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abate subside or moderate aberrant abnormal or deviant anachronism something or someone misplaced in time admonish warn; reprove adulterate to make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances ambiguous unclear or doubtful in meaning ambivalence the state of having conflicting or contradicting emotional attitudes abeyance suspended in action abscond sparing in eating and drinking; temperate alacrity cheerful promptness; eagerness alleviate relieve assuage to ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) attenuate make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force or degree) audacious daring; bold austere forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented artless without guile; open and honest ascetic practicing self-denial; austere assiduous diligent amalgamate combine; unite in one body appease pacify or soothe; relieve apprise inform approbation approval appropriate acquire; to possessions of for one's own use arduous hard; strenuous aesthetic artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful aggregate gather; accumulate autonomous self governing analogous comparable anomalous abnormal; irregular anarchy lack of governing body; state of disorder aver assert confidently; as use in law, state formally as a fact antipathy aversion; dislike apathy lack of caring; indifference ameliorate improve banal hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality belie contradict; give a false impression beneficent kindly; doing good bolster support; reinforce bombastic pompous; using inflated languages boorish rude; insensitive burgeon to grow forth; send out buds burnish make shiny by rubbing polish buttress support; prop up cacophonous discordant; inharmonious capricious unpredictable; fickle castigation punishment; severe criticism catalyst agent that influences the pace of a chemical reaction while remain unchanged; person or thing that causes action caustic burning; sarcastically biting chicanery trickery; deception coagulate thicken; congeal; clot coda concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that rounds out, summarizes or conclude cogent convincing commensurate corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc.; proportionate compendium brief, comprehensive summary complaisant trying to please; overly polite; obliging compliant yielding; conforming to requirements conciliatory reconciling; soothing condone overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse confound confuse; puzzle connoisseur a person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of an art contention claim; thesis contrite regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness conundrum riddle; difficult problem converge approach; tend to meet; come together convoluted coiled around; involved; intricate craven cowardly daunt intimidate; frighten decorum propriety; orderliness and good taste in manner default failure to act deference courteous regard to another's wish delineate portray; depict; sketch denigrate blacken deride ridicule; make fun of derivative unoriginal; obtained from another source desiccate dry up desultory aimless; haphazard; digressing at random deterrent something that discourage; hindrance diatribe bitter scolding; invective dichotomy split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) diffidence shyness diffuse wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas) digression wandering away from the subject dirge lament with music disabuse correct a false impression; undeceive discerning mentally quick and observant; having insight discordant not harmonious; conflicting discredit defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve discrepancy lack of consistency discrete separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts disingenuous lacking genuine candor; insincere disinterested unprejudiced disjointed lacking coherence; separated at the joints dismiss eliminate from consideration; reject disparage belittle disparate basically different; unrelated dissemble disguise; pretend disseminate distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds) dissolution disintegration; looseness in morals dissonance discord; opposite of harmony distend expend; swell out distill purify; refine; concentrate diverge vary; go in different directions from the same point divest strip; deprive document provide written evidence dogmatic opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal dormant sleeping; lethargic; latent dupe someone easily fooled ebullient showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm eclectic selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources efficacy power to produce desired effect effrontery impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness elegy poem or song expressing lamentation elicit draw out by discussion embellish adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story empirical based on experience emulate imitate; rival endemic prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country enervate weaken engender cause; produce enhance increase; improve ephemeral short-lived; fleeting equanimity calmness of temperament; composure equivocate lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth erudite learned; scholarly esoteric hard to understand; known only to the chosen few eulogy expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death euphemism mild expression in place of an unpleasant one exacerbate worsen; embitter exculpate clear from blame exigency urgent situation; pressing needs or demand; state of requiring immediate attention extrapolation projection; conjecture facetious joking (often inappropriately); humorous fallacious false; misleading fatuous brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug fawning trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering, or cringing felicitous apt; suitably expressed; well chosen fervor glowing ardor; intensity of feeling flag droop; grow feeble fledgling inexperienced flout reject; mock; show contempt for foment stir up, instigate forestall prevent by taking action in advance frugality thrift; economy goad urge on gouge tear out; overcharge gainsay deny garrulous loquacious; wordy; talkative futile useless; hopeless; ineffectual grandiloquent pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding languages gregarious sociable guileless without deceit gullible easily deceived harangue long, passionate and vehement speech homogeneous of the same kind hyperbole exaggeration; overrstatement iconoclastic attacking cherish tradition idolatry worship of idols; excessive admiration immutable unchangeable impair injure; hurt impassive without feeling; imperturbable; stoical impede hinder; block impermeable impervious; not permitting passage through its passage imperturbable calm placid impervious impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed inadvertently unintentionally inchoate recently begun; rudimentary; elementary incongruity lack of harmony; absurdity inconsequential insignificant; unimportant incorporate introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite indeterminate uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite indigence poverty indolent lazy inert inactive ingenuous naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated inherent firmly established by native or habit innocuous harmless insensible unconscious; unresponsive insinuate hint; imply; creep in insipid lacking in flavor; dull insularity narrow-mindedness; isolation intractable unruly; stubborn; unyielding intransigence refusal of any compromise; stubbornness inundate overwhelm; flood; submerge inured accustomed; hardened invective abusive irascible irritable; easily angered irresolute uncertain how to act; weak itinerary plan of a trip