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Adjourn
- Verb: to stop proceedings temporarily; move to another place
- Syn: postpone, suspend, discontinue
- Ant: open, call to order
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Alien
Noun: a citizen of another country
- Adj: foriegn, strange
- Syn: exotic, unfamiliar
- Ant: native, endemic, familiar
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Comely
- Adj: having a pleasing appearance
- Syn: good-looking, attractive, bonny
- Ant: plain, homely, ugly, repulsive
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Compensate
- Verb: to make up for; to repay for services
- Syn: pay-back, reimburse, recompence
- Ant: fail to reward, stiff
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Dissolute
- Adj: loose in one's morals or behavior
- Syn: dissipated, debauched, immoral, corrupt
- Ant: virtous, chaste, moral, seemly, proper
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Erratic
- Adj: not regular or consistent; different from what is normally expected; undependable
- Syn: irregular, inconsistent, unpredictable
- Ant: steady, consistent, dependable
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Expulsion
- Noun: the process of driving something out
- Syn: ejection, ouster, eviction
- Ant: admittance, admission
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Feint
- Noun: a deliberately deceptive movement; a pretense
- Syn: trick, ruse, subterfuge, dodge, bluff
Verb: to make a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of
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Fodder
- Noun: food for horses or cattle; raw material for a designated purpose
- Syn: feed, provender
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Fortify
- Verb, strengthen, build up
- Syn: reinforce, shore up
- Ant: weaken, undermine, sap, impair
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Illegible
- Adj: difficult or impossible to read
- Syn: unreadable, indecipherable, scribbled
- Ant: readable decipherable, distinct, clear
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Jeer
- Verb: make fun of rudely or unkndly
- Syn: laugh at, mock, taunt
- Noun: a rude remark of derision
- Ant: applause, plaudits, accolades
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Lucrative
- Adj: bringing in money; profitable
- Syn: gainful, money-making
- Ant: unprofitable, losing, in the red
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Mediocre
- Adj: average, ordinary, undistinguished
- Syn: run-of-the-mill
- Ant: exceptional, outstanding, distinguished
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Proliferate
- Verb: reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly
- Syn: multiply, mushroom, burgeon
- Ant: decrease, diminish, dwindle, slack off
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Subjugate
- Verb: conquer by force, bring under complete controll
- Syn: subdue, vanquish, master
- Ant: be conquered, submit, surrender
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Sully
- Verb: to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch
- Syn: pollute, taint, smear
- Ant: cleanse, purify, decontaminate
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Tantalize
- Verb: tease, torment by teasing
- Syn: tempt, lead on, make one's mouth water
- Ant: fulfill, satisfy, gratify
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Terse
- Adj: brief and to the point
- Syn: concise, succict, crisp, short and sweet
- Ant: verbose, wordy, diffuse, prolix
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Unflinching
- Adj: firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back
- Syn: resolute, steadfast, unwavering
- Ant: irresolute, wavering, vacillating
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