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Capricious
(Adj)

1: governed or characterized by caprice : IMPULSIVE, UNPREDICTABLE;


Synonyms for capricious: unstable, unsteady, variable, volatile.

Words Related to capricious: capriciously.

Examples of capricious in a sentence: During the opera’s most famous aria, the tempo

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Pedestrian
(Noun/Adj)

1: going or performed on foot;
2: dull or ordinary.


Synonyms for pedestrian: stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious.

Words Related to pedestrian: prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless.

Examples of a pedestrian in a sentence:
Geologists have long known that the Earth's mantle is hetero
The playwright's approach is (i) create drama on the stage

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Exacerbate
(Verb)

1: to make more violent, bitter, or severe.


Synonyms for exacerbate: aggravate, complicate, worsen.

Words Related to exacerbate: exacerbation.

Examples of a exacerbate in a sentence:
It was her view that the country's problems had been
Computers cannot accurately predict
Biologists generally agree that birds
It was her view that the country's problems had been
Ragwort was accidentally introduced
Some researchers worry that if there is a causal


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Prosaic
(adj)

1: characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry.

2: everyday, ordinary

Synonyms for prosaic: average, common, commonplace.

Words Related to prosaic: prosaically.

Examples of a prosaic in a sentence:
Philosophy, unlike most other subjects,
Overlarge, uneven, and ultimately disappointing


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Recondite
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1: difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend.

2: of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure

Synonyms for recondite: abstruse, arcane, esoteric, hermetic.

Words Related to recondite: reconditeness.

Examples of a recondite in a sentence:
In his initial works, the playwright


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Panacea
(noun)

1: a remedy for all ills or difficulties.

Synonyms for panacea: catholicon, cure-all, elixir, nostrum.

Words Related to panacea: panacean.

Examples of a panacea in a sentence:
Although economic growth has conventionally
In The Simple Soybean, the author


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Diffident
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1: hesitant in acting or speaking through lack of self-confidence.

Synonyms for panacea: effacing, sheepish, shy, withdrawn.

Words Related to panacea: diffidently.

Examples of a diffident in a sentence:
Once White stepped down from a political platform
Colleagues describe Padgett as both forthright
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Ephemeral
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1: lasting a very short time.

Synonyms for ephemeral: evanescent, fugacious, momentary, temporary, transient.

Words Related to ephemeral: ephemerally.

Examples of ephemeral in a sentence:
Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian America was
If big sums are to be spent on cleaning up envir


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Empirical
(adj)

1: originating in or based on observation or experience.

Synonyms for empirical: existential, experiential, experimental.

Words Related to empirical: empiricism.

Examples of empirical in a sentence:
Animal signals, such as the complex songs of birds


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Bridle
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1: to restrain, check, or control with or as if with a bridle.

Synonyms for bridle: check, constrain, contain, control.

Words Related to bridle: hostility.

Examples of bridle in a sentence:
The prongs of faith and duty: two sides of a bridle.

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Nascent
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1: coming or having recently come into existence.

Synonyms for nascent: aborning, budding, inceptive, inchoate.

Words Related to nascent: first, formative, inaugural.

Examples of nascent in a sentence:
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Veracity
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1: conformity with truth or fact ; accuracy.

Synonyms for veracity: honesty, integrity, probity, truthfulness.

Words Related to veracity: honor, honorableness, incorruptibility, rectitude.

Examples of veracity in a sentence:

Spiritualism, the doctrine that it is possible to communicate


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Disdain
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1: a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior; scorn.

Synonyms for disdain: contempt, contemptuousness, despisement.

Words Related to disdain: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, rancor.

Examples of disdain in a sentence:
Given the evidence of Egyptian and Babylonian (i) later
I want to criticize the social system, and to show it
In early-twentieth-century England


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Alacrity
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1: promptness in response ; cheerful readiness.

Synonyms for alacrity: amenability, gameness, goodwill.

Words Related to alacrity: alacritous .

Examples of alacrity in a sentence:
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Imperious
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1: marked by arrogant assurance; unpleasantly proud and expecting to be obeyed

Synonyms for imperious: authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic,, bossy.

Words Related to imperious: imperiously.

Examples of imperious in a sentence:
No other contemporary poet’s work has such a well-earned



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Austere
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1: very simple, with only the things that are absolutely necessary, especially because of severe limits on money

Synonyms for austere: authoritarian, flinty, hard, harsh.

Words Related to austere: austerely.

Examples of austere in a sentence:
The (i) _____ nature of classical tragedy in Athens


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Polemical
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1: (of a piece of writing or a speech) strongly attacking or defending a particular opinion, person, idea, or set of beliefs

Synonyms for polemical: argumentative, contentious, controversial

Words Related to polemical: polemically.

Examples of polemical in a sentence:
Political advertising may well be the most
This filmmaker is not outspoken on political matters




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