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Belligerent |
Manifesting a warlike spirit |
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Benefactor |
Doer of kindly and charitable acts |
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Benevolence |
Any act of kindness or well-doing |
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Benign |
Good and kind of heart |
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Berate |
To scold severely |
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Bewilder |
To confuse the perceptions or judgments of |
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Blandishment |
Flattery intended to persuade |
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Blatant |
Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous |
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Blithe |
Joyous |
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Boisterous |
Unchecked merriment or animal spirits |
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Bolster |
To support, as something wrong |
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Bombast |
Inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects |
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Boorish |
Rude |
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Breach |
The violation of official duty, lawful right, or legal obligation |
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Brittle |
Fragile |
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Broach |
To mention for the first time |
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Bumptious |
Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit |
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Buoyant |
Having hte power or tendency to float or keep afloat |
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Burnish |
To make brilliant or shining |
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Cabal |
A number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose |
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Cacophony |
A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones |
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Cajole |
To impose on or dupe by flattering speech |
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Callow |
Without experience of the world |
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Calumny |
Slander |
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Candid |
Straightforward |
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Cant |
To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity |
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Capacious |
Roomy |
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Capitulate |
To surrender or stipulate terms |
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Captious |
Hypercritical |
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Castigate |
To punish |
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Cataract |
Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness |
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Caustic |
Sarcastic and severe |
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Censure |
To criticize severely; also, an expression of disappointment |
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Centurion |
Captain of a compnay of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army |
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Chagrin |
Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors |
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Chary |
Careful, wary, cautious |
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Chicanery |
Use of trickery to deceive |
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Circumlocution |
Indirection or roundabout expression |
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Coddle |
To treat as a baby or invalid |
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Coerce |
To force |
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Coeval |
Existing during the same period of time; also, a contemporary |
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Cogent |
Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience |
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Cogitate |
To consider deeply and carefully; to ponder |
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Cognizant |
Taking notice |
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Colloquial |
Pertaining or peculair to common speech as distinguished from literary speech |
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Collusion |
A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose |
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Comestible |
Fit to be eaten |
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Commemorate |
To serve as a remembrance of |
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Complaisance |
Politeness |
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Complement |
To make complete |
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Comport |
To conduct or behave oneself |
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Compunction |
Remorseful feeling |
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Conceit |
Self-flattering opinion |
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Conciliatory |
Tending to reconcile |
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Concord |
Harmony |
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Concur |
To agree |
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Condense |
To abridge |
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Conflagration |
A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest or the like |
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Confluence |
The place where streams meet |
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Congeal |
To coagulate |
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Conjoin |
To unite |
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Connoisseur |
A critical judge of art, especially one with knowledge and sound judgment of art |
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Console |
To comfort |
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Conspicuous |
Clearly visible |
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Consternation |
Panic |
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Constrict |
To bind |
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Consummate |
To bring completion |
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Contiguous |
Touching or joining at the edge or boundary |
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Contrite |
Broken spirit because of a sense of sin |
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Contumacious |
Rebellious |
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Copious |
Plentiful |
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Cornucopia |
The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity |
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Corporeal |
Of a material nature; physical |
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Correlate |
To put in some relation of connection or correspondence |
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Corroboration |
Confirmation |
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