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ABATE

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Subside or moderate (something went down in strength or reduced)

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Aberrant

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Abnormal or deviant

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Abeyance

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Suspended action,
Temporary halt or inactivity

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Abscond

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Depart secretly and hide, escape

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Abstemious

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Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking, temperate
Not eating or drinking too much

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Admonish

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Warn; reprove; scold

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Adulterate

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Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

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Aesthetic

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Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful

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Aggregate

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Gather; accumulate

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Alacrity

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Cheerful promptness; eagerness; enthusiasm

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Alleviate

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Relieve or lessen the pain

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Amalgamate

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Combine; unite in one body

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Ambiguous

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Unclear or doubtful in meaning
Confusing as it can be explained in more than one way

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Ambivalence

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The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
The state of having two opposite feelings at the same time

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Ameliorate

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Improve, make it better

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Anachronism

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Something or someone misplaced in time

a person, a custom, etc. that seems oldfashioned and does not belong in the present.

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Analogous

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Comparable

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Anarchy

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Absence of governing body; state of disorder

a situation in which people do not obey rules and laws; a situation in which there is no government in a country.

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Anomalous

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Abnormal; irregular

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Antipathy

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Aversion; dislike

a strong feeling of not liking somebody/something

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Apathy

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Lack of caring; indifference

the feeling of not being interested in or enthusiastic about anything.

Lack of feeling or emotions

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Appease

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Pacify or soothe; relieve

to make somebody calmer or less angry by agreeing to what he/she wants.

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Apprise

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Inform; notify

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Approbation

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Approval or praise

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Appropriate
suitable or right for a particular situation, person, use, etc. - noun to take something to use for yourself, usually without permission - verb
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Arduous
Hard; strenuous Difficult; needing a lot of effort.
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Artless
Without guile; open & honest without effort or pretentiousness; natural and simple
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Ascetic
Practicing self denial; austere not allowing yourself physical pleasures, especially for religious reasons.
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Assiduous
Diligent working very hard and taking great care that everything is done as well as it can be.
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Assuage
Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
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Attenuate
Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree)
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Audacious
Daring; bold Adventurous
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Austere
Forbiddingly stern; severely simple & unornamented Very simple, without decoration Used for a person- very strict & serious
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Aver
Assert confidently or declare; as used in laws, state formally as a fact Declare in a positive manner
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Banal
Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality Cliché (a phrase or idea that has been used so many times that it no longer has any real meaning or interest) Boring & not original
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Belie
Contradict; give a false impression
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Beneficent
Kindly; doing good
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Bolster
Support; reinforce Encourage, make something stronger
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Bombastic
Pompous; using inflated language to sound smarter Pretentious; thinking highly of yourself
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Boorish
Rude; insensitive
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Burgeon
Grow forth, sent out buds begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
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Burnish
Make shiny by rubbing, polish
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Buttress
Support; prop up a stone or brick structure that supports a wall or makes it stronger
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Cacophonous
Discordant; inharmonious involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds (example- traffic noise)
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Capricious
Unpredictable; fickle changing behaviour suddenly in a way that is difficult to predict
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Castigation
Punishment; severe criticism
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Catalyst
Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction, development or change a person or a thing that causes change
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Caustic
Burning, sarcastically biting capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
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Chicanery
Trickery, deception the use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose
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Coagulate
Thicken; congeal; clot to gather together or form into a mass or group
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Coda
Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes Finale, conclusion, end
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Cogent
Convincing
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Commensurate
Corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc; proportionate Synonyms - comparable compatible consistent proportionate sufficient
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Compendium
Brief, comprehensive summary
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Complaisant
Trying to please; overly polite; obliging willing to please others or to accept what they do or say without protest
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Compliant
Yielding; conforming to requirements working or done in agreement with particular rules, orders, etc obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way
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Conciliatory
Reconciling; soothing that tries to end an argument or a disagreement
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Condone
Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse to accept or agree with something that most people think is wrong
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Confound
To confuse; puzzle
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Connoisseur
Person competent to act as a judge of art, etc; a lover of an art A person who knows a lot about art, good food, music, etc
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Contention
Claim; thesis An opinion expressed in an argument Argument; disagreement
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Contentious
Quarrelsome Likely to cause disagreement & argument
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Contrite
Penitent Ashamed about something wrong that you have said or done Remorseful, regretful
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Conundrum
Riddle; difficult problem A confusing and difficult problem or question
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Converge
Approach; tend to meet; come together
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Convoluted
Coiled around; involved; intricate Having a complicated structure and therefore difficult to understand
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Craven
Cowardly

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