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Annul

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Make void or null, cancel, abolish (usually of laws or other established rules)

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Anodyne

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Medicine that relieves pain; soothing, relieving pain

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Antedate

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Be older than, precede in time; assign to an earlier date

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Antithetical

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Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis (the rhetorical act of placing two phrases opposite on another for contrast, as in love me or hate me)

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Apostate

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Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc.

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Apostle

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Pioneer of a reform movement (originally, an early follower of Jesus)

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Apposite

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Highly appropriate, suitable, or relevant

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Apprise

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Inform, give notice to

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Approbation

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Praise or approval, especially formal approval

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Appropriate

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Set aside or authorize (such as money) for a particular purpose; take for one’s own use

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Arbiter

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Judge, umpire, person empowered to decide matters at hand

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Ardent or ardor

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Very passionate, devoted, or enthusiastic

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Arrogate

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Claim or take presumptuously or without the right to do so

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Ascribe

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Assign or credit to a certain cause or source

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Aseptic

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Free from germs

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Asperity

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Rigor, severity; harshness or sharpness of tone; roughness of surface

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Aspersions

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Damaging remarks, defamation, slander

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Assail

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Attack violently, assault

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Assiduous

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Persevering, diligent, constant

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Attenuate

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Weaken or thin out

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Attuned

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In harmony; in sympathetic relationship

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Augury

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Telling the future, such as through supernatural means

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August

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Venerable, majestic; inspiring admiration

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Avarice

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Insatiable greed; a miserly desire to hoard wealth

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Axiom

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Self-evident truth requiring no proof; universally or generally accepted principle

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Balloon

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Swell or puff out; increase rapidly

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Banal

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Lacking freshness and originality; cliché

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Bane

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Something that ruins or spoils

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Baying

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Howling in a deep way, like a dog or wolf

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Beneficent

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Doing good

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Bent

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Personal inclination or tendency

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Besiege

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Attack, overwhelm, crowd in on or surround

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Bevy

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Group of birds or other animals that stay close together; any large group

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Bifurcate

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To fork into two branches or divide into two halves

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Bilk

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Cheat or defraud

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Blight

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Disease that kills plants rapidly, or any cause of decay or destruction; ruin or cause to wither

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Blithe

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Joyous, merry; excessively carefree

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Bombastic

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(Of speech or writing) far too showy or dramatic than is appropriate; pretentious

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Bonhomie

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Friendliness, open and simple good heartedness

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Brandish

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Shake, wave, or flourish, as a weapon

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Brook

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Suffer or tolerate

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Bucolic

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Suggesting a peaceful and pleasant view of rural life

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Burnish

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Polish, make smooth and lustrous

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Calumny

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Malicious lie intended to hurt someone’s reputation; the act of telling such lies

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Canard

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Rumor, a false or baseless story

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Cardinal

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Chief, most important

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Catholic

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Universal, broad-minded

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Chicanery

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Trickery, deception by knowingly false arguments

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Circumscribe

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Strictly limit a role, range of activity, or area; in math, to be constructed around so as to touch as many points as possible

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Circumspect

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Cautious, prudent; careful to consider the circumstances and consequences

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