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| 5210872501 | ancillary | (adj.) subordinate or supplementary SYNONYMS: auxiliary, subsidiary, accessory ANTONYMS: central, key, primary, principal, main The soldier stealing the guns showed an ancillary. | 0 | |
| 5210872502 | bowdlerize | (v.) to remove material considered offensive SYNONYMS: censor, purge, expurgate Sopa and pipa wanted to bowdlerize the internet. | 1 | |
| 5210872503 | condescend | (v.) to come down or stoop voluntarily to a lower level; to deal with people in a patronizing manner SYNONYM: design The master condescended his students for cheating | 2 | |
| 5210872504 | cozen | (v.) to trick; to cheat or swindle SYNONYMS: dupe, deceive, beguile, inveigle The magician cozened all the viewers out of there money. | 3 | |
| 5210872505 | enclave | (n.) an enclosed district, region, or area inhabited by a particular group of people or having a special character SYNONYMS: island, subgroup The birds live in a protected enclaved area. | 4 | |
| 5210872506 | forte | (n.) a person's strong point; what a person does best SYNONYMS: gift, aptitude, specialty ANTONYMS: weakness, shortcoming, foible My forte in computers helps me to keep viruses off it. | 5 | |
| 5210872507 | gratis | (adj.) free (adv.) without charge SYNONYMS: on the house, freely ANTONYMS: for a price The man gave me fries gratis | 6 | |
| 5210872508 | icon | (n.) a representation or image of a sacred personage SYNONYMS: emblem, idol The icons on my desktop were designed by me. | 7 | |
| 5210872509 | interstice | (n.) a small, narrow space between things or parts of things SYNONYMS: gap, slot, crevice, interval, lacuna The interstice of the cars stopped me from continuing forward. | 8 | |
| 5210872510 | macrocosm | (n.) the universe considered as a whole; the entire complex structure of something SYNONYMS: cosmos, entirety ANTONYMS: model, miniature, microcosm The macrocosm of little big planet is so vast. | 9 | |
| 5210872511 | mountebank | (n.) a trickster or swindler; a charlatan SYNONYMS: impostor, quack ANTONYMS: sucker, dupe, "mark", "pigeon" The mountebank joker took from the king. | 10 | |
| 5210872512 | paean | (n.) song of praise, joy or triumph SYNONYMS: hymn, ode, anthem ANTONYMS: dirge, elegy, lament, threnody The singer performed her own paean during the victory. | 11 | |
| 5210872513 | persiflage | (n.) lighthearted joking, talk, or writing The persiflage of the conversation seemed to wain when jim brought up his dead dog. | 12 | |
| 5210872514 | plethora | (n.) overfullness; superabundance; superfluity SYNONYMS: surplus, surfeit, glut, excess ANTONYMS: shortage, paucity, dearth, scarcity I have a plethora of coins. | 13 | |
| 5210872515 | pragmatic | (adj.) concerned with practical considerations or values; dealing with actions and results rather than with abstract theory; stiff in one's opinions SYNONYMS: down-to-earth, businesslike ANTONYMS: idealistic, impractical, visionary The pragmatic scientist was only interested in the facts. | 14 | |
| 5210872516 | quizzical | (adj.) puzzled; mocking; odd; equivocal SYNONYMS: peculiar, perplexed, mystified, derisive ANTONYMS: unequivocal, crystal-clear, unambiguous The genius had a quizzical look on his face when the teacher gave him an f. | 15 | |
| 5210872517 | rapacity | (n.) inordinate greed; the disposition to obtain one's desires by force extortion, or plunder SYNONYMS: avarice, cupidity, voraciousness ANTONYMS: liberality, generosity, altruism The rapacity of mr scrooge is unbelievable. | 16 | |
| 5210872518 | schism | (n.) a formal split within a religious organization SYNONYMS: rift, breach ANTONYMS: united front, reconciliation The schism in the earth after the earthquake was a mile wide. | 17 | |
| 5210872519 | therapeutic | (adj.) having the power to heal or cure; beneficial SYNONYMS: curative, salutary, salubrious ANTONYMS: harmful, injurious, deleterious The cleric had the therapeutic power to save the deathly ill child. | 18 | |
| 5210872520 | virtuoso | (n.) a brilliant performer; a person with masterly skill or technique (adj.) masterly brilliant SYNONYMS: expert, master, prodigy, maestro ANTONYMS: amateur, beginner, novice, mediocre The actor was a virtuoso on the stage making his presents known as he runs around. | 19 |
