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abet: to encourage, assist, aid, support (especially in something wrong or unworthy), hamper, hinder, impede, frustrate
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absolve: to clear from blame, reponsibility, or guilt, acquit, exonerate, vindicate, excuse, pardon
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abstemious: moderate, temperate, sober, characterized by abstinence and self-discipline
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amenable: agreeable
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aver: assert, asseverate, avouch, to affirm, declare confidently
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berate: to scold sharply
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blatant: flagrant, glaring, egregious, disagreeably loud
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broach: to bring up of begin to talk about, to announce, introduce, to break the surface of the water, to pierce, a split for roasting
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buttress: to support, prop up, strengthen, a supporting structure, bolster, reinforce, brace, shore up
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caricature: cartoon, burlesque, parody, lampoon, a representation (especially a drawing) in which the subject's characteristic features are deliberately exaggerated
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carnage: large-scale slaughter or loss of life
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carousal: drinking bout, drunken revel, binge, noisy revelry or merrymaking
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censurable: deserving of blame or correction, blameworthy, discreditable, reprehensible
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clangor: a loud ringing sound, to make a loud ringing noise, din, clamor, uproar
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collate: sort out, cross-check, rearrange
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connoisseur: an expert, savant, pundit
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contiguous: side by side, touching, near, adjacent in time, adjoining, abutting, next door to
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contingent: likely but not certain to happen, possible, a detachment, happening by chance, a representative group forming part of a larger body
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corroborate: to confirm, make more certain, bolster, substantiate, verify, refute, contradict, undermine, discredit
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credulous: gullible
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criterion: a rule, test, a standart for judgement or evaluation, yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
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cupidity: an eager desire for something, greed, avarice, rapacity, craving, lust
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deleterious: harmful, injurious, detrimental, destructive, pernicious, damaging
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denizen: an inhabitant, resident, one who frequents a place, dweller, habitue
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deplete: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt, to greatly diminish, to use up as a result of spending or consumption
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disconsolate: grief-stricken, inconsolable, comfortless
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discursive: passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic, digressive, diffuse, wandering, episodic
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disseminate: to scatter or spread widely, disperse, publicize, broadcast, circulate
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dowdy: poorly dressed, shabby, lacking smartness and good tase, frumpy, tacky, frowsy, drab
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encumber: to weigh down or burden
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enhance: to raise to a higher degree, to increase the value or desirability of, improve, magnify, heighten, elevate
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enthrall: to captivate
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expatiate: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
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extenuate: moderate, mitigate, diminish, downplay
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extraneous: incidental, extrinsic, foreign, irrelevant
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florid: highly colored, reddish, excessively ornate, showy, flushed, ruddy, flowery, frilly, flamboyant
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foist: to impose by fraud, to pass off as worthy or genuine, dishonesty, pass off, palm off, fob off
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foment: instigate, incite, stir up, to apply warm liquids to
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gauche: awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy, inept, uncouth, maladroit
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grisly: frightful, gruesome
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herculean: characterized by great strength, onerous
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heresy: an opinion different from accepted belief, the denial of an idea that is generally, held sacred, unorthodox belief, heterodoxy
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impassive: emotionless, stoical
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implicit: unspoken, implied, unquestioning
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inauspicious: unfavorable, unlucky, untimely, unpromising, unpropitious
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inception: the beginning, start, earliest stage, institution, commencement, inauguration, outset
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incisive: sharp, keen, penetrating, acute, perceptive
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incontrovertibile: unquestionable, beyond dispute, incontestable, indubitable
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inculcate: to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly, instill, implant, infuse, ingrain, imbue
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infirmity: affliction, malady, defect, a weakness or ailment
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jejune: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish, immature, juvenile
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nonplussed: perplexed, baffled, stumped, flabbergasted, at a loss
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obdurate: stubborn, unyielding, obstinate, adamant
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opportune: timely, appropraite, felicitious
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ostentatious: flashy, overdone, flamboyant
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palpable: capable of being touched or felt, easily seen, heard, or recognized, tangible, plain, obvious, manifest
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paragon: ideal, model, good example, a model of excellence or perfection
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paraphrase: reword, rephrase, a rendition, version
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perceptive: having sympathetic insight or understanding, capable of keen appreciation, insightful, discerning, observant
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pernicious: extremely harmful, deadly, fatal, injurious, deleterious, baleful, noxious
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politic: tactful, diplomatic, artful, prudent, judicious, circumspect
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potpourri: hodgepodge,melange, farrago, medley
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precocious: forward, gifted, advanced, early development
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prolific: fruitful, fecund, proliferous
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prosaic: dull, humdrum, literal, matter-of-fact, straightforward, not poetic
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redundant: extra, excess, wordy, repetitive, profuse, lush, superfluous, verbose, prolix
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rejoinder: answer, reply, riposte
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sadistic: delighting in cruelty, fiendish
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salient: leaping, jumping, springing forth, prominent,standing out, a projection or bulge, a land form that projects upward or outward, striking, notable, protrusive, obvious
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sanctimonious: heartfelt, sincere, humble, holier-than-thou
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satiate: to satisfy completely, to fill to excess, full, satisfied, gratify, cloy, surfeit, gorge
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scintillating: stimulating, lively, glittering, flashing, exceptionally brilliant, sparkling, twinkling
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sear: to make or become dry and withered, to char or scorch the surface of, singe, dessicate, to harden or make unfeeling
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sententious: self-righteous, saying much in few words, pithy, aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic
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specious: deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit, deceptively plausible, sophistic, casuistic
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supplicate: to beg earnestly and humbly, plead, petition, implore, entreat
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surfeit: excess, glut, cloy, satiate, overindulgence, causing disgust, to feed or supply with anything to excess
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tortuous: winding, twisted, crooked, highly involved, complex, devious, labyrinthine
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turgid: swollen, bloated, filled to excess, overdecorated or excessive in language, inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
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winsome: winning, engaging, delightful, prepossessing, pleasing, charming, attractive
