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Protuberant

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Adjective) protruding; bulging; curving outwards

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Despondency

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Noun) in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

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Undulate

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Verb) means to move in a wave-like pattern

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Sardonic

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Adjective) disdainfully humorous; scornful and mocking

If someone is being scornful and mocking in a humorous way, call her sardonic.

Synonyms) Sarcastic; Satirical; Mocking…

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Noun) Assiduity
Adjective) Assiduous
Adverb) Assiduously

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Constant or close attention to what one is doing.

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Adjective) Curt

Adverb) Curtly

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rudely brief.

Synonyms) Terse; Brief

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Noun & Adjective) Dissident

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in opposition to official policy.

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Verb) Coruscate

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Coruscate is a verb that means to sparkle or give off reflected flashes of light.

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Adjective) arcane

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understood by few; mysterious or secret.

Synonym) esoteric; recondite

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Adjective) Furtive

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attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

Synonym) Covert

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Malevolence

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Noun) wishing evil to others

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Phalanx

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Noun) a body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation.

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Verb) Exorcise

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drive out or attempt to drive out something from a person or place.

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Adjective) mesmeric

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causing a person to become completely transfixed and unaware of their surroundings.

attracting and holding interest as if by a spell

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Noun) fledgling

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a person or organization that is immature, inexperienced, or underdeveloped.

S) nascent

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Adjective) Stout(ly)

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euphemisms for `fat’

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courageous and dependable

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Adjective) Vernacular

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being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

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Adjective) Scornful

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expressing extreme contempt

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Adjective) Mawkish

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Mawkish means excessively sentimental or so sappy it’s sickening

S - saccharine

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Noun) Litany

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a tedious recital or repetitive series.

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Adjective) Frumpy

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drab, old-fashioned, and unattractive

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Noun) Sabbath

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a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jews from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.

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Noun) Frission

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an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

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Noun) Wrath

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intense anger

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Noun) syndicate
a group of individuals or organizations combined to promote a common interest.
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Adjective) celestial
1. positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in astronomy. 2. Heavenly; Supremely Good
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Verb) Mollify
appease the anger or anxiety of (someone). S) Placate; Soothe; Calm
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Verb) Blight
have a severely detrimental effect on.
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crenellate
provide (a wall of a building) with battlements.
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Noun) acquiescence
the reluctant acceptance of something without protest.
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Noun) animus
hostility or ill feeling.
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Noun) Vista
a pleasing view.
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Adjective) lugubrious
excessively mournful
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Noun) corpulence
Excessive Fatness; Obesity
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Noun) kaleidoscope
a constantly changing pattern or sequence of elements.
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Adjective) Fusty
stale and unclean smelling
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Adjective) ephemeral
lasting for a very short time.
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Adjective) Capricious
changing according to no discernible rules; unpredictable.
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Adjective) Mercurial
subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind. S) - Capricious
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Adjective) punctilious
showing great attention to detail or correct behaviour.
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Adjective) Sordid
involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives; arousing moral distaste and contempt.
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Adj) Sultry
oppressively hot and humid. Also can be used figuratively: exciting in a sensual way; attractive and suggesting hidden passion
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Adj) ersatz
(to describe a product) not real or genuine.
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Adj) caustic
Use the adjective caustic to describe any chemical that is able to burn living tissue or other substances, or, figuratively, a statement that has a similarly burning effect. Caustic in this sense means harshly critical.
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Adj) blasé
unimpressed with or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.
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Noun) acolyte
a person assisting a priest in a religious service or procession. more generally: a devoted follower or assistant
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Adj) Cretinous
Retarded
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Adj) obdurate
Obdurate is a formal word meaning stubborn.
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Noun) Indignation
Call your anger at an unjust situation indignation. ... a feeling of righteous anger
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Adj) frivolous
Frivolous things are silly or unnecessary. If something is frivolous, then you don't need it.
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Adj) austere
severe or strict in manner or attitude.
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Adj) lewd
crude and offensive in a sexual way.
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Adj) Sullen
bad-tempered and sulky.
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Adj) insolent
showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect.
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Verb) elucidate
make (something) clear; explain.
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Adj) scrupulous
characterized by extreme care and great effort
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Adj) crass
showing no intelligence or sensitivity. ....A crass comment is very stupid and shows that the speaker doesn't care about other people's feelings.
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Noun) paroxysm
a sudden attack or outburst of a particular emotion or activity. .... a paroxysm of weeping; laughter etc.
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Adj - diaphanous
so thin as to transmit light If a dress is so see-through that light shines through it, it's diaphanous.
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Adj - languid Adv - languidly
lacking spirit or liveliness | Used in both positive and negative contexts
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N - countenance
a person's face or facial expression.
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N - Impunity
exemption from punishment or loss
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Adj - soporific
tending to induce drowsiness or sleep.
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V - stultify
When something stultifies you, it drains you of your energy, enthusiasm, or pleasure.
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Adj - inveterate
Habitual; Chronic
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Adj - amorphous
without a clearly defined shape or form.
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Adj - truculent
If you are quick to argue, always looking for a fight, and hard to please, you are truculent. S - Pugnacious
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Adj - truncate
Cut short
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Adj - insipid
Something insipid is lacking in flavor or interest.
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Adj - unabashed
To be unabashed is to be unembarrassed.
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V - Fibrillate
rapid twitching movements
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V - Contuse
injure without breaking the skin and forming a bruise.
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Adj - desiccated
1. Dried out | 2. Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
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N - prescience | Adj - prescient
the power to foresee the future
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Adj - sonorous
full and loud and deep
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Adj - meek
quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive
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Adj - evanescent
“fleeting” or “temporary.”
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V - burgeon
Use the verb burgeon to describe something that is growing, expanding, and flourishing.
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Adj - desultory
If you lack a definite plan or purpose and flit from one thing to another, your actions are desultory.
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Adj - disconsolate
inconsolable
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Adj - exalted
Use the adjective exalted to describe something or someone that is raised in rank, value, or power.
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V - chasten
correct by punishment or discipline
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Adj - incensed
To be incensed is to be beyond mad.
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Adj - ecumenical
The adjective ecumenical refers to something universal, or something that has a wide, general application.
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N - serendipity
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
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Adj - garrulous
excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
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N - rheumatism
Rheumatism is a medical condition of painful inflammation in muscles, joints, or connective tissue.
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Adj - visceral
When something's visceral, you feel it in your guts. A visceral feeling is intuitive — there might not be a rational explanation, but you feel that you know what's best
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Adj - celibate
A person who refrains from being sexually active is celibate.
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N - scullery
a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done
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Adj - florid
Something that's elaborate and full of extra flourishes is florid
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Adj - impervious
An impervious surface is one that can't be penetrated.
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Adj - acerbic
sour or bitter in taste If you say something acerbic, or harshly bitter, to someone, it can leave a bitter taste in your own mouth that lingers, and the acerbic, or acidic, words can eat away at the person on the receiving end too.
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N - effigy
a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
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Adj - Imperious
having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
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V - assuage
provide physical relief, as from pain S- Soothe; relieve
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Adj - umpteen
indefinitely many; a lot of.
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Adj - azure
bright blue in colour like a cloudless sky.
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N - progeny
the immediate descendants of a person
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N - Pillion
a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.
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V - suffuse
The verb suffuse means to spread and fill a space, like the way the smell of wildflowers might suffuse a meadow.
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Adj garish
obtrusively bright and showy; S- lurid
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Meticulous Synonyms
Fastidious // punctilious// scrupulously // sedulous \\ assiduous
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Adj) Fetid
smelling extremely unpleasant. S - Fusty; Acrid
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Adj) apoplectic
Furious
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Noun) crusade
a vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change.
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Adj) Laconic
Terse
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Noun) enmity
Hostility; animosity
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Adj) effulgence
the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
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Adj) vindictive
Looking for revenge
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Noun) consternation
a feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected.
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Noun) lassitude
Mental or physical lethargy
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Adj) Apposite
being of striking appropriateness and pertinence Fitting; appropriate; suitable
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Noun) Dalliance
1) a casual romantic or sexual relationship. | 2) a period of brief or casual involvement with something
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Noun) accretion
Accumulation
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Adj) circumspect
Cautious

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