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| deviation from the normal; mental disorder |
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| aid or assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage |
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| temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension |
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| (of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble; showing lack of self-respect; Ex. abject apology |
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| renunciation; self-sacrifice |
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| sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
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| obscure; profound; difficult to understand |
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| sharp upslope of a hill; OP. declivity |
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| growth or increase in size by gradual addition; growth; increase; increase by natural growth; Ex. towers and other accretions of the castle; V. accrete |
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| bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste, manner, or tone) |
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| slightly sour (in taste or manner); sharp; caustic |
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| peak; pinnacle; highest point |
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| assent; agree passively; comply without protest |
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| bitter (to the taste or smell); sharp; bitterly pungent |
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| stinging; caustic; bitter in words or manner; N. acrimony: bitter ill-natured animosity in speech or behavior |
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| motivate; activate; cause to act |
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| sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing) |
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| mental keenness; sharpness of judgment; ability to judge quickly and well; Ex. business acumen |
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| make or become confused; muddle; drive crazy; become rotten (egg) |
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| something attached to but holding an inferior position |
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| solemn urging; V. adjure: entreat earnestly; enjoin solemnly |
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| staff officer assisting the commander; assistant |
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| accidental; casual; happening by chance |
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| shield; protection; defense |
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| nest of a large bird of prey |
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| easily approachable; easy to talk to; warmly friendly |
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| written statement made under oath (for use as proof in a court of law) |
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| make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor; N. aggrandizement |
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| sum; total; ADJ. V: gather into a mass or whole; accumulate; add up to; Ex. aggregate 100 dollars |
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| highly excited; intensely curious |
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| pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform |
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| cheerful promptness without reluctance |
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| payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce |
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| mixture as of metals; something added that lowers in value or purity; V: mix; make less pure; lower in value or quality; spoil; CF. unalloyed: not in mixture with other metals; pure; complete; unqualified; Ex. unalloyed happiness |
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| pertaining to soil deposits left by running water |
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| (of societies or groups) combine; unite in one body |
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| the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes or opinions |
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| walking at an easy unhurried pace; V: walk slowly and aimlessly |
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| obedient; compliant; readily managed; responsive; willing to be led; answerable or accountable legally; responsible; able to be tested by; Ex. amenable to sensible suggestions; Ex. He is very amenable; Ex. amenable to the usual tests |
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| wrong; faulty; Ex. something amiss; ADV. |
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| friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations |
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| formless; lacking shape or definition |
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| in a state of rage or chaos; Ex. run amok |
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| an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic |
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| solemn curse; someone or something regarded as a curse; V. anathematize |
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| serving as an aid or accessory; auxiliary; N. |
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| critical remark; V. animadvert: comment critically with disapproval |
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| hostile feeling or intent; animosity; hostility; disposition |
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| reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass) |
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| comment; make explanatory notes |
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| drug that relieves pain or trouble; opiate; ADJ. Ex. anodyne statement |
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| preceding event that influences what comes later; ancestor or early background |
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| antiquated; extremely ancient |
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| manlike; resembling a human being; N. |
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| having human form or characteristics |
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| letdown in thought or emotion; something unexciting, ordinary, or disappointing coming after something important or exciting |
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| aversion; dislike or opposition |
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| contrast; direct opposite of or to; ADJ. antithetic or antithetical |
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| opening; hole; adjustable opening in a camera that limits the amount of light |
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| tip; summit; climax; highest point |
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| loss of speech due to injury or illness |
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| pithy maxim or saying; ADJ. aphoristic |
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| a place where bees are kept |
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| poise; composure in difficult situations; assurance; self-confidence |
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| (of a story) widely believed but untrue |
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| highest point; the point farthest from the earth; OP. perigee |
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| stroke; loss of consciousness caused by too much blood in the brain |
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| elevation to godhood; an ideal example of something |
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| subordinate possessions; something added to a more important thing |
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with reference to; regarding; Ex. remarks apropos (of) the present situation; ADJ. ADV.
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| curved; hooked; of or like an eagle; Ex. aquiline nose |
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| fit for growing crops; Ex. arable land |
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| esoteric; secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated; Ex. arcane ritual; Ex. arcane process closed to the uninitiated listener |
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| heat; passion; zeal; ADJ. ardent |
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| slang; speech spoken by only a small group of people |
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| operatic solo; a song sung by one person in an opera or oratorio |
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N- an impressive display or collection; an orderly or regular arrangement, esp of troops in battle order;
V- to dress in rich attire; adorn; to arrange in order (esp troops for battle); marshal |
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| being in debt; money that should have been paid; work that should have been done |
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| lacking rhythm or regularity; N. arrhythmia |
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| gully; narrow channel formed by rainwater |
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| without guile; open and honest |
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| controlling influence; position of controlling influence; CF. in the ascendant |
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| practicing self-denial; avoiding physical pleasures and comforts; austere; Ex. ascetic life of Buddhist monks; N. asceticism |
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| with a sideways or indirect look (with disapproval or distrust); Ex. look askance at |
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| sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter |
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| slanderous remark; Ex. cast aspersions on |
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| seeker after position or status |
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| analyze (to discover what materials are present); evaluate (soil or ore) |
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| binding; causing contraction (stopping bleeding); harsh or severe; stringent; Ex. astringent criticism |
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| the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations, or an individual embodying such a reversion; reversion to an earlier type; throwback. |
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| wasting away; V: weaken and lose flesh and muscle (through lack of blood or lack of use) |
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| rubbing away by friction; gradual decrease in numbers or strength; reduction in the work force without firing employees; wearing away of opposition by means of harassment; Ex. a war of attrition |
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| omen; prophecy; sign of coming events; V. augur: predict; foretell; be a sign of (something in future) |
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| sun's corona; halo; bright circle of light |
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| forbiddingly stern; ascetic; without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented; Ex. a monk's austere life; Ex. austere grandeur of the cathedral; N. austerity |
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| having absolute unchecked power; dictatorial; N. autocrat, autocracy |
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| mechanism that imitates actions of humans; machine that works by itself |
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| state confidently; declare as true |
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| reluctant; disinclined; not liking or opposed; Ex. averse to cats/doing the house work |
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| distorted; crooked; bent; Ex. Our plans have gone awry. |
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