
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| harmony; agreement with established rules or customs; similarity; Ex. behave in conformity with; V. conform: be similar; act in agreement; comply; Ex. conform to the rule; CF. conformance |
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| edge (at the top of a cliff); Ex. on the brink of the Grand Canyon |
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| marriageable; of marriageable age; CF. connubial |
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| standards used in judging; CF. criterion |
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| one who foretells the future |
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| half-solid lump formed from a liquid (or blood); V. |
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| extraordinary ability; military bravery; Ex. prowess in battle |
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| producing results; profitable; prolific; producing in abundance |
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| skillful (in using mind or hand) |
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| items of business at a meeting |
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| deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning; Ex. persuade her by guile |
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| place for burying the dead |
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| middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions |
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| detest; ADJ. loathsome: arousing loathing; offensive; Ex. loathsome smell |
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| deliberately planned; likely |
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| dark; vague; unclear; not well known; Ex. obscure meaning/village; V: darken; cover; make unclear; Ex. obscure the moon/meaning |
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| pertaining to the science of the function of living organisms; N. physiology |
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| moving with the head leading; headlong |
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| state as a necessary condition (of an agreement); make express conditions; specify; Ex. He stipulated payment in advance |
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| outer skin of an orange used for giving a special taste to food; spice; interest; flavor; spirited enjoyment; Ex. add a certain zest to the affair; Ex. zest for life |
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| manly; having masculine spirit or strength; full of strength |
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| generous; charitable; having a wish to do good |
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| corruption; turning from right to wrong |
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| prolong; lengthen in time; draw out |
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| iron block used in hammering out metals |
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| (of a thick liquid) pass or flow slowly; N: mud or thick liquid as at the bottom of a river |
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| falling off at a specific season or stage of growth as of leaves; Ex. deciduous tree/teeth |
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| act of reciting publicly; detailed account; performance of music or dance (by a solo performer) |
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| able to produce a desired effect; valid |
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| blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group, cause, or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism; Nicolas Chauvin |
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| (of a skin or complexion) dark; dusky; Ex. swarthy Italian ? |
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| pertaining to soil deposits left by running water |
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| four-footed animal; ADJ. CF. biped |
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| small plane surface (of a gem(precious stone)); a side |
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| short speech at conclusion of dramatic work |
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| that can be permeated; penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through; V. permeate: spread or flow throughout; charge |
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| two-chambered as a legislative body |
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| first in rank or importance; being first in time; original; Ex. man's primal innocence |
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| hold back (the natural expression of); restrain; crush; oppress; Ex. repressed child; Ex. repress a laugh/rebellion |
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| thing that completes another; things very much alike; thing that has the same purpose in a different system |
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| given freely; unwarranted; uncalled for; done without good reason; Ex. gratuitous comment |
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| protruding part; swelling of a surface; Ex. The apple made a bulge in his pocket; V: swell outward; protrude |
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| courteous regard for another's wish; courteous yielding to another's wish or opinion (showing respect); ADJ. deferential; OP. effrontery |
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| casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
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| dull; stuffy; boringly conservative; Ex. stodgy book |
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| (of someone) awkward in movement; clumsy; (of something) unwieldy; Ex. ungainly dancer/instrument |
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| judicial branch of government |
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| hang about/around; stand idly about; linger |
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| make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement |
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| cure-all; panacea; something invigorating |
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| compose on the spur of the moment |
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| wooden; impassive; with no show of feeling; with an expressionless face |
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| legally correct; Ex. rightful owner |
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| quality of being unsophisticated; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility; ADJ. naive(na\"ive): ingenuous; lacking worldliness; simple; credulous |
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| make or become black by burning; reduce or be reduced to carbon or charcoal(black substance made by burning wood) by incomplete combustion |
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| withdrawal; retreat; time of low economic activity |
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| gigantic statue; person or thing of great size or importance |
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| tool for mashing or grinding substances in a hard bowl or mortar |
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| impossible to reconcile; incompatible; not able to be resolved |
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| path of the sun and the planets |
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| surrender; give up all resistance |
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| spot; mark with flecks; N: small mark or spot |
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| (of air) thin in density; rarefied; Ex. rare air of the mountains |
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| dominance especially of one nation over others |
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| impudent disrespect; haughtiness; ADJ. insolent; CF. haughty + rude |
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| unerring; never making mistakes |
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| peak; highest point; acme; Ex. pinnacle of fame |
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| broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing |
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| scold; rebuke (someone who has done wrong) |
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| (of a spirit) visit (a place); come to mind continually; visit (a place) regularly; frequent; Ex. haunted house; Ex. haunted by his last words; N: place much frequented |
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| created by statute or legislative action; regulated by statute; Ex. statutory age limit |
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| fleshly; sensual; concerning the desires of the body |
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| slave; bondage; slavery; Ex. Her beauty held him in thrall; CF. enthrall |
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| trick; deceive; hoodwink; N: person who is easily tricked; dupe |
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| obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive; willing to be led; answerable or accountable legally; responsible; able to be tested by; Ex. amenable to sensible suggestions; Ex. He is very amenable; Ex. amenable to the usual tests |
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| pertaining to earthquakes |
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| belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess; tendency to take the gloomiest possible view of a situation; ADJ. pessimistic |
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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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| respectable; having a good reputation |
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| rescue (goods or property) from loss; N: saving; property saved |
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| drive away; disgust; Ex. repel the attack/moisture; Ex. repelled by the dirty room; CF. repulsion |
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| uncouple; separate; disconnect; stop fighting; OP. engage |
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| extremely demanding; Ex. exacting standard of safety |
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| fond word or act; expression of affection |
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| small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests |
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| tired or uninterested by surfeit; fatigued; surfeited; worn out; wearied; Ex. jaded appetite |
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| shine brightly without a flame (as of eyes or metals); show redness and heat (in the face) after hard work or because of strong feelings; N: light produced by a heated body; brilliance of a color |
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| detestable; extremely unpleasant |
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| distinctive part of the faces (as the eyes or mouth); features: overall appearance of the face; prominent or distinctive quality; prominent article; film; V: make prominent |
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| striking one object against another sharply; Ex. percussion instrument; N: striking together of two bodies; sound caused by percussion |
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| attract; employ; hire; pledge oneself; confront; fight; enter into confliction; interlock; lock together; participate; N. engagement: agreement to marry; arrangement to meet someone or to do something; battle |
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| sift; separate the chaff from grain by blowing; separate good parts from bad; CF. wind |
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| circular building or hall covered with a dome |
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| attack with abusive language; vilify(slander) |
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| bleach; whiten; make white or pale |
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| breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap; opening; V. |
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| crash; rush; move with great speed; Ex. hurtling runaway train |
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| small ring; band of gold, silver, jewel, etc. (worn on the head, arms, or neck as decoration) |
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| devoted to the pleasures of the sense; carnal; voluptuous; Ex. sensual woman/curves/lips |
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| evidence concerning one's authority; written proof of a person's position; Ex. The new ambassador presented his credentials to the court. |
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| relating to cooking or kitchen |
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| final; not susceptible to further analysis; fundamental; Ex. The sun is the ultimate source of energy. |
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| assumption; hypothesis; surmise; V. suppose |
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| holding of an office or real estate; time during which such an office is held |
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| make poor; deprive of natural strength or something important; Ex. impoverished soil |
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| any gain above stipulated salary; Ex. perquisites such as free meals and a car |
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| punish by placing in a wooden frame or pillory; subject or expose to criticism and ridicule; N. |
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| driving forward; N. propulsion |
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| growth or increase in size by gradual addition; growth; increase; increase by natural growth; Ex. towers and other accretions of the castle; V. accrete |
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| providing for future needs; displaying foresight; thrifty; preparing for emergencies; OP. improvident |
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| poem or song expressing lamentation (for the dead); ADJ. elegiacal, elegiac |
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| serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; N. |
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| odorous; fragrant; suggestive (of an odor); Ex. redolent of onions/mystery |
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| support; prop up; N. stationary structure to support wall; Ex. flying buttress |
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| suffering from indigestion; N. dyspepsia: indigestion; difficulty in digesting food |
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| not fully worked out or developed; provisional; experimental; uncertain; hesitant; not definite or positive; Ex. tentative agreement/reply |
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| mental keenness; sharpness of judgment; ability to judge quickly and well; Ex. business acumen |
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| dissenting (with an opinion, a group, or a government); rebellious; N. |
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| home; V. ADJ. domiciled: having one's domicile; Ex. He is domiciled in Britain. |
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| appear or take shape (usually in an enlarged, indistinct, or distorted form); Ex. The shadow of the gallows loomed threateningly. N: apparatus for making thread into cloth |
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| brilliant; splendid in appearance; dazzling; glorious |
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| design composed of one or more initials of a name; V. |
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| worn through till the threads show; shabby and poor; hackneyed; Ex. threadbare excuses |
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| central or vital part; core; whole seed (as of corn) |
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| (of an experience) deeply shocking; pertaining to an injury caused by violence; N. trauma: serious wound; emotional shock that causes lasting psychological damage |
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| resigned to defeat or failure; accepting defeat or failure as a natural outcome; N. CF. defeatism |
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| kindly; soft; mild; of good family |
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| (appreciatively) cutting; sharp; Ex. incisive remarks; V. incise: make a cut into |
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