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| concerning the appreciation of beauty |
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| something out of place in time |
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| similar or alike w/ respect to X |
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| lack of interest, emotion |
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| judge a dispute b/t at least 2 parties |
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| intense, passionate feeling |
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| able to speak clearly, expressively |
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| to make something unpleasant less severe |
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| to reduce in force, degree; to weaken |
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| severe or stern in appearence; undecorated |
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| predicitable, boring, cliched |
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| pompous in speech and manner |
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| impartial and honest in speech |
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| changing one's mind a lot |
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| to punish/criticize harshly |
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| something that brings about a change in something else |
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| prejudiced in favor of one's own group |
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| prejudiced in favor of one's own group |
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| deception by means of craft or guile |
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| convincing, well-reasoned |
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| overlook, pardon, disregard |
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| intricate and complicated |
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| to provide supporting evidence |
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| steadily increasing volume, force |
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| appropriateness of conduct; propriety |
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| to mock; speak of/treat with contempt |
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| jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
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| jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
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| an abusive, condemnatory speech |
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| someone w/ an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
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| funeral hymn or mournful speech |
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| to set right; to free from error |
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| fundamentally different; entirely unlike |
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| to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
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| harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds |
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| a firmly held opinion, often religious |
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| dictatorial in one's opinions |
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| to deceive, or one who is easily deceived |
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| selecting from or made up from a variety of sources |
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| persuasive and moving, esp in speech |
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| to copy; to try to equal or excel |
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| to produce, cause, bring about |
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| use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
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| wandering and unpredictable |
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| learned, scholarly, bookish |
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| known or understood by only a few |
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| speech in praise of someone |
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| use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one |
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| urgent, requiring immediate action |
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| acting excessively enthusiastic |
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| intensely emotional; feverish |
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| excessively decorated or embellished |
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| a tendency to be thrifty or cheap |
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| one who opposed established beliefs, customs, and institutions |
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| incapable of being disturbed |
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| impossible to penetrate, affect |
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| quick to act w/o thinking |
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| unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
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| disorganized, not fully formed |
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| showing innocence or childlike simplicity |
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| lacking interest or flavor |
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| uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
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| to overwhelm; to cover w/ water |
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| to express sorrow; to grieve |
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| to give unsparingly (v.); extremely generous or extravagant (adj.) |
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| acting indifferently, slowly |
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| clear and easily understood |
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| bright, brilliant, glowing |
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| to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
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| a figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol |
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| extremely careful about details |
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| a person who dislikes others |
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| to calm or make less severe |
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| lacking sophistication or experience |
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| hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
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| overly submissive and eager to please |
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| to prevent; to make unnecessary |
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| to stop up; to prevent the passage of |
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| troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |
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| impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light |
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| a contradiction or dilemma |
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| model of excellence or perfection |
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| someone who shows off learning |
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| willing to betray one's trust |
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| done in a routine way; indifferent |
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| moldable, alterable, bendable |
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| practical as opposed to idealistic |
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| to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
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| to lie or deviate from the truth |
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| fresh and clean; uncorrupted |
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| to increase in number quickly |
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| correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs |
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| wisdom, caution, restraint |
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| sharp and irritating to the senses |
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| to make thinner or sparser |
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| to reject the validity of |
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| effective writing or speaking |
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| to satisfy fully or overindulge |
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| causing sleep or lethargy |
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| deceptively attractive; seeming plausible but fallacious |
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| a mark of shame or discredit |
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| unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
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| long harsh speech or verbal attack |
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| extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
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| temporary, lasting a brief time |
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| to sway physically; to be indecisive |
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| filled w/ truth and accuracy |
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| easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive |
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| to fluctuate between choices |
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| acting fancifully or capriciously; unpredictable |
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| off, aeway from, apart, down (abduct, abhor, abolish) |
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| sharp, bitter (acid, acute, acrimonious-->caustic, stinging, bitter) |
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| to do; to drive; to force; to lead (agile, pedagogue, litigate) |
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| to, toward, near (adapt, adjacent, advocate) |
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| other, another (alibi, alias, altruist, allegory) |
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| love (amateur, amatory, amorous, enamored) |
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| to go, to walk (ambient--moving freely, circulating, ambitious, ambulatory--pertaining to walking) |
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| both, >1, around (ambiguous, amphibian) |
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| of the life, mind, soul, spirit (unanimous, animus--hostile feeling, equanimity--mental/emotional stability) |
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| year (annual, annuity, perennial) |
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| before (antecedent, anterior, antediluvian--before Noah's flood; very old) |
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| man, human (android, misanthrope--hater of humans) |
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| against (antiseptic, antipodal--on opposite side of globe) |
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| away (apology, apocryphal, apostasy--desertion of one's religion, principles, etc.) |
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| chief, principal, ruler (architect, archenemy) |
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| self (automatic, autofellatio) |
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| to be, have a particular quality, exist (bewilder, belie--contradict, misrepresent, belittle) |
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| war (antebellum, rebel, belligerent) |
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| good (benign--kindly disposition, bona fide--in good faith and without fraud) |
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