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Annex
to add to, attach: to incorporate; an attachment or addition
S: Join, acquire, appropriate, procure
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Cleave
To come and split open; to cling to
S: sever, halve, sunder, adhere, clasp
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Cordial
in a friendly matter, hearty; cheery; (n) A liqueur
- S: hospitable, affable, warm, convivial
- A: gruff, unfriendly, unsociable
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Cornerstone
the starting point of a building; a fundamental principle or event
S: foundation, base, underpinning, support
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Debacle
an overwelming defeat, rout; a complete classes or failure
- S: disaster, chaos, calamity
- A: success, triumph, victory, coup
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Devitalize
to make weak or lifeless
- S: enfeeble, sap, enervate
- A: enliven, stimulate, energize, excite
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Emboil
to involve in a conflict or activity; to throw into confusion
- S: entangle, ensnarl
- A: disentangle, seperate, disconnect
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Exonerate
to clear from charge or accusation
- S: absolve, acquit, vindicate, exculpate
- A: Implacate, incriminate, inculpate
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Glib
Ready in speech: Thoughtless, insincere
- S: superficial, pat, oily, unctuous, facile
- A: halting, tounge-tied, speechless, awkward
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Haphazard
By chance: not planned; lacking order
- S: random, accidental, slapdash
- A: deliberate, proposeful, orderly, meticulous
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Improvise
To compose or perform w/out perpetration; to construct with able materials
- S: ad-lib, play it by ear, wing it, extemporize
- A: plan, rehearse, practice, prepare
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Incite
to rouse or stir up; urge on
- S: spur, kindle, provoke, instigate, prompt
- A: check, curve, impede, restrain, smother
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Influx
A coming in; inflow
- S: inpouring, inrush, invasion
- A: outpouring, exodus, departure
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Pallor
Extreme or unnatural paleness
- S: wanness, lividness, bloodlessness
- A: flush, blush, rosiness, bloom
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Pedigree
A list of ancestors, family tree; history or origin of something
S: lineage, ancestry, genealogy
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Precipitous
very steep
- S: sheer, abrupt, sharp
- A: gradual, shallow, graded, incremental
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Profuse
Very abundant; given or flowing freely
- S: extravagant, lavish, bounteous, plenteous
- A: sparse, scanty, meager, insufficient
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Reconcile
To restore a friendship; to settle; to resign
- S: unit, conciliate, mend, fences
- A: antagonize, alienate, drive a wedge between
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Shackle
To put into chains (n. usually plural) a chain, fetter
- S: manacle, enslave, handcuffs, bonds, irons
- A: free, unfetterer, emancipate, liberate
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Threadbare
Shabby, old and worn
- S: frayed, seeder, ragged, shopworn, trite
- A: luxurious, plush, costly sumptuous
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