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| austere | (adj.) severe or stern in manner; without adornment or luxury,simple, plain; harsh or sour in flavor Syn; forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned, subdued ATN; mild, indulgent, luxurious, flamboyant |
| beneficent | (adj.) performing acts of kindness or charity; conferring benefits, doing good Syn; humanitarian, magnanimous, charitable ATN; selfish, cruel, harmful, deleterious |
| cadaverous | (adj.) pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse Syn; corpselike, wasted, haggard Atn; robust, portly, rosy, the picture of health |
| concoct | (v) to prepare by combining ingreedients, make up to devise, invent, fabricate Syn; create, fashiom, rustle up |
| crass | (adj.) coarse, unfeeling; stupid Syn; crude, vulgar, tasteless, oafish, obtuse ATN; refined, elegant, tasteful, polished, brilliant |
| debase | (v) to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade, adulterate; to cause to deteriorate Syn; cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate ATN; elevate, uplift, improve, enhance |
| desecrate | (v) to commit sacrilege upon, treat irrevently; to contanibate, pollute Syn; profane, defile, violate ANT; revere, onor, venerate, consecrate |
| disconcert | (v) to confuse; to disturb the compsure or Syn; upset, rattle, ruffle, faze, perturb ATN; relax, calm, put at ease |
| grandiose | (adj.) grand in an impressive or statley way; marked by pmpous affectation or grandeur, absurdly, exggerated Syn; majestic. bombastoc, highfalutin ATN; simple, modest, unaffected, humble |
| inconsequestial | (adj.) trifling, unimportant SYn; trivial, negligible, petty, paltry ATN; important, essential, crucial, vital |
| infraction | (n.) a breaking of a law or obligationSyn; violation, transgression, breach, offense |
| mitigate | (v) to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity Syn; lessen, relieve, alleviate, diminish ATN; aggravate, intensify, irritate, exacerbate |
| pillage | (v) to rob of goods by open force( as in war), plunder; (n) the act of looting; booty |
| prate | (v) to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion Syn; chatter, prattle, blab, blabber, palaver ANT; come to the point, not waste words |
| punctillious | (adj.) very careful and exact, attentive to fine points of etiquette or propriety Syn; precise, scrupulous, exacting, fussy, finicky, ANT; careless, negligent, laz, perfunctory |
| redoubtable | (adj.) inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent Syn: formidable, fearsome, awesome, august ANT; laughable, risible, contemptible |
| reprove | (v.) to find fault with, scold, rebuke Syn: chide, chastise, upbriad, reproach ANT; priase, commend, laud, pat on the back |
| restitution | (n.) the act of restoring someone or something to the rightful owner or to a former state or position; making good on a loss or damage Syn: compensation, remimbursement, redress, restoaration |
| stalwart | (adj.) strong and sturdy; brave; resolute; (n) a brave, storng person; a strong supporter; one who takes an uncompromising position Syn; sturdy, stout, intrepid, valant ANT; weak, infirm, irresolute, vacillating |
| vunerable | (adj.) open to atttack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected Syn; defenseless, eexposed, ungaurded ATN; invinvible, protected, safe, secure |
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