| didactic |
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inclined to teach or lecture others too much; sermonizing; sermonic |
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2. |
a formal or official pronouncement, as of a judge's opinion on a point of law; aphorism; maxim |
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to stop or discourage from some action by arousing doubt or fear; divert; dissuade |
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to make or become worse or inferior in character, quality, value, etc; degenerate; decline; retrograde |
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to soften or break up (light), as by reflection from an uneven surface; prolix; verbose |
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a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing; tirade; jeremiad |
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having no money or other means of living; impoverished; devoid |
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to cause to be diverted or distracted; disparage; minimize; depreciate |
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causing harm, disadvantage, or deterioration; injurious; mischievous; evil |
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conversation between two or more persons; colloquy; chat; parley |
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to hate or feel contempt for; scout; disdain |
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to violate the sacredness of; treat sacrilegiously; sacrilege; profanation |
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to stop acting in a certain way; cease; discontinue |
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style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words; wordage; verbalism; verbiage |
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a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church; leader; nabob; notable |
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to hate; loathe; abhor; execrate |
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to consume destructively, recklessly, or wantonly; meal; take |
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feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom; desperate; forlorn |
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not the straightest, most direct way; winding; roundabout; remote; secret; removed |
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to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc; digress; swerve; depart |
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to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage; waste; ravage |
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to lay waste; render desolate; devast; despoil; devour |
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to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite; disconnect; disassociate; abstract |
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to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay; pick; run in; nab |
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a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all; badland; wilderness; wildness |