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| adversary - an enemy, opponent |
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SYN: antagonist, rival, foe
ANT: friend, ally, supporter, confederate |
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| alienate - to turn away; to make indifferent or hostile, to transfer, convey |
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SYN: separate, drive apart, estrange
ANT: befriend, attract, captivate, reconcile |
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| artifice - a skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill, trickery |
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| SYN: ruse, stratagem, contrivance |
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| coerce - to compel, force |
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SYN: pressure, bully, intimidate, constrain
ANT: persuade, cajole |
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| craven - cowardly; a coward |
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SYN: fearful, fainthearted, pusillanimous
ANT: brave, courageous, valiant |
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| culinary - of or related to cooking or the kitchen |
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| delete - to erase, wipe out, cut out |
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SYN: remove, cancel, expunge
ANT: insert, add, retain, include |
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| demise - a death, especially of a person in a lofty position |
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SYN: decease, passing away
ANT: birth, beginning, commencement |
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| exhilarate - to enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness to |
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SYN: stimulate, excite, gladden
ANT: discourage, dispirit, dishearten, inhibit |
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| fallow - plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; land left unseeded; to plow but not seed |
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SYN: unproductive, inert, dormant
ANT: productive, fertile, prolific |
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| harass - to disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks |
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| SYN: annoy, pester, bedevil, beleaguer |
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| inclement - stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
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SYN: blustery, tempestuous, implacable
ANT: mild, gentle, balmy, tranquil |
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| muse - to think about in a dreamy way, ponder |
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| SYN: meditate, contemplate, daydream |
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| negligible - so unimportant that it can be disregarded |
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SYN: trivial, inconsequential, insignificant
ANT: significant, crucial, momentous |
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| perpetuate - to make permanent or long lasting |
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SYN: continue, preserve, prolong, indefinitely
ANT: significant, crucial, momentous |
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| precedent - an example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action |
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| SYN: guide, tradition, model |
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| punitive - inflicting or aiming at punishment |
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| SYN: penalizing, retaliatory |
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| redress - to set right, remedy; relief from wronge or injury |
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| SYN: rectify, correct, mitigate |
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| sojourn - a temporary stay; to stay for a time |
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| SYN: visit, stopover, brief stay |
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| urbane - refined in manner or style, suave |
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SYN: elegant
ANT: crude, uncouth, boorish |
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