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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 agnostic | one who believes it impossible to know whether or not God exists |
| nepotism | favoritism to relatives in giving jobs and offices |
| enigmatic | puzzling, mysterious, perplexing |
| blatant | completely obvious, often offensively so; shameless |
| nebulous | unclear, hazy, indistinct |
| procrustean | forcing rigid conformity |
| denigrate | defame, speak ill of, attack the reputation of |
| prosaic | commonplace, dull, uninspired |
| docile | easily managed, controlled, or taught; gentle;submissive |
| boycott | refuse to deal with as a means of protest and persuasion |
| carnage | great slaughter, massacre |
| carnal | pertaining to desires of the flesh; sensual, sexual, lustful, wordly |
| carnivorous | flesh-eating |
| incarnate | having bodily form, especially human form; personified |
| reincarnation | rebirth in another body |
| agnostic | synonyms: unbeliever, doubter, questioner, skeptic |
| nepotism | synonyms: favoritism, patronage, |
| enigmatic | synonyms: mystifying, baffling, bewildering, obscure, cryptic. |
| enigmatic | contrasted words:candid, frank, intelligible, lucid |
| blatant | synonyms: clear, outstanding, prominent, conspicuous. |
| blatant | contrasted words: inconspicuous, subtle, unobtrusive |
| nebulous | synonyms:fuzzy, murcky, imprecise, confused, vague |
| nebulous | contrasted words: lucid, unambiguous |
| Procrustean | synonyms: unyielding, inflexible, unbending, drastically rigid, ruthlessly rigid, stringent |
| Procrustean | contrasted words: pliant, pliable, lax |
| denigrate | synonyms:belittle, discredit, slander, disparage |
| denigrate | contrasted words: extol, laud, exculpate, absolve, vindicate |
| prosaic | synonyms:humdrum, uninteresting, ordinary, monotonous, mundane |
| prosaic | contrasted words: lyrical, rapturous, fanciful |
| docile | synonyms: obedient, manageable, amendable |
| docile | contrasted words: obdurate, truculent, refractory, fractious, contentious, belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious |
| boycott | synonyms: reject, ban, exclude, ostracize, |
| boycott | contrasted words: patronize |
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