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absolve |
to clear from blame, responsibility, or guilt |
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caricature |
a representation in which the subject's charactaristic features are dliberately exaggerated. to present someone or something in a deliberately distorted way |
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clangor |
a loud ringing sound, to make a loud ringing noise |
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contiguous |
side by side, touching, near, adjacent in time |
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cupidity |
an eager desire for something, greed |
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deleterious |
harmful, injurious |
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enhance |
to raise to a higher degree, to increase the value or desirability of |
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enthrall |
to captivate, charm, hold spellbound, to enslave, to imprision |
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extenuate |
to lessen the seriousness or magnitude of an offense by making partial excuses |
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implicit |
implied or understood through unexpressed, without doubts or reservations, unquestioning, potentially contained in |
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incisive |
sharp, keen, penetrating (with suggestion of decisiveness and effectiveness) |
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ostentatious |
marked by conspicuous or pretentios display, showy |
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paragon |
a model or excelllence or perfection |
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paraphrase |
to restate in other words, a statement that presents a given idea in a new language |
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politic |
prudent, shrewdly conceived and developed, artful, expedient |
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prosaic |
dull, lacking in distinction and orginality, matter-of-fact, straightforward, characteristic of prose, not poetic |
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redundant |
extra,excess,more than is needed, wordy, repetitive, profuse, lush |
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