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to caution or advise against something; to scold mildly; to remind of a duty
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warn, call on the carpet praise, pat on the back |
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an opening, gap, rupture, rift; a violation or infraction; to create an opening, break through
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(v) close, seal none |
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a bandit, robber, outlaw, highwayman
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none none |
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careful, cautious
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wary, prudent, incautious,
guarded rash, reckless
heedless |
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to seize for military or official use
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take over, none
requisition,
expropiate |
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clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
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unwieldy, manageable,
ponderous easy to handle |
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(n)a standstill resulting from the opposition of two equal forces or factions (v) to bring to such a standstill
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(n) standoff, stalemate, (n) agreement,
impasse accord, breakthrough |
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scattered fragments, wreckage
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rubble, detritus, none
floatsam and jetsam
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(v) to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adj) wordy, longwinded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread
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(v) disperse; (adj) rambling, verbose (v) concentrate;
prolix (adj) brief, concise, succcint |
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a difficult or perplexing situation or problem
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predicament, quandary, cinch
pickle, bind |
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to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed
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blot out, erase, obliterate, none
expunge
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(v) to make a mess of; muddle through; to get by; (n) a hopeless mess
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(v) jumble, mess up; (n) orderliness
(n) confusion, disorder tidiness, neatness |
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stubborn and often unreasonable in holding to one's own ideas, having a closed mind
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obstinate, pigheaded, open-minded,
inflexible reasonable |
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lasting for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that lives for many years
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(adj) enduring, recurring brief, short-lived
fleeting, ephemeral |
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to incline to beforehand
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make susceptible to immunize against,
shield from |
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to let go, give up
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surrender, abandon hold on to, keep,
retain, cling to |
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(v) to save from fire or shipwreck; (n) property thus saved
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(v) rescue, recover, retrieve, (v) abandon,
reclaim scrap, junk
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sudden and violent but brief; fitful; intermittent
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irregular, occasional steady, continuous,
chronic |
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not genuine, not true, not valid
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false, counterfeit, fraudulent, genuine, authentic,
bogus bona fide, valid
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uncontrolled, lacking in restraint
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unrestrained, unchecked restrained,
held in check, muted |
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