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- invective
- Denunciatory or abusive language; vituperation.
- apostate
- One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.
- officious
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Marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others: an officious host; officious attention.
Informal; unofficial. - redoubtable
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Arousing fear or awe; formidable.
Worthy of respect or honor. - aboveboard
- Without deceit or trickery; straightforward.
- mendicant
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A beggar.
A member of an order of friars forbidden to own property in common, who work or beg for their living. - impecunious
- Lacking money; penniless.
- timorousness
- Full of apprehensiveness; timid.
- temerity
- Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.
- craven
- Characterized by abject fear; cowardly
- splenetic
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Of or relating to the spleen.
Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability.
A person regarded as irritable. - nettle
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To sting with or as if with a nettle.
To irritate; vex. - exhort
- To make urgent appeal.
- cadenza
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An elaborate, ornamental melodic flourish interpolated into an aria or other vocal piece.
An extended virtuosic section for the soloist usually near the end of a movement of a concerto. - provident
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Providing for future needs or events.
Frugal; economical. - turbid
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Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended; muddy: turbid water.
Heavy, dark, or dense, as smoke or fog.
In a state of turmoil; muddled: turbid feelings. - diaphanous
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Of such fine texture as to be transparent or translucent: diaphanous tulle.
Characterized by delicacy of form. See Synonyms at airy.
Vague or insubstantial: diaphanous dreams of glory. - disingenuos
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Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: “an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who... exemplified... the most disagreeable traits of his time†(David Cannadine).
Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf. - skein
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A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil.
Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle: a twisted skein of lies.
A flock of geese or similar birds in flight. See Synonyms at flock1. - nomenclature
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A system of names used in an art or science: the nomenclature of mineralogy.
The procedure of assigning names to the kinds and groups of organisms listed in a taxonomic classification: the rules of nomenclature in botany. - turpitude
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Depravity; baseness.
A base act. - celerity
- Swiftness of action or motion; speed
- indigent
- Lacking or deficient.
- pertinacious
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Holding tenaciously to a purpose, belief, opinion, or course of action.
Stubbornly or perversely persistent. - perfunctory
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Done routinely and with little interest or care: The operator answered the phone with a perfunctory greeting.
Acting with indifference; showing little interest or care. - asperity
- roughness
- sycophantic
- servile self seeker
- virulence
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Extremely infectious, malignant, or poisonous. Used of a disease or toxin.
Capable of causing disease by breaking down protective mechanisms of the host. Used of a pathogen.
Bitterly hostile or antagonistic; hateful: virulent criticism. See Synonyms at poisonous.
Intensely irritating, obnoxious, or harsh. - irridescent
- colorful
- dispassionate
- Devoid of or unaffected by passion, emotion, or bias
- specious
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Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
Deceptively attractive. - munificent
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Very liberal in giving; generous.
Showing great generosity - vouchsafe
- To condescend to grant or bestow (a privilege, for example); deign.
- jettison
- The act of discarding or casting overboard
- desultory
- without plan or purpose
- assiduous
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Constant in application or attention; diligent: an assiduous worker who strove for perfection. See Synonyms at busy.
Unceasing; persistent: - abstruse
- Difficult to understand; recondite.
- hide-bound
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Stubbornly prejudiced, narrow-minded, or inflexible.
Having abnormally dry, stiff skin that adheres closely to the underlying flesh. Used of domestic animals such as cattle.
Having the bark so contracted and unyielding as to hinder growt - gambol
- To leap about playfully; frolic.
- descry
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To catch sight of (something difficult to discern). See Synonyms at see1.
To discover by careful observation or scrutiny; detect: - boggle
- 1: startle with amazement or fear 2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear 3: overcome with amazement
- belied
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To picture falsely; misrepresent: “He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility†(James Joyce).
To show to be false: Their laughter belied their outward grief.
To be counter to; contradict - moribund
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Approaching death; about to die.
On the verge of becoming obsolete - mellifluous
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Flowing with sweetness or honey.
Smooth and sweet - hedge
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To take compensatory measures so as to counterbalance possible loss.
To avoid making a clear, direct response or statement. - hortatory
- Marked by exhortation or strong urging: a hortatory speech.
- abrogate
- To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
- admonish
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scold gently
warn - cogent
- powerfully convincing
- deify
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To make a god of; raise to the condition of a god.
To worship or revere as a god: deify a leader.
To idealize; exalt: deifying success. - effusive
- higly emotional
- lachrymose
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Weeping or inclined to weep; tearful.
Causing or tending to cause tears. - recreant
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Unfaithful or disloyal to a belief, duty, or cause.
Craven or cowardly. - tenacity
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perssitent
stubborn - skinflint
- One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
- vantage
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An advantage in a competition or conflict; superiority.
A position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage.
A vantage point - putative
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commonly accepted
supposed - diffident
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timid
lacking self confidence - myopic
- lack of foresight