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Abate
diminish, decrease, subside, let up
adulation
adoration, idolization, hero-worship
anathema
malediction, imprecation, abomination
astute
acute, sagacious, judicious, wily
avarice
cupidity, rapacity, acquisitiveness
culpable
guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy
dilatory
stalling, slow, tardy, laggard
egregious
glaring, flagrant, blatant
equivocate
to talk out of both sides of one’s mouth, palter, hedge
evanescent
ephemeral, transient, transitory
irresolute
indecisive, vacillating, wavering
nebulous
hazy, fuzzy, cloudy, opaque, indeterminate
Novice
neophyte, tyro, trainee, apprentice
penury
destitution, indigence
pretentious
ostentatious, inflated
recapitulate
review, summarize, go over
resuscitate
revitalize, reanimate, restore, reactivate
slovenly
unkempt, slatternly, lax
supposition
assumption, presumption, hypothesis
torpid
lethargic, languid
acrimonious
biting, rancorous, hostile, peevish
bovine
stolid, dull, slow, stupid
consternation
shock, amazement, bewilderment, dismay
corpulent
overweight, heavy, obese, stout, portly
disavow
disclaim, retract, abjure
dispassionate
unbiased, disinterest, cool, detached
dissension
strife, discord, contention
dissipate
disperse, strew, diffuse, waste
expurgate
purge, censor, bowdlerize
gauntlet
dare, provocation, trial, punishment
hypothetical
assumed, supposed, conditional
ignoble
inferior, unworthy, sordid
impugn
challenge, deny, dispute, query, question
intemperate
excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate
odium
abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy
perfidy
betrayal, disloyalty, treason
relegate
transfer, consign, demote, exile
squeamish
nauseated, queasy, delicate, oversensitive, priggish
subservient
secondary, servile, obsequious, useful
susceptible
vulnerable, receptive, impressionable
Austere
forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned
Beneficent
humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable
Cadaverous
corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly
Concoct
create, fashion, rustle up
Crass
crude, tasteless, oafish, obtuse
Debase
cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate
Desecrate
profane, defile, violate
Disconcert
upset, rattle, ruffle, faze
Grandiose
majestic, bombastic, highfalutin
Inconsequential
trivial, negligible, paltry
Infraction
violation, transgression, offense
Mitigate
lessen, relieve, alleviate
Pillage
(v.) ravage, sack, fool; (n.) booty
Prate
prattle, blab, palaver
Punctilious
precise, scrupulous
Redoubtable
formidable, august
Reprove
chastise, upbraid, reproach
Restitution
reimbursement, redress, restoration
Stalwart
(adj.) sturdy, stout, intrepid, valiant; (n.) mainstay
Vulnerable
defenseless, unguarded
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