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| 234667860 | abortive | (adj.) failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose; only partially or imperfectly developed SYN: miscarried, fruitless, premature ANT: successful, realized, consummated | |
| 234667861 | bruit | (v.) to spread news, reports, or unsubstantiated rumors SYN: noise abroad, broadcast, blazon ANT: cover up, conceal, hush up | |
| 234667862 | contumelious | (adj.) insolent or rude in speech or behavior; insultingly abusive; humiliating SYN: vituperative, scurrilous, excoriating ANT: laudatory, commendatory, deferential | |
| 234667863 | dictum | (n.) a short saying; an authoritative statement SYN: maxim, precept, aphorism, axiom | |
| 234667864 | ensconce | (v.) To settle comfortably and firmly in position; to put or hide in a safe place SYN: nestle, lodge, entrench ANT: unseat, displace, oust | |
| 234667865 | iconoclastic | (adj.) attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs, ideas, or institutions SYN: image-breaking, irreverent, heretical ANT: orthodox, conservative, reverent | |
| 234667866 | in medias res | (adv.) in or into the middle of a plot; into the middle of things | |
| 234667867 | internecine | (adj.) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed SYN: muderous, savage, ruinous ANT: peaceful, harmonious, constructive | |
| 234667868 | maladroit | (adj.) lacking skill or dexterity; lacking tact, perception, or judgment SYN: inept, awkward, clumsy, gauche ANT: skillful, dexterous, deft, tactful | |
| 234667869 | maudlin | (adj.) excessively or effusively sentimental SYN: mushy, mawkish | |
| 234667870 | modulate | (v.) to change or vary the intensity or pitch; to temper or soften; to regulate, adjust SYN: adapt, moderate | |
| 234667871 | portentous | (adj.) Foreshadowing an event to come; causing wonder or awe; self-consciously weighty, pompous SYN: foreboding, ominous, pretentious ANT: auspicious, propitious, encouraging | |
| 234667872 | prescience | (n.) knowledge of events or actions before they happen; foresight SYN: foreknowledge ANT: hindsight | |
| 234667873 | quid pro quo | (n.) something given in exchange or return for something else SYN: swap, trade | |
| 234667874 | salubrious | (adj.) conducive to health or well-being; wholesome SYN: beneficial, healthy, invigorating ANT: harmful, unhealthy, deleterious, noxious | |
| 234667875 | saturnalian | (adj.) characterized by riotous or unrestrained revelry or licentiousness SYN: dissipated, debauched, orgiastic ANT: sedate, prim, decorous, seemly | |
| 234667876 | touchstone | (n.) a means of testing worth or genuineness SYN: criterion, yardstick, benchmark | |
| 234667877 | traumatic | (adj.) so shocking to the emotions as to cause lasting and substantial psychological damage SYN: jolting ANT: soothing, comforting, agreeable, pleasant | |
| 234667878 | vitiate | (v.) to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of SYN: degrade, undermine ANT: purify, fortify, strengthen, enhance | |
| 234667879 | waggish | (adj.) fond of making jokes; characteristic of a joker; playfully humorous or droll SYN: whimsical, jocular ANT: serious, grave, grim, dour, humorless |
