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• empty pomp or show; self-love {narcissism} : egoism^ egotism > egotistic^ egocentric : smugness : gloat : complacency > complacent complaisant • (self-love)- conceit; vanity; Thus, there was nothing like a logical harshness in his conduct, no committal of self-love, no struggle of rival talent. — Life and Times of Washington; • (narcissism)- inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity; Such abandonment is the recipe for creating narcissism, which is always distinguished by a lack of empathy and real concern for others. — The Irate Nation; • (egoism)- the habit of valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest; selfishness (opposed to altruism ), ( ; ); It is political and commercial egoism which is the evil harbinger of war. — Creative Unity; • (egotism)- an inflated sense of one's own importance; conceit; Despite his superlative coxcombry and egotism, he was, moreover, a man of no mean abilities. — Fielding; • (egotistic)- being centered in or preoccupied with oneself and the gratification of one's own desires; self-centered; I ought not speak that way, it sounds egotistic, but I am old enough now to be excused for that. — Acres of Diamonds; • (egocentric)- having little or no regard for interests, beliefs, or attitudes other than one's own; self-centered, ( ); Every word they say is motivated by the desire to manipulate and by their insatiable egocentric need for attention and admiration. — Portrait of a Killer; • (smugness)- contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent, ( ; ; ; ); He wore a Hindoo robe, let his beard grow like a Yogi ... was irritated with the unimaginative, self-seeking smugness of the grown-ups. — Tramping on Life; • (gloat)- to look at or think about with great or excessive, often smug or malicious, satisfaction, ( ); She comes here, too, to gloat--to rejoice--to see how I look before my son in prison stripes! — Jane Cable; • (complacency)- a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc, ( ; ; ); We are affected with the gratification of a benevolent desire, with self-complacency, and with undefined hopes. — Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics;
• (complaisant)- inclined or disposed to please; obliging; agreeable or gracious; compliant; Bribes for the complaisant, prison for the obstinate Men guessed what was coming. — Korea's Fight for Freedom; haughty = imperious = supercilious = swaggering = lordly = overbearing = prideful = disdainful = snotty {dirty with nasal discharge} = bigheaded = uppish = snobbish > snob • (haughty)- scornfully and condescendingly proud; Although outwardly cool and even haughty, I was really in a state of most terrible anxiety. — Adventures of Louis de Rougemont; • (imperious)-domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing, ( ; ; ; ); Ah, you do not know how imperious are the reasons which force me to pursue such a course. — Recollections of the private life of Napoleon; • (supercilious)- haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression, ( ; ; ); Her eyebrows were a little raised; her expression was a little supercilious, faintly inquisitive. — The Lighted Way; • (swaggerig)- to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air, ( ; ; - ); Such an insanely jealous, swaggering, domineering, cruel fanatic is too loathsome to be interesting. — The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller; • (lordly)- insolently imperious; haughty; arrogant; overbearing, ( ); But generations of prophets have convinced us the Ancients cannot be dead, must still dwell lordly in the cosmos. — The Day of Their Return; • (overbearing)- domineering; dictatorial; haughtily or rudely arrogant, ( ; ; ); The father of the child says that at home he is violent, overbearing, and intractable. — Spontaneous Activity in Education; • (disdainful)- to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn; Though his smile was captivating, yet the expression of his month when disdainful or angry could scarcely be seen without terror. — The Memoirs of Napoleon; • (snotty)- snobbish; arrogant; supercilious; He handed the horse to Katelyn, who slanted me a snotty little smile of satisfaction. — Ms Longshot; • of or pertaining to snot ( ; ; ); • (bighead)- an excessive estimate of one's importance; conceit; • (uppish)- arrogant; condescending; uppity, ( ; ); • (snob)- a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others, (
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To our parents
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Preface After years of painstaking
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Distinctive Features of the Book 1.
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How to Use This Book Following are
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Legends: Synonym = Synonym variant
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Mnemonics - Word Memorization Trick
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Remember, the goal of expanding you
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turned jubilant, and one of them ru
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feeling the person's clothing, ( );
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1.2 Sorrow affliction, crestfallen,
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excesses and neglect. — Civics an
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negro in Watteau's drawing--patheti
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• (jeremiad)- a prolonged lamenta
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hair, brunette, darker than I remem
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• (deplore)- to regret deeply or
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exhaustion—Miss Ludington's Siste
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Speeches of Kossuth; • (indemnity
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• (declivity)- a downward slope,
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community or group, ( ); Reigning o
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1.4 Hate abhore, detestable, reveng
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quinine, wormwood, or aloes; After
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( ; ); And on all the men of Vaiau
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demoniac = possessed = berserk = am
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tempestuous = ferment = unrest •
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1.6 Fear 1.6.1 Fright fawn, coward,
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of Sentiment; ); He is no slave to
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son-in-law, M. de Conde. — The Li
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to speedy success; • (propitious)
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• (callophobia)- fear of beauty;
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hypnophobia • (hypnophobia)- an a
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women; megalomania : grandeur : ma
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1.14 Body Types thin, fat cadaverou
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living body directly upon the osseo
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wrongly; astray, ( ; ; ); He greete
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• (tortuosity)- the quality or co
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dilapidation > dilapidated = ramsha
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• (trot)- the gait of a horse or
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genetically altered mice to have on
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the same place. — The New South A
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1.16 Sex voluptuous, coquette, riba
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something of a connoisseur of femin
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had no revenge to gratify, as again
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her austere mode of life has been c
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fanaticism, he managed it. ' — Bo
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merchants and the men of learning.
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• (cumshaw)- a present; gratuity;
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execution was effective and brillia
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• prohibiting violation; secure f
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• (coup)- highly successful actio
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and seditious articles, but were re
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settlements. — The Life and Adven
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terrible patience of the wilderness
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1.19 Religion religion, doctrine, e
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King Alfred of England; • (impiet
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of luxury and sensual pleasure, ( ,
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prelate : clergy = divine {elysian}
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authority, and function; depose, (
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Written by Himself; • (chicanery)
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2.1 Society PART 2 social classes,
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scream out of her. — Garwood, Jul
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tried to embroider, as she sat alon
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propriety : protocol • (propriety
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they lead. — My Lady of the Chine
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expected to do the thousand indispe
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provided an extended field for thes
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consulted, to see if there is any d
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seminary--there was only one in all
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was a small patch of lawn. — The
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pulmonary : palpitate = throb = flu
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interest to systems biologists, has
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health, ( ; ); King Philip the Fift
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2.11 Jurisprudence accuse, arrest,
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allowance : leniency : lax : latitu
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was too busy trying to disentangle
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public liberties and of public mora
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pillage, ( , ); While their territo
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places of the town. — The Works o
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discussion and debate, ( - , ); His
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militate : draconian : generality
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which the lessons are read during t
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sun through the agency of chlorophy
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patterns, fabrics, miscellaneous fl
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2.13 Literature, Drama & Music 2.13
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importance to Luther in this treati
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occasional, ( ; ); Their attention
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inspire them; • (rambling)- stray
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• (adage)- a traditional saying e
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arely adequate, ( , , ); To be medi
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the outside of a masonry wall, ( );
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antique antic • (antic)- a ludic
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PART 3 3.1 Neat & Trim- Dirty & Unk
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efore leaving. — The Malay Male;
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lushes came often to his cheeks.
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leg below the knee; ); The surgeon
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• (unprepossessing)- not overtly
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from overstrain, boredom, or surfei
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day, and these expeditions were gre
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passionate; fervent, ( , ); Luther
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must feel them and act accordingly.
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expression of it. — The Sea-Hawk;
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• (resuscitate)- cause to regain
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• (nimble)- quick and light in mo
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• (quiscent)- being at rest; quie
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acquiring new. — Armageddon's Chi
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3.4 Diligent - Negligent perseveran
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an operose business on both sides o
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3.5 Astute - Asinine perspicacious,
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which is characteristic of modern p
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up. — The 9th Directive; prudent
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comforts = agreeablenesses • (tra
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inchoate = incipient^ inception •
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to infinity. — The Ghost from the
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foresaw that he must be overpowered
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create the success you desire; •
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second dispatch, which is read like
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process, etc.), (( ) ; ); Carlotta'
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hindrances; obstruct; hinder, ( / /
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of the larynx or trachea; We laugh
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simultaneously. — Benjamin Frankl
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dissent, contradiction, indisputabl
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of his countenance was altered. —
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about the 15th century, based on th
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to be unfolded in the heavens. —
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