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| xenophobia |
n. a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers
bigotry, chauvinism, prejudice |
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| wanton |
adj. undisciplined; unrestrained, reckless
capricious, lewd, licentious |
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| vex |
v. to annoy; irritate; puzzle; confuse
annoy, bother, chafe, exasperate, irk, nettle, peeve, provoke |
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| usury |
n. the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates |
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| tyro |
n. beginner, novice
apprentice, fledgling, greenhorn, neophyte, tenderfoot |
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| torpor |
n. extreme mental and physical sluggishness
apathy; languor |
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| tacit |
adj. done without using words
implicit, implied, undeclared, unsaid, unuttered |
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| surfeit |
n. excessive amount
glut, plethora, repletion, superfluity, surplus |
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| stentorian |
adj. extremely loud
clamorous, noisy |
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| soporific |
adj. causing sleep or lethargy
hypnotic, narcotic, slumberous, somnolent |
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| sardonic |
adj. cynical, scornfully mocking
acerbic, caustic, sarcastic, satirical, snide |
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| sacrosanct |
adj. extremely sacred; beyond criticism
holy, inviolable, off-limits |
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| zealot |
n. someone passionately devoted to a cause
enthusiast, fanatic, militant, radical |
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| wizened |
adj. shriveled; withered; wrinkled
atrophied, desiccated, gnarled, wasted |
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| wan |
adj. sickly pale
ashen, sickly |
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| verdant |
adj. green with vegetation; inexperienced |
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| upbraid |
v. to scold sharply
berate, chide, rebuke, reproach, tax |
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| turgid |
adj. swollen as from a fluid, bloated
distended |
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| toady |
n. one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors
parasite, sycophant |
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| syncopation |
n. temporary irregularity in musical rhythm |
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| sublime |
adj. lofty or grand
august, exalted, glorious, grand, magnificent, majestic, resplendent, superb |
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| specious |
adj. deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
illusory, ostensible, plausible, sophistic, spurious |
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| seraphic |
adj. angelic; sweet
cherubic, heavenly |
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| sanguine |
adj. ruddy; cheerfully optimistic
confident, hopeful, positive, rosy, rubicund |
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| ribald |
adj. humorous in a vulgar way
coarse; gross, indelicate, lewd, obscene |
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| yoke |
v. to join together
bind, harness, pair |
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| winsome |
adj. charming; happily engaging
attractive, delightful |
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| viscous |
adj. thick and adhesive, like a slow-flowing liquid
gelatinous; glutinous; thick |
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| variegated |
adj. varied; marked with different colors |
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| umbrage |
n. offense; resentment
asperity, dudgeon, ire, pique, rancor |
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| trenchant |
adj. acute, sharp, incisive; forceful, effective
biting, caustic, cutting, keen |
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| talon |
n. claw of an animal, especially a bird of prey |
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| sycophant |
n. a self-serving flatterer; yes man
bootlicker, fawner, lickspittle, toady |
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| stolid |
adj. unemotional, lacking sensitivity
apathetic, impassive, indifferent, phlegmatic, stoical, unconcerned |
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| spartan |
adj. highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere
restrained, simple |
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| sedition |
n. behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state
conspiracy, insurrection |
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| salient |
adj. prominent; of notable significance
marked, noticeable, outstanding |
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| rejoiner |
n. response
retort; riposte |
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| redress |
n. relief from wrong or injury
amends, indemnity, quittance, reparation, restitution |
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| pugilism |
n. boxing
fighting, sparring |
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| probity |
n. complete honesty and integrity
morality, rectitude, uprightness, virtue |
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| prattle |
n. meaningless, foolish talk
babble, blather, chatter, drivel, gibberish |
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| plebeian |
adj. crude or coarse; characteristic of commoners
conventional, unrefined |
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| phlegmatic |
adj. calm and unemotional in temperament
apathetic, calm, emotionless, impassive, indifferent, passionless, unemotional |
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| pedant |
n. someone who shows off learning
doctrinaire, nit-picker, pedagogue, scholar, schoolmaster, sophist |
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| parley |
n. discussion, usually between enemies
debate, dialogue, negotiations, talks |
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| ostensible |
adj. apparent
represented, supposed, surface |
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| onerous |
adj. troublesome and oppressive; burdensome
arduous, backbreaking, burdensome, cumbersome, difficult, exacting, formidable, hard, laborious, oppressive, rigorous, taxing, trying |
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| raconteur |
n. witty, skillful storyteller
anecdotalist, monologist |
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| puerile |
adj. childish; immature; silly
infantile, jejune, juvenile |
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| prescient |
adj. having foresight
augural, divinatory, mantic, oracular, premonitory |
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| polyglot |
n. a speaker of many languages |
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| plastic |
adj. able to be molded, altered or bent
adaptable, ductile, malleable, pliant |
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| zenith |
n. the point of culmination, peak
acme, pinnacle |
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| zeal |
adj. passion; excitement
ardency, fervor, fire, passion |
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| wraith |
n. a ghost or specter; a ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death
apparition, bogeyman, phantasm, shade, spirit |
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| wily |
adj. clever, deceptive
crafty, cunning, tricky |
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| whimsical |
adj. lightly acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
capricious, erratic, flippant, frivolous |
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| waver |
v. to fluctuate between choices
dither, falter, fluctuate, oscillate, vacillate, waver |
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| volatile |
adj. easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
capricious, erratic, fickle, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental |
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| vestige |
n. a trace; remnant
relic, remains, sign |
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| verbose |
adj. wordy
longwinded, loquacious, prolix, superfluous |
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| veracity |
n. filled with truth and accuracy
candor; exactitude, fidelity, probity |
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| venerate |
v. to respect deeply
adore, honor, idolize, revere |
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| venerable |
adj. respected because of age
distinguished, elderly, respectable |
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| vacillate |
v. to physically sway; to be indecisive
dither, falter, fluctuate, oscillate, waver |
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| unequivocal |
adj. absolute, certain
categorical, clear, explicit, express, unambiguous |
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| unconsionable |
adj. unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust
dishonorable, indefensible |
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| tirade |
n. long, harsh speech or verbal attack
diatribe, fulmination, harangue, obloquy, revilement, vilification |
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| transitory |
adj. temporary; lasting a brief time
ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary |
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| tome |
n. book, usually large and academic
codex, volume |
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| terrestrial |
adj. earthly, down-to-earth, commonplace
earthbound, mundane, sublunary, tellurian, terrene |
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| tangential |
adj. digressing; diverting
digressive, extraneous, inconsequential, irrelevant, peripheral |
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| symbiosis |
n. cooperation, mutual helpfulness
association, interdependence |
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| surly |
adj. rude and bad-tempered
gruff, grumpy, testy |
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| supplant |
v. to replace (another) by force; to take the place of
displace, supersede |
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| sully |
v. to tarnish, to taint
besmirch, defile |
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| stratagem |
n. trick designed to deceive an enemy
artifice, feint, maneuver, ruse, while |
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| stigma |
n. a mark of shame or discredit
blemish, spot, opprobrium, stain, taint |
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| stasis |
n. a state of static balance or equilibrium; stagnation
inertia, standstill |
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| sportive |
adj. frolicsome, playful
frisky, merry |
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| slake |
v. to calm down or moderate |
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| sentient |
adj. aware; conscious, able to perceive
feeling, intelligent, thinking |
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| rustic |
adj. rural
bucolic, pastoral |
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| rhetoric |
n. effective writing or speaking
eloquence; oratory |
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| repudiate |
v. to reject the validity of
deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, renounce |
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| repose |
n. relaxation; leisure
calmness; tranquility |
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| repast |
n. meal or meal time |
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| quotidian |
adj. occurring daily; commonplace
everyday, normal, usual |
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| quixotic |
adj. overly idealistic, impractical
capricious, impulsive, romantic, unrealistic |
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| pungent |
adj. sharp and irritating to the senses
acrid, caustic, piquant, poignant, stinging |
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| prudence |
n. wisdom; caution or restraint
astuteness, circumspection, discretion, frugality, judiciousness, providence, thrift |
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| propriety |
n. the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs
appropriateness, decency, decorum, modesty |
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| proliferate |
v. to increase in number quickly
breed, multiply, procreate, propagate, reproduce, spawn |
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| prodigal |
adj. lavish, wasteful
extravagant, lavish, profligate, spendthrift, wasteful |
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| pristine |
adj. fresh and clean; uncorrupted
innocent, undamaged |
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| precipitate |
v. to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
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| pragmatic |
adj. practical, as opposed to idealistic
rational, realistic |
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| posit |
v. to assume as real or conceded; propose as an explanation
suggest |
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| politic |
adj. shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things; diplomatic
tactful |
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| polemic |
n. controversy; argument; verbal attack
denunciation, refutation |
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| plucky |
adj. courageous; spunky
brave, bold, gutsy |
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| plethora |
n. excess
glut, overabundance, superfluity, surfeit |
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| placate |
v. to soothe or pacify
appease, conciliate, mollify |
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| pithy |
adj. concise; succinct; to the point
brief, compact, laconic, terse |
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| philistine |
n. a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
boor, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, lout, materialist, vulgarian |
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| philanthropy |
n. charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness
altruism, humanitarianism |
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| phalanx |
n. a compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or things
legion, mass |
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| perspicacious |
adj. shrewd, astute, keen-witted
insightful, intelligent, sagacious |
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| peccadillo |
n. minor sin or offense
failing, fault, lapse, misstep |
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| penury |
n. an oppressive lack of resources (as money); severe poverty
destitution, impoverishment |
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| pervade |
v. to be present throughout; to permeate
imbue, infuse, penetrate, permeate, sufuse |
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| permeate |
v. to penetrate
imbue, infuse, pervade, suffuse |
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| pejorative |
n. having bad connotations; disparaging
belittling, dismissive, insulting |
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| pathogenic |
adj. causing disease
infecting, noxious |
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| pariah |
n. an outcast
castaway, derelict, leper, offscouring, untouchable |
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| paragon |
n. model of excellence or perfection
apotheosis, ideal, quintessence, standard |
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| paradox |
n. a contradiction or dilemma
ambiguity, incongruity |
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| panach |
n. flamboyance or dash in style and action; verve
flair |
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| pallid |
adj. lacking color or liveliness
ashen, blanched, ghostly, pale, wan |
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| palatial |
adj. relating to a palace; magnificent
grand; stately |
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| overwrought |
adj. agitated; overdone
elaborate; excited, nervous, ornate |
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| ossify |
v. to change into bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern |
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| opine |
v. to express an opinion
point out, voice |
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| obstinate |
adj. stubborn, unyielding |
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| obsequious |
adj. overly submissive and eager to please
compliant, deferential, servile, subservient |
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| oblique |
adj. indirect, evasive, misleading, devious
glancing, slanted, tangential |
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| nuance |
n. a subtle expression of meaning or quality |
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| nominal |
adj. existing in name only, negligable
minimal, titular |
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| neologism |
n. new word or expression |
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| nascent |
adj. starting to develop; coming into existence
embryonic, emerging, inchoate, incipient |
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| naive |
adj. lacking sophistication or experience
artless, credulous, guileless, ingenuous, simple, unaffected, unsophisticated |
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| nadir |
n. lowest point
bottom, depth, pit |
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| multifarious |
adj. diverse
assorted, indiscriminate, heterogeneous, legion, motley, multifold, multiplex, multivarious, populous, varied |
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| mores |
n. fixed customs or manners; moral attitudes
conventions, practices |
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| monotony |
n. no variation; tediously the same
drone, tedium |
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| monastic |
adj. extremely plain or secluded, as in a monastery
austere, contemplative, disciplines, regimented, self-abnegating |
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| mollify |
v. to calm or make less severe |
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| missive |
n. a written note or letter |
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| misanthrope |
n. a person who dislikes others
curmudgeon |
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| militate |
v. to operate against, work against
influence, affect, change |
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| meticulous |
adj. extremely careful; fastidious; painstaking
finicky, fussy, picky, precise, punctilious, scrupulou |
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| maudlin |
adj. overly sentimental
bathetic, mawkish, saccharine, weepy |
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| mar |
v. to damage; to deface; to spoil
blemish; disfigure; impair, injure, scar |
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| mannered |
adj. artificial or stilted in character
affected; unnatural |
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| malleable |
adj. capable of being shaped
adaptable, ductile, plastic, pliable, pliant |
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| malinger |
v. to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill
shirk, slack |
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| maelstrom |
n. whirlpool; turmoil; agitated state of mind
Charybdis, eddy, turbulence |
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| machination |
n. plot or scheme
cabal, conspiracy, design, intrigue |
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| luminous |
adj. bright; brilliant; glowing
incandescent, lucent, lustrous, radiant, resplendent |
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| lumber |
v. to move slowly and awkwardly
galumph, hulk, lurch, stumble |
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| lucid |
adj. clear and easily understood
clear, coherent, explicit, intelligible, limpid |
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| loquacious |
adj. talkative
effusive, garrulous, verbose |
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| livid |
adj. reddened with anger
furious, enraged, fuming, incensed |
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| listless |
adj. lacking energy and enthusiasm
faineant, indolent, languid, lethargic, sluggish |
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| lionize |
v. to treat as a celebrity
feast, honor, ply, regale |
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| libertine |
n. a free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraint
hedonist |
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| liberal |
adj. tolerant; broad-minded; generous; lavish
bounteous, latitudinarian, munificent, permissive, progressive |
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| levity |
n. an inappropriate lack of seriousness, overly casual
amusement, horror |
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| lethargic |
adj. acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
apathetic, lackadaisical, languid, listless, torpid |
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| leery |
adj. suspicious
distrustful, guarded, wary |
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| lavish |
adj. extremely generous or extravagant; to give unsparingly
bestow, confer, exuberant, luxuriant, opulent, prodigal, profuse, superabundant |
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| latent |
adj. potential that is not readily apparent
concealed, dormant, inert, potential, quiescent |
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| lassitude |
n. a state of diminished energy
debilitation, enervation, fatigue, languor, listlessness, tiredness, weariness |
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| larceny |
n. theft of property
burglary, robbery, stealing |
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melmmo Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:10 GMT |
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| languid |
adj. lacking energy; indifferent; slow
faineant, lackadaisical, listless, sluggish, weak |
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| lampoon |
v. to ridicule with satire
tease |
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melmmo Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:10 GMT |
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| lament |
v. to express sorrow, to grieve
bewail, deplore, grieve, mourn |
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melmmo Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:10 GMT |
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| laconic |
adj. using few words
concise, curt, pithy, taciturn, terse |
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melmmo Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:10 GMT |
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| knell |
n. sound of a funeral bell; omen of death or failure
chime, peal, toll |
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melmmo Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:10 GMT |
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| kinetic |
adj. relating to motion, characterized by movement
active, dynamic, mobile |
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melmmo Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:10 GMT |
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| kindle |
v. to set fire to or ignite; excite or inspire
arouse, awaken, light, spark |
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