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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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| 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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| bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste, manner, or tone) |
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| assent; agree passively; comply without protest |
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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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| sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) |
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| mental keenness; sharpness of judgment; ability to judge quickly and well; Ex. business acumen |
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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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| artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or building); CF. aesthete; CF. aesthetics |
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| written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law) |
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| feeling of kinship; similarity; Ex. strong affinity for her; Ex. many affinities between two languages |
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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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| state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering; V. afflict: inflict grievous suffering on |
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| insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect; V: insult or hurt the feelings of intentionally |
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| life after death; later part of one's life |
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| collection; heap; V. agglomerate: gather into a rounded mass; N. aggolmeate: jumbled mass; heap |
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| make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement |
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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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| pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform |
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| an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people); ADV. alias |
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| story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable |
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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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| apart; not open in one's relationship with other people; reserved; ADV. |
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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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| combination of different things; mixture of metals (containing mercury) used for filling holes in teeth |
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| environment; atmosphere; Ex. restraurant with a pleasant ambience; ADJ. ambient: completely surrounding; Ex. ambient temperature |
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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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| convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies |
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| charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck |
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| an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic |
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| person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority |
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| solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse; V. anathematize |
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| drug that relieves pain or trouble;opiate; ADJ. Ex. anodyne statement |
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| song of praise or patriotism; Ex. national anthem |
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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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| 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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| marshal; draw up in order; arrange in order; clothe splendidly; adorn; N: fine clothes; ordered group; Ex. in battle array |
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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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| exhibiting art or skill; deceitful; cunning; CF. artifice |
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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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| controlling influence; position of controlling influence; CF. in the ascendant |
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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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| preventing infection; having a cleansing effect |
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| stupid; Ex. asinine remarks |
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| with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval or distruct); Ex. look askance at |
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| sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter |
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| slanderous remark; Ex. cast aspersions on |
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| seeker after position or status |
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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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| 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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| 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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| mak less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) |
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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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| 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 assuranc |
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| eye defect which prevents proper focus; OP. stigmatism |
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| binding; causing contraction (stopping bleeding); harsh or severe; stringent; Ex. astringent criticism |
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| wise; shrewd; keen; seeing quickly something that is to one's advantage |
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| place of refuge or shelter; protection (religious or political) |
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| resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback; ADJ. atavistic |
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| denying the existence of God; N. atheism |
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| make amends for; pay for; Ex. atone for |
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| brutal deed; ADJ. atrocious |
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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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| 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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| 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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| examination of accounts of a business; official examination; V. |
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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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| pertaining to the aurora borealis; CF. aurora australis |
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| favoring success; giving signs of future success; Cf. auspices |
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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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| subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will; Ex. authoritarian regime/father |
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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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| having absolute unchecked power; dictatorial; N. autocrat, autocracy |
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| mechanism that imitates actions of humans; machine that works by itself |
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| self-governing; N. autonomy |
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| examination of a dead body; postmortem; V. |
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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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| state confidently; declare as true |
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| reluctant; disinclined; not liking or opposed; Ex. averse to cats/doing the house work |
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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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| enclosure for birds; large cage |
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| greedy; extremely eager for; Ex. avid learner; N. avidity |
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| secondary or minor occupation |
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| declare openly; N. avowal |
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| solemn wonder; feeling of respect mixed with wonder and fear; V: fill with awe; ADJ. awesome |
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| distorted; crooked; bent; Ex. Our plans have gone awry. |
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