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Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- abrogate
- annul, revoke
- aesthetic
- artistic
- ambient
- encompassing
- askance
- distrustfully, suspiciously, skeptically
- asperity
- rigor, harshness
- attenuate
- thin out, dilute, water down
- benign
- benevolent, salutary, salubrious, harmless
- burnish
- shine, buff
- cabal
- clique, ring, gang, plot, conspiracy
- cavil
- nitpick, quibble
- charlatan
- fraud, mountebank
- decimate
- ravage, devastate
- defunct
- extinct, nonexistant
- delectable
- delicious, scrumptious
- deprecate
- deplore, frown upon
- detritus
- debris, wreckage, ruins, rubble
- discomfit
- nonplus, discpncert, foil
- ebullient
- exhilarated, elated, exuberant
- eclectic
- selective, synthetic, pick-and-choose
- espouse
- embrace, wed
- fetish
- charm, talisman, obsession
- flaccid
- soft, flabby
- foible
- shortcoming, defect, quirk
- forgo
- refrain from, renounce
- fraught
- charged with
- gregarious
- outgoing, extroverted
- hapless
- unlucky, ill-starred, unfortunate
- impeccable
- flawless, spotless, immaculate
- impecunious
- penniless, impoverished, indigent
- importune
- implore, entreat, dun, tax
- inexorable
- inescapable, ineluctable, obdurate
- interpolate
- inject, interpose, introduce
- inure
- accustom, acclimate
- irreparable
- irremidable
- laconic
- terse, succinct, pithy, compact
- languish
- flag, wilt, fade, pine
- luminous
- radiant, bright, refulgent, lustrous
- mendacious
- untruthful, false
- moribund
- obsolescent
- nadir
- rock bottom
- necromancer
- sorcerer, conjurer
- obsequious
- fawning, servile, sypophantic, mealymouthed
- obtuse
- stupid, dumb, thick, mild, dull-witted
- omnipresent
- ubiquitous, ever present
- onerous
- oppressive, weighty
- oscillate
- vibrate, vacillate
- penitent
- remorseful, regretful, rueful, sorry
- peremptory
- high-handed, unconditional
- perfunctory
- slapdash, cursory, shallow
- plaintive
- sad, doleful, lugubrious
- rebuff
-
spurn, repulse, reject
set back
- reconnoiter
- scout
- requite
- reimburse, recompense, avenge
- rife
- devoid of, lacking
- rudiments
- fundamentals, basics
- sequester
- seclude, segregate, isolate, closet
- shambles
- slaughterhouse, mess
- sporadic
- intermittent, spasmodic
- tantamount
- indistinguishable form
- winnow
- sift, strain, fliter, sort