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| Askance | (adv.) with suspicion, distrust, or disapproval. Syn: distrustfully, suspiciously, skeptically |
| Attenuate | (v.) to make thin or slender; to weaken or lessen in force, intensity, or value. Syn: thin out, dilute, water down. Ant: thicken, strengthen, bolster. |
| Benign | (adj.) gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant. |
| Cavil | (v.) to find fault in a petty way, carp; (n.) a trivial objection or criticism. Syn: (v.) nitpick, quibble. |
| Charlatan | (n.) one who feigns knowledge or ability; a pretender, imposter, or quack. Syn: fraud, mountebank. |
| Decimate | (v.) to kill or destroy a large part of. Syn: ravage, devastate. |
| Foible | (n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw. Syn: shortcoming, defect, quirk. Ant: forte, virtue. |
| Forgo | (v.) to do without, abstain from, give up. Syn: refrain from, renounce. Ant: indulge in, partake of. |
| Fraught | (adj.) full of or loaded with; accompanied by. Syn: charged with. Ant: devoid of, lacking, deficient in. |
| Inure | (v.) to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure. Syn: accustom, acclimate. |
| Luminous | (adj.) emitting or reflecting light, glowing; illuminating. |
| Obsequious | (adj.) marked bby slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons. Syn: fawning, servile, sycophantic, mealymouthed. Ant: assertive, bumptious, overbearing, candid, frank, independent. |
| Obtuse | (adj.) blunt, not coming to a point; slow or dull in understanding; measuring between 90 degrees and 180 degrees; not causing a sharp impression. Syn: stupid, dumb, mild, dull-witted. Ant: acute, perceptive, quick-witted. |
| Oscillate | (v.) to swing back and forth with a steady rhythm; to fluctuate or waver. Syn: vibrate, vacillate. |
| Penitent | (adj.) regretful for one's sins or mistakes; (n.) one who is sorry for wrongdoing. Syn: adj.) remorseful, regretful, rueful, sorry. Ant: (adj.) unrepentent, remorseless. |
| Peremptory | (adj.) having the nature of a comman that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute. Syn: high-handed, unconditional. Ant: irresolute, tentative, mild, unassuming. |
| Rebuff | (v.) to snub, repel, drive away; (n.) a curt rejection, a check. Syn: (v.) spurn, repulse, reject; (n.) setback. Ant: (v.) accept, welcome. |
| Reconnoiter | (v.) to engage in reconnaissance; to make a preliminary inspection. Syn: scout. |
| Shambles | (n.) a slaughterhouse; a place of mass bloodshed; a state of complete disorder and confusion, mess. |
| Sporadic | (adj.) occurring at regular intervals, having no set plan or order. Syn: intermittent, spasmodic. Ant: constant, steady, continuous, uninterrupted. |
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