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| repudiate an earlier statement |
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| most typical example0; archetype; purest example of something |
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| purest example of something; archetype |
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| convenient or advantageous rather than right or just; worthwhile |
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| free of charge; uncalled for or unwarranted |
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| to explain or describe in detail |
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| intended to teach; instructional |
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an unexpected result or action
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Synonyms: impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy |
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| a bitterly critical speech |
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| limited to the beliefs of a small group, such as a religious sec; narrow in scope |
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weak
delicate, doubtful, dubious, ethereal, fine, flimsy, gossamer, insignificant, insubstantial, light, |
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| criticize severely; scold |
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secret; mysterious
cabalistic, esoteric, hidden, impenetrable, mysterious, mystic, occult, recondite, unaccountable, unknowable |
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harmful, menacing
calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful |
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careful
canny, careful, chary, considerate, deliberate, discreet, discriminating, gingerly, guarded, heedful, judicious, meticulous, observant, play safe, politic, prudent, punctilious, safe, |
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marked by precise accordance with conventions
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greed; especially for money
acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, craving, eagerness, graspingness, greed, greediness, hunger, infatuation, |
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to be regretful of
complain, criticize
abhor, be against, bemoan, bewail, carry on, censure, complain, condemn, cry, denounce, deprecate, disapprove of, grieve for, hate, hurting, lament, moan, mourn, object to, regret, repent, rue, sorrow over, take on, weep |
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close minded
opinionated
Synonyms: arbitrary, arrogant, assertive, bigoted, bullheaded*, categorical, cocksure*, confident, definite, despotic, determined, dictative, doctrinaire, domineering, downright, egotistical, emphatic, fanatical, |
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erase
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Synonyms: blot out, blue-pencil, cancel, cross out, delete, destroy, edit, eliminate, expunge, fade, obliterate, rub out, scratch out, white out, wipe out |
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1 : celestial
2 : exceptionally delicate
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Synonyms: aerial, airy, celestial, dainty, divine, empyreal, empyrean, exquisite, fairy, filmy, fine, gaseous, ghostly, gossamer, heavenly, impalpable, insubstantial, intangible, light, rarefied, refined, spiritual, sublime, subtle, supernal, tenuous, unearthly, unsubstantial, unworldly, vaporous, vapory |
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increase something's bitterness or harshness
infuriate
Synonyms: aggravate, annoy, egg on*, embitter, enrage, envenom, exasperate, excite, heat up*, heighten, hit on*, hot up, increase, inflame, intensify, irritate, madden, provoke, vex, worsen |
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| done without planning; improvised |
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silly insignificant
stupid
Synonyms: Mickey Mouse, absurd, asinine, birdbrained, daft, ditzy, driveling, empty, fatuous, flat, foolish, frivolous, futile, harebrained*, idiotic, illogical, imbecilic, innocuous, insipid, jejune, jerky, lamebrained, laughable, meaningless, mindless, nerdy, pointless, puerile, ridiculous, sappy*, senseless, silly, trifling, unintelligent, vacant, vacuous, vain, vapid, weak, wishy-washy*, worthless |
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not yet fully developed
undeveloped
Synonyms: amorphous, beginning, elementary, embryonic, formless, immature, imperfect, inceptive, incipient, just begun, nascent, preliminary, rudimentary, shapeless, unfinished, unformed, unshaped |
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means stubborn or obstinate
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Synonyms: awkward, bull-headed, cantankerous, contrary, fractious, hang tough, hard-line, headstrong, immovable, incompliant, incurable, indocile, indomitable, insoluble, intransigent, locked, locked in, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pig-headed, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, self-willed, stubborn, tenacious, tough, tough nut, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpliable, unruly, unyielding, wayward, wild, willful |
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1. refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
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unseemly frivolity
funniness
Synonyms: absurdity, amusement, buoyancy, facetiousness, festivity, fickleness, flightiness, flippancy, folly, foolishness, frivolity, giddiness, grins, happiness, high spirits, hilarity, hoopla, jocularity, laughs, light-heartedness, mirth, picnic*, pleasantry, repartee, silliness, trifling, triviality, volatility, whoopee, wit |
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1. not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
2. amusing; humorous.
3. lacking serious intent; concerned with something nonessential, amusing, or frivolous: a facetious person. |
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reluctant, unwilling
against
Synonyms: afraid, averse, backward, counter, disinclined, hesitant, indisposed, opposed, reluctant, remiss, resisting, uneager, unwilling |
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mournful to an exagerated degree
bad, bleeding*, blue*, blue funk, bummed out*, cast down, crestfallen, crummy*, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dragged*, fed up*, glum, grim, hurting, in pain*, let down, low, low down, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, moody, morose, pessimistic, ripped, sad, sob story*, spiritless, taken down*, torn up*, unhappy, weeper, woebegone |
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| a long uninterrupted speech by one person |
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criticize
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Synonyms: bawl out, castigate, censure, chastise, chew out*, chide, give one hell*, jump all over*, rake over the coals*, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, scold, upbraid |
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| behaving like a meek, spineless servant; subservient; sycophantic |
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to make unneccessary
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Synonyms: anticipate, avert, block, counter, counteract, deter, forestall, forfend, hinder, interfere, interpose, intervene, preclude, prevent, remove, restrain, rule out, stave off, ward |
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equality
balance
Synonyms: adequation, affinity, agreement, analogy, approximation, closeness, coequality, conformity, congruity, consistency, correspondence, equal terms, equality, equivalence, equivalency, likeness, nearness, par, parallelism, resemblance, sameness, similarity, similitude, uniformity, unity |
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| model of excellence; the best |
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| a strong liking attraction to |
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| destructive, very harmful |
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| read carefuly study in detail |
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| founded long time ago; primitive |
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