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Abjure

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To renounce or reject solemnly or to recant or to avoid (สละสิทธิ์ ล้มเลิก)

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adumbrate

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To foreshadow weekly or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow (คลุมเครือ ทอดเงา วาดโครงร่าง)

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anathema

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A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing (คำสาปแช่ง)

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anodyne

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Soothing; something that has a assuages or allays pain, or comfort (บรรเทาความเจ็บปวด)

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Apogee

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Fathers or highest point, culmination; zenith (จุดสุดยอด ขีดสูงสุด)

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apostate

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One who abandoned long-held religious or political convictions (คนนอกรีต)

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apotheosis

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Deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection (การเทิดพระเกียรติ)

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asperity

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Severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony irritability (ความหยาบกระด้าง ความรุนแรง)

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asseverate

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To avert, allege, or assert (ยืนยัน)

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assiduous

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Diligent, hard-working, sedulous (ขยันขันแข็ง)

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augury

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Omen or portent (ทำนายดวง การพยากรณ์ ลางบอกเหตุ)

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bellicose

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike (ชอบสงคราม)

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culumniate

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To slander or to make a false accusation

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captious

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Disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrapped in an argument (ชอบหาเรื่อง คอยจับผิด)

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cavil

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To find fault without good reason (หาเรื่องถากถางเสียดสี)

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celerity

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Speed alacrity; think accelerate (ความรวดเร็ว)

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chimera

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An illusion; originally an imaginary fire breathing she monster

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contumacious

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Insubordinate rebellious (ดื้อรั้น)

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debacle

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Rout, fiasco or a complete failure (ความหายนะ)

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denouement

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An outcome or solution or unraveling of a plot (บทสรุป)

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descry

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To catch sight of

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desuetude

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Disuse

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desultory

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Random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose (วอกแวก ไม่ปะติดปะต่อ)

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diaphanous

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Transparent, gauzy (โปร่งแสง)

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diffident

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Reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence (ขี้อาย)

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dirge

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A song of grief or a lamentation (บทเพลงไว้อาลัย)

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encomium

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Glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute or eulogy (คำสรรเสริญ)

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eschew

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To shun or avoid (หลีกเลี่ยง)

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excoriate

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To censure scathingly, to upbraid (ตำหนิติเตียนอย่างรุนแรง)

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execrate

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To denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse or to declare to be evil (สาปแช่ง)

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exegesis

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Critical examination or explication (การตีความอธิบาย)

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Expiate

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To atone or make amends for (ชดใช้ความผิด)

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extirpate

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To destroy or to exterminate or to cut out or to exscind (กำจัด)

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Fatuous

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Silly, inanely foolish (โง่เง่า)

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fractious

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Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable (ทะเลาะวิวาท)

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gainsay

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To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose (เถียง)

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heterodox

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Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic, (นอกรีต นอกคอก)

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imbroglio

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Difficult or embarrassing situation

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Indefatigable

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Not easily exhaustible, tire or dogged (ไม่รู้จักเหน็ดเหนื่อย)

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ineluctable

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Certain or inevitable (หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้)

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inimitable

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One of a kind, peerless (ไม่สามารถเลียนแบบได้)

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insouciant

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Unconcerned, carefree, heedless (ไม่สนใจ)

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inveterate

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Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual (ฝังรากลึก)

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jejune

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Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile (ไร้สาระ)

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lubricious

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Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery (ลื่นไหล)

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mendicant

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A beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy:p; attracting by false show (ฉูดฉาดบาดตา หลอกลวง)

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minatory

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Menacing, threatening

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nadir

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Low point, perigee

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nonplussed

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Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified

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Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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palliate

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To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric

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Formal praise, eulogy, encomium (การสรรเสริญ)

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parsimonious

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Cheap, misery (ประหยัด)

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pellucid

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Transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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The concluding part of a speech, flowery, rhetorical speech (คำกล่าวสรุป)

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plangent

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Pounding thundering resounding

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prolix

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Long-winded, verbose (ยืดยาว อธิบายอย่างละเอียด)

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propitiate

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To appease; to conciliate (เอาใจ)

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puerile

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Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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Strength, power (พลังอำนาจ)

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pusillanimous

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Cowardly, carven (ขี้ขลาด)

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remonstrate

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To protest, to object (ประท้วง)

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sagacious

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Having sound judgment, perceptive, wise, like a sage (ไหวพริบ)

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salacious

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Lustful, lascivious, bawdy (ลามก)

67
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Salutary

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Remedial, causing improvement, wholesome (มีประโยชน์)

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sanguine

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Cheerful, Confident, optimistic (ร่าเริง)

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saturnine

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Gloomy, dark, sullen morose (เศร้าโศก)

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sententious

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Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively (มีความหมาย เล่นสำนวน หลักแหลม เต็มไปด้วยคติพจน์)

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stentorian

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Extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian

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Gloomy, dark

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Sycophant

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Toady, servile, self seeking flatterer; parasite (คนประจบสอพลอ)

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tendentious

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Biased; showing marked tendencies (มีอคติ)

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Timorous

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Timid, fearful, diffident (ขี้ขลาด)

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tyro

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Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate

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To corrupt to debase to spoil or to make ineffective (ทำให้เสีย เสื่อมคุณภาพ)

78
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voluble

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Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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