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On a wave of ADULATION he rode to the governor's mansion where he had lived years ago. |
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| EXCESSIVE ADMIRATION OR DEVOTION |
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Perhaps you should not be so quick to ASCRIBE motives. |
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| TO CREDIT OR ATTRIBUTE TO |
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Excessive praise is even worse when it is unwanted praise, or what specialists refer to as dissonant ENCOMIUM. |
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EULOGY
No doubt we will share a similar EULOGY a thousand years from now. |
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| A SPEECH IN PRAISE OF SOMEONE |
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EXALT
It seems there are cycles in history of the senses, times when we suppress them and times when we EXALT them. |
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Inevitably, he began to speak to us about the revolution and to EXTOL its achievements. |
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| SONG OF TRIUMPH OR THANKSGIVING |
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| TO USE EXTRAVAGANT ENTHUSIASM |
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| TO PRAISE PUBLICLY, OFTEN EXTRAVAGANTLY |
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| TO RESPECT OR ADMIRE GREATLY |
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| TO REPRIMAND OR CRITICIZE SHARPLY |
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| TO REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE OR RECOGNIZE |
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| TO FIND FAULT OR COMPLAIN INCESSANTLY |
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| TO CRITICIZE OR REPRIMAND SEVERELY |
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| TO DISAPPROVE PUBLICLY AND VEHEMENTLY |
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| TO SOIL OR TARNISH (AS IN REPUTATION) |
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| USING ABUSIVE AND BITING LANGUAGE |
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| TO INVOKE EVIL UPON OR TO CURSE |
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| AN OVERWHELMING FEELING OF HAPPINESS |
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1) TO CELEBRATE
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| TO FORESHADOW (OFTEN SOMETHING BAD) |
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| SOMETHING THAT SETS SOMETHING ELSE IN MOTION |
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| TO EVADE OR MISS BY A NARROW MARGIN |
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| SAD, LONELY, AND ABANDONED |
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| DESERVING BLAME OR CONDEMNATION |
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| HARMFUL, OFTEN IN SUBTLE OR UNEXPECTED WAYS |
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| CONSPICUOUSLY OR FLAGRANTLY BAD |
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| HATEFUL OR SHOCKINGLY EVIL |
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| CAUSING HORROR OR REVULSION |
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| OFFENSIVELY WICKED, IMPIOUS, OR EVIL |
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| A DIFFICULT SITUATION OR PREDICAMENT |
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| MARKED BY BITTER, DEEP-SEATED ILL WILL |
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| DESERVING OF DISAPPOINTMENT |
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| OFFENSIVE AND DISTASTEFUL |
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| AN ESTABLISHED PREFERENCE FOR SOMETHING |
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1) ATTRACTIVE
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| A TREASURE OR A VALUABLE COLLECTION |
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| A SENSE OF CALM AND BALANCE |
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| TO SOOTHE, ESPECIALLY BY MAKING CONCESSIONS |
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1) AN OINTMENT
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| SEDATE, SELF-RESTRAINED, SOBER |
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| COMPOSED OF ELEMENTS DRAWN FROM VARIOUS SOURCES |
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| INTENDED TO GIVE ADVANTAGE WHEN COMBINED |
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| TO CLEAR OF GUILT OR BLAME |
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| TO CLEAR OF GUILT OR BLAME |
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| TO CLEAR OF GUILT OR BLAME |
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| TO CLEAR OF GUILT OR BLAME |
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| ANNOYING OR CAUSING ILL WILL |
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| TO INFRINGE OR ADVANCE BEYOND THE PROPER LIMITS |
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| TO INFRINGE IR ADVANCE BEYOND THE PROPER LIMITS |
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| TO DEMAND WITH INSISTENCY OR TO SOLICIT |
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| BURDENSOME OR TROUBLESOME |
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