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invidious | 1. calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful; 2. offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious; 3. causing or tending to cause animosity, resentment, or envy |
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lacuna (luh-KYOO-nuh) | 1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus; 2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells; 3. Botany. an air space in the cellular tissue of plants. |
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putative | 1. commonly accepted or supposed; 2. assumed to exist or to have existed. |
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opprobrium (op-probe'-ree-um) | 1. disgrace rising from shameful conduct; infamy. 2. scorn; contempt. 3. the cause of such a disgrace (ignominy, infamy, odium, offense, reproach, scorn, scurrility, shame) |
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comity | 1a: friendly social atmosphere; social harmony. b: a loose widespread community based on common social institutions. |
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riffle | 1. to turn hastily; to flutter and shift: "to ___ a stack of letters"; 2. (n) a rapid, as in a stream. 3. (n) a ripple, as upon the surface of water |
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rifle | To search vigorously: "____ing through my drawers to find matching socks." |
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ignominy | 1. disgrace; dishonor; public contempt; opprobrium; 2. shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this. |
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odium | 1. intense hatred or dislike, esp. toward a person or thing regarded as contemptible, despicable, or repugnant. 2. the reproach, discredit, ignominy, or opprobrium attaching to something hated or repugnant: |
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interpose | 1. to be or come between; "A _____ing thicket blocked their way" 2: to introduce; "God _______ed death"; 3: to insert between other elements; 4: get involved, usually so as to hinder or halt an action |
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imprimatur (im-pri-MAH-ter) | formal and explicit approval (syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement, warrant) |
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palimpsest (PAL ĭmp sěst') | 1. a manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible. 2. an object, place, or area that reflects its history: |
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sobriquet (SO bruh kay) | a nickname |
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FoxVernon : Changed invidious → 1. calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful; 2. offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious: invidious comparisons; 3. causing or tending to cause animosity, resentment, or envy to invidious → 1. calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful; 2. offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious; 3. causing or tending to cause animosity, resentment, or envy
FoxVernon : Changed riffle → 1. to turn hastily; flutter and shift: to riffle a stack of letters; to riffle through a book. 2. Cards. to shuffle by dividing the deck in two, raising the corners slightly, and allowing them to fall alternately together. 3. to cause or become a riffle. –noun 4. a rapid, as in a stream. 5. a ripple, as upon the surface of water. to riffle → 1. to turn hastily; flutter and shift: "to ___ a stack of letters"; 2. (n) a rapid, as in a stream. 3. (n) a ripple, as upon the surface of water
FoxVernon : Changed opprobrium (op-probe'-ree-um) → 1. disgrace rising from shameful conduct; infamy. 2. scorn; contempt. 3. the cause of such a disgrace. to opprobrium (op-probe'-ree-um) → disgrace rising from shameful conduct; infamy. 2. scorn; contempt. 3. the cause of such a disgrace; ignominy, infamy, odium, offense, reproach, scorn, scurrility, shame
FoxVernon : Changed opprobrium (op-probe'-ree-um) → disgrace rising from shameful conduct; infamy. 2. scorn; contempt. 3. the cause of such a disgrace; ignominy, infamy, odium, offense, reproach, scorn, scurrility, shame to opprobrium (op-probe'-ree-um) → 1. disgrace rising from shameful conduct; infamy. 2. scorn; contempt. 3. the cause of such a disgrace (ignominy, infamy, odium, offense, reproach, scorn, scurrility, shame)
FoxVernon : Changed riffle → 1. to turn hastily; flutter and shift: "to ___ a stack of letters"; 2. (n) a rapid, as in a stream. 3. (n) a ripple, as upon the surface of water to riffle → 1. to turn hastily; to flutter and shift: "to ___ a stack of letters"; 2. (n) a rapid, as in a stream. 3. (n) a ripple, as upon the surface of water
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- lacuna (luh-KYOO-nuh) → 1. a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus; 2. Anatomy. one of the numerous minute cavities in the substance of bone, supposed to contain nucleate cells; 3. Botany. an air space in the cellular tissue of plants. - 1 miss
- rifle → To search vigorously: "____ing through my drawers to find matching socks." - 1 miss
- imprimatur (im-pri-MAH-ter) → formal and explicit approval (syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement, warrant) - 1 miss
- palimpsest (PAL ĭmp sěst') → 1. a manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible. 2. an object, place, or area that reflects its history: - 1 miss