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Clangor - N
- a loud sound; clang.
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Deleterious - Adj
- - injurious to health
- - harmful; injurious
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Absolve - V
- - to free from guilt or blame or their consequences
- - to set free or release, as from some duty, obligation, or responsibility.
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Enhance- V
- - to raise to a higher degree; intensify; magnify.
- - to raise the value or price of.
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Caricature - N/V
- a picture, description,etc. ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things.
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Extenuate - V
- - to represent as less serious.
- - to serve to make seem less serious.
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Contiguous - Adj
- touching; in contact.
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Exude - V
- to come out gradually in drops, as sweat, through small openings; ooze out.
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Implicit - Adj
- implied, rather than expressly stated.
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Cupidity - N
- eager or excessive desire, esp. to possess something; greed.
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Enthrall - V
- - to captivate or charm.
- - to put or hold in slavery.
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Scintillating - Adj
- animated; vivacious; effervescent.
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Redundant - Adj
- characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas.
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Winsome - Adj
- sweetly or innocently charming; winning; engaging.
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Preeminent - Adj
- eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing.
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Paragon - N/V
- - a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence.
- - to compare; parallel.
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Politic - Adj
- shrewd or prudent in practical matters; tactful; diplomatic.
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Sanctimonies - N
- pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
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Incisive - Adj
- - penetrating; cutting; biting; trenchant.
- - remarkably clear and direct; sharp;keen; acute.
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Prosaic - Adj
- commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative.
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Paraphrase - N/V
- - a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- - to render the meaning of in a paraphrase.
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Ostentatious - Adj
-characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicious show in an attempt to impress others.
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