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Abhor
- to shrink away from with horror; disgust for, hate very very much
- Syn: to horrify; loathe, detest, abominate
- Ant: adore
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Advent
- a coming or arrival, especially of something infrequent or unusually important
- Syn arrival, start, dawn
- Ant: departure
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Alleviate
- to lessen or lighten; diminish
- Syn: relieve, allay, mitigate
- Ant: aggrivate
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Anathema
- a person or thing that is utterly detested or condemned, a curse or imprecation
- Syn: malediction, taboo
- Ant: acceptable allow
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Animosity
- active dislike or enmity
- Syn: hostility, hate
- Ant: goodwill
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Antipathy
- a strong or fixed dislike; aversion
- Syn: repugnance, abhorrence, disgust
- ANt: affection
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Audacity
- reckless daring; boldness
- Syn: presumption, effrontery, confidence, intrepidity
- Ant: cowardice
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Austere
- sten in manner or appearance; harsh
- Syn: grave, sober, serious, unadorned, rigorous, relentless, severe
- Ant: fussy
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Avarice
- too great a desire to acquire money or property; greed
- Syn: avidity, cupidity
- Ant: generosity
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Cantor
the person who leads the singing of a choir or congregation
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Compunction
- uneasiness of the mind because of wrong doing
- Syn: regret, remorse, contrition
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Deposit
to put down; lay down
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Derogatory
- showing an unfavorable opinion of some person or thing; lessening the value
- Syn: disparaging; belittle; detracting
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Despotic
- A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.
- Syn: oppresive; tyrannical
- Ant:restricted; compliant; complaisant; submissive; yielding
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Effigy
an image or statue, usually of a person
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Encounter
- to meet unexpectedly, a meeting of enemies
- Syn: engage, conflict, combat, skirmish
- Ant: avoid
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Enmity
- the feeling that enemies have for each other; hostility or hatred
- Syn: animosity, antipathy
- ANt: friendliness
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Entreat
- to keep asking earnestly; beg and pray; implore
- Syn: beseech, supplicate
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Ephemeral
- lasting for only a very short time; transitory
- Syn: evanescent, transient
- Ant: lasting, permanent
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Fantastic
- very odd or queer, very fanciful; capricious; eccentric; irrational
- Syn: freakish, bizarre, grotesque, fabulous, imaginary, real, authentic
- Ant: tiny, plausible, normal, awful
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Gratify
- to give pleasure to; please
- Syn: satisfy, indulge, delight
- Ant: displease
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Haphazard
not planned; random
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Literate
- able to read and write; educated; literary
- Syn: lettered
- Ant: iliterate, unlearned
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Naive
- simple in nature; like a child; not sophisticated; artless; unconditioned
- Syn: unaffected, natural, open, sincere
- Ant: sophisticated
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Orthodox
- generally accepted, especially in religion
- Syn: canonical, conventional, standard
- Ant: unorthodox, progressive unconventional, unusual
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Prototype
- the first or primary type of anything; original or model
- Syn: archetype
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Ruthless
- having no pity; showing no mercy; cruel
- Syn: hard-hearted, relentless, merciless, pitiless
- Ant: merciful
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Subterfuge
- a trick, excuse, or expedient used to escape something unpeasant
- Syn: artifice, ruse
- Ant: open
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Superfluous
- more than is needed or desired; excessive; surplus
- Ant: necessary
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Surfeit
- an excessive amount of something; too much; excess
- Syn: glut, gorge
- Ant: deficit
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Tenet
- a doctrine, principle belief, or opinion held as true by a school, sect, party, or person
- Syn: dogma, persuasion
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Trite
- worn out by constant use or repetition
- SYn: commonplace; hackneyed; stereotyped; banal; stale
- Ant: original
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