Vocan. 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ascetic | Spartan, abstaining, abstemious, abstinent, austere, disciplined, puritanical, strict |
| surly | boorish, brusque, churlish, cross, crusty, curmudgeonly, discourteous, dour, fractious, glum, grouchy, ill-mannered, ill-natured, irritable, morose, perverse, rude, saturnine, sulky, sullen, testy, ugly, uncivil, ungracious |
| pariah | bum, castaway, deportee, derelict, displaced person, exile, expatriate, fugitive, hobo, leper, outsider, persona non grata, rascal, refugee, tramp, undesirable, vagabond, vagrant, waif |
| disrepute | discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation; ingloriousness, derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness; degradation, dedecoration; a long |
| zest | bite, body, charm, flavoring, get-up-and-go, ginger, guts, interest, kick, nip, piquancy, punch, pungency, relish, salt, savor, seasoning, smack, snap*, spice, tang, zap, zip |
| guile | artfulness, artifice, chicanery, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, dishonesty, dissemblance, dissimulation, double-cross, duplicity, foul play, jive, run-around, ruse, sellout, sharp practice, stab in the back, treachery, trickery, trickiness, wiliness |
| innocuous | banal, bland, flat, innocent, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, insipid, jejune, kind, painless, safe, sapless, unobjectionable, unoffending, weak |
| insipid | anemic, arid, banal, beige, blah, bland, characterless, colorless, commonplace, dead, drab, driveling, dry, feeble, flat, ho-hum, inane |
| affable | amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, clubby, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm |
| amorphous | baggy, blobby, characterless, formless, inchoate, indeterminate, irregular, nebulous, nondescript, shapeless, unformed, unshaped, unstructured, vague |
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