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abase: to degrade, to humiliate (corrupt, debase, debauch, demean, deprave, vitiate, pervert) (to exalt)
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abate: to reduve in intensity or amount (decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb, lessen, reduce, wane) (to increase)
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abstruse: difficult to understand, recondite, concealed (complex, complicated, intricate, knotty) (readily understood; clear)
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abyss: bottomless hole, a vast expanse or depth
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acuity: sharpness of perception (a: denseness)
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affinity: a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship (a: repulsion)
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alacrity: prompt and cheerful response (a: indolence)
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alchemist: one who practices medieval chemistry or tries to change metals into gold
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alloy: a substance that is a mixture of metals
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amenable: open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable (docile, obedient) (unwilling)
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antipathy: a dislike, distaste, or enmity (animosity, animus, antagonism, hostility, rancor) (propensity; amity)
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append: to add in a supplementary manner (a: to detach, to delete)
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arduous: very difficult to accomplish or to achieve, very demanding {task} (a: easy; not difficult)
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ascend: to move upward, to rise from a lower station (a: to descend, to go down)
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ascetic: one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury (austere, severe, stern) (sensual)
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audacity: excessive boldness, rashness, daring (cheek, chutzpah, effrontery, gall, hardihood, temerity) (meekness)
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augury: an omen or prophecy
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auspicious: favorable (propitious) (ill-omened)
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austere: strict, stern; unadorned, ascetic (severe) (indulgent)
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balm: a soothing substance or one that gives relief (a: irritant)
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benevolence: kindness, generosity, charity (a: antagonism; avarice; malevolence)
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benign: not causing harm, of gentle disposition, beneficial (a: malignant, harmful)
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betoken: to give a sign of (a: to hid; to conceal)
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blighted: destroyed or caused a decline or decay (a: good; healthy; wholesome)
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buoyant: capable of floating; cheerful (a: likely, to sink)
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burnish: to make shiny or to polish by rubbing (a: to tarnish)
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calamity: a serious event causing distress or misfortune (cataclysm, catastrophe) (good fortune)
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capricious: changing suddenly, fickle (inconstant, mercurial, unstable) (stable)
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consecrate: to dedicate or to declare sacred (devote, hallow) (to profane)
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credible: reliable and believable (a: unbelievable)
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Dearth: a lack, a scarcity (paucity) (adequate supply)
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Decorousness: proper behavior (a: lack of propriety)
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Decorum: appropriate conduct, correct and proper behavior (a: impropriety)
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Deleterious: harmful; dangerous; injurious (baneful, detrimental, noxious, pernicious) (harmless, benign)
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Depravity: moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act (abasement, corruption, debasement, debauchery, perversion) (noble behavior)
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Derision: scoffing at, mockery, ridicule (a: applause)
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Despondency: depression, dejection (a: blithe hopefulness)
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Despotic: ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical (a: ruling democratically)
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Discern: to differentiate between two or more things (a: to ignore; to be oblivious; to)
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Duplicity: double-dealing, hypocrisy (a: sincerity; single-mindedness)
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Edifice: a very large building (a: shack; small-building)
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Effervescent: showing high spirits
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Endow: to provide with income or property, to suppy with a talent or quality
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Enmity: absolute hatred (animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, hostility, rancor) (love; admiration)
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Entreaty: a plea, an earnest request (adjuration, appeal, suit, importunity, supplication) (denial)
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Enumerate: to count one by one (a: to group)
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Erudite: scholarly (a: ignorant)
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Esoteric: understood only by a small group or a select few (a: obvious)
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Estrange: to alienate, to separate (disaffect, wean) (to unite, to join)
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Ethereal: heavenly, unusually delicate, light, lacking material substance, intangible (a: earthly, mundane)
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Eulogy: praise or tribute (encomium, panegyric, tribute) (defamation)
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Evanescent: fleeting; impermanent (ephemeral, fugitive, transient, transitory) (permanent)
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Exigent: urgent, requiring immediate attention (a: lacking urgency)
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Expiate: to atone or to make amens for a sin or a crime (a: to hold gruges)
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Extant: still in existence (a: inexistent)
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Fervent: ardent, showing great emotion, impassioned (fervid, passionate, perfervid) (indifferent)
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Florid: flowery, flushed with color (a: plain; simple; pale)
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Foliage: leave of a plant, leafage
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Forbearance: patience, lenience (a: impatience)
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Foreboading: premonition of evil, an ominous omen (prediction, portent, presentiment) (serene)
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Fugitive: a person who is elusive or hard to find, wandering (ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, transient, transitory) (firmly established)
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Furrow: to make wrinkles or grooves (a: to make plain)
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Gaunt: very thin, emaciated, angular (lank, lean, rawboned, spare) (rotund, corpulent)
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Gentility: state of refinement, member of the upper class or gentry (a: boorishness)
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Gratuitous: given freely, unwarranted (a: demanded)
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Grievous: characterized by severe suffering or sorrow, serious or grave (a: minor)
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Ignominy: disgraceful or dishonorable conduct (disgrace, disrepute, infamy) (honor)
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Imbibe: to absorb or to drink in (a: to exude)
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Imperious: extremely overbearing (domineering, imperative, masterful, preemptory) (meek)
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Implicit: understood but not directly expressed (a: obscure)
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Import: relative importance, significance (a: meaninglessness)
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Impugn: to assail or to attack one's honor or integrity (a: to speak well of)
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Impute: to blame or to charge
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Inauspicious: unfavorable (a: promising good results)
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Incantation: a spell, written or recited formula of words designed for a particular effect
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Inclement: stormy, severe (a: calm; favorable)
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Incongruity: nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility (a: agreement)
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Incurious: uninterested, lacking normal curiosity (a: interested; curious)
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Indefatigable: tireless, incapable of being fatigued (a: easily tired)
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Inextricable: not able to be disentangled (a: separable)
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Infamous: having a reputation of the worst kind, vicious, notoriously bad (disreputable, ignominious) (illustrious)
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Inopportune: inconvenient, poorly timed (a: convenient)
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Inscrutable: difficult to understand; mysterious (a: clear; readable; understandable)
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Insidious: treacherous or dangerous in a secret sort of way (a: harmless)
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Inveterate: firmly established, habitual, deep-rooted (a: readily changeable)
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Inviolable: secure from violation or from being profaned (a: destructible)
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Jocular: jesting or jocking (facetious, jocose, jocund) (serious)
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Jollity: merriment, state of being jolly (glee, hilarity, mirth) (sadness)
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Labyrinthine: like a maze, very convoluted and intricate (mazy)
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Lament: to mourn or to express sorrow in a demonstrative manner (bemoan, bewail, deplore) (to rejoice)
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Languid: slow, sluggish, listless, weak (lethargic, stuporous, torpid) (animated)
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Laud: to praise, to extol (revere) (to defame)
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Loquacious: very talkative (garrulous, voluble) (taciturn)
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Lurid: sensational, gruesome and causing shock or horror (grisly, ghastly, macabre)
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Magnate: a person of power and influence (a: pauper)
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Malefactor: a criminal (a: law-abiding citizen)
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Malevolence: ill will or evil intentions (malice, malignity, spite, spleen) (benevolence)
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Malicious: motivated by hate or deliberate intent or harm (a: kind)
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Malleable: capable of being shaped, influenced, or altered; tractable (plastic, pliable, pliant, ductile) (unpliable)
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Melancholy: depression of spirits (a: happiness)
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Mirth: gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter (glee, hilarity, jollity) (sadness)
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Misanthrope: a hater of mankind (misanthropist, philanthropist)
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Mollify: to soothe or to appease, to assuage (conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate) (to aggravate)
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Oblivion: state of being forgotten (a: remembrance)
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Obscure: difficult to see, vague (abstruse, ambiguous, cryptic, enigmatic, equivocal, recondite) (clear; apparent)
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Obtuse: dull of mind, insensitive, stupid (a: intelligent)
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Obviates: makes unnecessary, prevents as a result of anticipating (a: instigates; begins)
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Odious: deserving hate or contempt (a: respectable)
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Ominous: threatening (fateful, portentous) (harmless; non-threatening)
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Opaque: not allowing passage of light, not transparent; hard to understand (dark) (transparent)
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Palliate: to ease pain, guilt or intensity (a: to intensify)
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Pallor: extreme paleness usually relating to the face (a: ruddy color)
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Palpable: tangible, perceptible, easily noticeable
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Peal: a loud ringing (usually of bells)
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Penitent: showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing, repentant (compunctual, contrite, remorseful) (unrepentant)
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Petty: small and insignificant (a: significant; prodigious)
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Petulance: unreasonable touchiness or irritability (a: serenity)
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Piety: devotion and reverence to God (a: irreverence)
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Placid: peacful, calm (serene, tranquil) (disturbed)
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Plaintive: mournful and expressing sorrow (a: joyful)
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Pompous: exaggerated show of dignity or self- importance, bombastic (ostentatious, pretentious) (humble; meek)
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Ponderous: very heavy, unwieldy from weight (cumbersome, cumbrous) (lightweight)
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Portal: a doorway {especially a large one}
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Portent: a sign or forewarning
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Posterity: future generations, all descendants of a person (a: forebears)
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Potent: powerful, having a strong effect (a: ineffectual)
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Potentate: a monarch, very powerful ruler, sovereign
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Prattle: meaningless sounds, babble (a: articulate language)
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Precipice: a very steep cliff or mass of rock, the brink of something dangerous (a: cavern)
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Precocious: exceptionally early in development or occurrence (a: backward)
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Predilection: preference (a: dislike, disinclination)
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Primeval: ancient, relating to the earliest ages (a: recently developed)
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Prolific: abundantly fruitful, marked by great productivity (fecund, fertile) (barren; unfruitful)
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Propensity: preference, natural inclination (leaning, penchant, proclivity) (aversion)
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Propinquity: nearness; kinship
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Propriety: correct conduct (a: indecorum)
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Quaint: unusual in character or appearance (eccentric, peculiar, queer, unique) (ordinary)
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Regimen: the regular process, procedure, or system of doing something (a: unsystematic activity)
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Remonstrate: to protest, to make objections (a: to agree; to acquiesce)
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Replete: filled to capacity, abundantly supplied (plenary) (devoid)
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Requite: to make repayment or to return (a: to withhold)
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Revere: to honor, to regard with respect (adore, venerate, worship) (to despise)
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Rotund: very plump, round (a: gaunt)
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Sagacious: wise, shrewd, very discerning (astute, perspicacious) (ignorant; uninformed; undiscerning)
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Scintillating: sparking, shining, or flashing (a: dull)
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Sedulously: very diligent, accomplishing with painstaking care (assidious, industrious) (haphazardly)
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Sentinel: one who keeps guard as a sentry
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Solace: to comfort or to cheer (soothe, mitigate, assuage) (to deride; to harass)
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Stalwart: one who supports a cause with firm partisanship (resolute, strong)
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Superfluous: beyond what is needed or required; an overflow (a: necessary)
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Tarry: to delay in coming or going, to linger (a: to depart promplty)
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Tempestuous: turbulent, stormy (a: calm)
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Tome: a book that is a large volume
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Torpid: sluggish, inactive, dull (a: active; animated)
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Unobtrusive: not readily noticeable, inconspiciuous (a: noticeable; obvious)
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Vagrant: a wanderer who does not have a home
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Venerate: to honor, to revere (adore, worship)
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Vicissitude: a passing from one thing to another, change of luck
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Virtuous: having excellent morals; righteous (ethical, noble) (depraved)
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Vista: a distant view seen through an opening
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Vitiated: impaired, corrupted, or made ineffective (a: strengthened)
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Voluminous: marked by great volume or size (a: slight)
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Voluptuous: pleasurable to the senses, sensuous (a: plain; homely)
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Wan: very pale and sickly (a: full of vitality)
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Witticism: a clever and witty remark (pun) (platitude)
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Zenith: the highest point overhead, peak (a: lowest point)
