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| beckon |
signal, sign, summon, gesture, make a gesture, indicate |
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| fortified |
carrying weapons, equipped, prepared |
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| unduly |
excessively, overly, disproportionately, out of all proportion, unjustifiably, undeservedly, improperly |
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| egregious |
conspicuously bad or offensive, flagrant |
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| amicably |
good-naturedly, cordially, harmoniously, kindly, politely, good-humoredly |
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| Incongruous |
out of place, incompatible, inappropriate, inconsistent, absurd, odd |
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| Voluble |
adj fluent, verbal, articulate, verbose, having easy use of spoken language, talking easily and at length, or involving lengthy talking |
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| Vitiate |
v to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective |
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| Tyro |
n novice, greenhorn, rank amateur, trainee, novice, learner, student, pupil, beginner |
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| Timorous |
adj timid, fearful, diffident, nervous, shy |
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| Tendentious |
adj biased; showing marked tendencies, written or spoken with personal bias in order to promote a cause or support a viewpoint |
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| Sycophant |
n toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer for personal gain; parasite |
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| Stygian |
adj gloomy, dark, unremittingly dark and frightening, as hell is imagined to be |
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| Stentorian |
adj extremely loud and powerful |
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| Sententious |
adj aphoristic, moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively |
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| Saturnine |
adj gloomy, dark, sullen, morose, melancholy, caused by lead poisening |
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| Sanguine |
adj cheerful, confident, optimistic, positive |
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| Salacious |
adj lustful, lascivious, having or showing explicit or crude sexual desire or interest, bawdy, scandalous, spicy, exciting |
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| Remonstrate |
v to protest, object, argue, oppose, complain |
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| Pusillanimous |
adj cowardly, timid, fearful, spineless, craven |
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| Puissance |
n power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong: The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention. |
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| Puerile |
adj childish, immature, jejune, nugatory |
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| Propitiate |
v to appease, to win somebody’s favor; to conciliate (make peace); propitious means auspicious, favorable |
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| Prolix |
adj long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity: Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity. |
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| Plangent |
adj pounding, thundering, resonant, resounding, expressing or suggesting sadness and grief |
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| Peroration |
n the concluding part of a speech; speech, oration, discourse (dialogue, conversation), flowery, rhetorical speech |
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| Pellucid |
adj transparent, easy to understand, limpid |
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| Parsimonious |
adj cheap, frugal, ungenerous, miserly: A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty. |
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| Panegyric |
(pa’nn@ji’rrik) n formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise |
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| Palliate |
v to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense |
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