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| the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; (syn.)commendation, sanction |
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| a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose; (syn.) alliance, league, federation, combine |
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| decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; exessive self-indulgence; (syn.) degeneration, corruption |
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| to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning; (syn.) protest, remonstrate, complain |
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| a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing); (syn.) pause, lacuna |
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| a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference; (syn.) insinuation, intimation |
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| worthy, deserving recognition and praise; (syn.) praiseworthy, laudable, commendable |
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| a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence; (syn.) perquisite, perk |
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| to rise above or beyond, exceed; (syn.) surpass, outstrip |
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| pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas; (syn.) inflated, highfaultin, high-flown, pretentious |
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| saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish, aimless talk or thinking; nonsense; (v.) to let saliva flow from the mouth; to utter nonsense; (syn.) (n.) balderdash, hogwash, tommyrot (v.) slaver |
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| to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds; (syn.) encroach, impinge, intrude, poach |
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| belinging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part; (syn.) immanent, organic |
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| to spread through, penetrate, soak through |
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| to have an intense dislike or hatred for; (syn.) loathe, abhor, despise, detest |
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| resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential; (syn.) extrinsic, incidental, fortuitous |
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| to assign or refer to, attribute; (syn.) impute, credit, attribute |
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| to sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress; (syn.) feel sorry for, empathize |
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| a state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence; (v.) to be in or work into such a state; (syn.) (n.) commotion, turmoil, unrest |
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| existing in name only, not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously; (syn.) titular, token, trifling, inconsequential |
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| a natural or habitual inclination or tendency; (syn.) natural bent, penchant, propensity |
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| to use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end; (syn.) cajole, inveigle, soft-soap, sweet-talk |
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| courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to; (syn.) genial, amicable, agreeable, cordial |
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| illegal traffic, smuggled goods; (adj.) illegal, prohibited; (syn.) (adj.) illicit, bootleg, unlawful |
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| scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic; (syn.) profoundly, educated, well-read |
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| thin, light, delicate, insubstantial; (n.) a very thin, light cloth; (syn.) (adj.) filmy, diaphanous, sheer, airy, feathery, gauzy |
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| to find out by reasoning; to arrive at a conclusion on the basis of thought; to hint, suggest, imply; (syn.) gather, deduce, presume, guess, speculate |
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| incapable of being understood, impossible to see through physically; (syn.) impenetrable, incomprehensible, enigmatic |
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| incapable of being changed or called back; (syn.) irreversible, unrecallable, unalterable |
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| peevish, complaining, fretful; (syn.) petulant, touchy, cranky, irritable |
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| to argue or plead with someone against something, protest against; (syn.) reason against, expostulate |
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| able to return to an original shape or form; able to recover quickly; (syn.) springy, elastic, buoyant, bouncy |
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| to re-echo, resound; to reflect; (syn.)rumble, thunder, boom, echo |
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| persistent, showing industry and determination; (syn.) assiduous, tireless, indefatigable |
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| a general pardon for an offense against a government; in general, any act of forgiveness or absolution |
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| to adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely; (syn.) broadcast, trumpet |
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| a rule of conduct or action; (syn.) principle, maxim |
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| bitterly, severe, withering; causing great harm; (syn.) searing, harsh, ferocious, savage |
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| funereal, typical of the tomb; extremely gloomy or dismal; (syn.) doleful, lugubrious, mortuary |
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| tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy; (n.) something that induces sleep; (syn.) (n.) narcotic, anesthetic |
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| extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical; (syn.) highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy |
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| lasting only a short time, fleeting; (n.) one who stays only a short time; (syn.) (adj.) impermanent, ephemeral, evanescent |
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| not easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or compelxity |
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| abrupt, blunt, with no formalities; (syn.) curt, tactless, ungracious, gruff, rough |
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| to coax, persuade through flattery or artifice; to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises; (syn.) wheedle, inveigle, soft-soap, sweet-talk |
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| a leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power; (syn.) rable-rouser, firebrand |
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| to free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking; (syn.) undeceive, enlighten, set straight |
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| weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom; (syn.) langour, world-weariness, listlessness |
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| very wicked, offensive, hateful; (syn.) evil, odious, abominable, outrageous |
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