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Apocryphal |
of questionable authority or authenticity; fictitious; doubtful |
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Approbation |
approval and praise; commendation; adulation; extol |
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Arbitrary |
determined by chance or impulse; random; indiscriminate |
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Arbitrate |
to judge a dispute between two opposing parties; adjudge; adjudicate |
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Archaic |
ancient; old-fashioned; obsolete; antediluvian; superseded; superannuated |
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Ardor |
intense and passionate feeling; devotion; fervency; fervidity, zeal |
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Articulate |
able to speak clearly and expressively; eloquent; lucid |
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Assuage |
to make something unpleasant less severe; propitiate; allay; mollify; placate |
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Attenuate |
reduce in force or degree; weaken; enervate; rarefy; dilute |
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Audacious |
fearless and daring; intrepid; bold, dauntless |
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Austere |
severe or stern in appearance; undecorated |
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Banal |
predictable, cliched, boring; hackneyed, innocuous, insipid, prosaic |
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Bolster |
support; prop up; buttress, sustain, uphold |
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Bombastic |
pompous in speech and manner; grandiloquent, grandiose, orotund |
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Burgeon |
to grow and flourish; prosper, thrive |
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Burnish |
to polish; buff, luster, scour |
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Cacophony |
harsh, jarring noise; discord, chaos, disharmony |
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Candid |
impartial and honest in speech; forthright, sincere |
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Capricious |
changing one's mind quickly and often; whimsical, mercurial, random |
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Castigate |
to punish or criticize harshly; admonish, chastise, chide |
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