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Counterfeit |
Made to resemble something else |
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Countervail |
To offset |
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Covert |
Concealed, especially for an evil purpose |
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Cower |
To crouch down tremblingly, as though through fear or shame |
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Crass |
Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine |
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Credulous |
Easily deceived |
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Cupidity |
Avarice |
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Cursory |
Rapid and superficial |
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Curtail |
To cut off or cut short |
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Cynosure |
That to which general attention or attention is directed |
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Dearth |
Scarcity, as of something customary, essential or desirable |
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Defer |
To delay or put off to some other time |
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Deign |
To deem worthy of notice or account |
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Deleterious |
Hurtful, morally or physically |
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Delineate |
To represent by sketch or diagram |
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Deluge |
To overwhelm with a flood of water |
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Demagogoue |
An unprincipled politician |
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Denizen |
Inhabitant |
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Denouement |
That part of a play or story in which the mystery is explained |
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Deplete |
To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion or waste |
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Deposition |
Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in a court |
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Deprave |
To render bad, especially morally bad |
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Deprecate |
To express disapproval of or regret for, with hope for the opposite |
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Deride |
To ridicule |
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Derision |
Ridicule |
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Derivative |
Coming or acquired from some origin |
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Descry |
To discern |
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Desiccant |
Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that from wounds |
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Desuetude |
A state of disuse or inactivity |
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Desultory |
Not connected to what precedes |
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Deter |
To frighten away |
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Dexterity |
Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work |
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Diaphanous |
Transparent |
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Diatribe |
A bitter or malicious criticism |
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Didactic |
Pertaining to teaching |
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Diffidence |
Self-distrust |
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Diffident |
Affected or possessed with self-distrust |
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Dilate |
To enarge in all directions |
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Dilatory |
Tending to cause delay |
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Disallow |
To withold permission or sanction |
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Discomfit |
To put to confusion |
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Disconcert |
To disturb the composure of |
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Disconsolate |
Hopelessly said; also, saddening, cheerless |
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Discountenance |
To look upon with disfavor |
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Discredit |
To injure the reputation of |
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Discreet |
Judicious |
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Disheveled |
Disordered, disorderly or untidy |
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Dissemble |
To hide by pretending to be something different |
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Disseminate |
To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown |
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Dissent |
Disagreement |
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Dissolution |
A breaking up of a union of persons |
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Distraught |
Bewildered |
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Divulge |
To tell or make known as something previously private or secret |
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Dogmatic |
Making statements without argument or evidence |
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Dormant |
Being in a state of or resembling sleep |
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Dubious |
Doubtful |
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Duplicity |
Double-dealing |
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Earthenware |
Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun |
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Ebullient |
Showing enthusiasm or exhiliration of feeling |
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Edacious |
Given to eating |
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Edible |
Suitable to be eaten |
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Educe |
To draw out |
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Effete |
Exhausted, as having performed its functions |
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Efficacy |
The power to produce an intended effect a shown in the production of it |
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Effrontery |
Unblushing impudence |
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Effulgence |
Splendor |
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Egregious |
Extreme |
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Egress |
Any place of exit |
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Elegy |
Lyric poem lamenting the dead |
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Elicit |
To educe or extract gradually or without violence |
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Elucidate |
To bring out more clearly the facts concerning |
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Emaciate |
To waste away in flesh |
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Embellish |
To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features |
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Embezzle |
To misappropriate secretly |
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Emblazon |
To set forth publicly or in glowing terms |
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