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| candid; Candace's candidness overwhelmed her business colleagues, who were not used to such honesty. | show 🗑
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| show | inference; guesswork
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| didactic; The tapes were entertaining and didactic; they both amused and instructed children. | show 🗑
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| euphemism; "To pass away" is a common euphemism for dying. | show 🗑
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| show | to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information
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| show | lacking cohesion or connection
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| insinuate; Sean insinuated that Grace stole the arsenic, but he never came out and said it. | show 🗑
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| show | easily understood; clear
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| show | the art of using language effectively and persuasively
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| acumen; Judge Ackerman's legal acumen was so well regarded that he was nicknamed the "Solomon of the South." | show 🗑
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| adroit; An adroit balloon-animal maker, Adrianna became popular at children's parties. | show 🗑
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| ascertain; The private investigator had long suspected my dog; before long, he ascertained that Toto was indeed the murderer. | show 🗑
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| show | shrewd;clever
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| circumspect; Ned's circumspect manner makes him a wise appointment to the diplomatic corps. | show 🗑
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| disseminate; The news about Dave's embarrassing moment at the party disseminated quickly through the school; by the end of the day, everyone knew what had happened. | show 🗑
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| show | deep, extensive learning
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| show | the application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding
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| show | excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules
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| perspicacious; Persephone's perspicacious mind had solved so many cases that the popular private investigator was able to retire. | show 🗑
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| show | practical
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| precocious; Bobby Fisher's precocious intellect made him one of the world's best chess players before he could even drive. | show 🗑
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| show | formal proposal
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| rudimentary; Josh's rudimentary golf skills were easily overpowered by Tiger Woods's amazing performance on the green. | show 🗑
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| castigate; Mr. Castile preferred not to castigate student misbehavior publicly; instead, he would quietly send the troublemaker to the principal's office. | show 🗑
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| show | to issue official blame
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| denounce; In many pwerful speeches throughout his lifetime, Martin Luther King, Jr. denounced racism as immoral. | show 🗑
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| reclusive; Our neighbors were quite reclusive, hardly ever emerging from behind teh closed doors of their home. | show 🗑
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| relinquish; Ricky relinquished his career in order to search for the source of the world's best relish. | show 🗑
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| renounce; Nancy renounced her given name and began selling records under the moniker "Boedicia." | show 🗑
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| show | marked by harshly abusive condemnation
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| circumscribe;The acrcheologist circumscribed the excavation area on the map. | show 🗑
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| contiguous; The continental United States consists of 48 contiguous states. | show 🗑
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| conciliatory; After arguing endlessly with them for weeks, Connie switched to a more conciliatory tone with her parents once prom season arrived. | show 🗑
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| credible; The shocking but credible report of mice in the kitchen kept Eddie up all night. | show 🗑
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| show | to free from blame
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| show | indisputable; not open to question
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| indict;President Nixon's aides were indicted during the Watergate scandal. | show 🗑
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| litigious; Letitia was a litigious little girl; at one point, she tried to sue her dog. | show 🗑
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| partisan; Today's partisan politics are so antagonistic that it's difficult to reach a successful compromise on any issue. | show 🗑
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| show | equality, as in amount, status, or value (antonym: disparity)
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| show | moral uprightness; righteousness
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| remiss; Cassie was remiss in fulfilling her Miss America duties; she didn't even come close to ending world hunger. | show 🗑
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| repudiate; I repudiated the teacher's arguments about Empress Wu Zetian's reputation by showing him that the reports of her cruelty were from unreliable sources. | show 🗑
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| sanctimonious; The sanctimonious scholar had actually been plagiarizing the other people's work for years. | show 🗑
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| scrupulous; Evan's scrupulous behavior began to annoy his friends when he called the cops on the for toilet papering their teacher's house. | show 🗑
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| solicitous; The parents asked solicitous questions about the college admissions officer's family. | show 🗑
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| show | plausible but misleading or fallacious argument
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| substantiate; The argument was substantiated by clear facts and hard evidence. | show 🗑
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| veracity; Since Vera was known for her veracity, it came as a complete shock when her family found out she'd lied on her application. | show 🗑
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| show | to free from blame
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| show | to urge with repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery
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| show | trickery
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| show | fawning and servile
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| sycophant; Siggie is such a sycophant; he slyly sucks up to his teachers, and reaps the rewards of his behavior | show 🗑
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| show | unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness
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| show | distinguished; prominent
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| empathy; Emily is one of the most empathetic friends; she can always relate to my emotions. | show 🗑
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| show | to praise highly
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| laudatory; The principal's speech was laudatory, congratulating the students on their SAT scores. | show 🗑
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| show | courageously or generously noble in mind and heart
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| show | humanitarian; benevolent; relating to monetary generosity
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| show | to mutually take or give; to respond in kind
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| defunct; The theory that the world was flat became defunct when Magellan sailed to the West and didn't fall of the earth. | show 🗑
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| eradicate; Radcliffe did her best to eradicate the radishes from her farm. | show 🗑
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| expurgate; The Chinese government expurgates nearly all obscene matter from the nation's Internet. | show 🗑
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| extirpate; While the family was on vacation, the termites practically extirpated the house. | show 🗑
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| show | to put down forcibly; suppress
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| raze; It is difficult to raze a city building without demolishing other structures around it. | show 🗑
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| show | to crush as if by trampling; squash
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| supplant; The ants prepared to supplant the roaches as the dominant insect in the kitche; their plan was to take the roaches by surprise and drive them out. | show 🗑
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| stymie; Stan was stymied by the Sudoku puzzle; he just couldn't solve it. | show 🗑
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| show | to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem
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| show | to mck contemptuously
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| show | insulting or intended to insult
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| show | to speak of negatively; to belittle
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| show | brazen boldenss; presumptuousness
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| ignominy; Ignacio felt great ignominy after the scandal broke. | show 🗑
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| impugn; INstead of taking the high road, the candidate impugned his opponent's character. | show 🗑
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| show | to damage, especially in a disfiguring way
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| show | disparaging, belittling, insulting
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| vex; Bex's mom was vexed when Bex was very vague about her whereabouts for the evening. | show 🗑
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| vindictive; Vincenzo was very vindictive; when someone hurt him, he responded by vigorously plotting revenge. | show 🗑
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| show | given to pompous speech or writing
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| ebullience; A sense of ebullience swept over the lacrosse fans crowd when their team won the game. | show 🗑
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| show | exceeding all bounds, as of custom or fairness
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| exuberant; William was exuberant when he found out that he'd gotten into the college of his choice. | show 🗑
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| embellish; One can never trust that Anwar's stories are realistic; his details are almost always embellished so that his experiences sound more interesting than they really are. | show 🗑
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| flagrant; Too many flagrant fouls can get you kicked out of a basketball game. | show 🗑
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| gratuitous; The film was full of gratuitous sex and violence inessential to the story. | show 🗑
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| lavish; Lavanya's wedding was a lavish affair. | show 🗑
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| show | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
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| opulent; The ophthalmologist's opulent home was the envy of his friends; the crystal chandeliers, marble floors, and teak furniture must have cost a fortune. | show 🗑
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| show | elaborately decorated
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| penchant; Penny's penchant for chocolate-covered ants led her to munch on them all day. | show 🗑
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| show | needlessly repetitive
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| ubiquitous; Kenny had a ubiquitous little sister; wherever he turned, there she was. | show 🗑
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| show | felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
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| show | a short scene or story
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| show | a combination of diverse elements; a mixture
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| show | to overwhelm as if with a flood; to swamp
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| multifarious; The multifarious achievements of Leo da Vinci, ranging from architecture and painting to phil. and sci. are unparalleled in our century. | show 🗑
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| multiplicity; A multiplicity of views is essential to a healthy multicultural democracy. | show 🗑
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| show | to ease a pain or burden
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| ameliorate; Winning a silver medal quickly ameliorated Amelia's angst at losing the gold. | show 🗑
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| show | producing or promoting a favorable result; helpful
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| curative; The aloe had a curative effect on my sunburn; within hours, the flaking had stopped | show 🗑
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| show | relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure
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| therapeutic; The therapeutic air of the Mediterranean cured Thomas of his asthma. | show 🗑
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| show | something that completes, goes with, or brings to perfection
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| show | a representative or examplle of a type
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| show | admirably suited; apt
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| show | to misrepresent or disguise
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| debunk; The university administration debunked the myth that bunk beds are only for children by installing them in every dorm on campus. | show 🗑
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| show | doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
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| duplicitous; The duplicitous man duplicated dollars and gave the counterfeits to unsuspecting vendors. | show 🗑
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| show | to make up in order to deceive
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| fallacy; The idea that there is only one college for you is a fallacy. | show 🗑
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| show | lying; untruthful
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| show | having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false
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| ambiguous;Big's eyes were an ambiguous color: in some lights, brown, and in others, green. | show 🗑
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| show | simultaneously feeling opposing feelings; uncertain
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| show | feeling or showing little emotion
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| capricious; The referee's capricious behavior angered the players; he would call a four for minor contact, but ignore elbowing and kicking. | show 🗑
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| equivocal; The politican made so many equivocal statements during the scandal that no one could be sure what, if anything he had admitted to. | show 🗑
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| erratic; Erroll's erratic behavior made it difficult for his friends to predict what he would do in a given moment. | show 🗑
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| show | suddenly and forcefully energietic or emotional; impulsive and passionate
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| show | an impelling force or stimulus
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| show | occuring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time
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| vacillate; the cook vacillated between favoring chicken and preferring fish; he just couldn't decide which to prepare. | show 🗑
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| show | characterized by whim; unpredictable
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| flag(v.); After several few days climbing mountains in pouring rain, our enthusiasm for the biking trip began to flag. | show 🗑
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| jaded; Jade's experiences had jaded her; she no longer believed that the junk stacked in her garage was going to make her rich. | show 🗑
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| ingenous; Janine was so ingenuous that it was too easy for her friends to dupe her. | show 🗑
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| show | a deceptive stratagem or device
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| surreptitious; Sara drank the cough syrup surreptitiously because she didn't want anyone to know that she was sick. | show 🗑
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| dearthy; There was a dearth of money in my piggybank; it collected dust, not bills. | show 🗑
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| show | a small, moderate, or token amount
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| show | smallness in number; scarcity
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| squander; Carrie squandered her savings on shoes and wasn't able to buy her apartment. | show 🗑
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| temperate; Temperate climates rarely experience extremes in temperature. | show 🗑
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| tenuous; Her grasp on reality is tenuous at best; she's not even sure what year it is. | show 🗑
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| diligent; with diligent effort, they were able to finish the model airplane in record time. | show 🗑
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| show | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
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| show | motivated solely by a desire for money or material gain
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| obstinate; Despite Jeremy's broken leg, his parents were obstinate; they steadfastly refused to buy him an XBOX. | show 🗑
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| proliferate; Because fax machines, pagers, and cell phones have proliferated in recent years, many new area codes have been created to handle the demand for phone numbers. | show 🗑
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| tenacity; With his overwhelming tenacity, Clark was finally able to interview Brad Pitt for the school newspaper | show 🗑
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| vigilant; The participants of the candlelight vigil were vigilant, as they had herad that the fraternity across the street was planning to egg them | show 🗑
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| show | irrelevant; inessential
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| show | to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
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| show | extra; unnecessary
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| show | compined action or operation
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| show | merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant
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| aesthetic; Aesthetic considerations determined the arrangement of paintings at the museum; as long as art looked good together, it didn't matter who had painted it. | show 🗑
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| show | of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
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| cacophony; Brian had to shield his ears from the awful cacophony produced by the punk band onstage. | show 🗑
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| dirge; The dirge was so beatiful that everyone cried, even those who hadn't known the deceased | show 🗑
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| show | made up of a variety of sources or styles
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| show | lacking in harmony; incompatible
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| show | producing a deep or full sound
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| strident; The strident shouting dept the neighbors awake all night. | show 🗑
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| show | disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco
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| debilitate; Deb ran the NYC marathon without proper training; the experience left her debilitated for weeks. | show 🗑
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| show | noisy and disorderly
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| anachronistic; I noticed an anachronism in the museum's ancien Rome display: a digital clock ticking behind a statue of Venus | show 🗑
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| archaic; "How dost though?" is an archaic way of saying "How are you?" | show 🗑
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| dilatory; Always waiting until the last moment to leave home in the morning, Dylan was a dilatory student. | show 🗑
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| show | lasting for only a brief time
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| show | fragrant; aromatic; suggestive
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| temporal; One's enjoyment of a Starbuck's mocha latte is bound by temporal limitations; all too soon, the latte is gone. | show 🗑
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| onerous; The onerous task was so difficult that Ona thought she'd never get through it. | show 🗑
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| show | indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen
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| show | knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight
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| show | without decoration; strict
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| show | drearily commonplace; predictable; trite
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| hackneyed; All Hal could offer in the way of advice were hackneyed old phrases that I'd heard a hundred times before | show 🗑
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| insipid; That insipid movie was so predictable that i walked out. | show 🗑
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| show | unimaginative; dull (antonym: poetic)
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| show | inducing or tending to induce sleep
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| vapid; Valerie's date was so vapid that she thought he was sleeping with his eyes open. | show 🗑
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| brevity; | show 🗑
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| show | appropriate to a purpose; convenient; speedy
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| transient; Jack enjoyed his transient lifestyle; with nothing but the clothes on his back and the air in his lungs, he was free to travel wherever he wanted. | show 🗑
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| augment; The model Angele Franju is rumored to have augmented her studies in chemistry with a minor in German literature. | show 🗑
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| bolster; The class bolstered Amelia's confidence; she had no idea she already knew so much. | show 🗑
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| show | to grow and flourish
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| copious; She took copious notes during clas, using up five large notebooks | show 🗑
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| show | to swell out or expand from internal pressure, as when overly full
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| show | great in scope or intent; grand
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| prodigious; Spielberg's prodigious talent has made him the most successful film producer and director of our time. | show 🗑
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| profundity; Actor's profundity surprised the director, who had heard that he was a bit of an airhead. | show 🗑
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| redouble; Rita redoubled her efforts to become president of her class by campaigning twice as hard to before. | show 🗑
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| scintillating; The writer's scintillating narrative diverted Izabel's attention away from her other guests. | show 🗑
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| averse; Ava proved so averse to homework that she would break out in hives at the mere mention of it. | show 🗑
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| conspicuous | show 🗑
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| demure; Muriel was the most dumure girl in the class, always sitting quietly in the back of the room downplaying any compliments she received. | show 🗑
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| show | timidity or shyness
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| show | submissive to instruction; willing to be taught
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| show | having no adverse effect; harmless
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| placid; Lake Placid was the place to go for those in need of a quiet vacation. | show 🗑
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| quiescent; Quinn's quiescent behavior made him an ideal roommate. | show 🗑
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| show | agreement (antonym: discord)
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| show | to agree
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| dogmatic; Avik was dogmatic in his belief that the power lines were giving his dog headaches. | show 🗑
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| show | carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
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| intransigence; Jeff was so intransigent in his views that it was impossible to have a rational debate with him. | show 🗑
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| jocular; Yung-Ji's jocular disposition helped him gain popularity | show 🗑
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| show | extremely careful and precise
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| affable; My mom always said that the key to being affable is the ability to make others laugh. | show 🗑
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| alacrity; I was so happy when i got the acceptance letter from the University of Alaska that I sprinted home with great alacricty to share the good news. | show 🗑
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| show | friendly; agreeable; good-natured
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| show | kind and gentle
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| sanguine; Harold's sanguine temperament kept him cheerful, even through somber times | show 🗑
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| byzantine; I gave up trying to understand the byzantine tax code and had an accountant file my taxes for me. | show 🗑
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| show | quarrelsome
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| show | having a harmful effect
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| show | to increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate
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| show | disrespectfully humorous or casual
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| show | insulting in manner or speech
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| nefarious; Dorothy's kindness and bravery triumphed over the nefarious antics of the Wicked Witch of the West. | show 🗑
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| show | extremely or irrevocably harmful; deadly
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| show | marked by bitter, deep-seated ill-will
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| show | arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive
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| tawdry; Connor's tawdry attire embarrassed his snooty host. | show 🗑
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| arboreal; The Rocky Mountain National Forest will celebrate its arboreal splendor with an Arbor Day concert. | show 🗑
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| show | a call (usually upon a higher power)for assistance, support, or inspiration
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| show | to layer or separate into layers
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| variegated; The wood's markings were so variegated that Mr. Vargas assumed they had been painted on. | show 🗑
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| verdant; The garden was verdant after the rain. | show 🗑
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| abstruse; Abby found her professor's lecture on non-Euclidian geometry abstruse; she doubted anyone else in class understood it either. | show 🗑
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| callous; Callie's callous remark about her friend's cluttered room really hurt his feelings. | show 🗑
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| show | intricate; complex
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| show | a puzzle, mystery, or riddle
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| show | difficult to fathom or understand; impenetrable
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| show | inclined to keep silent; reserved
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| show | unemotional; serious
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| show | known or understood by only a few
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| assimilate; Keisha assimilated so quickly at her new school that she was named head of the social committee a month after enrolling. | show 🗑
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| autonomy; Candice gained autonomy upon moving out of her parents' house into her own apartment. | show 🗑
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| cosmopolitan; Inga was surprisingly cosmopolitan considering that she had never left her tiny hometown in Norway. | show 🗑
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| show | something that comes from another source
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| show | a group of attendants or associates; a retinue
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| esoteric; Esme's play is extremely esoteric; someone not raised in Estonia would find it difficult to follow. | show 🗑
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| gaffe; Geoff committed the gaff of telling his date that he'd gone out with her sister the night before. | show 🗑
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| idiosyncrasy; She had many idiosyncrasies, one of which was washing her socks in the dishwasher. | show 🗑
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| insular; The family was so insular that no one else could get near them. | show 🗑
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| show | adhering to the traditional and established, especially in religion
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| potentate; An omnipotent potentate is a person to be reckoned with; great power in the hands of a great leader is a powerful combination. | show 🗑
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Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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