Vocabulary100404
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FILLED WITH AMAZEMENT, DISGUST, FEAR, OR TERROR
SYN: SHOCKED, HORRIFIED, STUPEFIED
ANT: DELIGHTED, OVERJOYED, UNMOVED - AMPLE
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MORE THAN ENOUGH, LARGE, SPACIOUS
SYN: SUFFICIENT, ADEQUATE, CONSIDERABLE
ANT: INSUFFICIENT, INADEQUATE - APPARITION
- A GHOST OR GHOSTLY FIGURE; AN UNEXPLAINED OR UNUSUAL APPEARANCE
- ASSERT
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TO DECLARE OR STATE AS TRUTH, MAINTAIN OR DEFEND, PUT FORWARD FORCEFULLY
SYN: AFFIRM, AVOW - COWER
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TO CROUCH OR SHRINK AWAY FROM IN FEAR OR SHAME
SYN: CRINGE, FLINCH
ANT: STAND UP TO - DISDAIN
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TO LOOK UPON WITH SCORN: TO REFUSE SCORNFULLY
(N) A FELLING OF CONTEMPT
SYN: SPURN, REJECT
ANT: REVERE, VENERATE, ESTEEM, RESPECT - EPITAPH
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A BRIEF STATEMENT WRITTEN ON A TOMB OR GRAVESTONE
SYN: TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION - ETHICAL
- HAVING TO DO WITH MORALS, VALUES, RIGHT AND WRONG; IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS OF RIGHT CONDUCT; REQUIRING A PRESCRIPTION FOR PURCHASE
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not able to be heard
syn: faint, indistinct
ant: audible, easily heard - indiscriminate
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without restraint or control: unselective
syn: haphazard, random, uncritical
ant: selective, discriminating, ,judicious - intrigue
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crafty dealings, underhanded plotting;
(v) to form and carry out plots; to puzzle or excite the curiosity
syn: scheme, plot, conspiracy
ant: fair play - jurisdiction
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an area of authority or control; the right to adminoster justice
syn: purview - plausible
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appearing true, reasonable, or fair
syn: believable, probable
ant: improbable, far-fetched - plebeian
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common, vulgar; belonging to the lower class; a common person, member of the lower class
syn: lowborn, proletarian, coarse, unrefined
ant: aristocratic, refined, cultivated - prodigal
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wastefully extravagant; lavishly or generously abundant; one who is wasteful and self-indulgent
syn: improvident, spendthrift, wastrel
ant: frugal, economical, stingy, miserly - pulverize
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to grind or pound to a powder or dust; to destroy or overcome (as though by smashing into fragments)
syn: crush, demolish - sequel
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that which follows, a result: a literary work or film continuing the story of one written or made earlier
syn: follow-up, continuation
ant: prelude, overture, curtain-raiser - volatile
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highly changeable, fickle: tending to become violent or explosive; changing readily from the liquid to the gaseous state.
syn: unstable, erratic
ant: stable, steady, static, inert, dormant - proximity
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nearness, closeness
ant: distance, remoteness