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abridge
- verb: to make shorter
- Syn: shorten, condense, abbreviate
- Ant: expand, enlarge, augment
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adherent
- noun: a follower
- Syn: disciple
- Ant: opponent, adversary, critic, detractor
adj: attached, sticking to
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altercation
- noun: an angry argument
- Syn: quarrel, dispute, squabble
- Ant: agreement, accord
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Cherubic
- adj: resembling an angel portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent
- Syn: angelic, seraphic, beatific
- Ant: impish, devilish, diabolic, fiendish
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Condone
- verb: to pardon or overlook
- Syn: ignore, wink at, turna a blind eye to
- Ant: censure, condemn, disapprove, deprecate
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Dissent
- verb: to disagree
- Ant: differ, dispute
- Syn: agree, concur
- noun: disagreement
- Ant: unanimity, harmony
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Eminent
- adj: famous, outstanding, distinguished; projecting
- Syn: illustrious, renowned
- Ant: obscure, nameless, unsung, lowly, humble
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Exorcise
- verb: to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troubling, menacing, or oppressive
- Syn: expel, dispel
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Fabricate
- verb: to make, manufacture; to make up, invent
- Syn: put together, devise, contrive, concoct
- Ant: take apart, undo, destroy, demolish
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Irate
- adj: angry
- Syn: incensed, infuriated, enraged, livid
- Ant: calm, cool, composed, unruffled
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Marauder
- noun: raider, plunderer
- Syn: looter, pirate, freebooter
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Obesity
- noun: excessive fatness
- Syn: serious overweight, extreme corpulence
- Ant: emaciation, gauntness, scrawniness
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Pauper
- noun: an extremely poor person
- Syn: destitute person
- Ant: millionare, tycoon
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Pilfer
- verb: steal in small quantities
- Syn: filch, swipe, rob, purloin
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Rift
- noun: a split, break, breach
- Syn: crack, fissure, gap, cleft
- Ant: reconciliation
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Semblance
- noun: a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition
- Syn: appearance, air, aura, veneer, facade
- Ant: dissimilarity, contrast, total lack
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Surmount
- verb: to overcome, rise above
- Syn: conquer, triumph over
- Ant: be vanquished, be deffeated, succumb to
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Terminate
- verb: bring to an end
- Syn: conclude, finish, discontinue
- Ant: begin, commence, initiate
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Trite
- adj: commonplace; overused, stale
- Syn: banal, hacneyed, corny
- Ant: original, novel, fresh, innovative
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Usurp
- verb: to seize and hold a position by force or without right
- Syn: seize illegally, comandeer, supplant
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