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Abrasive
Rubbing away
Abate
Subside, moderate
Abstemious
Sparing in eating and drinking, temperate
Acute
Quickly perceptive, keen, brief and severe
Adulation
Flattery, admiration
Affinity
Natural liking, similarity
Amorphous
Formless, lacking shape or definition
Ample
Abundant
Antidote
Medicine
Apprehension
Fear, discernment, capture
Arbitrary
Unreasonable or capricious
Ardor
Hear, passion, zeal
Ascendancy
Controlling influence
Atrophy
Waste away
Aversion
Firm dislike
Bequeath
Hand down
Brawn
Muscular strength
Censorious
Critical
Certitude
Certainty
Charlatan
Deceiver
Disposition
Bias
Clemency
Lenient
Concede
Admit
Conflagration
Great fore
Contemporary
Person belonging to the same period
Contend
Struggle, compete
Criterion
Standard using in judging
Cursory
Casual
Debilitate
Weaken
Deference
Respecting another person’s wishes
Degenerate
Deteriorate
Delineate
Portray
Deplore
Regret strongly
Depravity
Corruption, wickedness
Deprecate
Protest against
Devious
Not straightforward, erratic
Diffuse
Wordy, rambling
Discount
Disregard
Discursive
Digressing, rambling
Disinterested
Unbiased
Dispassionate
Impartial, unbiased
Disseminate
Distribute, scatter
Dissent
Disagree
Dissipate
Squander, waste, scatter
Dissuade
Persuade not to do
Divulge
Reveal
Ebb
Recede, lessen
Elusive
Evasive, baffling
Epicure
Connoisseur of food and drink
Erudite
Learned, schoalrly
Espouse
Adopt, support
Ethereal
Light, heavenly
Evanescent
Fleeting, vanishing
Exalt
Praise
Expository
Explanatory
Extant
Existant
Facile
Easily accomplished
Fallacious
False
Fastidious
Difficult to please
Fervour
Glowing ardor, intensity of feeling
Flagrant
Outrageous, wicked
Foolhardy
Rash, heedless
Forestall
Prevent by taking action in advance
Forsake
Desert, abandon
Forthright
Outspoken, frank
Foster
Encourage, nurture
Founder
Fail completely, sink
Frivolous
Lacking in seriousness
Furtive
Stealthy, sneaky
Germane
Pertinent, relevant