abscission(n) - cutting off;the act of cutting something off;
  #2 (n) - shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant;
absolution(n) - remission; remission of sin; remittal;the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance;
  #2 (n) - the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance;
abundant(adj) - present in great quantity;
accommodate(v) - adapt;make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;
  #2 (v) - conciliate; reconcile;make (one thing) compatible with (another);
  #3 (v) - oblige;provide a service or favor for someone;
  #4 (v) - provide with something desired or needed;
  #5 (v) - lodge;provide housing for;
  #6 (v) - fit; suit;be agreeable or acceptable to;
  #7 (v) - admit; hold;have room for; hold without crowding;
acerbity(n) - acrimony; bitterness; jaundice; tartness; thorniness;a rough and bitter manner;
  #2 (n) - tartness;a sharp sour taste;
  #3 (n) - a sharp bitterness;

acrophobia(n) - a morbid fear of great heights;
adjunct(n) - a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence;
  #2 (n) - something added to another thing but not an essential part of it;
  #3 (n) - a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another;
  #4 (adj sat) - assistant;of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another;
  #5 (adj sat) - accessory; adjuvant; ancillary; appurtenant; auxiliary;furnishing added support;
admonitory(adj sat) - admonishing; reproachful; reproving;expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective;
  #2 (adj sat) - cautionary; exemplary; monitory; warning;serving to warn;
adumbrate(v) - insinuate; intimate;give to understand;
  #2 (v) - outline; sketch;describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;
agnostic(n) - a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist);
  #2 (n) - doubter;someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something;
  #3 (adj) - agnostical;uncertain of all claims to knowledge;
  #4 (adj) - of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism;

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alchemy(n) - a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times;
  #2 (n) - chemistry; interpersonal chemistry;the way two individuals relate to each other;
alcove(n) - bay;a small recess opening off a larger room;
alias(n) - assumed name; false name;a name that has been assumed temporarily;
  #2 (adv) - a.k.a.; also known as;as known or named at another time or place;
allegiance(n) - commitment; dedication; loyalty;the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action;
  #2 (n) - fealty;the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign);
alloy(n) - admixture;the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something;
  #2 (n) - metal;a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten;
  #3 (v) - make an alloy of;
  #4 (v) - debase;lower in value by increasing the base-metal content;

allure(n) - allurement; temptingness;the power to entice or attract through personal charm;
  #2 (v) - tempt;dispose or incline or entice to;
altercation(n) - affray; fracas;noisy quarrel;
amalgam(n) - a combination or blend of diverse things;
  #2 (n) - dental amalgam;an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams;
amortize(v) - amortise;liquidate gradually;
analgesic(n) - anodyne; pain pill; painkiller;a medicine used to relieve pain;
  #2 (adj sat) - analgetic; anodyne;capable of relieving pain;

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anarchist(n) - nihilist; syndicalist;an advocate of anarchism;
annul(v) - countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; revoke; vacate;cancel officially;
  #2 (v) - avoid; invalidate; nullify; quash; void;declare invalid;
antagonist(n) - a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug;
  #2 (n) - a muscle that relaxes while another contracts;
  #3 (n) - adversary; opponent; opposer; resister;someone who offers opposition;
apostate(n) - deserter; ratter; recreant; renegade; turncoat;a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.;
  #2 (adj sat) - not faithful to religion or party or cause;
apposite(adj sat) - apt; pertinent;being of striking appropriateness and pertinence;

appropriate(v) - allow; earmark; reserve; set aside;give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause;
  #2 (v) - capture; conquer; seize;take possession of by force, as after an invasion;
  #3 (adj) - suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc;
archetype(n) - original; pilot;something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies;
archipelago(n) - a group of many islands in a large body of water;
artless(adj) - simple and natural; without cunning or deceit;
  #2 (adj) - ingenuous;characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious;
  #3 (adj sat) - uncultivated; uncultured;lacking art or knowledge;
  #4 (adj sat) - showing lack of art;
aspersion(n) - sprinkling;the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare);
  #2 (n) - calumny; defamation; denigration; slander;an abusive attack on a person's character or good name;
  #3 (n) - slur;a disparaging remark;

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aspirant(n) - aspirer; hopeful; wannabe; wannabee;an ambitious and aspiring young person;
  #2 (adj sat) - aspiring; wishful;desiring or striving for recognition or advancement;
assay(n) - a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.;
  #2 (n) - check;an appraisal of the state of affairs;
  #3 (n) - a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance;
  #4 (n) - a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components;
  #5 (v) - analyze (chemical substances);
  #6 (v) - attempt; essay; seek; try;make an effort or attempt;
astringent(n) - astringent drug; styptic;a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals;
  #2 (adj) - tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue;
  #3 (adj sat) - acerb; acerbic;sour or bitter in taste;
attire(n) - dress; garb;clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion;
  #2 (v) - deck out; deck up; dress up; fancy up; fig out; fig up; get up; gussy up; overdress; prink; rig out; tog out; tog up; trick out; trick up;put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive;
auxiliary(n) - aide;someone who acts as assistant;
  #2 (adj sat) - subsidiary; supplemental; supplementary;functioning in a supporting capacity;
  #3 (adj sat) - accessory; adjunct; adjuvant; ancillary; appurtenant;furnishing added support;

avid(adj sat) - zealous;marked by active interest and enthusiasm;
  #2 (adj sat) - devouring; esurient; greedy;ardently or excessively desirous;
begrudge(v) - resent;wish ill or allow unwillingly;
  #2 (v) - envy;be envious of; set one's heart on;
beleaguer(v) - besiege; circumvent; hem in; surround;surround so as to force to give up;
  #2 (v) - badger; bug; pester; tease;annoy persistently;
belie(v) - misrepresent;represent falsely;
  #2 (v) - contradict; negate;be in contradiction with;
beneficial(adj sat) - good;promoting or enhancing well-being;

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benefit(n) - welfare;something that aids or promotes well-being;
  #2 (n) - a performance to raise money for a charitable cause;
  #3 (n) - financial assistance in time of need;
  #4 (v) - gain; profit;derive a benefit from;
  #5 (v) - do good;be beneficial for;
bestial(adj sat) - beastly; brutal; brute; brutish;resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
bide(v) - abide; stay;dwell;
bigotry(n) - dogmatism;the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot;
bovine(n) - any of various members of the genus Bos;
  #2 (adj sat) - dull and slow-moving and stolid; like an ox;
  #3 (adj) - bovid;of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle);

cabal(n) - conspiracy;a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot);
  #2 (n) - camarilla; faction; junto;a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue;
  #3 (v) - complot; conjure; conspire; machinate;engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together;
cacophonous(adj) - cacophonic;having an unpleasant sound;
cadaver(n) - clay; corpse; remains; stiff;the dead body of a human being;
cadge(v) - schnorr; scrounge; shnorr;obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling;
  #2 (v) - bum; grub; mooch; sponge;ask for and get free; be a parasite;
calibrate(v) - fine-tune; graduate;make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring;
  #2 (v) - measure the caliber of;
  #3 (v) - mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units;

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carouse(n) - bender; booze-up; carousal; toot;revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party;
  #2 (v) - riot; roister;engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking;
carrion(n) - the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food;
cavalier(n) - royalist;a royalist supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War;
  #2 (n) - chevalier;a gallant or courtly gentleman;
  #3 (adj sat) - high-handed;given to haughty disregard of others;
celerity(n) - quickness; rapidity; rapidness; speediness;a rate that is rapid;
censorious(adj sat) - harshly critical or expressing censure;

chide(v) - bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; reproof; scold; take to task; trounce;censure severely or angrily;
chisel(n) - an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge;
  #2 (v) - carve with a chisel;
  #3 (v) - cheat; rip off;deprive somebody of something by deceit;
  #4 (v) - cheat;engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud;
churlish(adj sat) - having a bad disposition; surly;
  #2 (adj sat) - rude and boorish;
cloture(n) - closure; gag law; gag rule;a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body;
  #2 (v) - closure;terminate debate by calling for a vote;
coalition(n) - coalescence; coalescency; concretion; conglutination;the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts;
  #2 (n) - alignment; alinement; alliance;an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty;
  #3 (n) - fusion;the state of being combined into one body;

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coax(n) - coax cable; coaxial cable;a transmission line for high-frequency signals;
  #2 (v) - blarney; cajole; inveigle; palaver; sweet-talk; wheedle;influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering;
coercion(n) - compulsion;using force to cause something to occur;
  #2 (n) - the act of compelling by force of authority;
comprehensive(n) - comp; comprehensive examination;an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge;
  #2 (adj) - including all or everything;
  #3 (adj sat) - broad in scope;
compromise(n) - via media;a middle way between two extremes;
  #2 (n) - an accommodation in which both sides make concessions;
  #3 (v) - settle by concession;
  #4 (v) - make a compromise; arrive at a compromise;
  #5 (v) - expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute;
conformist(n) - someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters);
  #2 (adj) - marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles;
  #3 (adj sat) - conforming;adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion);

conformity(n) - abidance; compliance; conformation;acting according to certain accepted standards;
  #2 (n) - conformance;correspondence in form or appearance;
  #3 (n) - ossification;hardened conventionality;
  #4 (n) - conformism;orthodoxy in thoughts and belief;
  #5 (n) - accord; accordance;concurrence of opinion;
congenital(adj sat) - inborn; innate;present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development;
conjoin(v) - join;make contact or come together;
  #2 (v) - espouse; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed;take in marriage;
conscript(n) - draftee; inductee;someone who is drafted into military service;
  #2 (v) - enroll into service compulsorily;
consign(v) - charge;give over to another for care or safekeeping;
  #2 (v) - commit forever; commit irrevocably;
  #3 (v) - send to an address;

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controvert(v) - rebut; refute;prove to be false or incorrect;
  #2 (v) - contradict; oppose;be resistant to;
convalescence(n) - recovery; recuperation;gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury;
convention(n) - convening;the act of convening;
  #2 (n) - conventionalism; conventionality;orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional;
  #3 (n) - formula; normal; pattern; rule;something regarded as a normative example;
  #4 (n) - an international agreement;
  #5 (n) - a large formal assembly;
conventional(adj) - following accepted customs and proprieties;
  #2 (adj) - unimaginative and conformist;
  #3 (adj) - using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy;
  #4 (adj sat) - in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past;
  #5 (adj sat) - ceremonious;rigidly formal or bound by convention;
  #6 (adj sat) - established;conforming with accepted standards;
  #7 (adj sat) - formal; schematic;represented in simplified or symbolic form;
convoluted(adj sat) - byzantine; involved; knotty; tangled; tortuous;highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
  #2 (adj sat) - convolute;rolled longitudinally upon itself;

corporeal(adj) - material;having material or physical form or substance;
  #2 (adj sat) - bodily; corporal; somatic;affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit;
corpulence(n) - adiposis; overweight; stoutness;the property of excessive fatness;
covenant(n) - an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return;
  #2 (n) - compact; concordat;a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action;
  #3 (v) - enter into a covenant or formal agreement;
  #4 (v) - enter into a covenant;
covetous(adj sat) - avaricious; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile;immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;
  #2 (adj sat) - envious; jealous;showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages;
crass(adj sat) - so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility;

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culinary(adj) - of or relating to or used in cooking;
cumulative(adj sat) - accumulative;increasing by successive addition;
dainty(n) - delicacy; goody; kickshaw; treat;something considered choice to eat;
  #2 (adj sat) - exquisite;delicately beautiful;
  #3 (adj sat) - nice; overnice; prissy; squeamish;excessively fastidious and easily disgusted;
  #4 (adj sat) - mincing; niminy-piminy; prim; twee;affectedly dainty or refined;
  #5 (adj sat) - especially pleasing to the taste;
daunting(adj sat) - intimidating;discouraging through fear;
dawdler(n) - drone; laggard; lagger; poke; trailer;someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind;

debilitate(v) - drain; enfeeble;make weak;
debunk(v) - expose;expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas;
decoy(n) - bait; lure;something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed;
  #2 (n) - steerer;a beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot);
  #3 (v) - lure or entrap with or as if with a decoy;
decree(n) - edict; fiat; order; rescript;a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge);
  #2 (v) - rule;decide with authority;
  #3 (v) - issue a decree;
defame(v) - asperse; besmirch; calumniate; denigrate; slander; smear; smirch; sully;charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone;

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defiance(n) - a defiant act;
  #2 (n) - rebelliousness;intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude;
  #3 (n) - a hostile challenge;
deft(adj sat) - dexterous; dextrous;skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands;
dehydrate(v) - desiccate; dry up; exsiccate;lose water or moisture;
  #2 (v) - desiccate;remove water from;
  #3 (v) - desiccate;preserve by removing all water and liquids from;
demean(v) - degrade; disgrace; put down; take down;reduce in worth or character, usually verbally;
demonstrative(n) - demonstrative pronoun;a pronoun that points out an intended referent;
  #2 (adj) - given to or marked by the open expression of emotion;
  #3 (adj sat) - illustrative;serving to demonstrate;

denizen(n) - a plant or animal naturalized in a region;
  #2 (n) - dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant;a person who inhabits a particular place;
denouement(n) - the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work;
  #2 (n) - the outcome of a complex sequence of events;
depreciate(v) - devaluate; devalue; undervalue;lose in value;
  #2 (v) - lower the value of something;
  #3 (v) - deprecate; vilipend;belittle;
despot(n) - autocrat; tyrant;a cruel and oppressive dictator;
deterrent(n) - balk; baulk; check; handicap; hinderance; hindrance; impediment;something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress;
  #2 (adj sat) - tending to deter;

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detract(v) - take away;take away a part from; diminish;
devout(adj sat) - god-fearing;deeply religious;
  #2 (adj sat) - dear; earnest; heartfelt;earnest;
dichotomy(n) - duality;being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses;
digression(n) - excursion;wandering from the main path of a journey;
  #2 (n) - deflection; deflexion; deviation; divagation; diversion;a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern);
  #3 (n) - aside; divagation; excursus; parenthesis;a message that departs from the main subject;
dilapidated(adj sat) - bedraggled; broken-down; derelict; ramshackle; tatterdemalion; tumble-down;in deplorable condition;

dirge(n) - coronach; lament; requiem; threnody;a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person;
disabuse(v) - free somebody (from an erroneous belief);
disavow(v) - refuse to acknowledge; disclaim knowledge of; responsibility for, or association with;
disavowal(n) - disclaimer;denial of any connection with or knowledge of;
discernible(adj) - discernable;perceptible by the senses or intellect;
  #2 (adj sat) - evident; observable;capable of being seen or noticed;
  #3 (adj sat) - capable of being perceived clearly;

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disclaim(v) - make a disclaimer about;
  #2 (v) - renounce a legal claim or title to;
dispassionate(adj sat) - cold-eyed;unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice;
dissension(n) - discord;disagreement among those expected to cooperate;
  #2 (n) - disagreement; dissonance;a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters;
dissonant(adj sat) - at variance; discrepant;not in accord;
  #2 (adj sat) - discordant; disharmonious; inharmonic;lacking in harmony;
  #3 (adj sat) - unresolved;characterized by musical dissonance; harmonically unresolved;
distend(v) - swell from or as if from internal pressure;
  #2 (v) - cause to expand as it by internal pressure;
  #3 (v) - dilate;become wider;

doctrinaire(n) - dogmatist;a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions;
  #2 (adj sat) - stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability;
domicile(n) - abode; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home;housing that someone is living in;
  #2 (n) - legal residence;the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time;
  #3 (v) - domiciliate; reside; shack;make one's home in a particular place or community;
drawl(n) - a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels;
  #2 (v) - lengthen and slow down or draw out;
dross(n) - impurity;worthless or dangerous material that should be removed;
  #2 (n) - scoria; slag;the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals;
dutiful(adj sat) - duteous;willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect;

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ecstatic(adj sat) - enraptured; rapt; rapturous; rhapsodic;feeling great rapture or delight;
effete(adj sat) - decadent;marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay;
embroil(v) - drag; drag in; sweep; sweep up; tangle;force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action;
emollient(n) - cream; ointment;toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin;
  #2 (adj sat) - demulcent; salving; softening;having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin;
encompass(v) - comprehend; cover; embrace;include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory;

encore(n) - an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand;
  #2 (v) - request an encore, from a performer;
enervated(adj sat) - adynamic; asthenic; debilitated;lacking strength or vigor;
ensconce(v) - settle;fix firmly;
enthrall(v) - delight; enchant; enrapture; enthral; ravish; transport;hold spellbound;
entice(v) - lure; tempt;provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion;

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entomology(n) - bugology;the branch of zoology that studies insects;
enunciate(v) - articulate; vocalise; vocalize;express or state clearly;
  #2 (v) - articulate; enounce; pronounce; say; sound out;speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;
epicurean(n) - bon vivant; epicure; foodie; gastronome; gourmet;a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink);
  #2 (adj sat) - luxuriant; luxurious; sybaritic; voluptuary; voluptuous;displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses;
  #3 (adj sat) - hedonic; hedonistic;devoted to pleasure;
  #4 (adj) - of Epicurus or epicureanism;
epistolary(adj sat) - epistolatory;written in the form of or carried on by letters or correspondence;
errant(adj sat) - uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable;
  #2 (adj sat) - straying from the right course or from accepted standards;

erudition(n) - encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; learnedness; learning; scholarship;profound scholarly knowledge;
euphony(n) - music;any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds;
euphoria(n) - euphory;a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation;
euphoric(adj) - exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation;
exasperation(n) - actions that cause great irritation (or even anger);
  #2 (n) - aggravation;an exasperated feeling of annoyance;

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excursion(n) - digression;wandering from the main path of a journey;
  #2 (n) - expedition; jaunt; junket; outing; pleasure trip; sashay;a journey taken for pleasure;
exegesis(n) - an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible);
expatriate(n) - exile; expat;a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country;
  #2 (v) - move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad;
  #3 (v) - deport; exile;expel from a country;
exploit(n) - effort; feat;a notable achievement;
  #2 (v) - work;use or manipulate to one's advantage;
  #3 (v) - tap;draw from; make good use of;
  #4 (v) - overwork;work excessively hard;
extenuate(v) - mitigate; palliate;lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of;

extort(v) - wring from;get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner;
  #2 (v) - gouge; rack; squeeze; wring;obtain by coercion or intimidation;
  #3 (v) - obtain through intimidation;
extradite(v) - deliver; deport;hand over to the authorities of another country;
extrapolate(v) - gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating;
  #2 (v) - interpolate;estimate the value of;
  #3 (v) - generalise; generalize; infer;draw from specific cases for more general cases;
fallow(n) - cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons;
  #2 (adj sat) - undeveloped but potentially useful;
  #3 (adj sat) - left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season;
farce(n) - farce comedy; travesty;a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations;
  #2 (n) - forcemeat;mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs;
  #3 (v) - stuff;fill with a stuffing while cooking;

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feckless(adj sat) - inept;generally incompetent and ineffectual;
  #2 (adj sat) - not fit to assume responsibility;
feral(adj sat) - ferine; savage;wild and menacing;
ferret(n) - domesticated albino variety of the European polecat bred for hunting rats and rabbits;
  #2 (n) - black-footed ferret; mustela nigripes;musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct;
  #3 (v) - ferret out;search and discover through persistent investigation;
  #4 (v) - hunt with ferrets;
  #5 (v) - hound or harry relentlessly;
feud(n) - a bitter quarrel between two parties;
  #2 (v) - carry out a feud;
figurehead(n) - figure on the bow of some sailing vessels;
  #2 (n) - front; front man; nominal head; straw man; strawman;a person used as a cover for some questionable activity;

filibuster(n) - a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches;
  #2 (n) - filibusterer;a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes;
  #3 (v) - obstruct deliberately by delaying;
finicky(adj sat) - finical; fussy; particular; picky;exacting especially about details;
fitful(adj sat) - interrupted; off-and-on;intermittently stopping and starting;
  #2 (adj sat) - spasmodic;occurring in spells and often abruptly;
flabbergasted(adj sat) - dumbfounded; dumbstricken; dumbstruck; dumfounded; stupefied; thunderstruck;as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise;
flaccid(adj sat) - flabby; soft;out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance;
  #2 (adj sat) - drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness;

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forensic(adj sat) - used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law;
  #2 (adj sat) - of, relating to, or used in public debate or argument;
forgery(n) - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud;
  #2 (n) - counterfeit;a copy that is represented as the original;
forgo(v) - forego; forfeit; give up; throw overboard; waive;lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime;
  #2 (v) - dispense with; forego; foreswear; relinquish; waive;do without or cease to hold or adhere to;
  #3 (v) - antecede; antedate; forego; precede; predate;be earlier in time; go back further;
forswear(v) - abjure; recant; resile; retract;formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;
forthright(adj sat) - blunt; candid; frank; free-spoken; outspoken; plainspoken; point-blank; straight-from-the-shoulder;characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion;
  #2 (adv) - forthrightly; squarely;directly and without evasion; not roundabout;

fray(n) - affray; disturbance; ruffle;a noisy fight;
  #2 (v) - chafe; fret; rub; scratch;cause friction;
  #3 (v) - frazzle;wear away by rubbing;
froward(adj sat) - headstrong; self-willed; wilful; willful;habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition;
fulminate(n) - a salt or ester of fulminic acid;
  #2 (v) - cause to explode violently and with loud noise;
  #3 (v) - come on suddenly and intensely;
  #4 (v) - rail;criticize severely;
furrow(n) - a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow);
  #2 (n) - crease; crinkle; line; seam; wrinkle;a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface;
  #3 (v) - groove; rut;hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;
  #4 (v) - chamfer; chase;cut a furrow into a columns;
  #5 (v) - crease; wrinkle;make wrinkled or creased;
fusillade(n) - burst; salvo; volley;rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms;
  #2 (v) - attack with fusillade;

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gambol(n) - caper; frolic; play; romp;gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement;
  #2 (v) - cavort; disport; frisk; frolic; lark; lark about; rollick; romp; run around; skylark; sport;play boisterously;
gaucherie(n) - faux pas; gaffe; slip; solecism;a socially awkward or tactless act;
  #2 (n) - rusticity;the quality of being rustic or gauche;
genealogy(n) - the study or investigation of ancestry and family history;
  #2 (n) - family tree;successive generations of kin;
gesticulate(v) - gesture; motion;show, express or direct through movement;
glacial(adj sat) - arctic; frigid; gelid; icy; polar;extremely cold;
  #2 (adj sat) - frigid; frosty; frozen; icy; wintry;devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain;
  #3 (adj) - relating to or derived from a glacier;

glean(v) - harvest; reap;gather, as of natural products;
gloat(n) - glee; gloating;malicious satisfaction;
  #2 (v) - crow; triumph;dwell on with satisfaction;
  #3 (v) - gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy;
glut(n) - oversupply; surfeit;the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall;
  #2 (v) - binge; englut; engorge; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; satiate; scarf out; stuff;overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself;
  #3 (v) - flood; oversupply;supply with an excess of;
gluttonous(adj) - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink;
gravity(n) - graveness; soberness; sobriety; somberness; sombreness;a manner that is serious and solemn;
  #2 (n) - solemnity;a solemn and dignified feeling;
  #3 (n) - gravitation; gravitational attraction; gravitational force;the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface;

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grotto(n) - grot;a small cave (usually with attractive features);
grovel(v) - cower; crawl; creep; cringe; fawn;show submission or fear;
guffaw(n) - belly laugh;a burst of deep loud hearty laughter;
  #2 (v) - laugh loudly;laugh boisterously;
gustatory(adj) - gustative; gustatorial;of or relating to gustation;
hallowed(adj sat) - sacred;worthy of religious veneration;

harass(v) - exhaust by attacking repeatedly;
  #2 (v) - beset; chevvy; chevy; chivvy; chivy; harry; hassle; molest; plague; provoke;annoy continually or chronically;
harrowing(adj sat) - agonising; agonizing; excruciating; torturesome; torturing; torturous;extremely painful;
hedonism(n) - an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good;
  #2 (n) - the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle;
hermetic(adj sat) - completely sealed; completely airtight;
heterodox(adj sat) - dissident; heretical;characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards;

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hoary(adj sat) - canescent;covered with fine whitish hairs or down;
  #2 (adj sat) - rusty;ancient;
  #3 (adj sat) - gray; gray-haired; gray-headed; grey; grey-haired; grey-headed; grizzly; hoar; white-haired;showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair;
holistic(adj) - emphasizing the organic or functional relation between parts and the whole;
homiletics(n) - the art of preaching;
  #2 (n) - the branch of theology that deals with sermons and homilies;
hoodwink(v) - bamboozle; lead by the nose; play false; pull the wool over someone's eyes; snow;conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end;
  #2 (v) - beguile; juggle;influence by slyness;
hortatory(adj sat) - exhortative; exhortatory; hortative;giving strong encouragement;

idiosyncratic(adj sat) - peculiar to the individual;
idyllic(adj sat) - excellent and delightful in all respects;
  #2 (adj sat) - suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene;
ignoble(adj) - completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose;
  #2 (adj sat) - ungentle; untitled;not of the nobility;
ignominy(n) - disgrace; shame;a state of dishonor;
imbibe(v) - receive into the mind and retain;
  #2 (v) - drink;take in liquids;
  #3 (v) - absorb; draw; soak up; sop up; suck; suck up; take in; take up;take in, also metaphorically;
  #4 (v) - assimilate;take (gas, light or heat) into a solution;

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imbroglio(n) - a very embarrassing misunderstanding;
  #2 (n) - embroilment;an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation;
imperceptible(adj) - unperceivable;impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses;
impermeable(adj) - preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through;
imperturbable(adj sat) - unflappable;not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure;
impetuosity(n) - impetuousness;rash impulsiveness;

impiety(n) - impiousness;unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god;
imply(v) - connote;express or state indirectly;
  #2 (v) - suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic;
  #3 (v) - entail; mean;have as a logical consequence;
  #4 (v) - involve;have as a necessary feature;
  #5 (v) - incriminate; inculpate;suggest that someone is guilty;
impropriety(n) - familiarity; indecorum; liberty;an act of undue intimacy;
  #2 (n) - indecency;an indecent or improper act;
  #3 (n) - improperness;an improper demeanor;
  #4 (n) - the condition of being improper;
impudence(n) - cheekiness; crust; freshness; gall; impertinence; insolence;the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties;
  #2 (n) - cheek; impertinence;an impudent statement;
impulsive(adj sat) - brainish; hotheaded; impetuous; madcap; tearaway;characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation;
  #2 (adj sat) - capricious; whimsical;determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason;
  #3 (adj sat) - driving;having the power of driving or impelling;
  #4 (adj sat) - without forethought;
  #5 (adj sat) - unprompted;proceeding from natural feeling or impulse without external stimulus;

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inasmuch as(c) - since;insofar as;
incandescent(adj sat) - candent;emitting light as a result of being heated;
  #2 (adj sat) - characterized by ardent emotion or intensity or brilliance;
incident(n) - a single distinct event;
  #2 (n) - a public disturbance;
  #3 (adj) - incidental;minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence;
  #4 (adj) - falling or striking of light rays on something;
incise(v) - make an incision into by carving or cutting;
incoherent(adj sat) - tongue-tied;unable to express yourself clearly or fluently;
  #2 (adj) - of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation;
  #3 (adj) - without logical or meaningful connection;

incredulous(adj) - not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving;
inculcate(v) - infuse; instill;teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions;
incursion(n) - the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers);
  #2 (n) - the mistake of incurring liability or blame;
  #3 (n) - penetration;an attack that penetrates into enemy territory;
indictment(n) - bill of indictment;a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense;
  #2 (n) - an accusation of wrongdoing;
indifferent(adj sat) - showing no care or concern in attitude or action;
  #2 (adj sat) - deaf;unwilling or refusing to pay heed;
  #3 (adj sat) - immaterial;lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other;
  #4 (adj sat) - apathetic;marked by a lack of interest;
  #5 (adj sat) - neither too great nor too little;
  #6 (adj sat) - so-so;being neither good nor bad;
  #7 (adj sat) - unbiased; unbiassed;characterized by a lack of partiality;
  #8 (adj sat) - marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another;
  #9 (adj sat) - inert; neutral;having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive;
  #10 (adj sat) - fairly poor to not very good;

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indiscriminate(adj) - not marked by fine distinctions;
  #2 (adj sat) - failing to make or recognize distinctions;
ineluctable(adj sat) - inescapable; unavoidable;impossible to avoid or evade:;
ineptitude(n) - worthlessness;having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful;
  #2 (n) - awkwardness; clumsiness; ineptness; maladroitness; slowness;unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training;
inextricable(adj) - not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied;
infer(v) - understand;believe to be the case;
  #2 (v) - guess;guess correctly; solve by guessing;
  #3 (v) - deduce; deduct; derive;reason by deduction; establish by deduction;
  #4 (v) - deduce;conclude by reasoning; in logic;
  #5 (v) - extrapolate; generalise; generalize;draw from specific cases for more general cases;

infuriate(v) - exasperate; incense;make furious;
infusion(n) - the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality;
  #2 (n) - the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force);
  #3 (n) - the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water);
  #4 (n) - extract;a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water);
ingenue(n) - the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play;
  #2 (n) - an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage);
  #3 (n) - an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl;
innovate(v) - introduce;bring something new to an environment;
insensible(adj sat) - senseless;unresponsive to stimulation;
  #2 (adj sat) - indiscernible; undetectable;barely able to be perceived;
  #3 (adj) - incapable of physical sensation;
  #4 (adj sat) - unaffected;unaware of or indifferent to;

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insolence(n) - an offensive disrespectful impudent act;
  #2 (n) - cheekiness; crust; freshness; gall; impertinence; impudence;the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties;
insolent(adj sat) - audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced;unrestrained by convention or propriety;
  #2 (adj sat) - flip; impudent; snotty-nosed;marked by casual disrespect;
insurrection(n) - rebellion; revolt; rising; uprising;organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another;
intractable(adj) - not tractable; difficult to manage or mold;
intrinsic(adj sat) - situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts;
  #2 (adj) - intrinsical;belonging to a thing by its very nature;

introspective(adj) - introverted; self-examining;given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences;
intuitive(adj sat) - nonrational; visceral;obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation;
  #2 (adj sat) - spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency;
invidious(adj sat) - discriminatory;containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice;
invincible(adj sat) - unbeatable; unvanquishable;incapable of being overcome or subdued;
invocation(n) - the act of appealing for help;
  #2 (n) - conjuration; conjuring; conjury;calling up a spirit or devil;
  #3 (n) - an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil;
  #4 (n) - supplication;a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service;

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invoke(v) - appeal;request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection;
  #2 (v) - appeal;cite as an authority; resort to;
  #3 (v) - arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; put forward; raise; stir;summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic;
irate(adj sat) - ireful;feeling or showing extreme anger;
ironic(adj sat) - ironical;characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is;
  #2 (adj sat) - dry; ironical; wry;humorously sarcastic or mocking;
itinerate(v) - travel from place to place, as for work;
jovial(adj sat) - gay; jocund; jolly; merry; mirthful;full of or showing high-spirited merriment;

lackadaisical(adj sat) - idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way;
  #2 (adj sat) - dreamy; languid; languorous;lacking spirit or liveliness;
lamentation(n) - mourning;the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief;
  #2 (n) - lament; plaint; wail;a cry of sorrow and grief;
lance(n) - lancet;a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions;
  #2 (n) - shaft; spear;a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon;
  #3 (n) - fishgig; fizgig; gig; spear;an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish;
  #4 (v) - open by piercing with a lancet;
  #5 (v) - pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight;
  #6 (v) - move quickly, as if by cutting one's way;
leaven(n) - leavening;an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something;
  #2 (n) - leavening;a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid;
  #3 (v) - prove; raise;cause to puff up with a leaven;
legion(n) - horde; host;a vast multitude;
  #2 (n) - host;archaic terms for army;
  #3 (n) - a large military unit;
  #4 (n) - association of ex-servicemen;
  #5 (adj sat) - numerous;amounting to a large indefinite number;

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lenient(adj sat) - characterized by tolerance and mercy;
  #2 (adj sat) - not strict;
  #3 (adj sat) - indulgent; soft;tolerant or lenient;
lethargy(n) - flatness; languor; phlegm; sluggishness;inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy;
  #2 (n) - inanition; lassitude; slackness;weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy;
  #3 (n) - lassitude; sluggishness;a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness);
lewd(adj sat) - obscene; raunchy; salacious;suggestive of or tending to moral looseness;
  #2 (adj sat) - lascivious; libidinous; lustful;driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires;
lexicon(n) - mental lexicon; vocabulary;a language user's knowledge of words;
  #2 (n) - dictionary;a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them;
libertarian(n) - someone who believes the doctrine of free will;
  #2 (n) - an advocate of libertarianism;

linchpin(n) - lynchpin;pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on;
  #2 (n) - anchor; backbone; keystone; lynchpin; mainstay;a central cohesive source of support and stability;
listless(adj sat) - lacking zest or vivacity;
  #2 (adj sat) - dispirited;marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm;
livid(adj sat) - furiously angry;
  #2 (adj sat) - imparting a deathlike luminosity;
  #3 (adj sat) - ashen; blanched; bloodless; white;anemic looking from illness or emotion;
  #4 (adj sat) - black-and-blue;discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin;
loathe(v) - abhor; abominate; execrate;find repugnant;
lucrative(adj sat) - moneymaking; remunerative;producing a sizeable profit;

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luminescence(n) - glow;light from nonthermal sources;
  #2 (n) - light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures;
lurid(adj sat) - shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke;
  #2 (adj sat) - ghastly pale;
  #3 (adj sat) - shocking;glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism;
  #4 (adj sat) - horrible in fierceness or savagery;
lurk(v) - ambuscade; ambush; bushwhack; lie in wait; scupper; waylay;wait in hiding to attack;
  #2 (v) - footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry;be about;
  #3 (v) - skulk;lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner;
lustrous(adj sat) - glistening; glossy; sheeny; shining; shiny;reflecting light;
  #2 (adj sat) - brilliant;
  #3 (adj sat) - bright; burnished; shining; shiny;made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow;
luxuriant(adj sat) - exuberant; lush; profuse; riotous;produced or growing in extreme abundance;
  #2 (adj sat) - epicurean; luxurious; sybaritic; voluptuary; voluptuous;displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses;
  #3 (adj sat) - elaborate;marked by complexity and richness of detail;

malignant(adj) - dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor);
malingerer(n) - shammer; skulker;someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity;
manifesto(n) - pronunciamento;a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government);
martinet(n) - disciplinarian; moralist;someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms;
matrimony(n) - the ceremony or sacrament of marriage;
  #2 (n) - marriage; spousal relationship; union; wedlock;the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce);

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meek(adj sat) - spiritless;evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant;
  #2 (adj sat) - mild; modest;humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness;
  #3 (adj sat) - tame;very docile;
menagerie(n) - zoo; zoological garden;the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition;
  #2 (n) - a collection of live animals for study or display;
mesmerize(v) - hypnotise; hypnotize; mesmerise;induce hypnosis in;
  #2 (v) - bewitch; magnetise; magnetize; mesmerise; spellbind;attract strongly, as if with a magnet;
minion(n) - a servile or fawning dependant;
miser(n) - a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably);

molt(n) - ecdysis; molting; moult; moulting;periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles;
  #2 (v) - exuviate; moult; shed; slough;cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers;
monarchy(n) - an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority;
monotony(n) - constancy of tone or pitch or inflection;
  #2 (n) - humdrum; sameness;the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety;
morbid(adj sat) - diseased; pathologic; pathological;caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology;
  #2 (adj sat) - ghoulish;suggesting the horror of death and decay;
  #3 (adj sat) - suggesting an unhealthy mental state;
mores(n) - the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group;

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mutinous(adj sat) - consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny;
  #2 (adj sat) - disposed to or in a state of mutiny;
myopic(adj sat) - short; shortsighted; unforesightful;lacking foresight or scope;
  #2 (adj) - nearsighted; shortsighted;unable to see distant objects clearly;
naivete(n) - naiveness; naivety;lack of sophistication or worldliness;
nautical(adj) - marine; maritime;relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen;
navigable(adj sat) - able to be sailed on or through safely;

negate(v) - neutralise; neutralize; nullify;make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of;
  #2 (v) - contradict;prove negative; show to be false;
  #3 (v) - contradict; contravene;deny the truth of;
  #4 (v) - belie; contradict;be in contradiction with;
neologism(n) - coinage; neology;the act of inventing a word or phrase;
  #2 (n) - coinage; neology;a newly invented word or phrase;
nettle(n) - any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae);
  #2 (v) - annoy; bother; chafe; devil; get at; get to; gravel; irritate; nark; rag; rile; vex;cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
  #3 (v) - urticate;sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation;
niggardly(adj sat) - grudging; scrimy;petty or reluctant in giving or spending;
nonentity(n) - cipher; cypher; nobody;a person of no influence;
  #2 (n) - nonexistence;the state of not existing;

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notoriety(n) - ill fame;the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality;
novel(n) - a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction;
  #2 (n) - an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story;
  #3 (adj sat) - refreshing;pleasantly new or different;
  #4 (adj sat) - fresh; new;original and of a kind not seen before;
objective(n) - object glass; object lens; objective lens;the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed;
  #2 (n) - aim; object; target;the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable);
  #3 (adj sat) - belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events;
  #4 (adj) - nonsubjective;undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena;
  #5 (adj sat) - documentary;emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation;
  #6 (adj) - accusative;serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes;
obloquy(n) - calumniation; calumny; defamation; hatchet job; traducement;a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions;
  #2 (n) - opprobrium;state of disgrace resulting from public abuse;
occluded(adj sat) - sorbed;taken into and retained in another substance;
  #2 (adj sat) - closed off;

odium(n) - abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing;hate coupled with disgust;
  #2 (n) - state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior;
omnipotent(adj sat) - all-powerful; almighty;having unlimited power;
omniscient(adj sat) - all-knowing;infinitely wise;
onus(n) - burden; encumbrance; incumbrance; load;an onerous or difficult concern;
opprobrious(adj sat) - black; disgraceful; ignominious; inglorious; shameful;deserving or bringing disgrace or shame;
  #2 (adj sat) - abusive; scurrilous;expressing offensive reproach;

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opprobrium(n) - infamy;a state of extreme dishonor;
  #2 (n) - obloquy;state of disgrace resulting from public abuse;
optimist(n) - a person disposed to take a favorable view of things;
orate(v) - talk pompously;
ordain(v) - issue an order;
  #2 (v) - consecrate; order; ordinate;appoint to a clerical posts;
  #3 (v) - invest with ministerial or priestly authority;
  #4 (v) - enact;order by virtue of superior authority; decree;
ostentation(n) - pretentious or showy or vulgar display;
  #2 (n) - inflation; ostentatiousness; pomposity; pompousness; pretentiousness; puffiness; splashiness;lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity;
  #3 (n) - fanfare; flash;a gaudy outward display;

oust(v) - boot out; drum out; expel; kick out; throw out;remove from a position or office;
  #2 (v) - remove and replace;
overhaul(n) - redevelopment; renovation;the act of improving by renewing and restoring;
  #2 (n) - inspection and repair; service;periodic maintenance on a car or machine;
  #3 (v) - modernise; modernize;make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to;
  #4 (v) - overtake; pass;travel past;
overt(adj) - open;open and observable; not secret or hidden;
palate(n) - roof of the mouth;the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities;
palatial(adj sat) - suitable for or like a palace;
  #2 (adj) - relating to or being a palace;

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pall(n) - curtain; drape; drapery; mantle;hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window);
  #2 (n) - cerement; shroud; winding-clothes; winding-sheet;burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped;
  #3 (n) - chill;a sudden numbing dread;
  #4 (v) - fatigue; jade; tire; weary;lose interest or become bored with something or somebody;
  #5 (v) - lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to);
  #6 (v) - dull;become less interesting or attractive;
  #7 (v) - become flat; die;lose sparkle or bouquet;
  #8 (v) - cause to become flat;
  #9 (v) - cloy;cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing;
  #10 (v) - cover with a pall;
  #11 (v) - dash; daunt; frighten away; frighten off; scare; scare away; scare off;cause to lose courage;
parched(adj sat) - toasted or roasted slightly;
  #2 (adj sat) - adust; baked; scorched; sunbaked;dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight;
parenthesis(n) - aside; digression; divagation; excursus;a message that departs from the main subject;
  #2 (n) - either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material;
parity(n) - functional equality;
  #2 (n) - conservation of parity; mirror symmetry; space-reflection symmetry;parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system;
  #3 (n) - check bit; parity bit;a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error;
  #4 (n) - a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity;
  #5 (n) - para;the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered;
paternal(adj) - maternal; parental;relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent;
  #2 (adj) - characteristic of a father;
  #3 (adj sat) - agnate; agnatic;related on the father's side;
  #4 (adj) - belonging to or inherited from one's father;

patriarch(n) - a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself;
  #2 (n) - any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race;
  #3 (n) - paterfamilias;the male head of family or tribe;
  #4 (n) - title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem);
patrician(n) - aristocrat; blue blood;a member of the aristocracy;
  #2 (n) - a person of refined upbringing and manners;
  #3 (adj sat) - aristocratic; aristocratical; blue; blue-blooded; gentle;belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy;
  #4 (adj sat) - befitting a person of noble origin;
pecuniary(adj) - monetary;relating to or involving money;
pedagogue(n) - educator; pedagog;someone who educates young people;
pedagogy(n) - didactics; education; educational activity; instruction; teaching;the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill;
  #2 (n) - instruction; teaching;the profession of a teacher;
  #3 (n) - pedagogics; teaching method;the principles and methods of instruction;

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pedigree(n) - bloodline;ancestry of a purebred animal;
  #2 (n) - line of descent of a purebred animal;
  #3 (n) - ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; stemma; stock;the descendants of one individual;
  #4 (adj sat) - pedigreed; pureblood; pureblooded; thoroughbred;having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal;
peerless(adj sat) - matchless; nonpareil; one; one and only; unmatchable; unmatched; unrivaled; unrivalled;eminent beyond or above comparison;
pendulous(adj sat) - cernuous; drooping; nodding; weeping;having branches or flower heads that bend downward;
pensive(adj sat) - wistful;showing pensive sadness;
  #2 (adj sat) - brooding; broody; contemplative; meditative; musing; pondering; reflective; ruminative;deeply or seriously thoughtful;
perdition(n) - hell; infernal region; inferno; nether region; pit;the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment;

perpetuate(v) - cause to continue or prevail;
persist(v) - hang in; hang on; hold on; persevere;be persistent, refuse to stop;
  #2 (v) - die hard; endure; prevail; run;continue to exist;
  #3 (v) - remain; stay;stay behind;
pertain(v) - appertain;be a part or attribute of;
  #2 (v) - bear on; come to; concern; have-to doe with; refer; relate; touch; touch on;be relevant to;
phenomenon(n) - any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning;
  #2 (n) - a remarkable development;
philanthropist(n) - altruist;someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being;

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plaque(n) - brass; memorial tablet;a memorial made of brass;
  #2 (n) - a small abnormal patch on or inside the body;
polemical(adj sat) - polemic;of or involving dispute or controversy;
portend(v) - augur; auspicate; betoken; bode; forecast; foreshadow; foretell; omen; predict; prefigure; presage; prognosticate;indicate by signs;
portly(adj sat) - stout;euphemisms for `fat';
posterity(n) - all future generations;
  #2 (n) - descendants;all of the offspring of a given progenitor;

posthumous(adj sat) - occurring or coming into existence after a person's death;
posture(n) - bearing; carriage;characteristic way of bearing one's body;
  #2 (n) - attitude; position;the arrangement of the body and its limbs;
  #3 (n) - military capability; military posture; military strength; strength;capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war;
  #4 (n) - position; stance;a rationalized mental attitude;
  #5 (v) - model; pose; sit;assume a posture as for artistic purposes;
  #6 (v) - pose;behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others;
potable(n) - beverage; drink; drinkable;any liquid suitable for drinking;
  #2 (adj) - drinkable;suitable for drinking;
potency(n) - effectiveness; strength;capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects;
  #2 (n) - authorisation; authority; authorization; dominance; say-so;the power or right to give orders or make decisions;
  #3 (n) - potence;the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse;
  #4 (n) - potential; potentiality;the inherent capacity for coming into being;
prattle(n) - blether; chin music; idle talk; prate;idle or foolish and irrelevant talk;
  #2 (v) - blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle;speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly;

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precinct(n) - a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes;
preposterous(adj sat) - absurd; cockeyed; derisory; idiotic; laughable; ludicrous; nonsensical; ridiculous;incongruous;inviting ridicule;
prescience(n) - prevision;the power to foresee the future;
prescient(adj sat) - perceiving the significance of events before they occur;
presentiment(n) - boding; foreboding; premonition;a feeling of evil to come;

profundity(n) - profoundness;intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc;
  #2 (n) - deepness; profoundness;the quality of being physically deep;
  #3 (n) - astuteness; deepness; depth; profoundness;the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas;
  #4 (n) - abstruseness; abstrusity; profoundness; reconditeness;wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound;
progeny(n) - issue; offspring;the immediate descendants of a person;
proletarian(n) - prole; worker;a member of the working class (not necessarily employed);
  #2 (adj sat) - belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat;
prologue(n) - an introduction to a play;
promulgate(v) - put a law into effect by formal declaration;
  #2 (v) - exclaim; proclaim;state or announce;

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prosody(n) - metrics;the study of poetic meter and the art of versification;
  #2 (n) - inflection;the patterns of stress and intonation in a language;
  #3 (n) - poetic rhythm; rhythmic pattern;a system of versification;
prosperity(n) - successfulness;the condition of prospering; having good fortune;
  #2 (n) - an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment;
provisional(adj sat) - probationary; provisionary; tentative;under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon;
provocative(adj) - serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting controversy;
  #2 (adj sat) - exciting sexual desire;
prudish(adj sat) - priggish; prim; prissy; puritanical; square-toed; straightlaced; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; tight-laced; victorian;exaggeratedly proper;

prurient(adj sat) - lubricious; lustful; salacious;characterized by lust;
puissance(n) - power to influence or coerce;
purport(n) - drift;the pervading meaning or tenor;
  #2 (n) - intent; spirit;the intended meaning of a communication;
  #3 (v) - aim; propose; purpose;propose or intend;
  #4 (v) - have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming;
putrescent(adj sat) - becoming putrid;
quagmire(n) - mire; morass; quag; slack;a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot;

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quail(n) - small gallinaceous game birds;
  #2 (n) - flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised;
  #3 (v) - cringe; flinch; funk; recoil; shrink; squinch; wince;draw back, as with fear or pain;
quarry(n) - prey;animal hunted or caught for food;
  #2 (n) - pit; stone pit;a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;
  #3 (n) - fair game; prey; target;a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence;
  #4 (v) - extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry;
query(n) - enquiry; inquiry; interrogation; question;an instance of questioning;
  #2 (v) - question;pose a question;
rabble(n) - mob; rout;a disorderly crowd of people;
  #2 (n) - ragtag; ragtag and bobtail; riffraff;disparaging terms for the common people;
raiment(n) - array; regalia;especially fine or decorative clothing;
  #2 (v) - apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; tog;provide with clothes or put clothes on;

rancid(adj sat) - sour;smelling of fermentation or staleness;
  #2 (adj sat) - having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition;
ransack(v) - comb;search thoroughly;
  #2 (v) - despoil; foray; loot; pillage; plunder; reave; rifle; strip;steal goods; take as spoils;
ravage(n) - depredation;a destructive action;
  #2 (v) - desolate; devastate; lay waste to; scourge; waste;cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly;
  #3 (v) - harry;make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes;
rave(n) - an extravagantly enthusiastic review;
  #2 (n) - a dance party that lasts all night and electronically synthesized music is played;
  #3 (v) - gush;praise enthusiastically;
  #4 (v) - jabber; mouth off; rabbit on; rant; spout;talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner;
  #5 (v) - participate in an all-night techno dance party;
ravenous(adj sat) - edacious; esurient; rapacious; ravening; voracious; wolfish;devouring or craving food in great quantities;
  #2 (adj sat) - esurient; famished; sharp-set; starved;extremely hungry;

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reactionary(n) - extreme right-winger; ultraconservative;an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism;
  #2 (adj sat) - far-right; reactionist;extremely conservative;
recidivism(n) - habitual relapse into crime;
recital(n) - performance of music or dance especially by soloists;
  #2 (n) - narration; yarn;the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events;
  #3 (n) - a detailed account or description of something;
  #4 (n) - a detailed statement giving facts and figures;
  #5 (n) - reading; recitation;a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance;
recumbent(adj sat) - accumbent; decumbent;lying down; in a position of comfort or rest;
recurrent(adj sat) - perennial; repeated;recurring again and again;

regicide(n) - the act of killing a king;
  #2 (n) - someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king;
rejuvenate(v) - become young again;
  #2 (v) - regenerate; restore;return to life; get or give new life or energy;
  #3 (v) - make younger or more youthful;
  #4 (v) - develop youthful topographical features;
  #5 (v) - cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land;
remuneration(n) - the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses;
  #2 (n) - earnings; pay; salary; wage;something that remunerates;
repartee(n) - adroitness and cleverness in reply;
repast(n) - meal;the food served and eaten at one time;

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replica(n) - replication; reproduction;copy that is not the original; something that has been copied;
replicate(v) - double; duplicate; reduplicate; repeat;make or do or perform again;
  #2 (v) - copy;reproduce or make an exact copy of;
  #3 (v) - retroflex;bend or turn backward;
repository(n) - deposit; depositary; depository;a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping;
  #2 (n) - monument;a burial vault (usually for some famous person);
  #3 (n) - secretary;a person to whom a secret is entrusted;
reputable(adj) - having a good reputation;
requisition(n) - sequestration;seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized;
  #2 (n) - requisition form;an official form on which a request in made;
  #3 (n) - the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use;
  #4 (v) - make a formal request for official services;
  #5 (v) - demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service;

residue(n) - balance; remainder; residual; residuum; rest;something left after other parts have been taken away;
  #2 (n) - matter that remains after something has been removed;
resolution(n) - solving;finding a solution to a problem;
  #2 (n) - a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner;
  #3 (n) - firmness; firmness of purpose; resoluteness; resolve;the trait of being resolute;
  #4 (n) - resolving;analysis into clear-cut components;
  #5 (n) - closure; settlement;something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making;
  #6 (n) - declaration; resolve;a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote;
  #7 (n) - answer; result; solution; solvent;a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem;
  #8 (n) - a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord;
  #9 (n) - the subsidence of swelling or other signs of inflammation (especially in a lung);
  #10 (n) - resolving power;the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together;
  #11 (n) - the number of pixels per square inch on a computer-generated display; the greater the resolution, the better the picture;
restive(adj sat) - impatient especially under restriction or delay;
  #2 (adj sat) - edgy; highly strung; high-strung; jittery; jumpy; nervy; overstrung; uptight;being in a tense state;
resuscitation(n) - the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness;
retention(n) - holding; keeping;the act of retaining something;
  #2 (n) - retentiveness; retentivity;the power of retaining liquid;
  #3 (n) - memory; retentiveness; retentivity;the power of retaining and recalling past experience;

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revel(n) - revelry;unrestrained merrymaking;
  #2 (v) - delight; enjoy;take delight in;
  #3 (v) - jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; wassail; whoop it up;celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities;
ribald(n) - a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language;
  #2 (adj sat) - bawdy; off-color;humorously vulgar;
roster(n) - roll;a list of names;
ruddy(adj sat) - blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; scarlet;of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies;
  #2 (adj sat) - florid; rubicund; sanguine;inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life;
sanctimony(n) - sanctimoniousness;the quality of being hypocritically devout;

sanguinary(adj sat) - bloodthirsty; bloody-minded;marked by eagerness to resort to violence and bloodshed;
  #2 (adj sat) - butcherly; gory; sanguineous; slaughterous;accompanied by bloodshed;
sate(v) - fill; replete; satiate;fill to satisfaction;
saturnine(adj sat) - dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; sour; sullen;showing a brooding ill humor;
  #2 (adj sat) - bitter or scornful;
scapegoat(n) - whipping boy;someone who is punished for the errors of others;
scourge(n) - flagellum;a whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor);
  #2 (n) - terror; threat;a person who inspires fear or dread;
  #3 (n) - bane; curse; nemesis;something causing misery or death;
  #4 (v) - desolate; devastate; lay waste to; ravage; waste;cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly;
  #5 (v) - flagellate;whip;
  #6 (v) - punish severely; excoriate;

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scuttle(n) - hatchway; opening;an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship;
  #2 (n) - coal scuttle;container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire;
  #3 (v) - scamper; scurry; skitter;to move about or proceed hurriedly;
seclude(v) - sequester; sequestrate; withdraw;keep away from others;
secular(n) - layman; layperson;someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows;
  #3 (adj) - profane;not concerned with or devoted to religion;
  #4 (adj sat) - laic; lay;characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy;
  #5 (adj) - temporal; worldly;characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world;
  #6 (adj) - of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations;
sedition(n) - an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government;
seer(n) - oracle; prophesier; prophet; vaticinator;an authoritative person who divines the future;
  #2 (n) - an observer who perceives visually;
  #3 (n) - illusionist; visionary;a person with unusual powers of foresight;

seminary(n) - a private place of education for the young;
  #2 (n) - a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis;
sequence(n) - succession;the action of following in order;
  #2 (n) - episode;film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie;
  #3 (n) - chronological sequence; chronological succession; succession; successiveness;a following of one thing after another in time;
  #4 (n) - several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys;
  #5 (n) - serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern;
  #6 (v) - arrange in a sequence;
  #7 (v) - determine the order of constituents in;
serenity(n) - placidity; quiet; repose; tranquility; tranquillity;a disposition free from stress or emotion;
  #2 (n) - ataraxis; heartsease; peace; peace of mind; peacefulness; repose;the absence of mental stress or anxiety;
serration(n) - a single notch in a row of notches;
  #2 (n) - a row of notches;
  #3 (n) - the condition of being serrated;
shirk(v) - avoid dealing with;
  #2 (v) - fiddle; goldbrick; shrink from;avoid (one's assigned duties);

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shunt(n) - implant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body;
  #2 (n) - bypass; electrical shunt;a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current;
  #3 (n) - a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another;
  #4 (v) - transfer to another track, of trains;
  #5 (v) - provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt;
sidereal(adj) - determined by daily motion of the stars;
  #2 (adj) - of or relating to the stars or constellations;
sinecure(n) - an office that involves minimal duties;
  #2 (n) - a benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached;
singular(n) - singular form;the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton;
  #2 (adj sat) - being a single and separate person or thing;
  #3 (adj sat) - curious; funny; odd; peculiar; queer; rum; rummy;beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
  #4 (adj sat) - remarkable;unusual or striking;
  #5 (adj) - grammatical number category referring to a single item or unit;
  #6 (adj) - composed of one member, set, or kind;
  #7 (adj sat) - unique;the single one of its kind;
slew(n) - batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad;a large number or amount or extent;
  #2 (v) - skid; slide; slip; slue;move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner;
  #3 (v) - curve; cut; sheer; slue; swerve; trend; veer;turn sharply; change direction abruptly;

slight(n) - rebuff;a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval);
  #2 (v) - cold-shoulder;pay no attention to, disrespect;
  #3 (adj sat) - slender; slim; svelte;being of delicate or slender build;
  #4 (adj) - little;small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some;
  #5 (adj sat) - flimsy; fragile; tenuous; thin;lacking substance or significance;
snub(n) - cold shoulder; cut;a refusal to recognize someone you know;
  #2 (n) - rebuff; repulse;an instance of driving away or warding off;
  #3 (v) - rebuff; repel;reject outright and bluntly;
  #4 (v) - cut; disregard; ignore;refuse to acknowledge;
  #5 (adj sat) - unusually short;
soliloquy(n) - a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections;
  #2 (n) - monologue;speech you make to yourself;
sparse(adj sat) - thin;not dense;
spontaneity(n) - spontaneousness;the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint;

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squalor(n) - sordidness; squalidness;sordid dirtiness;
stagnate(v) - idle; laze; slug;be idle; exist in a changeless situation;
  #2 (v) - cease to flow; stand without moving;
  #3 (v) - cause to stagnate;
  #4 (v) - stand still;
stanza(n) - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem;
staunch(v) - halt; stanch; stem;stop the flow of a liquid;
  #2 (adj sat) - steadfast; unswerving;firm and dependable especially in loyalty;
stigmatize(v) - stigmatise;mark with a stigma or stigmata;
  #2 (v) - brand; denounce; mark; stigmatise;to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful;

stingy(adj) - meager; meagerly; meagre; scrimpy;deficient in amount or quality or extent;
  #2 (adj) - ungenerous;unwilling to spend;
stipend(n) - a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose;
stoke(v) - stir up or tend; of a fire;
stultify(v) - cripple;deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless;
  #2 (v) - cause to appear foolish;
  #3 (v) - prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence;
stupefy(v) - stun;make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow;
  #2 (v) - amaze; baffle; beat; bewilder; dumbfound; flummox; get; gravel; mystify; nonplus; perplex; pose; puzzle; stick; vex;be a mystery or bewildering to;
  #3 (v) - besot;make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation;

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subjugate(v) - keep down; quash; reduce; repress; subdue;put down by force or intimidation;
  #2 (v) - subject;make subservient; force to submit or subdue;
subliminal(adj sat) - below the threshold of conscious perception;
submerge(v) - deluge; inundate;fill or cover completely, usually with water;
  #2 (v) - drown; overwhelm;cover completely or make imperceptible;
  #3 (v) - submerse;put under water;
  #4 (v) - submerse;sink below the surface; go under or as if under water;
subterfuge(n) - blind;something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity;
suffuse(v) - perfuse;cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across;
  #2 (v) - to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light;

sumptuous(adj sat) - deluxe; gilded; grand; luxurious; opulent; princely;rich and superior in quality;
sundry(adj sat) - assorted; miscellaneous; mixed; motley;consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds;
supplicate(v) - ask humbly (for something);
  #2 (v) - ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer;
  #3 (v) - make a humble, earnest petition;
surly(adj sat) - ugly;inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;
surrogate(n) - deputy;a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others;
  #2 (n) - alternate; replacement;someone who takes the place of another person;
  #3 (adj sat) - foster;providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties;

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susceptible(adj) - yielding readily to or capable of;
  #2 (adj sat) - easily impressed emotionally;
sustain(v) - get; have; suffer;undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);
  #2 (v) - affirm; confirm; corroborate; substantiate; support;establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
  #3 (v) - admit as valid;
  #4 (v) - keep; maintain;supply with necessities and support;
  #5 (v) - nourish; nurture;provide with nourishment;
  #6 (v) - hold; hold up; support;be the physical support of; carry the weight of;
  #7 (v) - keep up; prolong;lengthen or extend in duration or space;
talisman(n) - amulet;a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease;
tamp(n) - tamper; tamping bar;a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.);
  #2 (v) - pack; tamp down;press down tightly;
tardy(adj sat) - belated; late;after the expected or usual time; delayed;

taut(adj sat) - tight;pulled or drawn tight;
  #2 (adj sat) - subjected to great tension; stretched tight;
tedious(adj sat) - long-winded; verbose; windy; wordy;using or containing too many words;
  #2 (adj sat) - boring; deadening; dull; ho-hum; irksome; slow; tiresome; wearisome;so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
temperament(n) - an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys;
  #2 (n) - disposition;your usual mood;
  #3 (n) - excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly);
temperance(n) - the act of tempering;
  #2 (n) - sobriety;abstaining from excess;
  #3 (n) - moderation;the trait of avoiding excesses;
temporize(v) - temporise;draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time;

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terrestrial(adj) - operating or living or growing on land;
  #2 (adj sat) - sublunar; sublunary;of this earth;
  #3 (adj sat) - mundane;concerned with the world or worldly matters;
  #4 (adj) - planetary;of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants;
  #5 (adj) - tellurian; telluric; terrene;of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air;
testiness(n) - tetchiness; touchiness;feeling easily irritated;
totter(v) - seesaw; teeter;move unsteadily, with a rocking motion;
  #2 (v) - coggle; dodder; paddle; toddle; waddle;walk unsteadily;
  #3 (v) - move without being stable, as if threatening to fall;
translucent(adj sat) - semitransparent;allowing light to pass through diffusely;
transparent(adj sat) - crystal clear; crystalline; limpid; lucid; pellucid;transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
  #2 (adj sat) - easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of subtlety);
  #3 (adj sat) - guileless;free of deceit;
  #4 (adj sat) - cobwebby; diaphanous; filmy; gauze-like; gauzy; gossamer; see-through; sheer; vaporous; vapourous;so thin as to transmit light;

travail(n) - effort; elbow grease; exertion; sweat;use of physical or mental energy; hard work;
  #2 (n) - childbed; confinement; labor; labour; lying-in; parturiency;concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child;
  #3 (v) - dig; drudge; fag; grind; labor; labour; moil; toil;work hard;
trickle(n) - dribble; drip;flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid;
  #2 (v) - dribble; filter;run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream;
tumult(n) - commotion; din; ruckus; ruction; rumpus;the act of making a noisy disturbance;
  #2 (n) - turmoil;violent agitation;
  #3 (n) - garboil; tumultuousness; uproar;a state of commotion and noise and confusion;
turbulence(n) - turbulency;unstable flow of a liquid or gas;
  #2 (n) - sturm und drang; upheaval;a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally);
  #3 (n) - instability in the atmosphere;
ultimate(n) - the finest or most superior quality of its kind;
  #2 (adj sat) - being the last or concluding element of a series;
  #3 (adj) - furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme;

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unconscionable(adj sat) - exorbitant; extortionate; outrageous; steep; usurious;greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;
  #2 (adj sat) - conscienceless;lacking a conscience;
underscore(n) - underline;a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter);
  #2 (v) - underline;draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to;
  #3 (v) - emphasise; emphasize; underline;give extra weight to (a communication);
unique(adj sat) - highly unusual or rare but not the single instance;
  #2 (adj sat) - alone; unequaled; unequalled; unparalleled;radically distinctive and without equal;
  #3 (adj sat) - applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality;
  #4 (adj sat) - singular;the single one of its kind;
uproarious(adj sat) - hilarious; screaming;marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter;
  #2 (adj sat) - rackety; rip-roaring;uncontrollably noisy;
usury(n) - the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest;
  #2 (n) - vigorish;an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest;

utopia(n) - sion; zion;an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal;
  #2 (n) - a work of fiction describing a utopia;
  #3 (n) - a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island;
  #4 (n) - ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects;
vagrant(n) - drifter; floater; vagabond;a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support;
  #2 (adj sat) - aimless; drifting; floating; vagabond;continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
variegated(adj sat) - varicolored; varicoloured;having a variety of colors;
veneration(n) - cultism; devotion; idolatry;religious zeal; the willingness to serve God;
  #2 (n) - awe; fear; reverence;a feeling of profound respect for someone or something;
venial(adj sat) - excusable; forgivable;easily excused or forgiven;
  #2 (adj sat) - minor;warranting only temporal punishment;

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verbiage(n) - choice of words; diction; phraseology; phrasing; wording;the manner in which something is expressed in words;
  #2 (n) - verbalism;overabundance of words;
verisimilitude(n) - the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true;
vertigo(n) - dizziness; giddiness; lightheadedness;a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall;
vignette(n) - a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books);
  #2 (n) - a photograph whose edges shade off gradually;
  #3 (n) - sketch;a brief literary description;
vigor(n) - energy; muscularity; vigour; vim;an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing);
  #2 (n) - dynamism; heartiness; vigour;active strength of body or mind;
  #3 (n) - energy; vigour; zip;forceful exertion;

volubility(n) - articulateness; fluency;the quality of being facile in speech and writing;
voluminous(adj sat) - copious;large in number or quantity (especially of discourse);
  #2 (adj sat) - large in volume or bulk;
  #3 (adj sat) - tortuous; twisting; twisty; winding;marked by repeated turns and bends;
vulnerable(adj sat) - capable of being wounded or hurt;
  #2 (adj sat) - susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation;
  #3 (adj) - susceptible to attack;
zephyr(n) - the Greek god of the west wind;
  #2 (n) - air; breeze; gentle wind;a slight wind (usually refreshing);