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- ABASE
- TO HUMBLE OR DISGRACE
- ABJURE
- PROMISE OR SWEAR TO GIVE UP
- ABNEGATE
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TO DENY OR RENOUNCE
"The minister abnegated the luxuries of life." - ADVENTITIOUS
- ACCIDENTAL, CASUAL ”He found this adventitious meeting withhis friend extremely fortunate.”
- ARROGATE
- TO ASSUME, OR CLAIM AS ONE'S OWN; TO TAKE OVER WITHOUT DUECAUSE..“to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion overkings.”
- BALK
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FOIL
To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump.To refuse obstinately or abruptly: She balked at the very idea of compromise. - BILK
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FRUSTRATE OR DISAPPOINT; TO DECEIVE OR DEFRAUD..
TO ELUDE - BLUSTER
- BOAST OR MAKE THREATS LOUDLY
- BROCADE
- RICH, FIGURED FABRIC
- BROMIDE
- A DULL PERSON OR IDEA
- CADGE
- TO BEG, TO GET BY BEGGIN
- COFFER
- STRONGBOX, CHEST FOR MONEY
- CONSEQUENTIAL
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POMPOUS, SELF IMPORTANT
INFLUENTIAL - CONSTRUE
- TO EXPLAIN OR INTERPRET
- CONTUMACIOUS
- DISOBEDIENT; RESISTING AUTHORITY ”The contumacious mobshouted defiantly at the police.”
- CURMUDGEON
- CRANKY PERSON
- DEBAUCH
- TO CORRUPT, SEDUCE FROM VIRTUE OR DUTY, INDULGE
- DEMUR
- TO QUESTION OR OPPOSE
- DOCKET
- Calender of court cases.A brief entry of the court proceedings. The book containing such entries. A summary of a document A list of things to be done.directions for assembling or operating.
- DUDGEON
- ANGRY INDIGNATION “Higgins was so frustrated by such a basic error that he stormed out of the arena for the mid-session intervalin high dudgeon.”
- ECUMENICAL
- ENCOMPASSING A WIDE VARIETY OF FAITHS OR BELIEFS, OFTEN IN REFERENCET O RELIGION.. (AFFECTED OR EXAGGERATED EARNESTNESS,ESPECIALLY IN CHOICE AND USE OF LANGUAGE.)
- EDACIOUS
- VORACIOUS, DEVOURING devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"
- EFFECTUAL
- EFFICIENT
- EFFETE
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DEPLETED OF VITALITYb
MARKED BY SELF-INDULGENCE,TRIVIALITY, OR DECADENCE,
OVERREFINED;EFFEMINATE. - ELEEMOSYNARY
- PERTAINING TO CHARITY; CHARITABLE.
- EQUABLE
- STEADY, REGULAR
- ESURIENT
- HUNGRY, GREEDY
- ETIOLOGY
- THE STUDY OF CAUSES
- EVINCE
- TO SHOW CLEARLY
- EXIGUOUS
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SMALL, MINUTE
MEAGER - PHARISICAL
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HYPOCRITICALLY SELF-RIGHTEOUS AND CONDEMNATORY, SANCTIMONIOUS
making a show of religion without the spirit of it - PITTANCE
- MEAGER AMOUNT OR WAGE
- PLANGENT
- POUNDING, THUNDERING, RESOUNDING, WAILING SOUND
- PLEBIAN
- CRUDE, LOWER-CLASS, VULGAR
- PONTIFICATE
- TO SPEAK IN A PRETENTIOUS MANNER
- PREDICATE
- TO FOUND OR BASE ON
- PRIVATION
- LACK OF USUAL NECESSETIES OR COMFORTS
- PROPOUND
- TO OFFER FOR CONSIDERATION; TO EXHIBIT (PROPOUND AN ARGUMENT)
- QUALIFY
- TO LIMIT “he qualified the harshness of his criticisms by smiling as he said them”
- QUIXOTIC
- GENEROUS, UNSELFISH
- QUIZZICAL
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Suggesting puzzlement
Teasing; mocking:
Eccentric; odd. - PROGENITOR
- A direct ancestor. An originator of a line of descent; a precursor. An originator; (ex: of the new music)
- PONDEROUS
- Having great weight. Unwieldy from weight or bulk. Lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull: a ponderous speech.
- ALOOF
- Without sympathy; unfavorably.
- INDIGNANT
- WRATHFUL; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation.
- IDEOLOGUE
- An advocate of a particular ideology, especially an official exponent of that ideology.
- SIGNAL (adj)
- Notably out of the ordinary: "a signal feat."
- REBARBATIVE
- IRRITATING, REPELLANT
- REBUFF
- BLUNT REJECTION an abrupt setback to progress or action.
- RELEGATE
- TO FORCIBLY ASSIGN, ESP. TO A LOWER PLACE OR POSITION
- RENITENT
- RESISTING PRESSURE, OBSTINATE
- REPUDIATE
- DISOWN, REFUSE TO ACCEPT OR PAY “the psychic repudiated her claims when it became obvious her client had not won the lottery” To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates). To reject emphatically as unfounded,untrue, or unjust: repudiatedthe accusation. To refuse to recognizeor pay: repudiate a debt. To disown (a child, for example). To refuse to have any dealings with.
- SANCTIMONY
- SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, HYPOCRITICAL, WITH FALSE PIETY
- SEPULCHRAL
- TYPICAL OF A PLACE OF BURIAL
- SLATE
- PROPOSE; CRITICIZE
- SOLECISM
- GRAMMATICAL MISTAKE
- SOLIPCISM
- BELIEF THAT THE SELF IS THE ONLY TRUE REALITY
- STRICTURE
- SOMETHING THAT RESTRAINS, NEGATIVE CRITICISM
- STULTIFY
- TO IMPAIR OR REDUCE TO USELESSNESSTo cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous. Law. To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible.
- SUBLIMATE
- TO REPRESS IMPULSESTo divert the energy associated with (an unacceptable impulse ordrive) into a personally and socially acceptable activity.
- SUBVERSIVE
- TENDING TO OVERTHROW OR RUIN
- SUBVERT
- TO UNDERMINE OR CORRUPT
- SUPEREROGATORY
- NONESSENTIAL
- TOUT
- TO SOLICIT CUSTOMERS, VOTES, OR PATRONAGE, ESPECIALLY IN A BRAZENWAY
- UNEXCEPTIONABLE
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ENTIRELY ACCEPTABLE; NOT OFFERING ANY BASIS FOR CRITICISM
"a judge's ethics should be unexceptionable"
(*UNEXCEPTIONAL: run-of-the-mill) - UNINITIATED
- NOT FAMILIAR WITH AN AREA OF STUDY
- UNTOWARD
- UNFORTUNATE, INCONVENIENT, UNRULY, UNSEEMLY, TROUBLESOME
- UPSHOT
- OUTCOME; FINAL RESULT
- VICISSITUDE
- MALLEABLE/CHANGEABLECHANGE (FROM GOOD TO BAD); CHANGE OF FORTUNE, UPS AND DOWNS
- WRANGLE
- LOUD QUARREL
- FACTITIOUS
- ARTIFICIAL; SHAM
- FEY
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OTHERWORLDLY, DOOMED, APPROACHING DEATH, UNDER A SPELLCRAZY,CLAIRVOYANT
FAY: fairylike, magical - FINICAL
- TOO FUSSY ABOUT FOOD, CLOTHING, ETC.
- FLIP
- SARCASTIC, IMPERTINENT “flip remarks”
- FOMENT
- TO NURSE TO LIFE OR ACTIVITY; TO ENCOURAGE..(INSTIGATE) “Cynical politicians may even foment conflicts among groups to advancetheirown power.”
- FORFEND
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DEFENDTO AVERT, PREVENT, WARD OFF(TO FORBID)
"If one of us is missing, heaven forfend, then the king's forces are diminished" - FROWARD
- INTRACTABLE, NOT WILLING TO YIELD OR COMPLY, STUBBORN “the froward mule wouldn’t budge”
- FROWZY
- SLOVENLY; UNKEMPT; DIRTY
- GALL
- BITTERNESS of feeling.RANCOR Something bitter to endure: "the gall of defeat." OUTRAGEOUS INSOLENCE; effrontery. TO CHAFE. TO VEX OR IRRITATE: "It galled me to have to wait outside."
- IMMATERIAL
- EXTRANEOUS, INCONSEQUENTIAL, NONESSENTIAL
- IMPERTINENT
- NOT TO THE POINT, IRRELEVANT, INAPPLICABLE; TRIFLING; FRIVOLOUS; NOT GOOD MANNERS.. “impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup.” "mentioned several impertinent facts before comingto thepoint"
- INDENTURE
- BOUND TO ANOTHER BY CONTRACT
- INDICT
- TO ACCUSE FORMALLY
- INSENSIBLE
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UNAWARE
UNCONCIOUS
INDIFFERENT- NOT EMOTIONALLY RESPONSIVEIMPERCEPTABLE: "an insensible change in temperature." VERY SMALL OR GRADUAL - INSOLUBLE
- INSOLVABLE, DIFFUCULT TO SOLVE OR EXPLAIN "in soluble riddles"
- INSOUCIANT
- UNCONCERNED, CAREFREE, NONCHALANT
- INTERDICT
- PROHIBIT, FORBID, BAN
- INELUCTABLE
- CERTAIN, INEVITABLE
- INEXORABLE
- RELENTLESS, UNYIELDING, IMPLACABLE
- INORDINATE
- UNRESTRAINED; EXCESSIVE
- INSCRUTABLE
- INCAPABLE OF BEING DISCOVERED OR UNDERSTOOD
- INVESTITURE
- CEREMONY CONFERRING AUTHORITY (ANT: DIVESTITURE)
- LAGNIAPPE
- TRIFLING PRESENT GIVEN TO A CUSTOMER, AN UNEXPECTED BENEFIT(ALSO CALLED A "BOOT")
- LIBEL
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STATEMENT THAT DAMAGES REPUTAION
A SATIRE
a false publication, as in writing,print, signs, or pictures, thatdamages a person's reputation.
written statement of a plaintiff's complaints - LIMPID
- CLEAR AND SIMPLE, SERENE, TRANSPARENT, UNTROUBLED
- LINIMENT
- MEDICINAL LIQUID USED TO EASE PAIN
- LUBRICIOUS
- LEWD, WANTON, GREASY, SLIPPERY
- LUCUBRATE
- WRITE IN A SCHOLARLY FASHION
- MILITATE
- TO HAVE WEIGHT OR INFLUENCE ON, TO WORK AGAINST, TO ARGUE (AGAINST) “the presidents advisorswarnedhim that the volatility of the situation militated againstany rash action”
- NETTLE
- TO IRRITATE, STING, VEX
- NICE
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1) SCRUPULOUS/HARD TO PLEASE OVERDELICATE OR FASTIDUOUS, FUSSY
2)PRECISE, SENSITIVE TO SUBTLENESS a nice distinction; a nice sense of style.
3) WANTON - NONPLUSSED
- AT A TOTAL LOSS OF WHAT TO SAY OR DO
- OBLOQUY
- ABUSIVELY DETRACTIVE LANGUAGE, SHARP CRITICISM, ILL REPUTE
- OBSEQUY
- FUNERAL CEREMONY
- ONTOLOGY
- THEORY ABOUT THE NATURE OF EXISTANCE
- OROTUND
- POMPOUS
- OVERWEENING
- PRESUMPTUOUSLY ARROGANT, OVERBEARING, IMMODERATE (overweening ambition), BEING A JERK
- PALAVER
- IDLE TALK
- PECULATION
- THEFT OF MONEY OR GOODS
- PERTINACIOUS
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PERSISTANT, STUBBORN
"all the king's horses and all the king's men could not change that pertinacious little mind." - PERCIPIENT
- DISCERNING, ABLE TO PERCIEVE
- PHILOLOGY
- THE STUDY OF WORDS
- WANTON
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IMMORAL
LEWD
CRUEL, MERCILESS
MALICIOUS AND CAPRICOUS
UNRESTRAINED EXCESSIVENESS: wanton extravagance; wanton depletion of oil reserves.
LUXURIANT, OVERABUNDANT: wanton tresses.
FROLICSOME, PLAYFUL
UNDISCIPLINED, SPOILED - LUXURIATE
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To take luxurious pleasure; indulge oneself.
To proliferate.
To grow profusely; thrive. - FOPPISH
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VAIN
FOP: A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy. - ETYMOLOGY
- the study of word origins
- REMISS
- negligent
- AGNATE
- pertaining to the father's side
- EPISTEMOLOGY
- the study of the nature of knowledge
- LANGUISH
- to lose strength, be neglected, live in miserable conditions
- JAUNDICE
- to distort or be predujiced due to envy
- REBUKE
- to reprove, scold
- SCIOLISM
- superficial knowledge
- PRIVY
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private/secret
Made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret: "was privy to classified information." - OBLATION
- a sacrifice
- COUCH
- to express, using words of a certain kind
- APPROBATE
- to sanction, to authorize
- MANIFEST
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OBVIOUS
TO PROVE BEYOND DOUBT "her pregnancy was made manifest by the blue line"
list of cargo or passengers - ADJURE
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to urge solemnly
(don't confuse with abjure) - ADDUCE
- to offer as example or proof
- PANACHE
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flair
a group of feathers - WATERSHED
- the point at which significant change occurs
- PERQUISITE
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a birthright
a gratuity - REPROACH
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to criticize
to bring shame on
(n) blame or disgrace - SCURRILOUS
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ABUSIVE AND INSULTING
FOUL-MOUTHED - OPPUGN
- to attack or contradict
- LITURGY
- a ritual
- PRIGGISH
-
ARROGANT
SMUG
NARROW-MINDED - EXPOSTULATE
- to try to dissuade someone through reason
- LITANY
- a repeated series
- TEMPORAL
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SHORT-LIVED
WORLDLY - SUBORN
- to persuade someone to break the law
- PATRICIAN
-
NOBILITY
ONE WITH REFINED TASTES AND MANNERS - STILTED
- stiff, artificially formal
- PAREGORIC
- soothing
- LASSITUDE
- weariness or indifference
- PARAGON
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a large unflawed diamond
the best example - VITUPERATE
- to scold with abusive language
- ELEGY
-
mournful song or poem
(not "eulogy" which is praise) - PHILISTINE
- an unrefined, crude person
- LISTLESS
- lacking energy or desire
- PREROGATIVE
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SUPERIOR ADVANTAGE
EXCLUSIVE PRIVLEDGE - SONOROUS
- pertaining to pompous language
- CAD
-
an immoral person
A man whose behavior is unprincipled or dishonorable. - RAKE
- An immoral or dissolute person; a libertine
- OCHLOCRACY
- Government by the masses; mob rule.
- PETTIFOGGING
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deceit and trickery
Paltry; quibbling; mean.
to do petty business (as a lawyer) - VAINGLORY
- excessive pride
- BRIGAND
- lawless fellow
- CALVALCADE
- PROCESSION ON HORSEBACK
- WINSOME
- CHEERFUL
- MAWKISH
- overly sentimental
- MALPROPISM
- misuse of a word with humorous consequences