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| 214605863 | congenial | having the same nature, disposition, or tastes; pleasant: agreeable to one's nature, tastes, or outlook. syn: agreeable, delightful, enjoyable, pleasing ant: disagreeable, unpleasant, unwelcome | |
| 214605864 | consul | an official appointed by a government to reside in a foreign country to represent the commercial interests of citizens of the appointing country. syn: delegate, emissary, envoy, diplomat, legate ant: employee, worker | |
| 214605865 | copious | yielding something abundantly; plentiful in number. syn: galore, lavish, gushing, ample, plentiful ant: dribbing, trickling, scarce, minimal, lacking | |
| 214605866 | cosmopolitan | having worldwide or international scope or bearing rather than limited or provincial. syn: worldy-wise, smart, sophisticated, cultured, global ant: rural, innocent, naïve, unsophisticated | |
| 214605867 | curtail | to make less by cutting off or away. syn: cut back, shorten, abbreviate, reduce ant: extend, lengthen, prolong, increase | |
| 214605868 | dearth | an inadequate supply, scarcity that makes dear. syn: lack, shortage, poverty, want, drought, famine ant: abundance, amplitude, plenty, wealthy | |
| 214605869 | debacle | violent disruption or great disaster; a complete failure. syn: apocalypse, calamity, tragedy, catastrophe. ant: blockbuster, success, winner. | |
| 214605870 | decry | to express strong disapproval of. syn: belittle, depreciate, minimize, play down, put down, write off ant: applaud, glorify, magnify, praise | |
| 214605871 | illicit | not permitted; not legally permitted or authorized; unlawful syn: criminal, felonious, illegal, illegitimate, improper, lawless, prohibited, unauthorized ant: blessed, good, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, moral, noble | |
| 214605872 | impetus | a driving force; impulse; incentive, stimulus; stimulus or encouragement resulting in increased activity OR the property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its mass and its motion. syn: boost, encouragement, goad, impulse, incentive, incitation, incitement, instigation, momentum ant: counterincentive, disincentive, block, check, hindrance | |
| 214605873 | incontrovertible | not open to question; indisputable. syn: accomplished, certain, inarguable, incontestable, irrefutable, indisputable, indubitable ant: answerable, arguable, contradictable, controvertible, debatable, disputable | |
| 214605874 | indigent | suffering from extreme poverty: impoverished. syn: beggarly, broke, destitute, famished, impecunious, impoverished, poor, necessitous, needful, needy, pauperized, penniless, penurious, threadbare ant: affluent, flush, moneyed, opulent, rich, wealthy, well-off | |
| 214605875 | inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped; relentless. syn: implacable, inescapable, inflexible, merciless, necessary, obdurate, obstinate, relentless, remorseless, resolute, rigid, severe, stubborn, unappeasable, unbending ant: inflexible, lenient, merciful, remorseful, yielding | |
| 214605876 | ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness; lacking craft or subtlety; free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid, sincere. syn: artless, candid, childlike, frank, guileless, innocent, naïve, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, inartificial, undisguised ant: deceitful, dishonest, sly, artful, disingenuous | |
| 214605877 | ingrate | an ungrateful person. syn: bounder, self-seeker, thankless person ant: grateful person, thankful person | |
| 214605878 | innocuous | producing no injury, harmless; not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility. syn: anodyne, benign, innocent, harmless, inoffensive, safe, white ant: adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous | |
| 214605879 | engender | to produce, cause, or give rise to; to beget; procreate syn: precipitate, instigate, propagate, stimulate, generate, occasion, develop ant: destroy, finish, halt, kill, stop | |
| 214605880 | equable | free from many changes or variations; uniform: an equable climate; an equable temperament; uniform in operation or effect, as laws. syn: steady, even, temperate ant: variable | |
| 214605881 | equitable | characterized by equity or fairness; just and right; fair; reasonable: equitable treatment of all citizens; pertaining to or valid in equity; pertaining to the system of equity, as distinguished from the common law. syn: impartial, proper, unbiased ant: unfair, unjust, unequitable, biased, prejudiced | |
| 214605882 | equivocal | allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous: an equivocal answer; of doubtful nature or character; questionable; dubious; syn: ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibological, borderline, clear as mud, clouded, disreputable, dubious, evasive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, misleading ant: certain, clear, definite, determined, obvious, plain, sure, unquestionable | |
| 214605883 | erroneous | containing error; mistaken; incorrect; wrong; straying from what is moral, decent, proper, etc syn: inaccurate, untrue, false ant: accurate | |
| 214605884 | esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions; belonging to the select few; private; secret; confidential. syn: abstruse, arcane, cryptic, enigmatic ant: common, familiar, known, obvious, public | |
| 214605885 | espouse | to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause; to marry; to give (a woman) in marriage syn: support, champion, advocate ant: forsake, reject | |
| 214605886 | eulogize | to praise highly; to speak or write a eulogy about syn: extol, laud, commend, panegyrize ant: calumniate, condemn, criticize | |
| 218767580 | oppugn | Call into question the truth or validity of. syn: contradict, criticize, attack, debate, argue ant: agree, affirm, concur, concord | |
| 218767581 | ornery | ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper syn: irritable, crabby, grouchy ant: amicable, good-tempered, affable | |
| 218767582 | palliate | Allay or moderate (fears or suspicions). syn: deodorize, excuse, extentuate ant: aggravate, exacerbate, annoy | |
| 218767583 | panegyrize | to make a eulogy or eulogies (about) syn: : eulogize, venerate, extol ant: criticize, denounce, condemn | |
| 218767584 | parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent syn: : alike, corresponding, the same ant: different, unequal, dissimilar | |
| 218767585 | parsimonious | frugal, to the point of stinginess syn: miserly, tightfisted, avaricious ant: generous, lavish, liberal | |
| 218767586 | paucity | The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity. syn: absence, dearth, shortage ant: abundance, affluence, plenty | |
| 218767587 | pecunious | Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. syn: prosperous, affluent, opulent ant: needy, poor, deprived | |
| 218767588 | munificent | extremely liberal in giving; very generous. syn: bountiful, bounteous, lavish, generous ant: niggardly, penurious, miserly, mean, tight, avaricious, mercenary, conservative. | |
| 218767589 | mutable | given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant syn:changeable, variable. unstable, vacillating, unsettled, wavering, unsteady. ant: : stable, constant | |
| 218767590 | myriad | a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things; of an indefinitely great number; innumerable; ten thousand. syn: countless, boundless, infinite, untold ant: finite, bounded, few | |
| 218767591 | naive | having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality syn: : simple, unaffected, unsuspecting, artless, guileless, candid, open, plain ant: : sophisticated, artful | |
| 218767592 | neophyte | : a beginner or novice syn: abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, novice, recruit, rookie, trainee, tyro ant: master, professional, expert, adept | |
| 218767593 | niggardly | reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly syn: penurious, miserly, mean, tight, avaricious, mercenary, conservative ant: bountiful, bounteous, lavish, generous, munificent | |
| 218767594 | obstinate | firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty. syn: mulish, obdurate, unyielding, unbending, intractable, perverse, inflexible, refractory, pertinacious. ant: submissive, tractable | |
| 218767595 | onerous | burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship syn: heavy, crushing, grievous; irksome, galling ant: light, complacent | |
| 218767596 | scintillating | animated; vivacious; effervescent: witty; brilliantly clever; sparkling or shining brightly syn: dazzling, bright, flashing, gleaming, glimmering, glinting, glittering, lively, shining, twinkling, witty ant: blah, dull | |
| 218767597 | skinflint | a ungenerous, or niggardly person or a miser syn: chintzy, closefisted, illiberal, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching penerous, skimpy, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous ant: generous, giving | |
| 218767598 | sportive | playful or joyous; done in jest rather than seriously of, relating to, or interested in sports; wanton or amorous syn: boon, festive, frisky, frolicsome, game, gamesome, jocular, merry, prankish, sprightly, wanton ant: solemn, staid | |
| 218767599 | stratagem | a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy. any artifice, ruse, or trick devised or used to attain a goal or to gain an advantage over an adversary or competitor syn: action, angle, artifice, booby trap, con, deception, device, dodge, feint, gambit, game, game plan, gimmick, method, pitch, plan, plot, ploy ant: candor, frankness, honesty, honor, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, reality, sincerity, truthfulness | |
| 218767600 | substantiate | to establish by proof or competent evidence; to give substantial existence to; to affirm as having substance; give body to; strengthen syn: actualize, affirm, approve, attest to, authenticate, bear out, check out, check up, complete, confirm, corroborate, debunk, demonstrate, establish, incarnate, justify, try on, try out, validate, verify ant: break, disprove | |
| 218767601 | supercilious | haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression. syn: bossy, cavalier, cocky, condescending, contemptuous, disdainful, egotistic, haughty, high-and-mighty, imperious, insolent, lofty, nervy, overbearing, patronizing, proud, putting on airs, scornful, snobby, superior, uppity, vainglorious ant: humble, modest | |
| 218767602 | synergy | combined action or functioning. the cooperative action of two or more muscles, nerves, or the like; the cooperative action of two or more stimuli or drugs syn: alliance, coaction, combined effort, harmony, symbiosis, synergism, team effort, teaming, teamwork, union, unity, working together ant: autonomy, competition, opposition, rivalry, undermining | |
| 218767603 | taciturn | inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation. dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner. syn: aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn ant: communicative, fluent, talkative, wordy | |
| 218767604 | pedantic | ostentatious in one's learning, overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching. syn: didactic, doctrinaire ant: imprecise, informal | |
| 218767605 | pejorative | having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force syn: deprecatory ant: complimentary, flattering, praising | |
| 218767606 | penchant | a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something syn: affection, affinity ant: dislike, hate | |
| 218767607 | penurious | extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly, extremely poor; destitute; indigent, poorly or inadequately supplied; lacking in means or resources syn: tight, close, niggardly ant: generous | |
| 218767608 | perfunctory | performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial, lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic syn: negligent, heedless, thoughtless, uninterested ant: careful, diligent | |
| 218767609 | pernicious | causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful; deadly, fatal, obsolete, evil, wicked syn: harmful, detrimental, destructive, damaging ant: helpful, kind, loveable | |
| 218767610 | perspicacious | having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning, keen eye sight syn: perceptive, acute, shrewd, penetrating ant: dull, stupid | |
| 218767611 | perspicuous | clearly expressed or presented; lucid syn: intelligible, distinct, explicit ant: obscure, indistinct | |
| 222832086 | plebian | Of or relating to the common people of ancient Rome; Of, belonging to, or characteristic of commoners; Unrefined or coarse in nature or manner; common or vulgar; One of the common people of ancient Rome; A member of the lower classes, A vulgar or coarse person. syn: banal, coarse, common, conventional, humble, ignoble, low, lowborn, lowly, mean, ordinary, popular, proletarian, traditional, uncultivated, unrefined, unsophisticated, unwashed, vulgar, ant: aristocratic, noble, rich, upper-class, wealthy | |
| 222832087 | plethoric | overfull; turgid; inflated; of, pertaining to, or characterized by plethora.; superfluity or excess; overabundance, a condition caused by dilation of superficial blood vessels, characterized esp by a reddish face syn: boundless, disproportionate, dissipated, dizzying, enormous, exaggerated, exorbitant, extra, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, indulgent, inordinate, intemperate, limitless, more, needless, over ant: insufficient, moderate, reasonable, underdone | |
| 222832088 | pliant | bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable; easily influenced; yielding to others; compliant syn:compliant, docile, obedient, pliable, tractable, yielding ant:inflexible, intractable, nonconforming, unadaptable | |
| 222832089 | pragmatic | Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations; Relating to philosophical or political pragmatism; pragmatic sanction; an officious or meddlesome person. syn: assertive, authoritarian, authoritative, axiomatic, by fiat, by natural law, by nature, canonical, categorical, deducible, deductive, derivable, doctrinaire, doctrinal, eternal, formal, imperative ant: ambiguous, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, indecisive, not positive, uncertain, vacillating | |
| 222832090 | precocious | unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties, etc; of or pertaining to premature development. syn: advanced, aggressive, ahead of time, beforehand, bold, brassy, bright, cheeky, cocky, early, flip, flippant ant: stupid, after, behind | |
| 222832091 | proliferation | the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts, a rapid and often excessive spread or increase syn: procreation, propagation, reproduction ant: abatement, decrease, diminishment, failure, lessening, reduction, stagnation, underdevelopment | |
| 222832092 | propitiate | to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate; the act of propitiating; conciliation, something that propitiates. syn: appease, assuage, atone, mollify, pacify, placate, satisfy, adapt, appease, calm, conciliate, conform, mediate, placate, reconcile, soothe ant: aggravate, annoy, incite, irritate, provoke, tease | |
| 222832093 | quell | to suppress; put an end to; extinguish, to vanquish; subdue, to quiet or allay (emotions, anxieties, etc.) syn: annihilate, conquer, crush, extinguish, hush up, kill, overcome, overpower, ease, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, quiet, reduce, silence, soothe, still ant: succeed, win, aggravate, agitate, disturb, irritate, perturb | |
| 222832094 | querulous | full of complaints; complaining; characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish syn: petulant, testy; caviling, carping, discontented ant: contented | |
| 222832095 | recalcitrant | resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory; hard to deal with, manage, or operate, syn: resistant, rebellious, opposed | |
| 222832096 | recluse | a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation. shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion, often for religious reasons; characterized by seclusion; solitary | |
| 222832097 | rectitude | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives; correctness: rectitude of judgment; straightness syn: integrity, probity, principle | |
| 222832098 | redoubtable | that is to be feared; formidable; commanding or evoking respect, reverence, or the like | |
| 222832099 | reprehensible | deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy syn: culpable ant: praiseworthy | |
| 222832100 | reticent | disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved; reluctant or restrained syn:taciturn, quiet, uncommunicative ant: talkative, voluble | |
| 222832101 | sanguine | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations; reddish; ruddy: a sanguine complexion; (in old physiology) having blood as the predominating humor and consequently being ruddy-faced, cheerful, etc; bloody; sanguinary; blood-red; red syn: a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings ant: morose | |
| 222832102 | temerarious | presumptuously daring syn: Brash, foolhardy, hasty, hot-headed, ill considered ant: Careful, cautious, prudent, responsible, wary | |
| 222832103 | tenacity | The quality or state of holding together firmly, being retentive, or persevering syn: Hardheadedness, obstinacy, willfulness, pigheadedness, perverseness. ant: Weakness, indifference, slackness, irresolution. | |
| 222832104 | timorous | Easily frightened, lacking self confidence syn: Timid, shy, hesitant, retiring, nervous, diffident, bashful. ant: Bold, brave, daring, extroverted, fearless | |
| 222832105 | tenebrous | Lacking light and any sense of welcome. syn:Dark, gloomy, uninviting, ominous. ant: Light, friendly, welcoming, inviting | |
| 222832106 | tout | To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way. syn: Boost, enhance, promote, ballyhoo, hype ant: Conceal, hide, screen, cloak. | |
| 222832107 | trepidation | A state of alarm or dread. syn: Affright, alarm, apprehension, fear, panic, horror. ant: Calm, contentment, happiness, tranquility, comfort. | |
| 222832108 | ubiquitous | Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time syn: Omnipresent, universal, ever-present. ant: Rare, limited, scarce. | |
| 222832109 | upbraid | To reprove sharply, reproach. syn: Scold, criticize, berate, revile, rail. ant: Compliment, flatter, praise, adulate. | |
| 222832110 | urbane | Notably polite and having suavity in manner and style; sophisticated. syn: Sophisticated, svelte, suave, debonair ant: Boorish, classless, loutish | |
| 222832111 | vacillate | To waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute. syn: Alternate, fluctuate, waver, indecisive, irresolute, sway ant: Remain, stay | |
| 222832112 | venal | Open to bribery or corruption syn: Buyable, corrupt, dishonest, immoral, unethical, unscrupulous, bribable ant:Incorruptible | |
| 222832113 | venial | Able to be forgiven or pardoned. syn: Excusable, forgivable, pardonable ant: Indefensible, inexcusable, unforgivable | |
| 222832114 | vilify | To speak ill of; defame; slander. syn: Libel, defame, malign, slander ant: Compliment, praise, commend | |
| 222832115 | vituperative | Uttering or given to censure; containing or characterized by verbal abuse. syn: Truculent, scurrilous, invective, calumniating, libelous ant: Complimentary, kind, respective | |
| 222832116 | voracious | Craving or consuming large quantities of food, Exceedingly eager or avid; insatiable. syn: Ravenous, gluttonous ant: Uneager, satisfied | |
| 222832117 | xenophobic | Fear or hate of foreigners or strange customs. syn: Prejudiced, bigoted, conservative, indignant ant: Fair, tolerant, impartial |
