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To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.
The Supreme Court can abrogate a law if they decide that the law is unconstitutional. |
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Eating and drinking in moderation.
Restricted to bare necessities.
She lives an abstemious way of life. |
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Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
Why do you think he removes their skins, Agent Starling? Enthrall me with your acumen. |
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An inherent ability, as for learning; a talent.
He has a natural aptitude for solving criminal cases. |
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Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious.
He started his new job auspiciously on his birthday. |
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To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example).
Because of the offensive words in the story, the editor had to bowderlize it. |
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To overlook, forgive, or disregard (an offense) without protest or censure.
I do not condone my children's behavior when they disobey the rules. |
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Not openly practiced, avowed, engaged in, accumulated, or shown.
Feds covertly attack state-sanctioned medical marijuana. |
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Characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles.
Remember not to get dogmatic about it because words and concepts are only relative. |
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Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator.
From the autumn equinox the setting sun moves gradually south along the western horizon. |
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From another part of the world; foreign.
Intriguingly unusual or different; excitingly strange.
We saw exotic tropical plants in the greenhouse. |
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Fully and clearly expressed; leaving nothing implied.
Describing or portraying nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail.
The standards expected should be made explicit in a policy for medical records. |
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the normal action of something or how something works.
I started out arguing that a phone only needed to perform a few very specific functions. |
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Describes someone who talks too much about unimportant things. Wordy and rambling. Tiresomely talkative. |
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The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences. The study of structural relationships in language or in a language, sometimes including pronunciation, meaning, and linguistic... |
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the red coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrates, a protein yielding heme and globin on hydrolysis: it carries oxygen from the lungs to the tissues, and carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs |
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To involve by logical necessity; entail; To express or indicate indirectly.
I didn't mean to imply that you were stupid, but merely arrogant, pretentious and boorish. |
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Uttered without the use of normal words or syllables; incomprehensible as speech or language.
Suddenly the waiter seemed to grow inarticulate with a rush of words. |
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To conclude from evidence or premises.
To hint or imply.
We may reasonably infer that someone of importance was buried here. |
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An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system.
The need to rebuild a media infrastructure from the bottom up is clearly evident. |
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Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; intrinsic.
It is inherently obvious that I need to study more by the grades on my report card. |
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Rising in revolt against established authority, especially a government.
The IRA in Ireland is an example of an insurgent group of people. |
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Impossible to retract or revoke.
Even now irrevocable damage may have been done to the ecosystems on which we all ultimately depend. |
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Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk.
The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group.
In computer jargon d is called the least significant byte. |
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To express grief for or about; mourn: lament a death.
To regret deeply; deplore
It's at times like this i lament the loss of people like robin cook. |
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A dictionary.
A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary
After all, our children have language problems and cannot be expected to acquire a huge lexicon. |
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The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
Linguistics experts are involved in an ambitious joint initiative with the bbc to find out why we speak the way we do. |
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A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
An experienced business mentor can play a key role in steering a new business to success. |
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To change in form or character; alter.
To make less extreme, severe, or strong
She decided to modify the recipe according to her own tastes. |
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The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules.
Nature has developed biological nanotechnology for billions of years of evolution. |
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A system of names used in an art or science: the nomenclature of mineralogy.
The procedure of assigning names to the kinds and groups of organisms listed in a taxonomic classification
I agree that a unified nomenclature of human abc transporters would be very useful. |
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A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
I often get nostalgic when I hear Cher sing I Got You Babe on the radio. |
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A person new to a field or activity; a beginner.
We have a variety of skis available to suit the complete novice through to the stylish mono skier. |
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The state of being completely forgotten.
At last, overwhelmed by the agony, she passed into the blessed oblivion of unconsciousness. |
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A social outcast.
These renegade oppressors must be made pariahs by the rest of the world. |
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Deeply, often wistfully or dreamily thoughtful.
Suggestive or expressive of melancholy thoughtfulness.
He appeared rather pensive as he contemplated his future. |
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To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own.
We could be kicked out of school if we plagiarize material that someone else wrote. |
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A superabundance; an excess.
We had a plethora of treats at the birthday party. |
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To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.
To increase or spread at a rapid rate.
Newspapers and periodicals did not proliferate until after 1850. |
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Marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance.
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A recalcitrant person.
The recalcitrant truants were eventually sent to reform school. |
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Persistent.Pitiless.
Bob was always passionate about what he did; he would work relentlessly if he set his mind to something. |
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very strict or harsh
rigidly precise; thoroughly accurate or exact
Architects use a full complement of technological resources to produce rigorously accurate work. |
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Of or relating to basic facts or Being in the earliest stages of development; incipient.
Obviously i use my languages every day albeit at a fairly rudimentary level. |
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a generally accepted guideline, policy or method of doing something based on practice rather than facts.
It is a common rule of thumb to never wear white after Labor Day. |
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To examine or observe with great care; inspect critically.
Employees were warned that they should scrutinize any potential customers to be sure they weren't really criminals. |
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Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
Deceptively attractive.
The attempt to morally justify suicide bombing seems especially specious. |
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To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in.
They succumb to fear and choke up because they have never learned to deal with this verbal intimidation correctly. |
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To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics.
To displace and substitute for.
And chávez is looking to develop his natural gas reserves, which he believes may eventually supplant oil as the country's main export. |
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Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view.
Holding together firmly; cohesive: a tenacious material.
Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive
They are extremely tenacious, often chasing their prey to the end. |
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The vocabulary of technical terms used in a particular field, subject, science, or art; nomenclature.
The study of nomenclature.
A thesaurus is a structured wordlist used to standardize terminology. |
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