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verb: embarrass

abnormal or deviant

abnormality

assist, usually in doing something wrong

noun: suspended action

• adj
• wretched, lacking pride

washing

• 1. renunciation, formal rejection abdication, relinquishment, repudiation, denial; formal abjuration.
• ANTONYMS acceptance.
• 2. self-sacrific, self-denial, temperance, continence, asceticism, austerity, abstemiousness.
• ANTONYMS self-indulgence.

loathe, hate

unsuccessful, fruitless

rubbing away, tending to grind down

abolish

sparing in eating and drinking

border upon, adjoin

sharp upslope of a hill

award of merit

equip

bitter or sour, sharp and cutting

bitterness of speech and temper

vinergary

peak, pinnacle, highest point

motivate

wise saying, proverb

• 1. muddle
• 2. drive crazy

solemn urging

• 1. staff officer assisting the commander;
• 2. assistant

• 1. warn,
• 2. reprove, reprimand, rebuke, reproach, scold, admonish, chastise, chide, upbraid, berate,

• 1. hasty
• 2. rash

• 1. weaken,
• 2. castrate

infection

unable to attack

• 1. agitation
• 2. commotion

submissive

cheat

lead colored, black and blue

storehouse for grain

carpenters tool for leveling wood

• 1. frustrate,
• 2. put to route
• 3. defeat

• 1. dormant,
• 2. temporarily inaction

displaying hypocritical devoutness

• 1. provide payment of,
• 2. undertake payment for

arrival

• 1. accidental,
• 2. causal

• 1. poverty
• 2. misfortune

• 1. shield,
• 2. defense

nest of large bird of prey

• 1. artificial
• 2. pretended,
• 3. assumed in order to impress

written statement made under oath

kinship

• noun:
• 1. insult
• 2. offense

one who is skeptical of the existence of a god or any ultimate reality

• adj:
• 1. highly excited
• 2. intensely curious

• noun:
• 1. cheerful promptness
• 2. eagerness

• 1. nook
• 2. recess

• verb:
• 1. make hostile
• 2. seperate

• 1. calm
• 2. pacify

• 1. make lesss pure
• 2. lessen or moderate

mix of metals

indirect reference

pertaining to soil deposits left by running water

upward

• 1. combine
• 2. unite in one body

moving at an easy pace

food of the gods

wrong or faulty

pardon

moved by sexual love

causing insensitivity to pain

• 1. solemn curse
• 2. someone or something regarded a curse

• 1. stiff in manner
• 2. sharp-cornered

critical remark

noun: active enmity

• noun
• 1. hostility, animosity,antagonism, friction, antipathy, animus, acrimony, bitterness,rancor, resentment, aversion, odium; malice, spite, spitefulness,venom, malevolence.

ANTONYMS friendship.

hostile feeling or intent

• 1. records
• 2. history

reduce brittleness and improve the toughness by heating and cooling

yearly allowance

drug that relieves pain, opiate

manlike

• (adj)
• extravagantly odd

mimic or imitate

loss of speech due to injury or illness

pithy, maxim or saying

• adjective--
• succinct, terse, concise, compact, short (and sweet),brief, condensed, to the point, epigrammatic, crisp, thumbnail;significant, meaningful, expressive, telling; formal compendious.

ANTONYMS verbose.

poise, assurance

aplomb--noun; the judges were especially impressed by her aplomb:

sangfroid, equilibrium, equanimity; informal unflappability.

prophetic, pertaining to revelations

• adjective
• we sailed into a storm of apocalyptic proportion:

SYN: ominous, portentous; catastrophic, momentous.

spurious, not authentic

SYN: fabricated, false, spurious;unverified, unauthenticated, unsubstantiated; bogus.

• ANTONYMS
• authentic.

1. highest point

opposite of perigree

• noun
• a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial :an enthusiastic apologist for fascism in the 1920s.

• noun
• 1. a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.

• adjective
• 1. abandoning a religious or political belief or principle.

after 50 years as an apostate, he returned to the faith: dissenter, defector,deserter, traitor, backslider, turncoat; nonconformist; schismatic;archaic heretic; rare recusant, recreant, tergiversator.

ANTONYMSfollower.

noun ( pl. -caries) archaic

a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.

pithy, compact saying

• 1. elevation to godhood
• 2. an ideal example of something

ghost, phantom

attach

diligent attention

• 1. appropriate
• 2. fitting

• 1. be thankful for
• 2. increase in value,
• 3. be thoroughly conscious of

• 1. arrest
• 2. dread
• 3. perceive

verb

we'll apprise you of any changes in your husband's condition:

inform, tell,notify, advise, brief, make aware, enlighten, update, keep posted;informal clue in, fill in, bring up to speed.

approval

• subordinate possessions
• accessories, trappings,appendages, accoutrements, equipment,
• paraphernalia, impedimenta, bits and pieces, things; informal stuff.

adj, to the point and timely

with reference to

• 1. fitness,
• 2.talent

curved, hooked

style of decoration involving intertwinging plants and abstract curves; ballet position with one like supporting the body while the other leg is extended outback

person with power to decide a matter in dispute; judge

act as a judge

covered passageway, usually lined with shops

• adjective
• processes as old and arcane as the languageof the law:
• mysterious, secret;enigmatic, esoteric, cryptic, obscure, abstruse, recondite, recherché,impenetrable, opaque.

heat passion zeal

• adjective
• an arduous journey:

• onerous, taxing, difficult, hard, heavy, laborious,burdensome, strenuous, vigorous, back-breaking; demanding, tough,challenging, formidable; exhausting, tiring, punishing, grueling;
• uphill, steep; informal killing; toilsome. ANTONYMS easy.

charge in court, indict

• 1. marshall
• 2. draw up in order

being in debt

lacking rhythm or regularity

gully

• 1. effective,
• 2. distinct

deception, trickery

• 1. without guile, sly or cunning intelligence
• 2. open and honest

controlling influence

• practicing self-denial,
• austere

deadly pale, ash-colored

stupid

with a sideways or indirect look

sharpness of temper

slanderous remark

seeker after position or status

analyze, evaluate

diligent

• 1. absorb
• 2. cause to become homogenous

• 1. ease or lessen pain
• 2. satisfy hunger
• 3. soothe anger,

small planet

eye defecct that prevents proper focus

• 1. binding
• 2. causing contraction

• adjecctive
• 1. into parts
• 2. apart

resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents

• 1. make amends for
• 2. pay for

• 1. gradual decrease in numbers
• 2. reduction in the work force without firing employees
• 3. wearing away of opposition by means of harassment

• 1. omen
• 2. prophecy

impressive, majestic

favoring success

• adjective
• 1 an outwardly austere man: severe, stern, strict, harsh, steely, flinty, dour,grim, cold, frosty, unemotional, unfriendly; formal, stiff, reserved,aloof, forbidding; grave, solemn, serious, unsmiling, unsympathetic,unforgiving; hard, unyielding, unbending, inflexible; informal hard-boiled. ANTONYMS genial.

2 an austere life: ascetic, self-denying, self-disciplined, nonindulgent,frugal, spartan, puritanical, abstemious, abstinent, self-sacrificing,strict, temperate, sober, simple, restrained; celibate, chaste.ANTONYMS immoderate.

3 thebuildings were austere: plain, simple, basic, functional, modest,unadorned, unembellished, unfussy, restrained; stark, bleak, bare,clinical, spartan, ascetic; informal no-frills, bare-bones. ANTONYMSornate.

mechanism that imitates the actions of humans

• Adjective:
• 1. the job had become less about integrity and more about avarice:
• greed,greediness, acquisitiveness, cupidity, covetousness, rapacity,materialism, mercenariness;
• rare pleonexia; informal money-grubbing,affluenza.

ANTONYMS generosity.

• 1. assert confidently or declare
• 2. as used in law, state formally as fact

• 1. greedy
• 2. eager for

secondary or minor occupation

declare openly

like and uncle

pointed tool used for piercing

• 1. distorted
• 2. crooked

self-evident truth requiring no proof

sky blue