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Advocate: (v) To aid the cause of by approving or favoring: back, champion, endorse, get behind, plump for, recommend, side with, stand behind, stand by, support, uphold. Idioms: align oneself with, go to bat for, take the part of
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Antipathy: (n) Extreme hostility and dislike: abhorrence, abomination, aversion, detestation, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repugnancy, repulsion, revulsion.
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Bolster: (v) To keep from yielding or failing during stress or difficulty: buoy (up), prop, support, sustain, uphold
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Cacophony: (n) Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance
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Deride: (v) To make fun or make fun of: gibe, jeer, jest, laugh, mock, ridicule, scoff, scout, twit
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Dissonance: (n) A harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds; discord
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Enervate: (v) To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: attenuate, debilitate, devitalize, enfeeble, sap, undermine, undo, unnerve, weaken
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Eulogy: (n) A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died
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Garrulous: (adj) Given to conversation: chatty, conversational, loquacious, talkative, talky, voluble
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Ingenuous: (adj) Free from guile, cunning, or deceit: artless, guileless, innocent, naive, natural, simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly
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Lethargic: (adj) Lacking mental and physical alertness and activity: hebetudinous, sluggish, stupid, stuporous, torpid
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Malleable: (adj) Capable of being shaped, bent, or drawn out, as by hammering or pressure: ductile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, supple, workable
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Misanthrope: (n) A person who dislikes others
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Obdurate: (adj) Completely lacking in compassion: callous, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, compassionless, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, stonyhearted, unfeeling
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Ostentation: (n) Boastful self-importance or display: grandioseness, grandiosity, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, pretentiousness
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Paradox: (n) A contradiction or dilemma
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Philanthropic: (adj) Of or concerned with charity: altruistic, benevolent, charitable, eleemosynary
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Prevaricate: (v) To stray from or evade the truth: equivocate, palter, shuffle
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Venerate: (v) To regard with respect, reverence, or heartfelt deference: adore, idolize, revere
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Waver: (v) To exhibit irresolution or indecision: vacillate, swing