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Mercenary
- A)A hireling, esp a hired professional soldier
- B)Motivated solely for a desire for material gain
- S: hired hand, freelancer, soldier of fortune, condottiere;greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, grasping, rapacious
- A: altruistic, disinterested
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Moot
- A)debatable and therefore unresolved
- B)to bring up for discussion
- S: arguable, disputable; questionable, doubtful; broach,raise,pose, put forward
- A: incontrovertible, indisputable, irrefutable
- P: Gordian Knot, foregone conclusion
- U.Note: moot court-mock court
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Morass
- a swamp or bog; a confused or degrading situation that is difficult to get out of
- S: marsh, fen , quagmire
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Motley
- A) kind of multicolored cloth, a garment made form this cloth esp court jester
- B) multicolored; diverse or varied
- S: polychrome, polychromatic piebald; variegated heterogeneous, miscellaneious.
- A: monochrome, monochromatic; monolithic, homogeneous, uniform
- P: pluralistic society, diversified economy, checkered career
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Mundane
- Worldly(opposed to spiritual); humdrum or everyday
- S: earthly, terrestrial; secular, temporal material, physical; ordinary, prosaic, routine, commonplace,banal
- A: celestial, heavenly,cosmic; unworldly, spiritual; metaphysical, transcendental extraordinary, unique.
- P: worldy goods, worldy wisdom; a man of the world
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Myriad
- Countless, innumerable
- S: multitudinous, multifarious, manifold, infinite
- A: finite, limited
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Narcissistic
- Dominated by an excess love or admiration of oneself
- S: egoistic, egomanical, self-centered, conceited, vain
- A: self-deprecating,self-critical self-destructive
- P: amour propre
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Nebulous
- Hazy, vague,or indistinct
- S: amorphorous, opaque, shapeless, fuzzy, indefinite
- A: clear, distinct, well-defined, unambigous
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Negligible
- Too small to be significant
- S: insignificant, inconsequential, trivial, piddling, trifling, nugatory
- A: significant, considerable; telling meaningful;critical, crucial, pivotal
- P: small potatoes, trivia
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Nepotim
- unwarranted favoritism shown to relatives or friends by someone in high office
- S: partisanship, bias, partiality, patronage
- P: client state, spoils system; merit system
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Nomadic
- wandering, roving
- S: itinerant, migratory, peripatetic
- A: settled, fixed, stationary
- P: footloose and fancy-free; fly-by-night operation, roving reporter, Peripatetic philosopher, migrant farmworker; wanderlust
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Nominal
- A)Existing in name only
- B) Insignificantly small
- S:titular; token, symbolic; trifling, inconsequential
- A:real, actual; exorbitant, excessive.
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Nostalgia
- A longing to return to a sentimentalized past; homesickness
- S: yearning, pining, hankering; wistfulness sadness, sentimentality, sorrow, regret; lonesomeness.
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Novice
- A) a person who has just entered a religious order on a probationary basis
- B) a beginner of any kind
- S: postulant, neophyte, tyro, fledgling, trainee, rookie, probationer, greenhorn, tenderfoot
- A: expert, pro, veteran, old hand, past master, virtuoso
- P: still wet behind the ear; a babe in the woods, freshman senator,black belt in karate
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Nuance
- a slight or subtle variation i meaning, expression, tone, feeling, color,or the like
- S: subtlety, nicety, overtone, gradation, refinement, delicacy
- P: fine point; read b/w the lines, read the small print
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