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| A state of uncertainty or perplexity. See synonyms at predicament. |
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1. Characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate.
2. Having or marked by violent force: impetuous, heaving waves.Impetuous suggests forceful impulsiveness or impatience: "[a race driver who was] flamboyant, impetuous, disdainful of death" |
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| Heedless implies carelessness or lack of responsibility or proper regard for consequences: "Hobbling down stairs with heedless haste, I set my foot full in a pail of water" |
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| Hasty and headlong both stress hurried, often reckless action: "Hasty marriage seldom proveth well" (Shakespeare). "In his headlong flight down the circular staircase, ... [he] had pitched forward violently, struck his head against the door to the east veranda, and probably broken his neck" |
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| Precipitate suggests impulsiveness and lack of due reflection: a precipitate decision. |
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| Sudden applies to what becomes apparent abruptly or unexpectedly: is given to sudden paroxysms of anger. |
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To converse casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.
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To engage in schmoozing with: "how to be a professional artist-how to be a businessperson, how to schmooze the collectors" |
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# A nucleus of trained personnel around which a larger organization can be built and trained: a cadre of corporals who train recruits.
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1. A tightly knit group of zealots who are active in advancing the interests of a revolutionary party. |
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| A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. |
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| A market, or part of a market, in an Arab city |
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1. In an initial or early stage; incipient.
2. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea. |
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| Perceived in or as if in the viscera; profound; The scientific approach to life is not really appropriate to states oc visceral anguish |
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# Official approval; sanction.
# A mark of official approval: a directive bearing the imprimatur of high officials |
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1. Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See synonyms at rural.
2. Of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral. |
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| generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others:presumably public money is not dispensed with such largesse to anyone else |
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