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antediluvian |
The researchers argued that the lab's equipment was _______________ and long overdue for replacement. |
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animated |
Then his eyes get _______________, and I see he's got some great scheme in his mind. |
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anthology |
The new _______________ of Bob Dylan songs contains all his greatest hits and a few songs that you might never have heard before. |
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antagonism |
In their whole tense attitudes is clearly revealed the bitter _______________ between them. |
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antecedents |
Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines were the _______________ of the modern computer. |
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annexation |
Indonesia's _______________ of East Timor has never won the acceptance of the United Nations. |
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anonymous |
Zeta received an _______________ love letter, but she's pretty sure it's from a guy in her English class. |
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anomaly |
The _______________ of the social security system is that you sometimes have more money without a job. |
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annul |
After seeing its unforeseen and catastrophic effects, Congress sought to _______________ the law |
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anguish |
The ravages of mental distress affected the soul of man in the same way that acute physical _______________ affected the body. |
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antipathy |
When Irish people express their _______________ to the British, the real target of their hatred is the English. |
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antiquated |
Compared with modern satellite dishes, ordinary TV aerials look positively _______________. |
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antithesis |
If there is an _______________ between two things, there is a contrast between them. |
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apathy |
You can use _______________ to talk about someone's state of mind if you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about anything. |
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apocryphal |
It is hard to verify whether the tales about the dreadful fish are _______________, but what is certain is that the species does exist. |
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appease |
I may _______________ him with the present that goes before me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me. |
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anxiety |
His voice was full of _______________ when we spoke to him on the phone about the accident. |
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appraised |
It would be unwise to buy the house before having it _______________. |
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arcane |
Methods of this kind necessarily begin by assuming that there is something mysterious, _______________ or difficult about power which makes it ultimately an elusive concept. |
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approbation |
The words sounded convincing, and the judge leaned forward in _______________. |
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apprehend |
Another agent was employed instead to try to _______________ Tyndale, who once more had to disappear underground. |
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appropriates |
If a government or organization _______________ an amount of money for a particular purpose, it reserves it for that purpose. |
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arable |
As my _______________ land was but small, suited to my crop, I got it totally well fenced in about three weeks' time. |
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arbiters |
They do not know mankind nor society, and yet they set themselves up as _______________ of the fates of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in. |
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arbitrarily |
It sometimes seems that our laws are _______________ enforced, depending on the mood of the judge on a particular day. |
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arbitration |
In medieval Europe _______________ was used to settle disputes between merchants; it is now commonly used in commercial, labor-management, and international disputes. |
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aquatic |
They say if it can be done on water, it can be done on Mission Bay, the largest _______________ playground in the world. |
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arboreal |
Both the red colobus and the black and white colobus monkeys eat a mixture of leaves and fruit and have a fully _______________ life. |
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ascribe |
It is difficult to _______________ the popularity of the DC to any particular feature, and its continuing use is probably related to the combination of desirable or acceptable features. |
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archetype |
It may be that there are certain women whose beauty is so strong, so close to the _______________ of the Queen of Beauty, that they produce an intense effect upon other human beings. |
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ardor |
There had been no need to cling to him with such _______________ -- no need to respond to his kiss with such wanton abandon. |
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ascertain |
Our instruments are now so perfect and powerful, as to enable us to _______________ many facts of the deepest interest, with near approaches to positive accuracy. |
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artisan |
All the famous Greek philosophers were disdainful of the _______________, the man who merely made things. |
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arid |
Only some thirty _______________ summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness. |
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artifact |
The subject of the next two chapters is the _______________, that form which is the result of human labor, as opposed to equally concrete natural phenomena. |
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ascetic |
Pretending to be an _______________, he slept while in the field on a mat of straw that he had himself woven |
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archaic |
Agit-poppers convinced themselves that rock was _______________ and debased, no longer capable of functioning as a medium for radical comment. (agit-pop = popular music used to spread political ideas, opinions or information.) |
