| surmise |
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sur·mise; presume; pretend; suppose |
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free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm; poised; self-possessed; easy |
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to weaken the foundations of as though by excavating; sap; blunt |
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to exert oneself vigorously; try hard; moil; labor |
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to take over the position or influence of; replace; supplant; outplace |
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a self-evident, obvious truth; veracity; verity; gospel |
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frequently bad-tempered and stubbornly silent; dorty; dour; crabby |
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neither feeling nor showing much range of emotion; impassive; dry; apathetic; matter-of-fact |
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not suitable or appropriate for some purpose; inappropriate; inapt |
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ineffective or stale because of frequent repetition; commonplace; hackneyed; timeworn; chain; bathetic |
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exalted or noble; lofty; uprear; honor; ennoble |
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free from ambiguity; clear; direct; straight; through; uninterrupted |
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having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities; metropolitan; cosmopolitan |
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to obtain by fraud or deceit; flimflam; do |
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existing or operating out of sight or secretly; hidden or secret; underearth; underground; underfoot |
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to lose the freshness of youth, as from age (often fol. by away); wilt; mummy |
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a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation; jeremiad; philippic; diatribe |
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having a specified kind of temper (usu. used in combination); ill-natured; dyspeptic; ill-humored |
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to establish or support by providing proof or evidence; externalize; personify; incarnate |
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wearing threadbare clothes; shabby or poor; dingy; dilapidated |
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a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, esp. one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections; contention; contestation |
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any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., esp. one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement; canon |
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news, information, or intelligence; advice |
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Music. a passing from one key to another; modulation.a brief modulation; a modulation used in passing.a sudden, unprepared modulation; transit; shift; alteration |
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to give in or give way to a fatal illness, superior force, overwhelming desire, or the like; yield; defer; bow |