Wordly Wise 3000: Book 9 Lesson 1-9 5/6/14 Flashcards
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v. To express deep regret or sorrow over.
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v. bewail
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adj. 1. Without resources or possessions, especially the necessities of life.
2. Lacking; devoid of.
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adj. destitute
n. destitution
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v. To take away, especially from the value, beauty, or importance of.
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v. detract
n. detractor
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v. To set free from slavery; to liberate.
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v. emancipate
n. emancipation
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v. To praise highly.
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v. extol
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adj. Excessively showy; unrestrained.
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adj. flamboyant
n. flamboyance or flamboyancy
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n. 1. A driving force; anything that causes an action.
2. Increased activity resulting from a driving force.
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n. impetus
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adj. Incapable of being overcome or defeated.
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adj. insuperable
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adj. Not continuous; happening at intervals.
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adj. intermittent
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n. A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying.
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n. maxim
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adj. Required or demanded.
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adj. obligatory
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v. 1. To measure the depth of water.
2. To reach the deepest part of.
3. To understand by examining closely; to solve.
adj. Straight up and down; vertical.
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v., adj. plumb
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n. A person who wanders from place to place.
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n., adj. vagabond
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n. A face, especially one that expresses feelings.
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n. visage
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v. 1. To coax by using sly persuasion or insincere praise.
2. To gain by using sly persuasion or insincere praise.
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v. wheedle
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n. 1. Promptness in responding.
2. Eagerness.
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n. alacrity
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n. 1. A large group of people or things.
2. An orderly arrangement or display.
v. 1. To place in order.
2. To dress up.
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n., v. array
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v. To draw a conclusion from given facts.
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v. deduce
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v. 1. To weigh down or burden.
2. To impede the action of.
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v. encumber
n. encumbrance
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adj. Full of or accompanied by (usually followed by with).
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adj. fraught
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adj. Marked by lack of plan, order, or direction.
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adj. haphazard
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adj. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable.
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adj. incontrovertible
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adj. Hard to explain or impossible to understand.
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adj. inexplicable
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adj. Marked by imagination, resourcefulness, or cleverness.
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adj. ingenious
n. ingenuity
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n. One who falls behind others because of moving slowly or loitering; a straggler.
n. laggard
| adj. laggard
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n. Something that provides nourishment; food needed to live.
n. sustenance
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adj. 1. Intensely hot and dry.
| 2. Burning with passion.
adj. torrid
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v. To pass over, across, or through.
v. traverse
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adj. Appearing to be present in large numbers or in many different places.
adj. ubiquitous
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n. 1. The highest point; the peak.
| 2. The point in the sky directly above the observer.
n. zenith
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v. To refer to in an indirect way (used with to).
v. allude
| n. allusion
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v. 1. To set apart as holy.
| 2. To dedicate to a cause; to devote.
v. consecrate
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v. To scatter or spread widely.
v. disseminate
| n. dissemination
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v. To show excessive fondness for (used with on or upon).
v. dote
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v. To urge strongly; to warn or appeal.
v. exhort
| n. exhortation
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adj. Careless or irresponsible.
adj. feckless
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v. To show to be involved with something, especially something dishonest or illegal.
v. implicate
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v. To feel or express grief.
| n. An expression of sorrow or grief in the form of a poem, song, etc.
v. lament
| n. lamentation (or lament)
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adj. Of or relating to money or currency.
adj. monetary
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adj. Deep in thought; dreamily thoughtful.
adj. pensive
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n. A showy or dignified display.
n. pomp
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adj. Artificially stiff or formal in manner.
adj. stilted
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v. To bring under control; to conquer.
v. subjugate
| n. subjugation
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n. 1. A severe bodily injury.
| 2. Emotional shock.
n. trauma
| adj. traumatic
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adj. 1. Ignoring what is right.
2. Excessive or unrestrained.
3. Playful or frolicsome.
adj. wanton
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n. An old saying that has come to be accepted as true; a proverb.
n. adage
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n. Good will and warm feelings among friends.
n. camaraderie
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v. 1. To struggle with.
2. To maintain or assert.
n. 1. A conflict or struggle.
2. A point made in an argument.
v. contend
| n. contention
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adj. Not necessary; irrelevant.
adj. extraneous
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n. Noisy confusion; uproar.
n. hubbub
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v. 1. To follow a winding course.
| 2. To wander aimlessly.
v. meander
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adj. Having or giving off a smell.
adj. odoriferous
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n. 1. Personal belongings.
| 2. Equipment associated with a particular activity.
n. paraphernalia
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adj. Careful of and attentive to details, especially ones relating to good manners and behavior.
adj. punctilious
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v. To regain health or strength.
v. recuperate
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v. To entertain or delight.
v. regale
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adj. Doing or requiring a lot of sitting.
adj. sedentary
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adj. Marked by simplicity and lack of luxury.
adj. Spartan
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adj. Relating to the everyday world as opposed to that which is spiritual or eternal.
adj. temporal
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adj. 1. Turned or bent to one side in distaste or humor.
| 2. Amusing in a quiet but sharp way.
adj. wry
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adj. Young and inexperienced; immature.
adj. callow
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n. A person living during the same period as another.
| adj. Existing or occurring at the same time.
n. contemporary
| adj. contemporary
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adj. Doubtful of the sincerity of others’ motives; skeptical.
adj. cynical
| n. cynic
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n. A ruler with absolute power or tyrannical control over a group of people.
n. despot
| adj. despotic
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v. 1. To pronounce clearly.
| 2. To state; to announce.
v. enunciate
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n. Anything that gets in the way; an obstacle.
n. impediment
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v. 1. To make poor.
| 2. To take away.
v. impoverish
| adj. impoverished
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adj. Indulging in ease; avoiding exertion; lazy.
adj. indolent
| n. indolence
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adj. Showing sound judgment; wise.
adj. sagacious
| n. sagacity
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adj. Worldly; not connected with a church or religion.
adj. secular
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v. 1. To think about or make guesses.
| 2. To engage in a risky business venture.
v. speculate
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n. Conflict or struggle.
n. strife
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v. To show great respect for.
v. venurate
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adj. 1. ravenous; desiring and eating a large amount of food.
2. Greatly eager.
adj. voracious
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v. To get smaller, dimmer, or weaker; to near an end.
v. wane
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adj. Fitting the occasion; suitable or apt.
adj. apropos
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n. Controlling influence; domination.
n. ascendancy
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v. To analyze and determine the nature, value, or importance of.
v. assess
| n. assessment
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v. To declare positively; to state as the truth.
v. aver
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v. 1. To admit to be true, often reluctantly.
| 2. To grant or let have.
v. concede
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adj. Lacking
adj. deficient
| n. deficiency
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n. An unproven principle or belief held to be true.
| adj. Overly positive and assertive about something that cannot be proved.
n. dogma
| adj. dogmatic
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v. 1. To put an idea into a form that can be seen.
| 2. To make part of a system; incorporate.
v. embody
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v. 1. To make known; disclose.
| 2. To bestow.
v. impart
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n. The art of public speaking.
| n. A public speaker.
n. oratory
n. orator
adj. oratorical
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v. 1. To reproduce.
2. To cause to reproduce.
3. To foster the spread of.
v. propagate
| n. propagation
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n. Someone who proposes or supports an idea; an advocate.
n. proponent
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adj. 1. Not yet fully developed.
| 2. Elementary.
adj. rudimentary
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n. A visit or temporary stay.
| v. To stay for a while.
n. sojourn
| v. sojourn
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adj. Making one’s feelings known in a loud way.
adj. vociferous
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adj. Expressing love or the state of being in love.
adj. amorous
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v. To present or speak of as unimportant or of little value.
v. belittle
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v. To blame or find fault with.
| n. A severe criticism or harsh judgment.
v. censure
| n. censure
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v. To consider; to believe.
v. deem
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v. To make known something secret; to reveal.
v. divulge
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adj. Exceeding normal bounds; greater or more than seems reasonable.
adj. exorbitant
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v. To argue earnestly in an attempt to dissuade or show strong disapproval.
v. expostulate
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adj. Having great or significant consequences.
adj. fateful
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n. An ungrateful person.
n. ingrate
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n. 1. An order or command.
| 2. A court order prohibiting someone from doing something.
n. injunction
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adj. Close to death; in a dying state.
adj. moribund
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n. 1. A theme or idea in a work of art or literature that is developed or repeated.
2. A figure or design repeated in the decoration of something, such as a building or textile.
n. motif
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v. To support by giving financial aid.
| n. A grant of money, often provided by a government to a group or individual.
v. subsidize
| n. subsidy
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adj. Extravagantly splendid or costly; luxurious.
adj. sumptuous
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adj. Characterized by a ready flow of words; talkative.
adj. voluble
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adj. Clever at dealing with difficult situations; adept; skillful.
adj. adroit
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v. To insult or to offend deliberately.
| n. A deliberate insult or offensive act.
v. affront
| n. affront
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n. An activity pursued for pleasure; a hobby.
n. avocation
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n. A prolonged, impassioned struggle for what is believed to be a just cause.
v. To engage in such a struggle.
n. crusade
| v. crusade
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adj. Supplying a final answer; conclusive.
adj. definitive
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n. Behavior; bearing.
n. demeanor
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adj. Having or demonstrating extensive knowledge; learned.
adj. erudite
| n. erudition
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v. 1. To install in office, sometimes with a formal ceremony.
2. To admit to a society or to military service.
v. induct
| n. induction
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v. 1. To fall or slip from a certain level of conduct or accomplishment.
2. To come to an end; to expire.
n. 1. A minor mistake; a slip.
2. A pause or interval.
v. lapse
| n. lapse
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adj. Ready to fight, especially for a cause.
| n. One who is ready to fight for a cause.
adj. militant
| n. militant
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n. A social outcast.
n. pariah
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n. 1. A person who shows remarkable talent at an early age.
| 2. An amazing or extraordinary thing or event.
n. prodigy
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n. One whose training or career is helped along by another.
protégé masc. n.; protégée, fem. n.
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adj. 1. Rough and unpleasant to the ear.
| 2. Boisterous and disorderly.
adj. raucous
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adj. Expressed without words; implied.
adj. tacit
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n. The power to attract or charm.
n. allure
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n. 1. The ancient world, especially before the Middle Ages.
2. The quality of great age.
n. Valuable objects from ancient times.
n. antiquity
| n. antiquities
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v. 1. To estimate the value of.
| 2. To form a judgment of; to evaluate.
v. appraise
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v. 1. To cling to or be faithful to.
| 2. To split with force or a sharp instrument.
v. cleave
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v. 1. To make or become less in value.
| 2. To make or become less in value.
v. depreciate
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n. 1. Any of the many small, flat surfaces on a precious stone made by cutting.
2. One of many sides or aspects of something.
n. facet
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n. An exact copy.
n. facsimile
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adj. 1. Incapable of being penetrated.
| 2. Not affected or disturbed by.
adj. impervious
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adj. Hard to describe because of a lack of distinctive qualities or features.
adj. nondescript
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n. A state of being in doubt about what to do.
n. quandary
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v. 1. To lie at rest.
2. To place (power, etc.) in some person or group.
n. A state of rest or relaxation.
v. repose
| n. repose
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v. 1. To flash or sparkle.
| 2. To be lively and witty.
v. scintillate
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v. To examine with great care.
| n. Close examination.
v. scrutinize
| n. scrutinity
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adj. Not naturally produced; made by artificial processes.
adj. synthetic
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v. To change the form or appearance of.
v. transmute
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v. To cut off a body part, especially by surgery.
v. amputate
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n. A natural talent.
n. aptitude
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n. One who benefits or gains an advantage from something.
n. beneficiary
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n. A welcome gift or blessing.
n. boon
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v. To feel or express sorrow or compassion for; to sympathize.
v. commiserate
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v. To collect or gather; to acquire or obtain.
v. garner
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adj. Without payment; free of charge.
adj. gratis
| adv. gratis
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v. To make helpless or incapable.
v. incapacitate
| n. incapacity
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n. The beginning of an action or process.
n. inception
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adj. Generous, unselfish, or forgiving.
| n. Quality of being above meanness or spite; generosity of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly.
adj. magnanimous
| n. magnanimity
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n. A very large number.
| adj. Very many.
n. myriad
| adj. myriad
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adj. 1. Capable of being done; feasible.
| 2. Usable.
adj. practicable
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v. To pay or reward.
v. remunerate
| n. remuneration
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v. To ask for in a formal way.
v. solicit
| n. solicitation
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adj. Used so much that it is no longer fresh or new.
adj. trite
