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| patina | Synonyms: buff, furbish, glance, glaze, gloss, luster, patina , put on a finish, rub, sheen, shine, smooth, wax Antonyms: dull, tarnish |
| delve | Synonyms: burrow, dig, dredge, examine, excavate, explore, ferret out, go into, gouge out, inquire, investigate, jump into, leave no stone unturned, look into, probe, prospect, ransack, really get into, research, rummage, scoop out, search, seek, shovel, sift, spade, trowel, turn inside out, unearth |
| sinuous | Synonyms: anfractuous, circuitous, coiling, convoluted, crooked, curved, curvy, deviative, devious, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, snaky, supple, tortuous, twisting and turning, undulating, vagrant Antonyms: straight, untwisted, unwinding |
| effrontery | Synonyms: arrogance, assurance, audacity, backtalk, brashness, brass, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah*, crust, disrespect, face, gall, guff, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, lip, presumption, rudeness, sass, sauce, self-assurance, self-confidence, shamelessness, smart talk, temerity Antonyms: manners, modesty, shame, shyness |
| dabble | Synonyms: amuse oneself with, be amateur, dally, dilly-dally, fiddle with, flirt with, horse around, idle, kid around, mess around, monkey around, monkey*, muck around, not be serious, play, play around, play games with, toy with, trifle, trifle with, work superficially Antonyms: take seriously |
| avid | Synonyms: ardent, athirst, avaricious, breathless, covetous, desirous, devoted, dying to, eager, fanatical, fervent, gotta have, grasping, greedy, hungry, impatient, insatiable, intense, keen, passionate, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty, voracious, zealous Antonyms: dispassionate, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| scapegoat | Synonyms: doormat, dupe, easy mark, fall guy, fool, goat, patsy, pigeon, pushover, sacrifice, sap*,sitting duck, stooge, sucker, victim, weakling |
| impute | Synonyms: accredit, accuse, adduce, ascribe, assign, blame, brand, censure, charge, credit, hang something on, hint, indict, insinuate, intimate, lay, pin on, refer, reference, stigmatize Antonyms: defend, guard, help, protect |
| lucid | Synonyms: apprehensible, clear, clear-cut, comprehendible, comprehensible, crystal clear, distinct, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, limpid, luminous, pellucid, plain, translucent, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unblurred, understandable Antonyms: clouded, obscure, unclear, vague |
| iconoclast | Synonyms: critic, cynic, denouncer, dissenter, dissident, heretic, image-breaker, non-conformist, nonbeliever, questioner, radical, rebel, revolutionist, ruiner, sceptic, unbeliever |
| denude | Synonyms: denude , depopulate, depredate, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, spoliate, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck Antonyms: build, construct, improve |
| maladroit | Synonyms: all thumbs, blundering, bumbling, bungling, clunky, floundering, gauche, halting, heavy-handed, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, stumbling, two left feet, ungraceful, unhandy, unskillful Antonyms: able, capable, skillful |
| surrogate | Synonyms: alternate, backup, delegate, deputy, expediency, expedient, fill-in, makeshift, pinch hitter, proxy, recourse, refuge, replacement, representative, resort, resource, stand-in, stopgap, sub, substitute agent Antonyms: real |
| balk | Synonyms: cramp, crimp, demur, desist, dodge, evade, flinch, hesitate, recoil, refuse, resist, shirk, shrink from, shy, turn down, upset apple cart |
| amenable | Synonyms: acquiescent, agreeable, biddable, docile, influenceable, manageable, obedient, open, persuadable, pliable, responsive, susceptible, tractable Antonyms: intractable, nonconforming, uncooperative, unwilling |
| misanthrope | Synonyms: cynic, doubter, egoist, egotist, hater, isolate, loner, misanthropist, recluse, skeptic Antonyms: humanitarian, philanthropist |
| immerse | Synonyms: asperse, baptize, bathe, bury, christen, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, merge, plunge, saturate, sink, slop, soak, souse, sprinkle, steep, submerse Antonyms: dry, retrieve |
| pungent | Synonyms: acid, acrid, aromatic, bitter, effluvious, hot, nosey, odoriferous, peppery, piquant, poignant, racy, rich, salty, seasoned, sharp, snappy, sour, spicy, stinging, stinking, strong, tangy, tart, whiffy, zesty Antonyms: blah, bland, dull, flavorless, tasteless |
| sheen | Synonyms: coat, enamel, finish, glint, gloss, luster, patina, polish, sheen , shine Antonyms: stripper |
| embellish | Synonyms: add bells and whistles, adorn, amplify, array, beautify, bedeck, color, deck, dress up, elaborate, emblaze, embroider, enhance, enrich, exaggerate, festoon, fix up, fudge, garnish, gild, give details, grace, gussy up, magnify, ornament, overstate, spiff up, spruce up, trim Antonyms: deface, disfigure, mar, simplify, spoil, uglify |
| lackadaisical | Synonyms: abstracted, apathetic, daydreaming, disinterested, dreamy, dull, energyless, enervated, faineant, halfhearted, idle, inattentive, incurious, indolent, inert, laid-back, languid, languishing, languorous, lazy, lethargic, limp, listless, moony, passive, romantic, sentimental, slothful, spiritless, spring fever, unconcerned Antonyms: active, careful, caring, energetic, enthusiastic, hard-working |
| succor | Synonyms: aid, help, relief, support, sustenance |
| attribute | Synonyms: aspect, character, characteristic, facet, idiosyncrasy, indication, mark, note, particularity, peculiarity, point, property, quality, quirk, sign, speciality, symbol, trait, virtue |
| brash | Synonyms: audacious, bold, brazenfaced, cheeky*, cocksure, cocky*, effervescent, flip, foolhardy, forward, hasty, headlong, heedless, hotheaded, ill-advised, impertinent, impetuous, impolitic, impudent, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, insolent, madcap, maladroit, nervy, precipitate, presuming, presumptuous, pushing, rash, reckless, rude, self-asserting, self-assertive, tactless, thoughtless, undiplomatic, untactful, uppity, vivacious Antonyms: afraid, careful, cautious, discreet, fearful, reserved |
| lout | Synonyms: barbarian, bear, boob*, brute, buffoon, bumpkin, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, dolt, dork, goon, lummox, oaf, philistine, rube, slob, vulgarian |
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