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sanguine
- adjective
- 1.
- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- 2.
- reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion.
- 3.
- (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc.
- 5.
- blood-red; red.
- Synonyms 1. enthusiastic, buoyant, animated, lively, spirited.
- Antonyms 1. morose.
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corpulent
- adjective
- large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.
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pompous
- adjective
- 1.
- characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance: a pompous minor official.
- 2.
- ostentatiously lofty or high-flown: a pompous speech.
- 3.
- characterized by pomp, stately splendor, or magnificence.Synonyms 1. pretentious. 2. inflated, turgid, bombastic.
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facetious
- adjective
- 1.
- not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- 3.lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person.Synonyms 2. See humorous.
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manifest
- adjective
- 1.
- readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
2.Psychoanalysis. of or pertaining to conscious feelings, ideas, and impulses that contain repressed psychic material: the manifest content of a dream as opposed to the latent content that it conceals.
- verb (used with object)
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- to make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding; show plainly: He manifested his approval with a hearty laugh.
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- to prove; put beyond doubt or question: The evidence manifests the guilt of the defendant.
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- to record in a ship's manifest.
- Synonyms 1. clear, distinct, unmistakable, patent, open, palpable, visible, conspicuous. 3. reveal, disclose, evince, evidence, demonstrate, declare, express. See display.
- Antonyms 1. obscure. 3. conceal.
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malady
- 1.
- any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deepseated.
2.any undesirable or disordered condition: social maladies; a malady of the spirit.
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allude
- verb (used without object), -lud·ed, -lud·ing.
- 1.
- to refer casually or indirectly; make an allusion (usually followed by to): He often alluded to his poverty.
2.to contain a casual or indirect reference (usually followed by to): The letter alludes to something now forgotten.
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grievance
- noun
- 1.
- a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- 2.a complaint or resentment, as against an unjust or unfair act: to have a grievance against someone.
- Synonyms
1. affront, injustice, hurt, injury, distress.
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scintillate
- verb (used without object)
- 1.
- to emit sparks.
- 2.
- to sparkle; flash: a mind that scintillates with brilliance.
- 3.
- to twinkle, as the stars.
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vitiate
- verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.
- 1.
- to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
- 2.
- to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.
- 3.
- to debase; corrupt; pervert.
4.to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate: to vitiate a claim.
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remonstrance
- noun
- 1.
- an act or instance of saying or pleading in protest, objection, or disapproval.
2.a protest: deaf to remonstrances.
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profligate
- adjective
- 1.
- utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- 2.
- recklessly prodigal or extravagant.
- noun
- 1.
A licentious, dissolute person. - Synonyms:
- adj: wasteful, licentious
- n: libertine
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nuance
- noun, plural -anc·es
- 1.
- a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc.
- 2.
- a very slight difference or variation in color or tone.
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fortuitous
- adjective
- 1.
- happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- 2.
- lucky; fortunate: a series of fortuitous events that advanced her career.
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fecund
- adjective
- 1.
- producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.
2.very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
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