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Verb: to clear, as of an accusation; free from guilt or blame; exculpate
- Exonerate: (Verb)
- (He was exonerated form the accusation of cheating.)
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2. Verb: to relieve, as from an obligation, duty, or task
- Exonerate: (Verb)
- (Their aim was to exonerate one driver after an accident.)
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Verb: to speed up the progress of; hasten
- Expedite: (Verb and Adj.)
- (to expedite shipments.)
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Verb: to accomplish promptly, as a piece of business; dispatch
- Expedite: (Verb and Adj.)
- (to expedite one's duties.)
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Verb: to issue or dispatch, as an official document or letter
- Expedite: (Verb and Adj.)
- (Exercise good judgment on when to expedite delivery based on needs or available options.)
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Adj: ready for action; alert
- Expedite: (Verb and Adj.)
- (The justices said they would expedite the case but gave no specific time frame.)
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Verb: to abstain or refrain from; do without
- Forgo: (Verb)
- (It also reminds me gardens can still be affordable if you forgo the outdoor kitchens and all the rest of the bells and whistles.)
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Verb: to give up, renounce, or resign
- Forgo: (Verb)
- (Any witnesses, including victims, who in-tended to testify during this phase would forgo watching any other portion.)
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Verb: to neglect or overlook
- Forgo: (Verb)
- (No one should have to choose to forgo a family to pursue a career.)
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Verb: to quit or leave
- Forgo: (Verb)
- (Rarely will you get a heavy downpour, which is why many locals opt to forgo the umbrella and wear a hooded rain jacket instead.)
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Verb: to go or pass by
- Forgo: (Verb)
- (Entrepreneurs should never forgo opportunities when they are open.)
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Adj: without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling
- Incoherent: (Adj.)
- (An incoherent sentence.)
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Adj: characterized by such thought or language, as a person
- Incoherent: (Adj.)
- (Incoherent with rage.)
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Adj: not coherent or cohering
- Incoherent: (Adj.)
- (An incoherent mixture.)
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Adj: lacking physical cohesion; loose
- Incoherent: (Adj.)
- (Incoherent dust.)
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Adj: lacking unity or harmony of elements
- Incoherent: (Adj.)
- (An incoherent public.)
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Adj: not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical
- Incredulous: (Adj.)
- (Her friends are incredulous and soon grow extremely jealous.)
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Adj: indicating or showing unbelief
- Incredulous: (Adj.)
- (An incredulous smile.)
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Adj: belonging or pertaining to the common people
- Plebeian: (Adj.)
- (For thousands of years, the vehicle of choice for everyone from peasant and plebeian to patrician and prince was horse-drawn.)
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Adj: of, pertaining to, or belonging to the ancient Roman plebs
Plebeian: (Adj.)
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Adj: common, commonplace, or vulgar
- Plebeian: (Adj.)
- (A plebeian joke.)
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Noun: a member of the common people
- Plebeian: (Adj. and Noun)
- (In this wide-open career the plebeian suffered for his mediocrity, and the sceptic for his doubt.)
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Noun: a member of the ancient Roman plebs
Plebeian: (Adj. and Noun)
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Noun: the act of provoking
- Provocation: (Noun)
- (We are drawn to tension, to controversy, to provocation.)
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Noun: something that incites, instigates, angers, or irritates
- Provocation: (Noun)
- (There is also the risk that any new provocation, or mishap, could quickly get out of hand.)
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Noun: words or conduct leading to killing in hot passion and without deliberation
- Provocation: (Noun)
- (But its not art because there is no questioning provocation or idea.)
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Noun: a question; an inquiry
- Query: (Noun and Verb)
- (Not long ago a query arrived, urgent and unexpected, via cellphone.)
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Noun: mental reservation; doubt
- Query: (Noun and Verb)
- (Fire away with the geolocation query, but be wary of how you broach the topic.)
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Noun: a question mark (?), especially as added on a manuscript, proof sheet, or the like, indicating doubt as to some point in the text
Query: (Noun and Verb)
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Noun: an inquiry from a writer to an editor of a magazine, newspaper, etc., regarding the acceptability of or interest in an idea for an article, news story, or the like: usually presented in the form of a letter that outlines or describes the projected piece
- Query: (Noun and Verb)
- (We are happy to discuss any individual query that you might have about re-using our copyrighted material.)
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Verb: to ask or inquire about
- Query: (Noun and Verb)
- (His answer was as irritating as my repeated query.)
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Verb: to question as doubtful or obscure
- Query: (Noun and Verb)
- (You never answered my query as to whether English is your native language .)
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Verb: to mark (a manuscript, proof sheet, etc.) with a query
- Query: (Noun and Verb)
- (The root of my query is the fact that ribosomes must be incredibly complex molecules.)
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Verb: to ask questions of
- Query: (Noun and Verb)
- (For information about marketing a food or garden product, query your county government about the home demonstration service.)
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Adj: of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal
- Secular: (Adj. and Noun)
- (Secular interests.)
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Adj: not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred)
- Secular: (Adj. and Noun)
- (Secular music.)
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Adj: (of education, a school, etc.) concerned with nonreligious subjects
- Secular: (Adj. and Noun)
- (Unfortunately, it isn't the secular side of the debate which is framing the argument.)
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Adj: (of members of the clergy) not belonging to a religious order; not bound by monastic vows (opposed to regular)
- Secular: (Adj. and Noun)
- (Today the site also draws secular travelers almost a million a year.)
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Adj: occurring or celebrated once in an age or century
- Secular: (Adj. and Noun)
- (the secular games of Rome.)
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Noun: a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons
- Shibboleth: (Noun)
- (The color of an individual's skin is a shibboleth.)
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Noun: a slogan; catchword
- Shibboleth: (Noun)
- (Chick-fil-a is famous for its shibboleth, "Eat more chicken.")
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Noun: a common saying or belief with little current meaning or truth
- Shibboleth: (Noun)
- (A famous shibboleth right now is when a teen asks another individual, "What's up?", the teen is not asking the other individual what is up but how are they doing today.)
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Adj: joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful
- Blithe: (Adj.)
- (Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.)
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Adj: without thought or regard; carefree; heedless
- Blithe: (Adj.)
- (A blithe indifference to anyone's feelings.)
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Verb: to yield or formally surrender to another
- Cede: (Verb)
- (to cede territory.)
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Noun: a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation
- Chagrin: (Noun and Verb)
- (The real action, much to their chagrin, takes place elsewhere.)
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Verb: to vex by disappointment or humiliation
- Chagrin: (Noun and Verb)
- (The rejection of his proposal chagrined him deeply.)
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Verb: to irritate; annoy; provoke
- Vex: (Verb)
- (His noisy neighbors often vexed him.)
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Verb: to torment; trouble; distress; plague; worry
- Vex: (Verb)
- (Lack of money vexes many.)
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Verb: to discuss or debate (a subject, question, etc.) with vigor or at great length
- Vex: (Verb)
- (To vex a question endlessly without agreeing.)
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Verb: to disturb by motion; stir up; toss about
- Vex: (Verb)
- (To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex and torment them to no purpose.)
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Verb: to afflict with physical pain
- Vex: (Verb)
- (Similar problems vex local housing agencies across the country.)
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Adj: courteous, gracious, and having a sophisticated charm
- Debonair: (Adj.)
- (A debonair gentleman.)
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Adj: jaunty; carefree; sprightly
- Debonair: (Adj.)
- (You never looked better--debonair, rested and happily worried.)
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Adj: of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter
- Filial: (Adj.)
- (Filial obedience.)
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Adj: nothing or having the relation of a child to a parent
- Filial: (Adj.)
- (In an age when filial duty was a point of pride, especially for daughters, this was especially hurtful.)
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Adj: pertaining to the sequence of generations following the parental generation, each generation being designated by an F followed by a subscript number indicating its place in the sequence
- Filial: (Adj.)
- (The filial is researched by scientists.)
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Verb: to place between; cause to intervene
- Interpose: (Verb)
- (To interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.)
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Verb: to put (a barrier, obstacle, etc.) between or in the way of
- Interpose: (Verb)
- (And the speaker may interpose his own personality between you and the poem, for better or worse.)
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Verb: to bring (influence, action, etc.) to bear between parties, or on behalf of a party or person
- Interpose: (Verb)
- (But she did not interpose the arm of her own power to arrest the law and break the embargo.)
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Verb: to come between other things; assume an intervening position or relation
- Interpose: (Verb)
- (I interposed on the matter of who killed who in the mansion.)
- Verb: to step in between parties at variance; mediate
- Interpose: (Verb)
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Verb: to put in or make a remark by way of interruption
Interpose: (Verb)
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Adj: belonging to a thing by its very nature
- Intrinsic: (Adj.)
- (the intrinsic value of a gold ring.)
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Adj: (of certain muscles, nerves, etc.) belonging to or lying within a given part
Intrinsic: (Adj.)
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Verb: to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly
- Precipitate: (Verb, Adj., and Noun)
- (to precipitate an international crisis.)
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Verb: to cast down headlong; fling or hurl down
Precipitate: (Verb, Adj., and Noun)
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Verb: to cast, plunge, or send, especially violently or abruptly
- Precipitate: (Verb, Adj. and Noun)
- (He precipitated himself into the struggle.)
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Verb: to separate (a substance) in solid form from a solution, as by means of a reagent
Precipitate: (Verb, Adj., and Noun)
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Verb: to fall to the earth's surface as a condensed form of water; to rain, snow, hail, drizzle, etc.
Precipitate: (Verb, Noun, and Adj.)
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Verb: to separate form a solution as a precipitate
Precipitate: (Verb, Noun, and Adj.)
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Verb: to be cast or thrown down headlong
Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Adj.)
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Adj: headlong
- Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Adj.)
- (A precipitate fall down the stairs.)
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Adj: rushing headlong or rapidly onward
Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Adj.)
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Adj: proceeding rapidly or with great haste
- Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Noun)
- (A precipitate retreat.)
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Adj: exceedingly sudden or abrupt
- Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Noun)
- (A precipitate stop; a precipitate decision.)
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Adj: done or made without sufficient deliberation; overhasty; rash
- Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Adj.)
- (A precipitate marriage.)
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Noun: a substance precipitated from a solution
Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Adj.)
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Noun: moisture condensed in the form of rain, snow, etc.
Precipitate: (Noun, Verb, and Adj.)
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Adj: well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled
- Proficient: (Adj. and Noun)
- (A proficient swimmer.)
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Noun: an expert
Proficient: (Noun and Adj.)
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Noun: the act of remitting
Remission: (Noun)
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Noun: pardon; forgiveness, as of sins or offenses
Remission: (Noun)
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Noun: abatement or diminution, as of diligence, labor, intensity, etc.
Remission: (Noun)
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Noun: the relinquishment of a payment, obligation, etc.
Remission: (Noun)
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Noun: a temporary or permanent decrease or subsidence of manifestations of a disease
Remission: (Noun)
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