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| clothing,that which serves as dress or decorartion; to put clothes on, dress up S: attire, garments, deck out A: undress, unclothe, strip, denude |
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| to attack by surrounding with military forces; to cause worry or trouble S: blockade, encircle, pressure, hound |
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| to press together; to reduce in size or volume; a folded cloth or pad applied to an injury S: condense, shrink, shorten A: expand, enlarge |
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| to condemn openly; to accuse formally S: criticize, censure A: hail, acclaim |
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| to send off or out for a purpose; to kill; an official message; promptness, speed; the act of killing S: slay; report, communication A: recall, withhold |
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| to plunge into a liquid, drench; to put out quikly, exstinguish S: submerge, soak, dunk, immerse A: dry out, dehydrate, kindle, ignite |
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| plainly, in so many words; for a particular purpose S: clearly, pointedly, explicitly A: implicity, accidentally |
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| suffering severly from hunger or lack of something S: hungry, starving, ravenous A: well fed, full, satisfied, satiated |
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| to give up, renounce; to leve, abandon S: desert, disown A: keep, hold on to, stand by |
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| profitable; bringing in money or some special advantage S: moneymaking, paying A: unprofitable, unrewarding, nonpaying |
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| very large or great; beyond ordinary means of measurement S: vast, enormous, immeasurable, gigantic A: small, tiny, minute, infinitesimal |
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totally without skill or appropriateness
S: clumsy, unskilled, bungling, incompetent A: skillful, accomplished, adroit |
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| showing remarkable originality, inventiveness, or resourcefulness; clever S: imaginative, inventive, resourceful A: unimaginative, unoriginal, uninventive |
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