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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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| bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste, manner, or tone)bitter 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 biting sharply painful to the body or mind; Ex. biting wind/remarks |
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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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| wise saying; proverb proverb adage; someone or something well known for notoriety; ADJ. proverbial: of a proverb; widely known; ADV. Proverbially |
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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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| 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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| insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect; V: insult or hurt the feelings of intentionally |
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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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| repetition of beginning sound in poetry |
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| assign; set apart for a particular purposes earmark set aside (money or time) for a particular purpose |
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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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| entice; attract; tempt siren apparatus for making sounds; womanlike creature |
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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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| food of the gods nectar drink of the gods; sweet liquid collected by bees |
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| charm; talisman; an object worn believed to protect against evil, bad luck |
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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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| song of praise or patriotism; Ex. national anthem |
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| lack of caring; indifference; lack of concern or interest in important matter ; Ex. He was sunk in apathy after his failure; ADJ. apathetic |
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| something taken for granted; the taking over or taking possession of; Ex. her assumption of power; V. assume regent 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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| firm statement that something is certainly true; promise or pledge; certainty; confidence in one' 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' own ability; showing certainty |
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| binding; causing contraction (stopping bleeding); harsh or severe; stringent; Ex. astringent criticism |
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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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| 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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| 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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| forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; Ex. a monk' austere life; Ex. austere grandeur of the cathedral; N. austerity |
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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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| reluctant; disinclined; not liking or opposed; Ex. averse to cats/doing the house work |
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| distorted; crooked; bent; Ex. Our plans have gone awry. |
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| the ancient Roman festival in honor of Bacchus |
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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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| teasing conversation; banter; joking talk |
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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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| evil; malignant in intent or effect; deadly; having a malign influence; portending evil; ominous; threatening; Ex. baleful look |
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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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| heavy substance used to add stability or weight; V. supply with ballast |
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| something that relieves pain; oily liquid with a pleasant smell from trees |
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| soft and mild (of air); fragrant |
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| hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; clich\'ed |
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| discuss lightly or glibly; discuss in a frivolous manner; exchange (words) heatedly; quarrel; Ex. bandy words with |
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| posion; cause of ruin; ADJ. baneful: harmful; poisonous |
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| joking talk; good-naturedly ridiculing; N.V. banter |
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| shameless and noticeable; blatant; bold; unconcealed; having no covering on the face; Ex. barefaced unregenerate making no attempt to change one' bad practices |
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| barrier laid dow by artillery fire; overwhelming profusion; large number of questions or statements; Ex. a barrage of criticism |
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| counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law; CF. bar solicitor lawyer in the lower court of law |
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| trader; V. barter: trade; exchange good for other goods rather than money |
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| luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth luxuriate take pleasure in great comfort |
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| stronghold; something seen as a source of protection; Ex. the last bastion of male chauvinism |
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| let down; lessen the force of; moderate; restrain; Ex. with bated breath; CF. abate |
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| indecent; obscene; about sex in a rude funny way; CF. bawd |
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| giving or showing bliss; blissful |
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| blessedness; state of great happiness mystic of hidden meaning and spiritual power; Ex. mystic ceremonies; N. CF. mysticism |
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| dress with vulgar finery finery beautiful clothes for a special occasion |
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| envy; give or allow unwillingly; grudge; Ex. We shouldn't begrudge him his success. grudge deep feeling of dislike; Ex. grudge fight; V. |
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| deceive; mislead or delude; cheat; pass time pleasantly; charm or attract; Ex. beguiling smile |
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| obligated; indebted; owing thanks; obliged or indebted from gratitude |
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| be suited to; be incumbent upon; be right and necessary; Ex. It behooves one to do. |
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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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| 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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| person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will |
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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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| kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); Ex. benign tumor |
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| mad with violent anger; frenzied; madly excite |
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| signify; indicate; be a sign of token outward sign; Ex. a token of our gratitude |
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| swelling out in waves; surging billow large wave of water; a great swell or surge (of smoke); V: surge, swell, roll in billows swell long wave of water that moves continuously without breaking; V. surge powerful movement of or like a wave; V. |
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| loud or harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of lights screech unpleasant high sharp sound; shriek; V. dazzle make blind with a sudden intense light; amaze; fill with wonder |
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| bored with pleasure or dissipation; uninterested or bored |
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| irreverence; sacrilege; cursing; bad language about God or holy things; V. blasphem; ADJ. blasphemous; CF. sacrilege |
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| door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric; large roll of cloth; V: dash or dart off; fasten (a door); gobble down dart move or throw suddenly and quickly gobble eat very quickly |
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| pompou ; using inflated language |
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| generous; graciously generous; showing bounty gracious kind in a generous way (to someone less important) |
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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' been set slap hit quickly with the flat part of the hand; N. CF. smack |
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| mismanage; blunder; botch; blow; spoil by clumsy behavior botch mismanage; blow |
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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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| mental or physical ability; role; position or duty; ability to accommodate; Ex. in my capacity as president |
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| having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine and slender; Ex. capillary attraction; N: very fine hairlike tube; CF. capillarity |
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| drunken revel; V. carouse |
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| petty criticism; fault-finding; fretful complaining; quibble |
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| one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige |
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| punishment; severe criticism or disapproval |
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| serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle |
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| happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; Ex. casual reader/labor/remark |
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| agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged; CF. catalysis |
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| slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult hurl throw forcefully; shout out violently |
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| great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a gradual loss of eyesight) |
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| shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V. |
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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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| without exceptions; made without any doubt in mind; unqualified; absolute qualify reach a necessary standard; limit the meaning of something stated |
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| purging or cleansing of any passage of the body; purging and weakening of strong emotions as a result of experiencing a dramatic work of art |
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| purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; ADJ. catholic (of likings and interests) universal; general; broad; including many different parts; wide-ranging liberal; Ex. catholic opinions/tastes\ |
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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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| make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship) |
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| implying a cause-and-effect relationship; N. causality |
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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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| burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection |
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| procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry |
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| quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
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| yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
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| heavenly hereafter life after death afterlife life after death; later part of one' life |
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| abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
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| (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V. |
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| blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval |
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| denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) |
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| Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) |
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| pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum |
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| marked by formality; extremely formal and polite; CF. ceremony: conventional social courtesy unceremonious not done politely without due formalities |
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| warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; N. |
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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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| lizard that changes color in different situations |
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| support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.) championship position of champion; defense or support; competition held to determine a champion |
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| divine gift; great popular charm or appeal; magnetism |
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| quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine) |
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| ornament a metal surface by indenting; follow rapidly to catch |
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| framework and working parts of an automobile; framework to which components are attached |
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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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| discipline; punish in order to correct; CF. castigate |
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| punish as by beating; criticize severely |
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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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| stop motion; curb or restrain |
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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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| angelic; innocent-looking; N. cherub; CF. seraph: winged angel of the highest order |
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| swindle or cheat; N: wedgelike tool for cutting |
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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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| courteous; faithful; brave; N. chivalry |
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| hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered; CF. cholera |
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| art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances |
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| daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping); unpleasant task |
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| long established as a disease |
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| report; record (in chronological order) |
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| boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo |
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| having minute hairs; CF. cilium; CF. cilia: eyelash |
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| nonentity; worthles person or thing; zero; secret code |
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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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| closed circular line around an area; circumference; regularly repeated journey from place to place |
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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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| limit; confine; draw a line around |
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| prudent; cautious; acting after careful thought |
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| outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around |
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| quote; commend; Ex. cited for bravery in an official record |
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| having to do with citizens; not military or religiou ; courteous and polite; Ex. married in a civil ceremony; Ex. civil strife/disorder/law; N. civility; CF. civic |
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| having foresight; fortuneteller; N. clairvoyance hindsight understanding the nature of an event after it has actually happened |
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| climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble |
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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. clamorou |
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| older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman |
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| loud resounding noise; sound of repeated clanging |
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| striker (tongue) of a bell |
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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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| split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to; N. cleavage; ADJ. cloven |
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| disposition to be lenient in deciding punishments; mildness as of the weather; ADJ. clement |
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| phrase dulled in meaning by repetition; platitude; ADJ. clich\'ed bromide platitude; chemical compound used to calm excitement |
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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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| congeal; thicken; clot; N. coagulant |
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| partnership; league; union of separate political parties |
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| concluding section of a musical or literary composition |
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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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| supplement to the body of a will; later addition to a will |
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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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| use of force to get someone to object; compelling; V. coerce |
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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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| having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental processes; N. cognition: the mental process of knowing |
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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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| make coins; invent or fabricate (a word or phrase); N. coinage: word or phrase recently invented |
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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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| work together; cooperate treasonably with the enemy |
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| work of art put together from fragments scrap 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 scraps leftover food scrappy quarrelsome |
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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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| security given for loan; ADJ: secondary; descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters |
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| conspiring in a fraudulent scheme to cheat or deceive others; V. collude |
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| attractive; agreeable; having a pleasing appearance homely not good-looking; unattractive |
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| something fit to be eaten |
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| deserts; well-deserved punishment or misfortune; rebuke deserts what someone deserves |
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| courtesy; civility; Ex. comity of nations |
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| take (private property) for military use without needing permission or giving payment; draft for military purposes draft first rough form; conscription; draught; V: make a draft of; conscript |
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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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| remembering; honoring the memory of; Ex. commemorative stamp |
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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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| equal in extent; of the same size |
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| agreement; contract; ADJ: tightly packed; firm; brief; concise; Ex. compact statement |
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| overpowering; irresistible in effect; holding one' attention; that compels one to do something; Ex. a compelling adventure story; V. compel |
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| compelling; strong desire that is difficult to control; irresistible impulse |
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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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| self-satisfaction; smugness; ADJ. complacent smug self-satisfied; complacent |
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| participation; involvement (in a questionable act or a crime) |
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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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| adjust or settle by making mutual concessions; endanger the interests or reputation of; put into danger, disrepute, or a dishonorable position; Ex. compromise one' principle; N. |
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| remorse; strong uneasiness caused by guilt |
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| reckon; calculate reckon count; calculate; regard as; think; suppose |
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| admit; acknowledge as being true (often reluctantly); yield; grant; Ex. concede a goal |
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| vanity or self-love; too high opinion of one' own value; extravagant metaphor (in poetry) vain full of self-admiration; conceited; without result; unsuccessful; N. vanity |
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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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| pine tree (usu. evergreen); cone-bearing tree; ADJ. coniferous; CF. deciduous; CF. evergreen |
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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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| 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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| person competent to act as a judge of art, etc. (whose judgments are respected); a lover of an art |
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| suggested or implied meaning of an expression; V. connote |
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| draftee; person forced into military service; V. |
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| dedicate; sanctify; declare as sacred; Ex. consecrate one' life to helping the poor |
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| general agreement; opinion reached by a group |
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| self-important; significant; consequent; following as a result; Ex. consequential air; CF. subsequent |
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| school of the fine arts (especially music or drama); glass-enclosed area; CF. conservancy |
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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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| absence of contradictions; uniformity; degree of thickness or firmness; Ex. consistency of thick cream; CF. viscous |
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| lessen sadness or disappointment; give comfort; allay the sorrow of; N. consolation |
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| unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger; V. consolidate: merge; strengthen |
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| associate with; keep company; N: husband or wife (or a ruler) |
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| treacherous plot; secret plan against the law (by two or more people) |
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| voters represented by an elected official; district so represented; group of supporters (or constituents) |
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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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| restraint; compulsion; repression of feelings; reticence; V. constrain: hold back; restrain; compel; oblige; confine forcibly; imprison |
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| explain; interpret; Ex. construe her silence as meaning that she agreed; CF. misconstrue |
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| infection (by contact); ADJ. contagious; CF. infectious: that can be passed by infection in the air drastic strong; violent and severe; Ex. drastic changes/measures |
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| struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly |
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| assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition thesis opinion put forward and supported by reasoned arguments boost lift by pushing up from below; increase; raise; N: push upward; increase |
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| quarrelsome; controversial; likely to cause arguments |
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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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| writings preceding and following the passage quoted; circumstance in which an event occurs |
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| adjacent to; touching upon |
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| self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent |
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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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| twistings; distortions; V. contort: twist violently out of shape; CF. contortionist |
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| illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods; ADJ. |
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| contradict; oppose; violate (a rule, law, or custom); N. contravention |
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| penitent; repentant; N. contrition |
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| unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous; Ex. The ending was rather contrived. |
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| invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation); manage; Ex. contrive to attract his attention |
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| something contrived; machine or apparatus; clever deceitful plan; scheme |
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| oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict; ADJ. controversial; N. controversy |
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| stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court) |
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| bruise bruise injure without breaking the skin; N. |
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| riddle; difficult problem |
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| come together; assemble; call to meet; Ex. convene the council |
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| social or moral custom; established practice; formal meeting; international agreement |
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| ordinary; typical; not nuclear; Ex. conventional weapons |
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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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| vehicle; transfer; act of conveying; Ex. public conveyance |
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| judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief |
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| pleasantly merry; festive; joyous; gay; characterized by joviality; jovial |
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| call together; Ex. convoke Parliament; N. convocation |
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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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| flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V. flirt behave in a way that attracts (sexual) attention; deal triflingly with; N: one (or woman) given to flirting; ADJ. flirtatious |
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| warmly friendly; gracious; heartfelt; Ex. cordial welcome |
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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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| horn (or horn-shaped container) overflowing with fruit and grai; symbol of abundance; horn of plent |
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| natural consequence (which naturally follows from something else) |
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| collection (of writings or information); Ex. the corpus of Shakespear' works; Cf. corpse |
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| red or white cell in the blood |
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| wrinkled; ridged wrinkle small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth); V. S crinkle wrinkle |
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| group that meets socially; select circle; close group of people with shared interests |
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| approve; support; tolerate; Ex. countenance his rude behavior; N: face; appearance |
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| cancel; revoke (an order) |
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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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| highly successful action or sudden attack; coup( ) d'\'etat; CF. coup de gr\^ace: deathblow or shot which kills |
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| join; unite; OP. uncouple |
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| binding agreement between two groups or people; compact; V: enter into a covenant; promise bargain 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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| secret; hidde; implied; OP. overt |
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| avaricious; desirous of (someone else' possessions); V. covet: desire eagerly (someone else' possessions) |
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| shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer¸¦ ¹Þ¾ÒÀ» ¶§ |
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| very unrefined; grossly insensible; crude and undiscriminating; Ex. crass behavior |
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| belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivet\'e; ADJ. credulous |
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| system of religious or ethical belief |
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| increase in the volume or intensity as in a musical passage; climax; CF. crescent |
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| too improbable to be believed; implausible; Ex. far-fetched story |
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| musical introduction to a long musical piece; first offer or proposal (to begin talks i the hope of reaching an agreement); Ex. overtures for peace |
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| standards used in judging; CF. criterion |
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| (of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; N. crotchet: odd or whimsical notion |
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| essential or main point; Ex. the crux of the problem; ADJ. crucial: of deciding importance |
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| secret recess or vault usually used for burial; underground room (under a church) |
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| style of cooking; Ex. French cuisine |
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| pick out from others (to kill the weakest members); reject; select; collect (information); N. |
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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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| heavy and awkward to carry or wear; burdensome; Ex. cumbersome parcel/uniform |
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| greed (for wealth); CF. cupid; CF. Cupid |
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| superintendent; manager (in charge of a museum or a library) |
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| churlish, miserly individual; bad-tempered old person |
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| (of writing) flowing; running; having the successive letters joined |
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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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| object of general attention; person or thing that is a center of attention; CF. Ursa Minor |
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| trifle with; toy with; treat without the necessary seriousness; procrastinate; waste time |
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| degrade; reduce in quality or value; degenerate; lower in esteem; disgrace; N. debasement |
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| match; short period of great activity; Ex. wrestling bout; bout of drinking/flu |
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| (of men) friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed; aiming to please; CF. of good disposition |
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| rubble; wreckage; scattered remains of something broken or destroyed |
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| expose as false, exaggerated, worthless, etc.; ridicule |
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| d\'ebut; first public appearance; formal presentation of a young woman to society |
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| decay; fall to a lower level (of morality, civilization, or art); ADJ. decadent |
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| (of a dress) having a low-cut neckline; CF. d\'ecolletage: low neckline (on a dress) |
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| propriety; orderlines and good taste in manners; appropriateness of behavior or conduct |
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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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| failure to act; failure to perform a task or be present; V. |
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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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| refusal to yield; resistance; V. defy; ADJ. defiant |
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| pollute; make filthy or dirty; corrupt morally; profane; desecrate; N: narrow passage or gorge through mountains |
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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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| provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay |
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| strip a priest or minister of church authority; unfrock |
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| long loose garment (worn by monks) |
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| become worse in quality; deteriorate; ADJ: having become worse; Ex. a degenerate species; N: depraved or corrupt person |
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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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| turn into a god; make a god of; idolize; Ex. Kings were deified; CF. deity |
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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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| flat plain of mud or sand between branches of a river |
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| false belief; hallucination; deluding; Ex. delusions of grandeur; Ex. under the delusion that |
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| deceptive; likely to delude; misleading; raising vain hopes; Ex. delusive promises |
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| dig; search deeply; investigate |
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| person who appeals to people' prejudice; false leader of people; CF. demagoguery |
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| disgrace; humiliate; debase in dignity; behave |
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| fiendish; cruel; N. demon: evil supernatural being; devil |
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| of or pertaining to the people |
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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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| (of a woman or child) grave; quiet and serious; coy; pretending to be demure |
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| (animal, person, or plant) inhabitant or resident of a particular place; regular visitor |
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| meaning; distinguishing by name; V. denote: indicate; refer to directly; mean; CF. connotation |
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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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| condemn; criticize; N. denunciation |
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| public revelation of something discreditable |
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| regret; expres 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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| spread out (troops) in an extended though shallow battle line; distribute (persons or forces) systematically or strategically |
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| army unit made up of four or more companies |
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| dethrone; remove from office; give a deposition; testify |
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| testimony under oath; deposing; dethroning |
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| extreme corruption; wickedness; V. deprave |
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| express disapproval of; deplore; protest against; belittle; ADJ. deprecatory |
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| lessen in value; belittle; represent as of little value |
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| organization for a special purpose; V: establish |
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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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| make into an institution; put or confine in an institution |
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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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| neglect of duty; abandonment |
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| ridicule; treat with contempt; make fun of; OP. respect |
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| ridicule; ADJ. derisive; CF. derisory |
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| unoriginal; obtained from another source; Ex. derivative prose style; N. |
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| one who studies the skin and its diseases |
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| skin disease (o the face) |
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| expressing a low opinion; disparaging; V. derogate: detract; disparage |
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| catch sight of (something distant) |
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| break (a law); defile; desecrate; assault sexually; Ex. violate graves |
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| (of a place) deserted; unpopulated; (of a person) lonely; forlorn; joyless |
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| make desolate; forsake; abandon and desert |
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| reckless, desperate outlaw |
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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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| look on with scorn; regard as worthless or distasteful; ADJ. despicable: contemptible |
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| plunder; sack; Ex. despoil the village |
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| without hope and courage; depressed; gloomy; N. despondency: loss of hope with gloom; dejection |
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| tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler; CF. despotism |
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| extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence; utterly lacking; devoid; Ex. destitute of any experience |
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| make poor; deprive of natural strength or something important; Ex. impoverished soil |
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| aimless; haphazard; digressing at random |
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| emotionally removed; free from emotional involvement; calm and objective; physically separate; N. detachment; CF. attachment |
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| keep waiting; prevent from leaving or going; N. detentio |
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| having a fixed order of procedure; precisely defined; invariable; fixed; conclusive; final |
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| resolve; firmness of purpose; measurement or calculation; decision |
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| something that discourages or deters |
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| slandering; aspersion; detracting; CF. detractor |
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| harmful; damaging; N. detriment |
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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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| roundabout; erratic; deviating from the straight course; not straightforward; not completely honest; Ex. devious route |
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| think up; invent; plan; bequeath; N: bequest |
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| deputize; pass or be passed to others (power, work, or property); Ex. devolve on/upon/to |
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| work or appoint as a deputy; N. deputy: person who has the power to take charge when the leading person is away |
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| enthusiastic follower; enthusiast; Ex. devotee of Bach |
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| pious; deeply religious; sincere; earnest; Ex. my devout hope |
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| skillful; skill in using hands or mind; N. dexterity |
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| diabolic; devilish; fiendish |
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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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| bitter scolding or denunciation; invective; abuse |
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| division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) |
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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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| (of speech or writing) intended to teach a moral lesson; teaching; instructional; N. didacticism |
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| metal block used for shaping metal or plastic; device for stamping or impressing; mold; CF. dice |
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| shyness; lack of self-confidence; timidity; ADJ. diffident |
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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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| wandering away from the subject; V. digress |
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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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| expand; dilate on/upon: speak or write at length on (a subject) |
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| delaying; tending to delay |
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| situation that requires a choice between equally unfavorable options; problem; choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives |
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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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| steadiness of effort; persistent hard work |
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| make (a liquid) less concentrated; reduce in strength; Ex. dilute the influence of the president |
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| lessening; reduction in size; V. diminish |
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| continued loud noise; V: make a din; instill by wearying repetitio |
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| small boat (often ship' boat) |
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| leave helpless on a deserted island or coast; ADJ. red brown |
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| (of things and place) dirty and dull; Ex. dingy street/curtain |
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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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| means; effort; Ex. by dint of hard work |
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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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| warning of disaster; disastrous; (of need and dangers) very great; urgent; Ex. dire prediction/need of food |
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| funeral song; slow mournful piece of music (sung over a dead person) |
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| correct a false impression; undeceive; free from a wrong belief |
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| disloyal; lacking loyality; V. disaffect: cause to lose affection or loyalty |
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| disapproval; condemnation |
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| state of disorder; a disorderly or untidy state; Ex. with her clothes in disarray |
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| denial; disclaiming; repudiating; disowning; V. disavow; CF. disclaim |
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| dissolve; disperse; (of a group) break up and separate; Ex. The club has disbanded. |
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| pay out (as from a fund); N. disbursement; CF. purse |
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| distinguishable; perceivable; Ex. discernible improvement |
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| mentally quick and observant; having insight; perceptive; able to make good judgments; V. discern: perceive |
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| disown; renounce claim to; deny; CF. disclaimer |
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