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Verb: To destroy the self-confidence, poise, or self-possession of; disconcert; make ashamed or embarrassed
Abash: (Verb)
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To ___ someone by sneering.
Abash
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Adj: promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable
Auspicious: (Adj.)
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Adj: favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate
Auspicious: (Adj.)
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An ____ occasion.
Auspicious
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Noun: respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another
Deference: (Noun)
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Noun: respectful or courteous regard
Deference: (Noun)
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In ____ to his wishes.
Deference
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Noun: conduct; behavior; deportment
Demeanor: (Noun)
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Noun: facial appearance; mien
Demeanor: (Noun)
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Noun: general external appearance; aspect; semblance
Guise: (Noun and Verb)
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Noun: assumed appearance or mere semblance
Guise: (Noun and Verb)
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Noun: style of dress
Guise: (Noun and Verb)
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Verb: to dress; attire
Guise: (Noun and Verb)
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An old principle in a new ____.
Guise
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Under the ____ of friendship.
Guise
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In the ____ of a shepherd.
Guise
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Children ____ as cowboys.
Guised
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Adj: extending back beyond memory, record, or knowledge
Immemorial: (Adj.)
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From time ______.
Immemorial
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Adj: of or pertaining to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies
Occult: (Adj., Noun, Verb)
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Adj: beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious
Occult: (Adj., Noun, Verb)
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Adj: secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated
Occult: (Adj., Noun, Verb)
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Adj: secret from view
Occult: (Adj., Noun, Verb)
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Noun: the supernatural or supernatural agencies and affairs considered as a whole (usually preceded by the)
Occult: (Adj., Noun, and Verb)
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Noun: occult studies or sciences (usually preceded by the)
Occult: (Adj., Noun, Verb)
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Verb: to block or shut off (an object) from view; hide
Occult: (Adj., Noun, Verb)
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Verb: to become hidden or shut off from view
Occult: (Adj, Noun, Verb)
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Verb: to present, especially deliberately, the appearance of being profess or claim, often falsely
Purport: (Verb and Noun)
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Verb: to convey to the mind as the meaning or thing intended; express or imply
Purport: (Verb and Noun)
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Noun: the meaning, import, or sense
Purport: (Verb and Noun)
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Noun: purpose; intention; object
Purport: (Verb and Noun)
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A document _____ to be official.
Purporting
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The main ___ of your letter.
Purport
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The main ____ of their visit to France.
Purport
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Adj: of or pertaining to tailors or their trade
Sartorial: (Adj.)
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Adj: of or pertaining to clothing or style or manner of dress
Sartorial: (Adj.)
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____ workmanship.
Sartorial
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_____ splendor.
Sartorial
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Noun: a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations
Syndicate: (Noun)
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Noun: a combination of bankers or capitalists formed for the purpose of carrying out some project requiring large resources of capital, as the underwriting of an issue of stock or bonds.
Syndicate: (Noun)
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Noun: a group, combination, or association of gangsters controlling organized crime or one type of crime, especially in one region of the country.
Syndicate: (Noun)
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Noun: a council or body of syndics
Syndicate: (Noun)
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The local furniture store is individually owned, but is part of a buying ____.
Syndicate
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Adj: subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion
Arbitrary: (Adj.)
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Adj: decided by a judge or arbiter rather than by a law or statue
Arbitrary: (Adj.)
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Adj: having unlimited power; uncontrolled or unrestricted by law; despotic; tyrannical
Arbitrary: (Adj)
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Adj: capricious; unreasonable; unsupported
Arbitrary: (Adj.)
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An ____ decision.
Arbitrary
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An ____ government.
Arbitrary
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An ____ demand for payment.
Arbitrary
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Verb: to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully
Browbeat: (Verb)
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They ____ him into agreeing.
Browbeat
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Noun: government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials
Bureaucracy: (Noun)
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Noun: the body of officials and administrators, especially of a government or government department
Bureaucracy: (Noun)
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Noun: excessive multiplication of, and concentration of power in, administrative bureaus or administrators
Bureaucracy: (Noun)
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Noun: administration characterized by excessive red tape and routine
Bureaucracy: (Noun)
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Noun: anything prohibited by law from being imported or exported
Contraband: (Noun)
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Noun: goods imported or exported illegally
Contraband: (Noun)
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Noun: illegal or prohibited trade; smuggling
Contraband: (Noun)
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Adj: lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly
Inane: (Adj. and Noun)
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Adj: empty; void
Inane: (Adj. and Noun)
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Noun: something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space
Inane: (Adj. and Noun)
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_____ questions.
Inane
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Adj: shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic
Politic: (Adj.)
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Adj: contrived in a shrewd and practical way; expedient
Politic: (Adj.)
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Adj: political
Politic: (Adj.)
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A ___ reply.
Politic
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The body _____.
Politic
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Adj: done deliberately; planned in advance
Premeditated: (Adj.)
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A ____ murder.
Premeditated
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Noun: the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another
Proxy: (Noun)
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Noun: the person so authorized; substitute; agent
Proxy: (Noun)
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Noun: a written authorization empowering another person to vote or act for the signer, as at a meeting of stockholders
Proxy: (Noun)
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Noun: an ally or confederate who can be relied upon to speak or act in one's behalf
Proxy: (Noun)
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Noun: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place
Scapegoat: (Noun and Verb)
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Verb: to make a scapegoat of
Scapegoat: (Noun and Verb)
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Strike leaders tried to ____ foreign competitors.
Scapegoat
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Adj: not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory
Transient: (Adj. and Noun)
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Adj: lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary
Transient: (Adj. and Noun)
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Adj: staying only a short time
Transient: (Adj. and Noun)
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Noun: a person or thing that is transient, especially a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like
Transient: (Adj. and Noun)
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____ authority.
Transient
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The _____ guests at a hotel.
Transient
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