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- ABASE
- TO HUMBLE OR DISGRACE
- ABJURE
- PROMISE OR SWEAR TO GIVE UP
- ABNEGATE
- TO DENY OR RENOUNCE
- ABROGATE
- TO REPEAL, AS IN A LAW; TO ANNUL SOMETHING THROUGH AN AUTHORITATIVE ACT
- ACCLIVITY
- UPWARDS SLOPE
- ACARPOUS
- HAVING NO FRUIT, NO LONGER FERTILE, WORN OUT
- ACTUATE
- MOTIVATE
- ADJURATION
- SOLEMN URGING ”Her adjuration to tell the truth did not change the witnesses' testimony.”
- ADJUTANT
- STAFF OFFICER ASSISTING THE COMMANDER; ASSISTANT ”Though he delegated many tasks to his chief adjutant, Somerset, Somerset was in no doubt as to who made all major decisions.”
- ADVENTITIOUS
- ACCIDENTAL, CASUAL ”He found this adventitious meeting with his friend extremely fortunate.”
- ADVERT
- REFER TO
- AFFIDAVIT
- WRITTEN STATEMENT MADE UNDER OATH
- AGGRIEVE
- TO AFFLICT OR DISTRESS
- AGOG
- HIGHLY EXCITED AND INTENSELY CURIOUS
- AMNESTY
- PARDON
- ANIMADVERSION
- CRITICAL REMARK ”He resented the animadversions of his critics, particularly because he realized they were true.”
- AMITY:
- FRIENDSHIP
- ANIMOSITY
- ACTIVE ENMITY
- ANIMUS
- HOSTILE FEELING OR INTENT
- ANNUITY
- YEARLY ALLOWANCE
- APACE
- DONE QUICKLY
- APHELION
- THE PART IN A PLANETÂ’S ORBIT THAT IS FARTHEST FROM THE SUN
- APOPLEXY
- STROKE; LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS CAUSED BY TOO MUCH BLOOD IN THE BRAIN
- APOTHEOSIS
-
BEST OR MOST PERFECT EXAMPLE.(OR GLORIFICATION LIKE OF A MORTAL TO GOD STATUS)
“Their leader was the apotheosis of courage.” - APPELLATION
- NAME; TITLE
- APPRISE
- INFORM
- APPREHEND
- ARREST OR COMPREHEND
- APPROBATION
- APPROVAL
- APROPOS
- WITH REFERENCE TO; REGARDING ”I find your remarks apropos of the present situation pertinent.”
- ARCADE
- A COVERED PASSAGEWAY, USUALLY LINED WITH SHOPS
- ARRAIGN
- CHARGE IN COURT; INDICT
- ARRANT
- IN EVERY WAY, IMPUDENT , BEING COMPLETELY SUCH “AN ERRANT LIAR”
- ARROGATE
-
TO ASSUME, OR CLAIM AS ONE'S OWN; TO TAKE OVER WITHOUT DUE CAUSE..
“to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.” - ASCENDANCY
- CONTROLLING INFLUENCE “President Marcos failed to maintain his ascendency over Philippines"
- ASCETIC
- PRACTICING SELF-DENIAL; AUSTERE
- ASCEPTIC
- PREVENTING INFECTION; HAVING A CLEANSING EFFECT
- ASSENT
- TO AGREE
- ASSONANCE
- RESEMBLENCE IN SOUND, PARTIAL RHYME
- ASUNDER
- TEAR INTO PARTS
- AVUNCULAR
- LIKE AN UNCLE, KINDLY
- BACCHANAL
- NOISY PARTY WITH A LOT OF DRINKING
- BADINAGE
- TEASING CONVERSATION; BANTER; JOKING TALK
- BALK
-
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. - BANAL
- HACKNEYED; COMMONPLACE; TRITE; LACKING ORIGINALITY; CLICHÉD
- BARRAGE
- BARRIER LAID DOWN BY ARTILLERY FIRE; OVERWHELMING PROFUSION
- BARRISTER
- COUNSELOR-AT-LAW
- BEDIZEN
- DRESS WITH VULGAR FINERY ”The witch doctors were bedizened in theiR gaudiest costumes.”
- BEDRAGGLE
- WET THOUROUGHLY
- BELEAGUER
- TO HARASS, PLAGUE
- BENIGHTED
- UNENLIGHTENED
- BENISON
- BLESSING
- BETOKEN
- TO INDICATE, SIGNIFY, GIVE EVIDENCE OF
- BEVY
- LARGE GROUP
- BICAMERAL
- TWO-CHAMBERED, AS A LEGISLATIVE BODY
- BILLET
- BOARD AND LODGING FOR TROOPS
- BILK
- FRUSTRATE OR DISAPPOINT; TO DECEIVE OR DEFRAUD..
- BIVOUAC
- TEMPORARY ENCAMPMENT
- BLANDISH
- TO COAX WITH FLATTERY
- BLOWHARD
- TALKATIVE BOASTER
- BLUSTER
- BOAST OR MAKE THREATS LOUDLY
- BOMBAST
- POMPOUS, INFLATED LANGUAGE
- BONHOMIE
- GOOD-NATURED GENIALITY, ATMOSPHERE OF GOOD CHEER
- BROCADE
- RICH, FIGURED FABRIC
- BROMIDE
- A DULL PERSON OR IDEA
- BROOK
- TO ENDURE
- BROWBEAT
- BULLY; INTIMIDATE
- BURNISH
- TO POLISH
- BYZANTINE
- LABRYNTHINE, COMPLEX
- BURSAR
- TREASURER
- BELIE
- TO MISREPRESENT OR TO EXPOSE AS FALSE (ANT: CORROBORATE)
- CADGE
- TO BEG, TO GET BY BEGGIN
- CALUMNIATE
- TO SLANDER, PRESENT FALSE ACCUSAL
- CALUMNY
- SLANDER,MALICIOUS MISREPRESENTATION
- CANARD
- UNFOUNDED RUMOR OR LIE
- CANT
- INSINCERE TALK/JARGON (OR TO RAISE AT AN ANGLE)
- CANTATA
- STORY SET TO MUSIC, TO BE SUNG BY A CHORUS
- CANVASS
- DISCUSS THOROUGHLY; SORT OF TOUTING
- CAPACIOUS
- SPACIOUS
- CAROM
- TO STRIKE AND REBOUND
- CATECHISM
- BOOK FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION; INSTRUCTION BY QUESTION AND ANSWER
- CATEGORICAL
- WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS; UNQUALIFIED; ABSOLUTE
- CAUCUS
- A SMALLER GROUP IN AN ORGANIZATION, A MEETING OF THEM
- CAVIL
- MAKE FRIVOLOUS OBJECTIONS
- CHAFFING
- BANTERING, JOKING
- CHATTEL
- PIECE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
- CHOLERIC
- HOT-TEMPERED
- CHORTLE
- TO CHUCKLE
- CIPHER
- NONENTITY; WORTHLESS PERSON OR THING
- CISTERN
- TANK FOR RAINWATER
- CLEMENT
- MILD
- CLOTURE
- CLOSING, DEVICE (IN PARLIAMENT) TO END A DEBATE BY VOTING
- CODICIL
- SUPPLEMENT TO THE BODY OF A WILL
- COEVAL
- OF THE SAME PERIOD, COEXISTING
- COFFER
- STRONGBOX, CHEST FOR MONEY
- COGNOMEN
- FAMILY NAME OR NICKNAME
- COIFFURE
- HAIRSTYLE
- COMITY
- COURTESY; CIVILITY “A spirit of comity should exist among nations.”
- COMMENSURATE
- MATCHING, CORRESPONDING, OR PROPORTIONATE
- COMMUTE
- TO CHANGE A PENALTY TO A LESS SEVERE ONE
- COMPENDIOUS
- SUMMARIZING COMPLETEY AND BRIEFLY
- COMPENSATORY
- MAKING UP FOR; REPAYING
- COMPORT
- BEAR ONE'S SELF; BEHAVE
- CONCATENATE
- LINK AS IN A CHAIN
- CONCERTED
- MUTUALLY AGREED ON, DONE TOGETHER
- CONCILIATORY
- OVERCOMING DISTRUST OR HOSTILITY
- CONDIGN
- ADEQUATE; DESERVEDLY SEVERE ”The public approved the condign punishment for the crime.”
- CONGENITAL
- EXISTING AT BIRTH
- CONNIVANCE
- THE ACT OF CONNIVING; KNOWLEDGE OF AND CONSENT TO WRONGDOING
- CONNUBIAL
- PERTAINING TO MARRIAGE
- CONSEQUENTIAL
- POMPOUS, SELF IMPORTANT
- CONSONANCE
- HARMONY; AGREEMENT ”Her agitation seemed out of consonance with her usual calm.”
- CONSTRUE
- TO EXPLAIN OR INTERPRET
- CONTENTIOUS
- ARGUEMENTATIVE, CAUSING CONTROVERSY
- CONTINENCE
- SELF-CONTROL OR SELF-RESTRAINT
- CONTUMACIOUS
- DISOBEDIENT; RESISTING AUTHORITY ”The contumacious mob shouted defiantly at the police.”
- CONVIVIAL
- FESTIVE; GAY; CHARACTERIZED BY JOVIALITY
- COTERIE
- GROUP THAT MEETS SOCIALLY; SELECT CIRCLE
- COUNTENANCE
- TO APPROVE OF OR TOLERATE
- COUNTERMAND
- TO NEGATE, NULLIFY, OR CANCEL BY A CONTRARY ORDER OR ACTION..
- COZEN
- TO DECEIVE. BEGUILE, HOODWINK
- CRAVAT
- PIECE OF LINEN WORN AS A NECKTIE
- CREDULOUS
- GULLIBLE
- CROTCHETY
- ECCENTRIC; WHIMSICAL
- CULL
- PICK OUT; REJECT ”Every month the farmer culls the nonplaying hens and sells them to the local butcher.”
- CULVERT
- ARTIFICIAL CHANNEL FOR WATER
- CUR
- A BASE OR COWARDLY PERSON, AN INFERIOR MONGREL
- CURMUDGEON
- CRANKY PERSON
- CYNOSURE
- A PERSON OR THING THAT IS AT THE CENTER OF ATTENTION..“The young queen, the cynosure of all eyes”
- DEBAUCH
- TO CORRUPT, SEDUCE FROM VIRTUE OR DUTY, INDULGE
- DECOLLETE
- HAVING A LOW-CUT NECKLINE
- DEFROCK
- TO STRIP A PRIEST OR MINISTER OF CHURCH AUTHORITY
- DEMAGOGUE
- SOMEONE WHO APPEALS TO THE PREJUDICES AND EMOTIONS OF THE PEOPLE IN AN ATTEMPT TO GAIN POWER.. “A consummate demagogue, [Joseph] McCarthy played upon cold war emotions and made charges so fantastic that frightened people believed the worst.”
- DEMUR
- TO QUESTION OR OPPOSE
- DESUETUDE
- CESSATION OF USE; DISUSE
- DENIGRATE
- TO SULLY, BELITTLE, DEFAME
- DENUDE
- TO MAKE BARE
- DEPRECATE
- TO DISPARAGE OR BELITTLE
- DETRACTION
- SLANDERING, VERBAL ATTACK, ASPERSION
- DETUMESCENCE
- DIMINISHING OR LESSENING OF SWELLING
- DIE
- DEVICE FOR STAMPING OR IMPRESSING; MOLD
- DISAPPROBATION
- DISAPPROVAL; CONDEMNATION
- DISCOMFIT
- TO DEFEAT OR PUT DOWN (NOW MEANS EMBARRASS OR MAKE UNCOMFORTABLE)
- DISCRETIONARY
- SUBJECT TO ONEÂ’S OWN JUDGEMENT
- DISINTER
- DIG UP FROM THE EARTH
- DISINTERESTED
- FREE FROM SELF-INTEREST, UNBIASED
- DISPARAGE
- TO BELITTLE
- DISPORT
- AMUSE ”The popularity of Florida as a winter resort is constantly increasing; each year, thousands more disport themselves at Miami and Palm Beach.”
- DISPUTATIOUS
- ARGUMENTATIVE; FOND OF ARGUMENT
- DISSIPATE
- TO SCATTER, PURSUE PLEASURE TO EXCESS
- DISSOLUTION
- DISINTEGRATION, LOOSENESS IN MORALS
- DISSEMBLE
- TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH
- DISTAFF
- THE FEMALE BRANCH OF A FAMILY (OPP.= AGNATE), A DEVICE TO SPIN YARN
- DISTRAIT
- ABSENTMINDED, DISTRACTED
- DITHER
- TO MOVE OR ACT CONFUSEDLY OR WITHOUT CLEAR PURPOSE
- DIURNAL
- DAILY
- DIVESTITURE
- TAKING OFF, GETTING RID OF, GIVING UP
- DIVISIVE
- CREATING DISUNITY OR CONFLICT
- DOCKET
- PROGRAM AS FOR TRIAL; BOOK WHERE SUCH ENTRIES ARE MADE
- DOGGEREL
- POOR VERSE
- DOTAGE
- SENILITY (DOTARD IS A SENILE PERSON)
- DOUGHTY
- COURAGEOUS
- DRIVEL
- STUPID TALK, SLOBBER
- DRONE
- IDLE PERSON; MALE BEE
- DUDGEON
- ANGRY INDIGNATION “Higgins was so frustrated by such a basic error that he stormed out of the arena for the mid-session interval in high dudgeon.”
- DYSPEPTIC
- SUFFERING FROM INDIGESTION
- ECUMENICAL
- ENCOMPASSING A WIDE VARIETY OF FAITHS OR BELIEFS, OFTEN IN REFERENCE TO 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 VITALITY, FORCE, OR EFFECTIVENESS; EXHAUSTED: the final, effete period of the baroque style. , MARKED BY SELF-INDULGENCE, TRIVIALITY, OR DECADENCE, OVERREFINED; EFFEMINATE.
NO LONGER PRODUCTIVE; INFERTILE. - EFFLUVIA
- OUTFLOW IN A STREAM OF PARTICLES; A NOXIOUS ODOR OR VAPOR
- ENCOMIUM
- A STATEMENT OF HIGH, GLOWING, ENTHUSIASTIC PRAISE..
- ENDEMIC
- RESTRICTED TO A PARTICULAR REGION OR PEOPLE
- ELEEMOSYNARY
- PERTAINING TO CHARITY; CHARITABLE.
- ENERVATE
- WEAKEN
- ENGENDER
- TO GIVE RISE TO
- ENJOIN
- TO URGE OREDER OR COMMAND, FORBID OR PROHIBIT AS BY COURT ORDER
- ENORMITY
- EXCESSIVE WICKEDNESS
- ENSIGN
- FLAG, SIGN, TOKEN, EMBLEM
- EPIGRAPH
- QUOTE AT THE BIGINNING OF A LITERARY WORK
- EPITHET
- DISPARAGING WORD OR PHRASE
- EQUABLE
- STEADY, REGULAR
- EQUANIMITY
- COMPOSURE
- EQUIPOISE
- EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEIGHT; EQUILIBRIUM
- EQUITY
- FAIRNESS OR EQUALITY
- EQUIVOCATE
- DECEIVE BY EQUIVOCAL LANGUAGE, AVOID COMMITING ONESELF TO WHAT ONE SAYS
- ERSATZ
- FAKE
- ESCHEW
- AVOID
- ESURIENT
- HUNGRY, GREEDY
- ETIOLOGY
- THE STUDY OF CAUSES
- EULOGISTIC
- PRAISING
- EULOGY
- PRAISE, PANEGYRIC
- EUPHONY
- PLEASANT HARMONIOUS SOUND
- EUPHONIOUS
- PLEASANT IN SOUND
- EURYTHMICS
- ART OF HARMONIOUS BODILY MOVEMENT
- EVINCE
- TO SHOW CLEARLY
- EXCORIATE
- TO CRITICIZE SHARPLY
- EXECRABLE
- VERY BAD
- EXEGESIS
- AN ELABORATION OR EXPLANATION OF A PASSAGE OR ARTICLE..
- EXHORT
- TO INCITE BY WORDS OR ADVICE; TO ANIMATE OR URGE BY ARGUMENTS. “He was constantly reminding us of our failures and exhorting us to do, and to be, better.”
- EXIGUOUS
- SMALL, MINUTE
- EXPATIATE
- TO ENLARGE OR ELABORATE UPON SOMETHING; TO GO ON IN GREAT DETAIL.. “Every day he would expatiate in great detail on the quality of the sandwiches”
- EXPIATION
- ATONEMENT, THE MAKING OF AMENDS..
- EXPLODE
- TO DEBUNK, DISPROVE
- EXPONENT
- ONE WHO CHAMPIONS OR ADVOCATES
- EXPOUND
- TO ELABORATE, EXPAND, OR INCREASE
- EXSCIND
- TO CUT OUT, TO CUT AWAY
- EXTENUATE
- TO LESSEN THE SERIOUSNESS OR STRENGTH OR EFFECT OF
- EXTIRPATE
- TO ERADICATE; ROOT OUT; DESTROY; EXTERMINATE..
- EXTRICABLE
- THAT CAN BE FREED
- BUNGLER
- To work or act ineptly or inefficiently
- CRONYISM
- Favoritism shown to old friends without regard for their qualifications, as in political appointments to office.