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- 1. friendly; agreeable n
- 3. hard to understand adj
- 7. feeling loving; especially in sexual sense; in love; relating to love a
- 8. sour; severe; like acid in temper, mood or tone; acerb; acerbic adj
- 9. pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature n
- 11. sum total; collection of separate things mixed together; congregate; segregate; integrate; aggregrate is to bring together; congregate is to get together; segregate is to keep apart; integrate is to unite n
- 13. unfavourable; antagonistic; adversity misfortune or unfavourable circumstances; to do something in the face adversity is to undertake a task despite obstacles a
- 15. lacking a sense of right or wrong; neither good nor bad; neither moral or immoral; without moral feelings a; moral person does right immoral person does wrong amoral person just does
- 16. unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways a
- 18. unnatural or artificial behaviour; usually intended to impress n
- 20. to assert without proof; allegation; alleged v
- 22. follower; supporter; believer; adhere means stick n
- 23. keenness of judgement; mental sharpness n
- 24. full of spite; bitter; nasty adj
- 25. sharp; shrewd adj
- 26. relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land; has to do with farming a
- 29. sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity n
- 30. to contaminate; to make impure; unadulterated means pure
- 31. bottomless; hopeless or wretched; abyss; abysmal despair is so deep that no hope seems possible; sloppily to mean very bad; abysmal performance adj
- 32. to scold gently; to warn; admonition; admonitory v
- 33. to relieve; usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen v
- 36. cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond; like eagerness to leave lab or work n
- 37. one who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven; atheist does not believe; agnosticism n
- 38. obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable a
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- 2. an indirect reference( often to a literary work); a hint; allude to something is to refer to it indirectly; allusion is an allusion if the source is not directly specified; anything else is reference or quotation n
- 3. theoretical; impersonal; like something in abstract is to like the idea of it adj
- 4. award; an honor; generally used in plural n
- 5. a comparison of one thing to another; similarity
- 6. to comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree v
- 7. harshly pungent; bitter; mostly used for taste and smell; even to describe harsh personality adj
- 10. skillful ; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease; antonym of gauche and maladroit- gauche means socially awkward A
- 12. to make better or more tolerable v
- 13. to something which one does not want to do; opposed to do something a
- 14. uninvolved; standing off; keeping one’s distance; stand aloof in football game is to not play but be in side lines; cats are aloof as they mind their business and do not crave for attention adj
- 15. to approach or speak to someone aggressively v
- 17. something out of place in time or history; in incongruity n
- 18. shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike a
- 19. selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others; altruistic is to help others without expectation of personal gain; act of philanthropy is also an altruistic act n
- 21. undecided; having opposed feelings simultaneously; ambivalence a
- 22. atmosphere; mood; feeling n ambient means surrounding or circulating a
- 23. having to do with artistic beauty; artistic; aesthete; aesthetics a
- 24. abstaining; voluntarily not doing something; something pleasant that is bad for you or has bad repution adj
- 25. program; the things to be done n
- 26. politely friendly or not hostile a
- 27. an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy n
- 28. wild and excessive admiration; flattery n
- 29. stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible adj
- 30. a combination of two or more things, usually metals ; unalloyed love is undiminished by any negative feeling n
- 34. to distribute; to assign; to allot v
- 35. to speak to; to direct one’s attention to; address a convection; address a problem v
- 38. easy to talk to; friendly a
- 39. rich and prosperous; wealth adj