LA Words
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- Apiary
- Place where bees are kept
- Aviary
- Place where birds are kept
- Lionize
- Treat as highly important
- Ornithology
- Study of Birds
- Parasite
- Animal, plant, or person living on others
- Astringent
- Substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood
- Benign
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Not dangerous (ant. malignant)
Gentle; kindly - Convalesce
- Recover health after illnes; recuperate
- Hypochondriac
- One who is morbidly anxious about personal health, or suffering from imagined illness
- Immunize
- Make immune (resistant to a disease)
- Lesion
- Injury; hurt
- Malignant
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Threatening to cause death (ant. benign)
Very evil - Pestilential
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Morally harmful
Pertaining to a pestilence (plague) - Sebaceous
- Greasy; secreting sebum (fatty matter secreted by the glands of the skin)
- Viral
- Used by a virus
- Acclaim
- Welcome with approval; applaud loudly
- Encomium
- Speech or writing of high praise; tribute; eulogy
- Eulogize
- Praise; extol; laud; glorify (ant. vilify)
- Laudatory
- Expressing praise, eulogistic
- Plaudit
- (used mainly in the plural) applause; enthusiastic praise
- Derogatory
- Expressing low esteem; belittling; disparaging (ant. complimentary)
- Libel
- False and defamatory printed (or written) statement
- Malign
- Speak evil of; vilify; traduce
- Stigma
- Mark of disgrace
- Banter
- Playful teasing; joking; raillery
- Harlequin
- Buffoon; clown
- Hilarity
- Noisy gaiety; mirth; jollity; glee
- Ironic or Ironical
- Containing or expressing irony
- Sarcasm
- Sneering language intended to hurt a person's feelings
- Satire
- Language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule
- Travesty
- Imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous; mockery