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Abeyance
- --a temporary stopping of activity, suspended action, waiting for legal ownership or possesion.
- Syn:
- Ant:Activity
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Abhor
- --to shrink away from with horror; feel disgusted for; hate very much.
- Syn: loathe, detest, abominate, horrify
- Ant:adore
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Acme
- --the highest point.
- Syn:climax; culmination; apex
- Ant:nadir
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Acrimony
- --sharpness or bitterness in temper, language, or manner; acrid quality.
- Syn:acerbity; asperity
- Ant:harmony; fervor
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Adroit
- --having or showing skill in using the mind or hands;skillful
- Syn:deft; ingenious; clever
- Ant:clumsy
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Affable
- --easy to talk to
- Syn:approachable; amiable; gracious
- Ant:inacessible; disagreeable; unpleasant
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Amity
- --peace and friendship; friendly relations
- Syn:(good will, friendship, harmony
- Ant:hosility
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Ascertain
- --to find out for certain by trial or research; determine
- Syn:learn, discover
- Ant:Waver, put off
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Bias
- --off the straight; give a slanted opinion to: to influence, usually unfairly
- Syn:prejudice, inclination, bent, partiality, oblique, diagonal, awry, wrong, incline
- Ant:put off, impartiality
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Complex
- --made up of a number of parts, hard to understand, to chelate
- Syn:composite, compound, complicated, involved, intricate
- Ant:simple
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Confluence
- --a coming together fo people or things. Place where to rivers meet
- Syn: a throng, assemblage
- Ant:divergence
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Conversant
- -- familiar by use or study; acquainted
- Syn: skilled, proficient, versed
- Ant: unfamiliar, uninformed
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Covert
- --kept from sight; secret; hidden; disguised
- Syn: concealed
- Ant: open, unconcealed
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Covet
- -- to desire eagerly, to wish for , long for
- Syn:
- Ant:
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Denigrate
- --to blacken the character or reputation; defame
- Syn:sully, stain
- Ant:praise, clean
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Diligence
- --a working hard; careful effort; being diligent
- Syn: perserverance
- Ant:carelessness, laziness
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Dotard
- -- a person who is weak-minded and childish because of old age.
- Syn:
- Ant:sage, intelluctual
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Dowry
- --the money or property that a woman brings to her husband when she marries him
- Syn:dot, natural talent
- Ant:
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Embellis
- -- to add beauty to
- Syn:decorate; adorn; ornament; beautify; elaborate
- Ant:disfigure; deface
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Encumber
- --to hold back, to make difficult to use; fill; block up; obstruct, to weigh down
- Syn: hinder, hamper
- Ant: unburden, facilitate, disburden
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Ephemeral
- -- lasting for a brief time, short-lived, transitory
- Syn: transient
- Ant:
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Exploit
- -- a bold, unusual act; daring deed, to make use of
- Syn:
- Ant:unremarkable event or deed; waste
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Fetid
- -- smelling very bad; stinking
- Syn: malodorous, noisome, foetid
- Ant: fresh, fragrant
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Grotto
- -- a cave or cavern made for coolness
- Syn:
- Ant:
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Incorrigible
- -- so firmly fixed that change cannot be expected. (in bad ways). cannot be changed or cured
- Syn:inredeemable
- Ant:unusual, occasional
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Inept
- -- not suitable; out of place
- Syn: inappropiate, awkward; clumsy, absurd, foolish, silly
- Ant:adroit, competent, appropiate, sensible
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Invidious
- --unfair or unjust
- Syn: hateful; envious; grudging; jealous
- Ant:pleasan, harmless
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Licentious
- -- loose in sexual activities; immoral
- Syn: lewd, lustful, lascivious, sensual, wanton, lawless
- Ant:upright, pious
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Lull
- -- to soothe with sounds or caresses, make calm, peaceful or tranquil
- Syn: respite
- Ant:flare-up, rose, upset
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Mitigate
- --to make less in force or degree, to make less severe, make more bearable
- Syn: temper; moderate; bearable; industry; perseverance
- Ant:aggravate
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Morose
- --gloomy; sullen; ill-humored.
- Syn: moody, surly, gruff, harsh
- Ant:cheery, cheerful
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Nadir
- --the lowest point; time of greatest misfortune or adversity
- Ant:acme, zenith
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Opaque
- --not letting light through; not transparent, not shining, hard to understand, obscure
- Syn: stupid, dense, dark, dull
- Ant:transparent, clear
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Palpitate
- --to beat very rapidly, irregulrly, or strongly
- Syn: throb, to quiver, tremble, flutter
- Ant:stop
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Remediable
- --that can be remedied or cured
- Syn:
- Ant:
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Rue
- -- to be sorry for, to feel sorrow
- Syn: regred; repent; deplore; lament; sorrow;
- Ant:
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Subterfuge
- -- a trick, excuse, or expedient used to escape something unpleasant.
- Syn: artifice, ruse, tactiturn, adjective, reserved
- Ant:honesty, out going
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Taciturn
- --saying very little, not fond of talking
- Syn: reserved
- Ant: communicative, loquacious, garrulous, voluble
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Tangential
- -- wandering off the subject; diverging
- Syn: digressive, erratic, marginal
- Ant: central
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Tawdry
- --Gaudy and cheap; vulgarly ornamental
- Syn:
- Ant:
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Voluble
- --ready to talk much; talkative, twining, twisting
- Syn:
- Ant:quie, taciturn
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Vulgar
- -- a lack of good breeding, manners, or taste; not refined; coarse; low
- Syn:inelegant, plebeaian,lowbrow, ignoble, ordinary, bernacular, common
- Ant:clean, decent, polite, tasteful
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