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ignoble
shameful in character
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goad
to incute or motivate into action
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beleager
surround in problems
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prosody
scientific study of poety
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adumbrate
to give sketchy representation, to foreshadow in vague way, to obscure
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manumit
to set free from slavery
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lassitude
state of weariness; disinterest
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gravitas
high seriousness
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surcease
to stop, end, cessation
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emblazen
to deck in blazing colors, to decorate
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penitent
remorseful, contrite
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retinue
group of body guards
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redoubtable
commanding, respect, evoking fear or alarm.
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ostriperous
aggressively loud
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vestige
something thats no longer in existence
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garner
to earn by owns one efforts
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stullify
cause to feel ineffective
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dither
to act without clear purpose
ant: hither
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inure
accustom, to be accustomed to
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pathogenic
causing disease
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gauche
lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated and socially awkward
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interlocter
someone who engages in dialoque
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profilgate
one who is a spendthift, lewd imooral person
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ruminate
to eat again, think over
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kistch
art, by pretentious bad taste
things from the kitchen
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hersuit
covered with hair, bristles
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inviegle
entice, ingenuity to obtain by flattery
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Eolion
born, deposited, produced or eroded by wind
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scapegrace
a mischievous or wayward person, esp. a young person or child; a rascal.
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abrogate
repeal,revoke, rescind, repudiate, overturn, annul; Law disallow, cancel,invalidate, nullify, void, negate, dissolve, countermand, declare null and void, discontinue; reverse, retract, remove, withdraw, abolish, put an end to, do away with, get rid of, end, stop, quash, scrap; Lawdisaffirm. ANTONYMS institute, introduce.
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extirpate
the use of every legal measure to extirpate this horrible evil from the land: weed out, destroy, eradicate, stamp out, root out, wipe out, eliminate,suppress, crush, put down, put an end to, get rid of.
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sempiternal
eternal and unchanging; everlasting
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solicitous
she was always solicitous about the welfare of her students: concerned,caring, considerate, attentive, mindful, thoughtful, interested;anxious, worried; compassionate, humane.
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importunate
troublesomely urgent, unreasonable solicitious
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extirpate
utterly removed; determined
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leitmotif
- dominant, reoccuring pattern
- an element that is frequently repeated in a work and often serves as a guiding or central element within the work
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perspicacious
- "his perspicacious advisers recommended caution" : discerning, shrewd, perceptive, astute, penetrating,, percipient, sharp-witted, clearsighted, farsighted, acute, clever, canny,intelligent, insightful, , discriminating;
- ANTONYMS stupid.
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supernal
- being in or coming from heavans
- celestail
- lofty or surpassing excellence
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evince
to show in clear manner, manifest, bring to life
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plangent
beating with a loud or deep sound, plaintiff, expressing sadness
melancholy,mournful, plaintive; sonorous, resonant, loud.
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immure
- enclose w/in walls, (muralla)
- imprisn, intomb
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rara avis
rare r unique person or thing
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rubicund
red, rutty, inclining to redness
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perfidy
act of violating faith, promise etc
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jejune
naive, simplistic, dry & un interesting
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fatcotum
person emplyoed to do all sorts of work.
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extirpate
- to pull up by stem or root
- destroy
- take out by surgery
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uxorious
excessively fond of or submissive to wife
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anodyne
bland, inocuous, serving to relieve pain, disturbed feeling
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bootless
unavailing, useless
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recreduscent
breaking out again after temporary abatement or suppression
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perfervid
ardent, impassioned
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cozen
to cheat, defraud, decieve
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obtrude
to force or impose something on someone in such a way
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coeval
of the same age, orginating or existing at the same time
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halycon
calm, quiet peacful
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aubade
a poem or piece of music appropriate to the morning or dawn
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persiflage
light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter, frivolous or bantering talk
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obfuscate
to darken or render difficult; to confuse or bewilder
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ribald
referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way; crude; characterized by vulgur humor
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monomaniac
exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing.
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superneal
- of or relating to the sky or the heavens; celestial.• of exceptional quality or extent
- loft, of surpassing excellence
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rubicund
red, rutty, inclining towards redness
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evince
to show in a clear manner, manifest, bring to life
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plangent
(of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy.
melancholy,mournful, plaintive; sonorous, resonant, loud.
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immure
enclose within walls, incarcerate, intomb in a wall.
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rara avis
rare or unique person or thing
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onus
burden of proof, stigma
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perfidy
act of violating faith, promise
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callow
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- immature, lacking adult experience or judgement
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imbue
permeate, saturate,diffuse, suffuse, pervade, bathe, drench, steep; impregnate, inject,inculcate, ingrain, instill, invest, inspire, breathe; fill.
tinge, dye deeply
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defenestrate
- the action of throwing someone or something out of a window.
- getting rid of something quickly
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lucre
money, esp. when regarded as sordid or distasteful or gained in adishonorable way
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epigone
a less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, esp. an artist orphilosopher
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nostrum
medicine, patent medicine, potion,elixir, panacea, cure-all, wonder drug, quack remedy; informal magic bullet.
magic formula, recipe for success, remedy, cure,prescription, answer.
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ignoramus
an ignorant or stupid person.
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ergo
therefore, consequently
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tocsin
warning, ring of a bell for the purpose of alarm
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peregrination
traveling or wandering around from place to place.
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denizen
inhabitant, resident,townsman, townswoman, native, local; occupier, occupant, dweller;archaic burgher.
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flummox
baffle, perplex, puzzle, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse,confound; informal faze, stump, beat, fox, be all Greek to, floor,discombobulate.
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libation
liquid offering, offering, tribute,oblation.
2 humorous would you like a libation? (alcoholic) drink, beverage,liquid refreshment; dram, draft, nip, shot; informal tipple, nightcap,pick-me-up; archaic potation.
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tergiversation
- 1 make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate : the more she tergiversated, the greater grew the ardency of the reporters for an interview
- .2 change one's loyalties; be apostate.
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termagant
- 1 a harsh-tempered or overbearing woman.
- 2 ( Termagant) historical an imaginary deity of violent and turbulent character, often appearing in morality plays.
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avoirdupois
a system of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces or 7,000 grains,widely used in English-speaking countries
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fustian
- 1 thick, durable twilled cloth with a short nap, usually dyed in dark colors.
- 2 pompous or pretentious speech or writing : a smoke screen of fustian andfantasy.
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palaver
fuss, commotion,trouble, rigmarole, folderol; informal song and dance, performance, to-do, carrying-on, hoo-ha, hullabaloo, ballyhoo
prolonged and idle discussion :.
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dudgeon
indignantly, resentfully, angrily, furiously; in a temper, in anger, with displeasure;
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rusticate
- verb1 [ intrans. ] go to, live in, or spend time in the country.
- 2 [ trans. ] fashion (masonry) in large blocks with sunk joints and aroughened surface : [as adj. ] ( rusticated) the stable block was built ofrusticated stone.
- 3 [ trans. ] Brit. suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment (used chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge).
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coxcomb
- 1 dated a vain and conceited man; a dandy.
- 2 variant spelling of cockscomb (sense 2).
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pugalist
boxer, fighter, prizefighter; informal bruiser, pug.
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sardonic
- mocking, satirical, sarcastic, ironical, ironic;
- cynical,scornful, contemptuous, derisive, derisory, sneering, jeering;
- scathing,caustic, trenchant, cutting, sharp, acerbic.
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petulant
- he's as petulant as a spoiled child:
- peevish, querulous,pettish, fretful, cross, irritable, sulky, snappish, crotchety,,tetchy, testy, fractious, grumpy,,cranky.
- ANTONYMS good-humored.
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contempt
- 1 she regarded him with contempt:
- scorn, disdain, disrespect, scornfulness,contemptuousness, derision;
- disgust, loathing, hatred, abhorrence.ANTONYMS respect.
- 2 he is guilty of contempt of court: disrespect, disregard, slighting.
- ANTONYMS respect.
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habitue
the habitués of Scully's Bar: frequent visitor, regular visitor, regular customer, regular client, regular patron, familiar face, regular,patron, frequenter, haunter.
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factitious
specious, false, counterfeit, fraudulent, spurious, sham,, feigned,affected, pretended, contrived, ersatz;
ANTONYMS genuine.
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bedaub
literary "faces bedaubed with white paint"
smear, daub, bespatter, spatter,splatter, cover, coat.
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bifurcate
divide into two branches or forks
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contumacious
(esp. of a defendant's behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient toauthority.
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firmament
- the sky, heaven; the heavens, the skies; literary the empyrean, the welkin.
- sphere of activity or interest
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perfunctary
- done merely to carry out duty
- cursory, desultory, hasty, hurried, fleeting, token, casual, superficial, careless, halfhearted,sketchy, mechanical, automatic, routine, offhand, inattentive.
- ANTONYMS careful, thorough.
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fulminate
- protest, rail against, vociferate against,declaim, inveigh against, condemn, criticize, censure, disparage,attack, execrate;
- formal excoriate.
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sycophant
- I thought you wanted a competent assistant, not a nodding sycophant:
- yes-man,bootlicker, brown-noser, toady, lickspittle, flatterer, flunky, lackey,spaniel, doormat, stooge, cringer, suck, suck-up.
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vitiate
spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of : development programs have beenvitiated by the rise in population.
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purblind
- having impaired or defective vision.
- figurative slow or unable to understand; dim-witted.
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rebarbative
serving or tending to irritate or repel
unattractive and objectionable : rebarbative modern buildings.
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afflatus
a divine imparting of knowledge and inspiration
a divine creative impulse or inspiration.
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sunder
to separate, to become disunited
divide, split,cleave, separate, rend, sever, rive.
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compunction
anxiety or deep unease processing from a sense of guilt or qualm, scruple
scruples, misgivings, qualms,worries, unease, uneasiness, doubts, reluctance, reservations; guilt,regret, contrition, self-reproach.
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