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Abide-Verb
- -To wait for: await
- -To endure without yielding
- -To bear patiently: tolerate
- -To accept without objection
- -To remain stable or fixed in a state
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Adverse-Adjective
- -Acting against or in a contrary direction: hostile
- -Opposed to one's interests
- -Causing harm
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Arbitrary-Adjecive
- -Depending on individual discretion and not fixed by law
- -Not restrained or limited in the exercise of power: ruling by absolute authority
- -Based on or determined by indivdual preference or convience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something
- -Exsisting or coming about seemingly at random or by chance
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Conciliatory-Adjective
- -Tending to overcome the distrust or hostility of, to placate or win over
- -Tending to win, gain, or make compatible
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Confidant-Noun
-One to whom secrets are entrusted
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Deter-Verb
-To turn aside, discourage, or prevent from acting
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Diffident-Adjective
-Hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of seld-confidence
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Elusive-Adjective
- -Tending to evade grasp or pursuit
- -Hard to comprehend or define
- -Hard to isolate or identify
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Exasperate-Verb & Sdjective
- -To excite the anger of: enrage
- -To cause irritation or annoyance to
- -To make more grievous
- -Irritated or annoyed, especially to the piont of injudicious action
- -Roughened with irregular prickles or elevations
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Exculpate-Verb
-To clear from alleged fault or guilt
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Gullible-Adjective
-Easily duped or cheated
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Incorrigible-Adjective
- -Incapable of being corrected or amended
- -Not reformable: depraved, delinquet
- -Not manageable: unruly
- -Unalterable, inveterate
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Incredulous-Adjective
- -Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
- -Skeptical
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Indelible-Adjective
- -Cannot be removed, eashed away or erased
- -Making marks that cannot be easily removed
- -Lasing, unforgettable
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Monolithic-Adjective
- -Huge, massive
- -Formed or composed of material without joints or seams
- -Constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole
- -Exhibiting or characerized by often rigidly fixed uniformity
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Nuance-Noun
- -Shade of color
- -A subtle distiction or variation
- -A subtle quality
- -Sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings(of meaning, feeling, or value)
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Obdurate-Adjective
- -Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
- -Hardened in feeling
- -Resistant to persuasion or doftening influences
- -Inflexible
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Precipitate-Verb & Noun & Adjective
- -To throw violently: hurl
- -To throw down
- -To bring about abruptly
- -To cause to seperate from solution or suspension
-A product, result, or outcome of some process or action
- -Falling, flowing, or rushing with steep descent
- -Exhibiting violent or unwise speed
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Prosaic-Adjective
- -A characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry
- -Dull, unimaginative
- -Everyday, ordinary
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Pugnacious-Adjective
-Having a quarrelsome or combative nature
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Reprehensible-Adjective
- -Having or deserving of censure
- -Culpable
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Tenable-Adjective
-Capable of being held, maintained, or defended
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Transcendent-Adjective
- -Exceeding usual limits, surpassing
- -Extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience
- -Being beyond the limits of all possible experience and knowledge
- -Being beyond comprehension
- -Transcending the universe or material existence
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Voluminous-Adjective
- -Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions, winding
- -Having or marked by great volume or bulk, large
- -Numerous
- -Filling or capable of filling a large volume or several volumes
- -Writing or speaking much or at a great legnth
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Abstain-Verb
-To refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self denial from an action or practice
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Altruistic-Adjective
- -Characterized by unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others
- -Characterized by behavior by an animal that is not beneficial to or may be harmful to itself but that benefits others of its species
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Assiduous-Adjective
-Marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application
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Concise-Adjective
- -Marked by brevity of expression or statement, free from all elaboration and superfluous detail
- -Cut short, brief
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Repulse-Verb & Noun
- -To drive or beat back; repel
- -To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial
- -To cause repulsion in
- -Rebuff; rejection
- -The actions of repeeling an attacker: the fact of being repelled
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Dimintive-Adjective
- -Indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known, loveable, pitable, or contemptible- used of affixes such as -ette, -kin, -ling, and words formed with them(kitchenette, manikin, duckling)
- -Exceptionally notable or small
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Inexorable-Adjective
-Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty, relentless
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Wan-Adjective & Verb
- -Suggestive of poor health: sickly, pallid
- -Lacking vitality: feeble
- -Dim, faint
-To grow or become pale or sickly
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Precocious-Adjective
- -Exceptionally early in development or occurence
- -Exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age
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Discern-Verb
- -To seperate, distinguish between
- -To detect with the eyes
- -To detect with other senses other than vision
- -To recognize and identify as seperate and distinct
- -To see or understand the difference
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Quell-Verb & Noun
-To thoroughly overwhem or reduce to submission or passivity
-Slaughter
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Indiscriminate-Adjective
- -Not marked by careful distinction, deficent in discrimination and discernment
- -Haphazard, random
- -Promiscuous, unrestrained
- -Heterogeneous, motely
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Preclude-Verb
- -To make impossible by necessary consequence
- -Rule out in advance
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Expedite-Verb
- -To execute promptly
- -To accelerate the process or progress of: speed up
- -Issue, dispatch
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Disclose-Verb
- -To expose to view
- -To make known or public
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Abstract-Adjective
- -Disassociated from any specific instance
- -Difficult to understand
- -Insufficently factual
- -Having only intrinsic form with little or no attempt at pictorial representation
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Thwart-Verb
- -To run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle
- -To oppose successfully: defeat the hopes ot aspirations of
- -To pass through or across
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Enigma-Noun
- -An obscure speech or writing
- -Something hard to understand or explain
- -An inscrutable or mysterious person
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Reciprocate-Verb
- -To give and take mutually
- -To return in kind or degree
- -To make a return for something
- -To mave forward and backward alternately
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Conjecture-Noun
- -To throw together
- -Interpretation of omens
- -Supposition
- -Inference from defective or presumptive evidence before it has been proved or disproved
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Hamlet-Noun
-A small village
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Querulous-Adjective
- -Habitually complaining
- -Fretful, whining
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Amicable-Adjective
-Characterized by friendly goodwill, peaceable
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Harbinger-Noun
- -A person sent ahead to provide lodgings
- -One that pioneers in or initiates a major change: precursor
- -One that presages or foreshadows what is to come
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Transient-Adjective & Noun
- -Passing especially quickly into and out of exstence: transitory
- -Passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn
- -Affecting something or producing results beyond itself
- -One that is a guest
- -A person travelling about usually in search of work
- -A temporary oscillation that occurs in a circuit because of a sudden change of voltage or load
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Timorous-Adjective
- -A timid dispostion, fearful
- -Expressing or suggesting timidity
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Indigenous-Adjective
- -Having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or ocurring naturally in a particuale region or enviroment
- -Innate, inborn
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Expropriate-Verb
- -To deprive of pocession or propriety rights
- -To transfer the property of another to one's own pocession
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Indomitable-Adjective
-Incapable of being subdued: unconquerable
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Eminent-Adjective
- -Standing out so to be readily percieved or noted: conspicuous
- -Jutting out: projecting
- -Exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or postion: prominent
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Nefarious-Adjective
-Flagantly wicked or impious: evil
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Inherent-Adjective
-Involved in the constitution or essential character of something: belong by nature or habit: intrinsic
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Oligarchy-Noun
- -Government by the few
- -A govenrment in which a small group exercises control, especially for corrupt and selfish putposes
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Inexhaustible-Adjective
- -Not exhaustible
- -Incapable of being used up
- -Incapable of being wearied or worn out
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Condolence-Noun
- -Sympathy with another in sorrow
- -An expression of sympathy
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Onerous-Adjective
- -Involving, imposing, or constituting a burden: troublesome
- -Having legal obligations that outweigh the advantages
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Innocous-Adjective
- -Producing no injury: harmless
- -Not likely to give offense or to arouse srong feelings or hostility: inoffensive, insipid
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Astute-Adjective
-Having or showing shrewdness or perspicacity
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Punctilious-Adjective
-Concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions
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Transgress-Verb
- -To go beyond the limits set or prescribed by: violate
- -To pass beyond or go over a limit or boundary
- -To violate a command or law: sin
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Innate-Adjective
- -Exsisitng in, belonging to, or determinded by factors present in an individual from birth: native, innborn
- -Belonging to the essential nature of something: inherent
- -Orginating in or derived from the mind or the constitution of the intellect rather than from experience
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Respite-Noun
- -A period of temporary delay: reprieve
- -An interval of rest or relief
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Exonerate-Verb
- -To unburden
- -To relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship
- -To clear from accusation or blame
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Conjugal-Adjective
-Of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations
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Digress-Verb
-To turn aside, especially from the main subject of attention or course of arguement
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Myraid-Noun & Adjective
-A great number
- -Innumerable
- -Having innumerable aspects or elements
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Winesome-Adjective
- -Generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence
- -Cheerful, gay
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Exploitatiob-Noun
-An act or instance of making us eof something meanly on unjustly for one's own advantage
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Zealous-Adjective
-Filled with or characterized by eagerness and ardent intrest in pursuit of something
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Trite-Adjective
- -Hackneyed or boring from much use
- -Not fresch or original
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Tortuous-Adjective
- -Marked by repeated twists, neds, or twists: winding
- -Marked by devious or indirect tatics: crooked, tricky
- -Circuitous
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Reticent-Adjective
- -Inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech: reserved
- -Restrained in expression, presentation, or apperance
- -Reluctant
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Rejoinder-Noun
- -A defendant's answer to the plantiff's replication
- -An answer to a reply
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Refute-Verb
- -To prove wrong by arguement or evidence: show to be false or erroneous
- -To deny the truth or accuracy of
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Prelude-Noun & Verb
- -An introductory performance, action, or event preceding or preparing for the principal or more important matter
- -A musical section or movement introducing the theme or chief subject or seving as an introduction to an opera or oratario
- -An opening voluntary
- -A seperate concert piece usually for piano ot orchestra and based entirely on a short motif
- -To give or serve as a prelude to
- -To play a musical introduction
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Ostentatious-Adjective
-Marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display
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Opulent-Adjective
- -Exhibiting or characterized by opulence
- -Having a large estate or property: wealthy
- -Amply or plentifully provided or fashioned often to the point of ostentation
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Nettle-Verb & Noun
- -To sting or strike as if with nettles
- -To arouse to sharb by transitory annoyance or anger
- -Any of a genus of chiefly course herbs armed with stinging hairs
- -Any of the various prickly or stinging palnts other than the true nettles
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Inundate-Verb
- -To cover with a flood: overflow
- -Overwhelm
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Intuitive-Adjective
- -Known or percieved ny intution: directly apprehended
- -Knowable by intuition
- -Knowing or percieving by intuition
- -Processing or given to intuition or insight
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Heterogeneous-Adjective
-Consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents: mixed
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Extrinsic-Adjective
- -Not forming part of or belonging to a thing: extraneous
- -Originating from or on the outside: originating outside a part and acting upon the part as a whole
- -External
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Extenuate-Verb
- -To lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of by making partial excuses: mitigate
- -To lessen the strength or effore of
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Entourage-Noun
-One's attendants or associates
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Disparage-Verb
- -To degrade by marriage below one's class
- -To lower in rank or reputation: degrade
- -To depreciate by indirect means: speak slightly about
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Disingenuous-Adjective
- -Lacking in candor
- -Giving a false apperance of simple frankness
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Corroborate-Verb
- -To support with evidence or authority
- -To make more certain
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Conjure-Verb
- -To charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly
- -To summon by or as if by invocaton or incantation
- -To affect or effect by or as if by magic
- -Imagine, contrive
- -To bring to mind
- -To summon a devil or spirit by invocation or incantation
- -To practice magical arts
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Blithely-Adverb
- -Acting in a happy lighthearted character or dispostion
- -Lacking due to thought or consideration: casual, heedless
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Analogous-Adjective
-Showing an analogy or a likeness that permits one to draw and analogy
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Absurd-Adjective & Noun
- -Ridculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous
- -Having no rational or orderly relationship to human life: meaningless
- -Lacking order or value
-The state or condition in which human beings exsist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning
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