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Supernumerary |
Superfluous |
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Supersede |
To displace |
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Supine |
Lying on the back |
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Supplicate |
To beg |
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Suppress |
To prevent from being disclosed or punished |
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Surcharge |
An additional amount charged |
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Surfeit |
To feed to fullness or to satiety |
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Susceptibility |
A specific capability of feeling or emotion |
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Sybarite |
A luxurious person |
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Sycophant |
A servile flatterer, especially those in authority or influence |
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Synopsis |
A syllabus or summary |
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Taciturn |
Disinclined to conversation |
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Taut |
Stretched tight |
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Temerity |
Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness |
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Terse |
Pithy |
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Timorous |
Lacking courage |
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Torpid |
Dull; sluggish; inactive |
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Torrid |
Excessively hot |
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Tortuous |
Abounding in irrregular bends or turns |
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Tractable |
Easily led or controlled |
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Transgress |
To break a law |
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Transient |
One who or that which is only of temporary existence |
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Transitory |
Existing for a short time only |
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Travail |
Hard or agonizing labor |
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Travesty |
A grotesque imitation |
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Trenchant |
Cutting deeply and quickly |
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Trepidation |
Nervous ncertainty of feeling |
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Trite |
Made commonplace by frequent repition |
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Truculence |
ferocity |
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Turbid |
In a state of turmol; muddled |
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Turgid |
Swollen |
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Turpitude |
Depravity |
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Tuteleage |
The act of training or the state of being under instruction |
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Tyro |
One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession |
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Ubiquitous |
Being present everywhere |
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Ulterior |
Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of |
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Umbrage |
A sense of injury |
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Unctuous |
Oily |
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Undermine |
To subvert in an underhanded way |
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Undulate |
To move like a wave or in waves |
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Untoward |
Casuing annoyance or hindrance |
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Upbraid |
To reproach as deserving blame |
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Vagary |
A sudden desire or action |
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Vainglory |
Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity |
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Valorous |
Courageous |
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Vapid |
Having lost sparkling quality or flavor |
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Variegated |
Having markes or patches of different colors; also, varied |
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Vehement |
Very eager or urgent |
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Venal |
Mercenary, corrupt |
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Veneer |
Outside show or elegance |
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Venial |
That which may be pardoned or forgiven; a forgivable sin |
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Veracious |
Habitually disposed to speak the truth |
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Veracity |
Truthfulness |
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Verbiage |
Use of many words without necessity |
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Verbose |
Wordy |
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Verdant |
Green with vegetation |
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Veritable |
Real; true; genuine |
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Vestige |
A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost or gone |
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Vicissitude |
A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune |
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Vigilance |
Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger |
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Vigilant |
Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety |
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Virago |
Loud talkative woman; strong-statured woman |
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Virtu |
Rare, curious or beautiful quality |
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Visage |
The face, countenance or look of a person |
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Vitiate |
To contaminate |
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Vituperate |
To overwhelm with wordy abuse |
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Vivify |
To endue with life |
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Vociferous |
Making a loud outcry |
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Volatile |
Changeable |
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Voluble |
Having great fluency in speaking |
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Wean |
To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment |
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Whimsical |
Capricious |
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Winsome |
Attractive |
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Zeitgost |
The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterizes any age or epoch |
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Truculent |
Having the character or spirit of a savage |
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