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the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval
synonyms: commendation, sanction
antonyms: disapproval, condemnation, censure |
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to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
synonyms: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
antonyms: intesnify, aggravate, exarcerbate |
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a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
S: alliance, league, federation, combine
A: splinter group |
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delince, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
S:degeneration, corruption
A: rise, growth, development, maturation |
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to draw forth, bring out from some source (like another person)
S: call forth, evoke, exdtract, educe
A: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
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to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
S: protest, remonstrate, complain |
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used so often as to lack freshness or originality
S: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
A: new, fresh, novel, original |
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gap, opening, break
S: pause, lacuna
A: continuity, continuation |
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a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference
S: insinuation, intimation
A: direct statement |
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to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
S: intervene, mediate |
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wearied, worn-out, dulled (satiated by excessive indulgence)
S: sated, surfeited, cloyed
A: unspoiled, uncloyed |
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causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallowe in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
S:gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
A: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome |
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worthy, deserving recognition and praise
s: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
A: blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable |
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peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritaed and upset
s:irritable, testy, waspish
a: even-tempered, placide, serence, amiable |
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a special right or privilege, a special quality showing excellence
s:perquisite, perk |
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pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originiated in the countryside; a person with a narrow point of view, a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony
s: narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive
a: cosmopolitan, catholic, broad-minded |
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