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abbreviate
abstinence
adulation
adversity
aesthetic
amicable
anachronistic
anecdote
anonymous
antagonist
arid
assiduous
asylum
benevolent
camaraderie
censure
circuitous
clairvoyant
collaborate
compassion
compromise
congregation
deleterious
demagogue
digression
diligent
discredit
disdain
divergent
empathy
emulate
enhance
ephemeral
evanescent
exemplary
florid
fortuitous
frugal
hackneyed
haughty
hedonist
hypothesis
impetuous
impute
incompatible
inconsequential
inevitable
integrity
intrepid
intuitive
jubilation
longevity
mundane
novice
orator
ostentatious
parched
perfidious
precocious
pretentious
procrastinate
prosaic
prosperity
provocative
prudent
querulous
reconciliation
renovation
resilient
reverence
sagacity
scrutinize
spontaneity
spurious
submissive
substantiate
subtle
superficial
superfluous
suppress
surreptitious
tenacious
transient
venerable
vindicate
wary
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abbreviate:
v. Syn. shorten make shorter; reduce to shorter form intended to represent full form, as for word or phrase
abstinence:
n. restraint from eating or drinking; refraining from indulging appetite or desire
adulation:
n. Syn. flattery; admiration excessive flattery or admiration; unmerited praise
adversity:
n. Syn. poverty; misfortune state of misfortune, hardship, or affliction; misfortune
aesthetic:
a. Syn. artistic; elegant elegant or tasteful; of or concerning appreciation of beauty or good taste
amicable:
a. Syn. friendly exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; not quarrelsome
anachronistic:
a. having time error in story; erroneous in date; in wrong time
anecdote:
n. Syn. episode; story short account of amusing or interesting event; short narrative; secret story of history or biography
anonymous:
a. Syn. unknown; nameless having no name; having unknown or unacknowledged name
antagonist:
n. one who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; opponent
arid:
a. Syn. dry; barren dry; lacking moisture, especially having insufficient rainfall to support trees or plants
assiduous:
a. Syn. diligent; persistent constant in application or attention; diligent; unceasing or persistent
asylum:
n. Syn. protection place of refuge or shelter; protection
benevolent:
a. Syn. generous; charitable generous in providing aid to others; charitable
camaraderie:
n. Syn. intimacy good-fellowship; companionship; close friendship in friends or teammates
censure:
v. Syn. blame; criticize expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism; blame
circuitous:
a. Syn. roundabout being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course; going round in a circuit; not direct
clairvoyant:
n. Syn. fortuneteller having foresight; fortuneteller
collaborate:
v. Syn. cooperate work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort
compassion:
n. sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration
compromise:
v. adjust or settle by making mutual concessions; endanger the interests or reputation of
congregation:
n. act of congregating, or bringing together; collection or mass of separate things
deleterious:
a. Syn. harmful having harmful effect; injurious; having quality of destroying life; noxious; poisonous
demagogue:
n. person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people
digression:
n. wandering from the main path of a journey; diversion
diligent:
a. Syn. assiduous; industrious assiduous; industrious; hard-working
discredit:
v. Syn. defame; disbelieve defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve
disdain:
v. Syn. despise view with scorn or contempt; feel with aversion
divergent:
a. Syn. differing differing; tending to move apart in different directions
empathy:
n. Syn. pity understanding and entering into another's feelings
emulate:
v. Syn. imitate; rival be a match or counterpart for; eager to equal or excel
enhance:
v. Syn. increase; improve make better or more attractive; increase; improve
ephemeral:
a. short-lived; enduring a very short time
evanescent:
a. Syn. fleeting; vanishing fleeting; vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor
exemplary:
a. Syn. modeled; ideal serving as model; outstanding; typical
florid:
a. Syn. ruddy; reddish reddish; elaborately or excessively ornamented
fortuitous:
a. Syn. accidental; random accidental; by chance; coming or occurring without any cause
frugal:
a. Syn. sparing; economical; thrifty sparing; economical; costing little; inexpensive
hackneyed:
a. Syn. commonplace repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
haughty:
a. high; lofty; bold; arrogant; overbearing
hedonist:
n. one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life
hypothesis:
n. Syn. assumption; theory assumption; theory
impetuous:
a. Syn. violent; hasty; rash. marked by sudden and violent force; hasty; impulsive and passionate
impute:
v. lay responsibility or blame for, often unjustly
incompatible:
a. Syn. inharmonious; incongruous inharmonious; impossible to coexist; not easy to combine harmoniously
inconsequential:
a. Syn. insignificant; unimportant insignificant; lacking importance; not following from premises or evidence; illogical
inevitable:
a. Syn. unavoidable unavoidable; incapable of being avoided or prevented
integrity:
n. Syn. uprightness; wholeness quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
intrepid:
a. Syn. fearless; brave fearless; indicating or springing from courage
intuitive:
a. seeing clearly; relating to, or arising from intuition; automatic, without requiring conscious thought
jubilation:
n. Syn. rejoicing; jollity rejoicing; feeling of extreme joy
longevity:
n. long life; great duration of life; long duration or continuance, as in an occupation
mundane:
a. Syn. worldly; earthly; secular belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary
novice:
n. Syn. beginner beginner; person new to a field or activity
orator:
n. skilled public speaker; person who pronounces discourse publicly on some special occasion, as pleader or lawyer
ostentatious:
a. Syn. showy; pretentious showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
parched:
a. dried out by heat; toasted or roasted slightly
perfidious:
a. Syn. treacherous; disloyal tending to betray; disloyal; faithless
precocious:
a. advanced in development; appearing or developing early
pretentious:
a. intended to attract notice and impress others; making unjustified claims; overly ambitious
procrastinate:
v. Syn. postpone postpone or delay needlessly; put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness
prosaic:
a. Syn. factual dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual
prosperity:
n. Syn. wealth; fortune good fortune; financial success; physical well-being
provocative:
a. Syn. annoying arousing anger or interest; tending to provoke or stimulate
prudent:
a. Syn. cautious; careful cautious; careful in regard to one's own interests
querulous:
a. Syn. fretful; whining habitually complaining; expressing complaint or grievance
reconciliation:
n. act of reconciling, or state of being reconciled; reconcilement; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship
renovation:
n. Syn. alteration; renewal improving by renewing and restoring; state of being restored to its former good condition; renewal
resilient:
a. Syn. elastic; flexible; rebounding elastic; having power of springing back or recover readily
reverence:
n. profound respect and esteem with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; act showing respect, especially a bow or curtsy
sagacity:
n. quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment; shrewdness
scrutinize:
v. examine closely and critically
spontaneity:
n. Syn. naturalness naturalness; freedom from constraint; happening or arising without external cause; self-generated
spurious:
a. Syn. false; counterfeit; forged; illogical false; counterfeit; forged; illogical
submissive:
a. Syn. yielding; timid yielding; inclined or ready to submit
substantiate:
v. Syn. verify; support establish by evidence; make firm or solid; support
subtle:
a. Syn. slight; delicate slight; be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
superficial:
a. Syn. trivial trivial; of little substance; involving a surface only
superfluous:
a. Syn. unnecessary; excessive; overabundant being beyond what is required or sufficient
suppress:
v. Syn. overwhelm put down by force or authority; overwhelm; keep from being revealed
surreptitious:
a. Syn. secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently
tenacious:
a. Syn. retentive; adhesive sticking together; stubbornly unyielding; holding together firmly
transient:
a. Syn. momentary; temporary; transitory momentary; temporary; staying for short time
venerable:
a. Syn. revered; honored deserving high respect; impressive by reason of age; profoundly honored
vindicate:
v. Syn. exonerate clear from blame; exonerate; maintain, uphold, or defend
wary:
a. Syn. cautious very cautious; on guard; watchful