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| ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a round cylinder; Ex. work of very high caliber |
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| beautiful writing; excellent penmanship |
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| heat-producing; N. calorie |
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| malicious misrepresentation; slander |
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| good-fellowship; CF. comrade |
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| shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film |
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| group sharing a common cause or opinion |
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| frankness; open honesty; ADJ. candid |
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| any ulcerous sore; ulcer; any evil; CF. cancer |
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| insincere speech or expression of piety; jargon of thieves; special words used by a particular group of people |
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| story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio) |
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| determine or seek opinions, votes, etc.; go through (a region) to solicit votes or orders; conduct a survey; N. |
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| mental or physical ability; role; position or duty; ability to accommodate; Ex. in my capacity as president |
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| having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine and slender; Ex. capillary attraction; N: very fine hairlike tube; CF. capillarity |
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| surrender; give up all resistance |
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| whim; sudden change of mind without any real cause |
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| title; chapter heading; text under illustration |
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| faultfinding; too critical |
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| glass water bottle; decanter |
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| shell covering the back (of a turtle, tortoise, crab, etc.) |
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| unit of weight for precious stones; measure of the purity of gold |
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| causing cancer; N. carcinogen |
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| chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order |
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| doctor specializing in ailments of the heart |
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| lurch; sway from side to side; move with irregular swinging movement; stagger |
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| free from worries; having no problems |
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| a set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played |
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| destruction of life; slaughter; killing of large numbers of people or animals |
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| fleshly; sensual; concerning the desires of the body |
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| meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore |
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| drunken revel; V. carouse |
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| petty criticism; fault-finding; fretful complaining; quibble |
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| rotting flesh of a dead body; CF. vulture |
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| one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society; social stratification; prestige |
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| punishment; severe criticism or disapproval |
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| remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person) |
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| happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; Ex. casual reader/labor/remark |
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| serious or fatal accident; person killed or wounded in an accident or battle |
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| deluge; upheaval; earthquake; violent and sudden event or change |
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| agent which brings about a chemical change while it remains unaffected and unchanged; CF. catalysis |
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| slingshot; hurling machine; V: fire from catapult |
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| great waterfall; eye abnormality (causing a gradual loss of eyesight) |
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| shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V. |
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| book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; V. catechize |
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| without exceptions; made without any doubt in mind; unqualified; absolute |
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| provide food and drink (for); cater to: try to satisfy (desires of a bad kind) |
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| purging or cleansing of any passage of the body; purging and weakening of strong emotions as a result of experiencing a dramatic work of art |
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| purgative; medicine that causes the bowels to empty; ADJ. |
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| (of likings and interests) universal; general; broad; including many different parts; wide-ranging liberal; Ex. catholic opinions/tastes |
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| private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy; CF. the Caucus club of Boston |
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| make watertight (by blocking up cracks as in a ship) |
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| implying a cause-and-effect relationship; N. causality |
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| burning; corrosive; able to burn by chemical action; sarcastically biting; (of remarks) intended to hurt; bitter; harmful; OP. harmless |
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| burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection |
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| procession of riders or horse-drawn carriages; parade; CF. cavalry |
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| casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight |
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| quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily |
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| yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession |
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| abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
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| place for burying the dead |
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| (in ancient Rome) overseer of morals (also taking the census); person who eliminates inappropriate matter; V. |
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| blame; criticize; express strong disapproval; N: severe criticism; strong disapproval |
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| mythical figure, half man and half horse |
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| denoting a widely used temperature scale (basically same as Celsius) |
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| radiating; departing from the center |
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| machine that separates substances by whirling them |
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| tending toward the center |
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| Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers) |
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| pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum |
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| thought; working of the brain |
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| marked by formality; extremely formal and polite; CF. ceremony: conventional social courtesy |
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| yielding to another; ceding |
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| warm by rubbing; make sore by rubbing; N. |
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| worthless products of an endeavor; husk(outer seed cover) separated from grain; Ex. separate the wheat from the chaff |
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| annoyance and disappointment; vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride) |
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| lizard that changes color in different situations |
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| support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.) |
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| position of champion; defense or support; competition held to determine a champion |
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| legal official of high rank; CF. chancellery(chancellory): position of a chancellor |
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| tune(melody) in which a number of words are sung on the same note; V: sing (a chant); utter (a slogan) in the manner of a chant |
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| small church (in a prison, college, or hospital) |
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| older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman |
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| clergyman attached to a chapel |
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| make or become black by burning; reduce or be reduced to carbon or charcoal(black substance made by burning wood) by incomplete combustion |
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| divine gift; great popular charm or appeal; magnetism |
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| quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine) |
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| quality of pleasing; amulet; action or formula thought to have magical power; spell; V: attract; cast a spell on; bewitch |
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| cautious; unwilling to take risks; sparing or restrained about giving; OP. bold |
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| ornament a metal surface by indenting; follow rapidly to catch |
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| framework and working parts of an automobile; framework to which components are attached |
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| morally pure; virginal; abstaining from illicit sexual acts; modest; simple (of a style of writing); not highly decorated; austere |
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| discipline; punish in order to correct; CF. castigate |
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| punish as by beating; criticize severely |
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| blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group, cause, or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism; Nicolas Chauvin |
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| stop motion; curb or restrain |
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| marked by great changes in fortune; with many changes of fortuene; CF. checked: having a pattern of squares |
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| angelic; innocent-looking; N. cherub; CF. seraph: winged angel of the highest order |
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| scold; rebuke (someone who has done wrong) |
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| fantastically improbable; highly unrealistic; N. chimera: unreal fancy; fire-breathing female creature |
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| lose a small piece from the surface or edge; N: small piece broken off something; CF. French fry; Potato chip/crisp |
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| swindle or cheat; N: wedgelike tool for cutting |
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| courteous; faithful; brave; N. chivalry |
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| delicate; of very fine quality |
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| group of people who sing together (esp. during religious services); place for choir |
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| hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered; CF. cholera |
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| daily domestic task (such as cleaning, cooking, and shopping); unpleasant task |
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| art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances |
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| phrase repeated throughout a song or poem |
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| long established as a disease |
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| report; record (in chronological order) |
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| boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo |
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| having minute hairs; CF. cilium; CF. cilia: eyelash |
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| nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; V. |
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| small ring; band of gold, silver, jewel, etc. (worn on the head, arms, or neck as decoration) |
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| closed circular line around an area; circumference; regularly repeated journey from place to place |
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| indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficult question directly) |
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| limit; confine; draw a line around |
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| prudent; cautious; acting after careful thought |
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| outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around |
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| quote; commend; Ex. cited for bravery in an official record |
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| having to do with citizens; not military or religious; courteous and polite; Ex. married in a civil ceremony; Ex. civil strife/disorder/law; N. civility; CF. civic |
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| having foresight; fortuneteller; N. clairvoyance |
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| climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble |
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| loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous |
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| loud resounding noise; sound of repeated clanging |
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| strike the palms of the hands together with a sudden explosive sound; come together suddenly with a sharp sound; put or send promptly; Ex. clap the thief in jail; N: clapping; loud or explosive sound; CF. applause |
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| striker (tongue) of a bell |
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| shrill, trumpetlike sound; kind of trumpet used in former times |
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| split or sever; cling to; remain faithful to; N. cleavage; ADJ. cloven |
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| disposition to be lenient in deciding punishments; mildness as of the weather; ADJ. clement |
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| phrase dulled in meaning by repetition; platitude; ADJ. clich\'ed |
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| cut off with shears; fasten; N: something clipped off (as a short extract from film); clasp or fastener |
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| great influence (especially political or social); hard blow with fist |
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| act stupidly; play the fool; N. |
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| distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental; V. cloy: become unpleasant through too much sweetness or excess |
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| congeal; thicken; clot; N. coagulant |
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| combine; fuse; N. coalescence |
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| partnership; league; union of separate political parties |
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| concluding section of a musical or literary composition |
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| treat gently; indulge excessively; pamper; mollycoddle; baby; cook in water just below boiling point; Ex. coddled eggs |
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| supplement to the body of a will; later addition to a will |
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| arrange (laws or rules) as a code; classify; N. code: system of words used instead of ordinary writing; collection of laws, rules, established social customs |
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| use of force to get someone to object; compelling; V. coerce |
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| living at the same time as; existing during the same period of time; contemporary; of the same age |
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| having to do with knowing or perceiving related to the mental processes; N. cognition: the mental process of knowing |
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| group of people who share some common quality; armed band; a group of between 300 and 600 soldiers under one commander (in the ancient Rome) |
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| make coins; invent or fabricate (a word or phrase); N. coinage: word or phrase recently invented |
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| the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events; V. coincide: happen at the same time; be in agreement; CF. coincident; CF. coincidental |
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| utensil with perforated bottom used for straining |
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| work together; cooperate treasonably with the enemy |
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| work of art put together from fragments |
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| examine and compare in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order (the sheets of a book before they are bound) |
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| security given for loan; ADJ: secondary; descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters |
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| pertaining to conversational or common speech; informal; N. colloquialism: colloquial expression |
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| informal discussion; conversation |
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| conspiring in a fraudulent scheme to cheat or deceive others; V. collude |
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| retort; quick clever reply; return to former status |
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| attractive; agreeable; having a pleasing appearance |
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| something fit to be eaten |
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| deserts; well-deserved punishment or misfortune; rebuke |
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| courtesy; civility; Ex. comity of nations |
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| take (private property) for military use without needing permission or giving payment; draft for military purposes |
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| honor the memory of; serve as a memorial to; Ex. commemorate the 100th anniversary/those who died in the war |
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| remembering; honoring the memory of; Ex. commemorative stamp |
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| equal in extent; of the same size |
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| small (often rural) community whose members share work and income; V: exchange thoughts or feelings; Ex. commune with nature |
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| agreement; contract; ADJ: tightly packed; firm; brief; concise; Ex. compact statement |
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| sympathy for the suffering of others; ADJ. compassionate |
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| overpowering; irresistible in effect; holding one's attention; that compels one to do something; Ex. a compelling adventure story; V. compel |
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| brief, comprehensive summary; ADJ. compendious |
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| assemble; gather; accumulate; make (a report or a book) from facts and information found in various places; Ex. compile a dictionary |
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| self-satisfaction; smugness; ADJ. complacent |
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| conformity in fulfilling requirements; readiness to yield; disposition to yield to others; V. comply |
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| readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others; yielding; comforming to requirements |
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| participation; involvement (in a questionable act or a crime) |
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| mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer; V: put or make compost |
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| combine; produce by combining; increase; make worse by adding to or increasing; exacerbate; Ex. compound an error; ADJ: consisting of two or more parts; N: combination of two or more parts; area enclosed by a wall containing a group of buildings; |
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| prepare by mixing or combining; make up in concert; devise (something false) so as to deceive; Ex. concoct an elaborate excuse for being late; N. concoction |
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| person who uncritically conforms to the customs of a group; OP. nonconformist: one who does not conform to accepted beliefs of norms |
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| harmony; agreement with established rules or customs; similarity; Ex. behave in conformity with; V. conform: be similar; act in agreement; comply; Ex. conform to the rule; CF. conformance |
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| corporation made up of several different companies in diversified fields; mass of various material gathered together; rock consisting of small stones held together by clay; V. |
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| pine tree (usu. evergreen); cone-bearing tree; ADJ. coniferous; CF. deciduous; CF. evergreen |
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| cause to appear by magic; summon (a devil or a spirit) by magical power; practice magic (esp. by very quick movement of the hands); evoke; conjure up: bring into the mind; Ex. The magician conjured a rabbit out of his hat. |
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| pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend; V. connive: feign ignorance (of a wrong); cooperate secretly in an illegal action; conspire |
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| person competent to act as a judge of art, etc. (whose judgments are respected); a lover of an art |
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| suggested or implied meaning of an expression; V. connote |
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| scrupulous; through and careful; Ex. conscientious worker |
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| draftee; person forced into military service; V. |
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| dedicate; sanctify; declare as sacred; Ex. consecrate one's life to helping the poor |
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| general agreement; opinion reached by a group |
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| self-important; significant; consequent; following as a result; Ex. consequential air; CF. subsequent |
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| school of the fine arts (especially music or drama); glass-enclosed area; CF. conservancy |
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| send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially; entrust; put into the care of another; set apart (for a special purpose); N. consignment; CF. consignor, consignee |
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| absence of contradictions; uniformity; degree of thickness or firmness; Ex. consistency of thick cream; CF. viscous |
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| lessen sadness or disappointment; give comfort; allay the sorrow of; N. consolation |
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| unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger; V. consolidate: merge; strengthen |
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| treacherous plot; secret plan against the law (by two or more people) |
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| take part in a conspiracy; (of events) work together; combine; Ex. Events conspired to produce great difficulties. |
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| constituting; system of laws; composition of something; physical makeup or structure of a person; Ex. men with strong constitutions |
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| restraint; compulsion; repression of feelings; reticence; V. constrain: hold back; restrain; compel; oblige; confine forcibly; imprison |
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| explain; interpret; Ex. construe her silence as meaning that she agreed; CF. misconstrue |
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| infection (by contact); ADJ. contagious; CF. infectious: that can be passed by infection in the air |
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| struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly |
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| assertion; claim; thesis; struggling; competition |
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| dispute; argue about the rightness of; compete for; try to win; Ex. contest the election results; Ex. contest a seat in Parliament; N. |
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| writings preceding and following the passage quoted; circumstance in which an event occurs |
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| adjacent to; touching upon |
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| self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent |
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| dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; N: a group of soldiers, ships to a larger force; CF. contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; Ex. prepare for every contingency |
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| twistings; distortions; V. contort: twist violently out of shape; CF. contortionist |
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| illegal trade; smuggling; smuggled goods; ADJ. |
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| contradict; oppose; violate (a rule, law, or custom); N. contravention |
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| something contrived; machine or apparatus; clever deceitful plan; scheme |
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| invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation); manage; Ex. contrive to attract his attention |
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| unnatural and forced; artificial; not spontaneous; Ex. The ending was rather contrived. |
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| oppose with arguments; attempt to refute; contradict; ADJ. controversial; N. controversy |
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| stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court) |
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| social or moral custom; established practice; formal meeting; international agreement |
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| vehicle; transfer; act of conveying; Ex. public conveyance |
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| pleasantly merry; festive; joyous; gay; characterized by joviality; jovial |
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| call together; Ex. convoke Parliament; N. convocation |
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| coiled around; twisted; involved; complicated; intricate; complex; N. convolution: twist; one of the convex folds of the surface of the brain |
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| horn (or horn-shaped container) overflowing with fruit and grain; symbol of abundance; horn of plenty |
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| approve; support; tolerate; Ex. countenance his rude behavior; N: face; appearance |
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| thing that completes another; things very much alike; thing that has the same purpose in a different system |
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| highly successful action or sudden attack; coup(s) d'\'etat; CF. coup de gr\^ace: deathblow or shot which kills |
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| attempt to gain; seek; woo; risk; behave so as to invite; attempt to gain the favor of by attention; Ex. court disaster |
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| binding agreement between two groups or people; compact; V: enter into a covenant; promise |
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| secret; hidden; implied; OP. overt |
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| avaricious; desirous of (someone else's possessions); V. covet: desire eagerly (someone else's possessions) |
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| shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer |
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| increase in the volume or intensity as in a musical passage; climax; CF. crescent |
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| make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle; N. CF. crotchet |
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| (of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; N. crotchet: odd or whimsical notion |
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| essential or main point; Ex. the crux of the problem; ADJ. crucial: of deciding importance |
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| word or signal (as in a play to prompt another actor's speech or entrance); reminder or hint; V: give a cue to |
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| pick out from others (to kill the weakest members); reject; select; collect (information); N. |
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| highest point; climax; V. culminate in: reach the highest point in; end in; Ex. a series of minor clashes culminating in war |
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| clever in deceiving; sly; N: cleverness in deceiving; deceit |
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| greed (for wealth); CF. cupid; CF. Cupid |
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| superintendent; manager (in charge of a museum or a library) |
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| chain or strap used with a bit to restrain a horse; something that checks; V: check; restrain |
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| regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times; signal (as a bell) announcing the hour of a curfew |
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| (of writing) flowing; running; having the successive letters joined |
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| skeptical or distrustful of human motives; N. cynicism; CF. cynic: person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness |
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