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Aggrandize

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To increase in power, influence, or reputation

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Abscond

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To leave secretly

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Amalgamate

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To combine; to mix together

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Anomaly

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Deviation from what is normal

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Antipathy

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Extreme dislike

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Abate

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To reduce in amount, degree, or severity

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Anachornism

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Something out of place in time

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Analogous

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Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to

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Ameliorate

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To make better; to improve

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Ardor

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Intense and passionate feeling

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Attenuate

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To reduce in force or degree; to weaken

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Assauge

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to make something unpleasant less severe

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Audacious

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Fearless and daring

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Austere

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Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated

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Apathy

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Lack of interest or emotion

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Bolster

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To support; to prop up

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech and manner

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Cacophony

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Harsh, jarring noise

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Capricious

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Changing one’s mind quickly and often

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Castigate

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To punish or criticize harshly

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Caustic

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Biting in wit

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Banal

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Boring, predictable, clichéd

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Corroborate

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To provide suporting evidence

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Credulous

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Too trusting; gullible

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Deference

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Respect, courtesy

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Crescendo

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Steadily increasing volume or force

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Convoluted

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Intricate and complicated

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Desiccate

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To dry out thoroughly

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Desultory

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Jumping from one thing to another: disconnected

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Diatribe

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An abusive, condemnatory speech

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Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Dillettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

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Dirge

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A funeral hymn or mournful speech

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Disabuse

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To set right; to free from error

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Discern

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To perceive; to recognize

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Disparate

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Fundamentally different; entirely unlike

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance; to disguise one’s real intentions or charracter

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Dissonance

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A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds

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Dogma

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A firmly held opinion

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Dogmatic

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Dictatorial in one’s opinions

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Efficacy

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Effectiveness

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Elegy

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A sorrowful poem or speech

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Eloquent

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Persuasive and moving, especially in speech

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

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Engender

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To produce, cause, or bring about

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Enigma

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A puzzle; a mystery

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Enumerate

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To count, list, or itemize

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Ephermeral

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Lasting a short time

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Equivocate

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To use double meaning; to mislead

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Erratic

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Wandering and unpredictable

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Erudite

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Learned, scholarly, bookish

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Esoteric

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Known or understood by only a few

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Eulogy

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Speech in praise of someone

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Euphemism

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Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one

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Exculpate

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To clear from blame; prove innocent

i.e. - Exonerate

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Exigent

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Urgent; requiring immediate action

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Exonerate

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To clear of blame

i.e. - Exculpate

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Fanatical

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Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestionable devotion

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Fawn

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To grovel

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Fervid

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Intensely emotional; feverish

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished

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Foment

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To arouse or incite

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk a lot

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Gregarious

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Outgoing, sociable

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Guile

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Deceit or trickery

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Iconolast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

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Imperturbable

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Not capable of being disturbed

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Impervious

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Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

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Impetuous

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Quick to act without thinking

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Implacable

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Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed; disorganized

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Ingenuous

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Showing innocence or childlike simplicity

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Inimical

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Hostile, unfriendly

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Insipid

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Lacking interest or flavor

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled

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Irascible

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Easily made angry

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Laconic

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Using few words

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Lament

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To express sorrow; to grieve

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Laud

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To give praise; to glorify

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Lucid

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Clear and easily understood

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Malinger

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To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill

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Meticulous

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Extremely careful about details

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes others

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Mitigate

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To soften; to lessen

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Mollify

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To calm or make less severe

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Oburate

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Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuation

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive and eager to please

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Obstinate

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Stubborn, unyielding

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Obviate

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To prevent; to make unnecessary

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Occlude

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To stop up; to prevent the passage of

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Onerous

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Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Ostentation

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Excessive showiness

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Paradox

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Contradiction or dilemma

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Paragon

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Model of excellence or perfection

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Perfidious

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Willing to betray one’s trust

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Perfunctory

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Done in a routine way; indifference

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Placate

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To sooth or pacify

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Pragmatic

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Practical as opposed to idealistic

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Precipitate

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To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation

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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

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Prodigal

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Lavish, wasteful

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Proliferate

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To increase in number quickly

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Propitate

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to appease

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Propriety

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Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs

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Prudence

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Wisdom, caution, or restraint

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Pungent

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Sharp and irritating to the senses

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Quiscent

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Motionless

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Rarefy

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To make thinner or sparser

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Repudiate

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To reject the validity of

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Reticent

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Silent, reserved

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Rhetoric

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Effective writing or speaking

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Satiate

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To satisfy fully or overindulge

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Stolid

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Unemotional; lacking sensitivity

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Sublime

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Lofty or grand

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Tacit

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Done without using words

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Taciturn

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Silent, not talkative

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Torpor

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Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

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Transitory

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Temporary, lasting a brief time

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Vacillate

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To sway physically; to be idecisive

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Venerate

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To respect deeply

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Veracity

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Filled with truth and accuracy

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Verbose

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Wordy

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Vex

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To annoy

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Volatile

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Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive

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Waver

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To fluctuate between choices

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Whimsical

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Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable

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Zeal

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Passion, excitement

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Attestation

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Evidence

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Acerbic

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Sharp or forthwright

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Brusque

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Abrupt or offhand

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Orotund

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Full, round or imposing

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Depilation

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Removal of

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Sanguine

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Optimistic

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Megalithic

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Prehistoric

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august

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Magnificent, respected, impressive

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Harbinger

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A foreshadower

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Effigy

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Sculpture of a person

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Reticent

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Not revealing thoughts/feelings readily

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Deluge

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A sever flood

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Quile

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Sly or cunning intelligence

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Quaff

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Guzzle

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Picayune

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Minute

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Egregious

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Negative moral value

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Ebbing

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To reduce

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Capitulated

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To give up; to stop

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Averred

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Plea; allege as fact

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Exigencies

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Urgent need or demands

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Conflagaration

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Fire or war

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Repudiation

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To deny or reject

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Pithy

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A brief paper

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Blithe

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Joyous, lighthearted

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Parsimonious

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An unwillingness to party with one’s goods

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Avaricous

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Greedy for wealth or material gain

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Covetous

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Having an extreme desire to possess something

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Penurious

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Poor

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Rapacious

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Greedy; grasping

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Assauging

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To make something unpleasant less severe

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Inimical

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Hostile/unfriendly

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Abtruse

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Obscure

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Scurrilous

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Damaging/attacing

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Abjurred

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Renounce

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Fatuous

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Silly, pointless

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Ribald

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Sexual - amusingly rude

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Ignomious

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Deserving or causing public disgrace

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Acument

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Mentally sound, good judgement

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Acridity

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Unpleasantly strong taste or smell

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Trechancy

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Rigorous or incisive

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Mellifluous

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Pleasant

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Strident

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Loung, harsh, or grating

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Extirpate

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End completely

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Recondite

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Little known, obscure

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Detritus

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Waste/debris

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Punctilious

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Attention to detail or behavior (punctual)

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Vociferous

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Vehement or clamorous

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Convalescing

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Recuperate (recover health)

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Enfeebled

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Weakened

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Salubrious

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Healthy or pleasant

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Paragyrical

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Publicly spoken

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Ebullient

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Cheerful, full of energy

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Apogee

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Climax

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Scope (of paragraph)

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Narrow, specific aspect

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Topic (of paragraph)

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Broad, general

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ABBREVIATED COMMUNICATION

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Abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse

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ACT QUICKLY

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Abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate

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ASSIST

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Abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance

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BAD MOOD

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Bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish

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BEGINNER/AMATEUR

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Dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro

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BEGINNING/YOUNG

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Burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent

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BITING (AS IN WIT OR TEMPERAMENT)

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Acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, renchant

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BOLD

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Audacious, courageous, dauntless

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BORING

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Banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite

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CAROUSAL (PARTY)

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Bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude

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CHANGING QUICKLY

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Capricious, mercurial, volatile

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COPY

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Counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious

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CRITICIZE/CRITICISM

A

Aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride, derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirage, vituperate

204
Q

DEATH/MOURNING

A

Bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith

205
Q

DENYING OF SELF

A

Abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate

206
Q

DICTATORIAL

A

Authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical

207
Q

DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND

A

Abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid

208
Q

DISGUSTING/OFFENSIVE

A

Defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative

209
Q

EASY TO UNDERSTAND

A

Articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid

210
Q

ECCENTRIC/DISSIMILAR

A

Aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast

211
Q

EMBARRASS

A

Abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue

212
Q

EQUAL

A

Equitable, equity, tantamount

213
Q

FALSEHOOD

A

apocryphal

canard

chicanery

dissemble

duplicity

equivocate

erroneous

ersatz

fallacious

feigned

guile

mendacious/mendacity

perfidy

prevaricate

specious

spurious

214
Q

conjugal

consanguine

distaff

endogamous

filial

fratricide

progenitor

scion

A

FAMILY

215
Q

ardor/ardent

doctrinaire

fervid

partisan

tendentious

zealot

A

FAVORING, NOT IMPARTIAL

216
Q

absolve

acquit

exculpate

exonerate

expiate

palliate

redress

vindicate

A

FORGIVE

217
Q

chortle

droll

facetious

flippant

gibe

jocular

levity

ludicrous

raillery

riposte

simper

A

FUNNY

218
Q

abatement

aperture

fissure

hiatus

interregnum

interstice

lull

orifice

rent

respite

rift

A

GAPS/OPENINGS

219
Q

altruistic

beneficent

clement

largess

magnanimous

munificent

philanthropic

unstinting

A

GENEROUS/KIND

220
Q

avaricious

covetous

mercenary

miserly

penurious

rapacious

venal

A

GREEDY

221
Q

asperity

baleful

dour

fell

malevolent

mordant

sardonic

scathing

truculent

vitriolic

vituperation

A

HARD-HEARTED

222
Q

baleful

baneful

deleterious

inimical

injurious

insidious

minatory

perfidious

pernicious

A

HARMFUL

223
Q

cacophony

din

dissonant

raucous

strident

A

HARSH SOUNDING

224
Q

abhorrence

anathema

antagonism

antipathy

detestation

enmity

loathing

malice

odium

rancor

A

HATRED

225
Q

beneficial

salubrious

salutary

A

HEALTHY

226
Q

dither

oscillate

teeter

vacillate

waver

A

HESITATE

227
Q

antithetic

churlish

curmudgeon

irascible

malevolent

misanthropic

truculent

vindictive

A

HOSTILE

228
Q

credulous

gullible

ingenuous

naive

novitiate

tyro

A

INNOCENT

229
Q

disingenuous

dissemble

fulsome

ostensible

unctuous

A

INSINCERE

230
Q

appraise

ascertain

assay

descry

peruse

A

INVESTIGATE

231
Q

indolent

inert

lackadaisical

languid

lassitude

lethargic

phlegmatic

quiescent

slothful

torpid

A

LAZY/SLUGGISH

232
Q

adventitious

amulet

auspicious

fortuitous

kismet

optimum

portentous

propitiate

propitious

providential

talisman

A

LUCK

233
Q

admonish

belabor

cavil

enjoin

exhort

harangue

hector

martinet

remonstrate

reproof

A

NAG

234
Q

fetid

noisome

noxious

A

NASTY

235
Q

askance

awry

careen

carom

circuitous

circumvent

gyrate

labyrinth

meander

oblique

serrated

sidle

sinuous

undulating

vortex

A

NOT STRAIGHT

236
Q

bombastic

circumlocution

garrulous

grandiloquent

loquacious

periphrastic

prolix

rhetoric

turgid

verbose

A

OVERBLOWN/WORDY

237
Q

ameliorate

appease

assuage

defer

mitigate

mollify

placate

propitiate

satiate

slake

soothe

A

PACIFY/SATISFY

238
Q

euphonious

harmonious

melodious

sonorous

A

PLEASANT SOUNDING

239
Q

destitute

esurient

impecunious

indigent

A

POOR

240
Q

acclaim

accolade

aggrandize

encomium

eulogize

extol

fawn

laud/laudatory

venerate/veneration

A

PRAISE

241
Q

augur

auspice

fey

harbinger

portentous

presage

prescient

prognosticate

A

PREDICT

242
Q

discomfort

encumber

fetter

forfend

hinder

impede

inhibit

occlude

A

PREVENT/OBSTRUCT

243
Q

astute

canny

erudite

perspicacious

A

SMART/LEARNED

244
Q

disconsolate

doleful

dolor

elegiac

forlorn

lament

lugubrious

melancholy

morose

plaintive

threnody

A

SORROW

245
Q

implacable

inexorable

intractable

intransigent

obdurate

obstinate

recalcitrant

refractory

renitent

untoward

vexing

A

STUBBORN

246
Q

compendious

curt

laconic

pithy

succinct

taciturn

A

TERSE

247
Q

anachronism

antecede

antedate

anterior

archaic

diurnal

eon

ephemeral

epoch

fortnight

millennium

penultimate

synchronous

temporal

A

TIME/ORDER/DURATION

248
Q

craven

diffident

pusillanimous

recreant

timorous

trepidation

A

TIMID

249
Q

candor/candid

fealty

frankness

indisputable

indubitable

legitimate

probity

sincere

veracious

verity

A

TRUTH

250
Q

aberration

anomaly

iconoclast

idiosyncrasy

A

UNUSUAL

251
Q

ambulatory

itinerant

peripatetic

A

WALKING ABOUT

252
Q

discursive

expatiate

forage

itinerant

peregrination

peripatetic

sojourn

A

WANDERING

253
Q

adulterate

enervate

exacerbate

inhibit

obviate

stultify

undermine

vitiate

A

WEAKEN

254
Q

adage

aphorism

apothegm

axiom

bromide

dictum

epigram

platitude

sententious

truism

A

WISDOM

255
Q

abeyance

abjure

abnegation

abortive

abrogate

decamp

demur

recant

recidivism

remission

renege

rescind

retrograde

A

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