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Antagonism
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| n./The enemy (force, tendency, or principle)/Enmity, hostility/--/Antagonist (n.) |
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Assent
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| v.&n./To agree after much thought/Concur, agree/--/Assentingly (adv.)assentiveness (n) assentive (adj.) Assenter (n.) |
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Belligerence
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| n./The overbearing, warlike, in-your-face-attitude/Aggressiveness, hostility/Passiveness/Belligerent (adj) Belligerently (adv.) |
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Chastisement
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| n./A no enjoyable effect to a violation/Punishment, penalty, discipline/--Chastise (v) chastisable (adj.) Chastiser (n.) |
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Decorous
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Diffident
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| Adj/Resistant because of lack of self-confidence/Distrustful, reserved, shy, unassertive/Diffidently (adv.) Diffidently(adv.) Diffidentness (n.) |
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Ebullience
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| n./Happy or excited; high spirits/Lively, exuberance, enthusiastic/--/Ebulliency (n)/Ebullient (adj) |
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Effigy
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| n./A rough image of a hated personn./A rough image of a hated person/--/--/Effigial (adj) |
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Evacuation
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| n./To remove/Withdraw/--/Evacuate evacuative |
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Festoon
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| n.&v./Decoration made with leaves or flowers; garland; necklace |
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Indignant
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| Adj./To be made upset by something not right/Angry, resentful, infuriated, mad/--/Indignantly (adj.) Indignation ((n.) |
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Intimidate
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| v./To threaten or fill with fear/Terrified/Relaxed, calm encouraged/Intimidator (n) intimidation (v) |
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Intricacy
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| Adj./Having many complex parts |
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Irrelevant
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| Adj./Dealing with something other that the topic/Extraneous, immaterial, impertinent/Relevant/Irrelevance (n) irrelevantly (adv) |
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Motif
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| N/A reoccurring or dominant theme or idea/Design, pattern/--/-- |
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Officious
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| Adj./Over helpful; offering unneeded advice meddlesome/Nosy, aggressive, interfering/Respectful/Officiously (adv.), officiousness (n) |
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Pliant
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| Adj./Easily bent or flexed/Flexible, adaptable, bendable, pliable/Fragile, brittle, stiff, rigid/Pliancy (n) Pliantly (adj) |
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Specious
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| Adj./Appearing true, but actually false |
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Spontaneous
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Strident
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| Adj./Loud, harsh, irritating tone/Harsh, grating, shrill/Quiet, soft/Stridency(n), stridently(adv.) |
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Tacit
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| Adj./To relay a message without use of words/Implied, unexpressed, unspoken, wordless/Explicit, express, spoken, stated/Tacitly (adv) Tacitness ( v) |
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Unintelligible
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| Adj./Not easily understood/Incomprehensible, baffling, undecipherable/Lucid, coherent/Unintelligibility (n.) unintelligibleness (n.) Unintelligibly (adv) |
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