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1 benign (adjective) pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air"

(adjective satellite) of disposition or manner; "the benign ruler of millions"; "benign intentions"

(adjective) not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)

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2 berate (verb) censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

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3 bereft (adjective satellite) sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope"

(adjective satellite) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

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4 beseech (verb) ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons"

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5 besmirch (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained

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6 bestial (adjective satellite) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners"

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7 betroth (verb) give to in marriage

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8 biased (adjective satellite) excessively devoted to one faction

(adjective satellite) favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant"

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9 biennial (noun) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season

(adjective) having a life cycle lasting two seasons; "a biennial life cycle"; "parsnips and carrots are biennial plants often grown as annuals"

(adjective) occurring every second year; "they met at biennial conventions"

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10 bilateral (adjective) having two sides or parts

(adjective satellite) affecting or undertaken by two parties; "a bilateral agreement between the United States and Japan"

(adjective satellite) having identical parts on each side of an axis

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11 blasphemous (adjective satellite) characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"

(adjective satellite) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"

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12 blatant (adjective satellite) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob"

(adjective satellite) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "open disregard of the law"; "open family strife"; "open hostility"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion"

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13 blighted (adjective satellite) affected by blight--anything that mars or events growth or prosperity; "a blighted rose"; "blighted urtan districts"

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14 blithe (adjective satellite) carefree and happy and lighthearted; "was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart"

(adjective satellite) lacking or showing a lack of due concern; "spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation"

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15 bode (verb) indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news"

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16 bombast (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing

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17 bombastic (adjective satellite) ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

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18 boor (noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

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19 breadth (noun) the extent of something from side to side

(noun) an ability to understand a broad range of topics; "a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject"

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20 brevity (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting

(noun) the use of brief expressions

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21 brindled (adjective satellite) having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats

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22 broach (noun) a decorative pin worn by women

(verb) bring up a topic for discussion

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23 brusque (adjective satellite) marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

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24 bucolic (noun) a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life

(noun) a country person

(adjective satellite) used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

(adjective) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"

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25 bumptious (adjective satellite) offensively self-assertive

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26 bungler (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

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27 burgeon (verb) grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"

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28 burlesque (noun) a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

(noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)

(verb) make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"

(adjective) relating to or characteristic of a burlesque; "burlesque theater"

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29 burly (adjective satellite) muscular and heavily built; "a beefy wrestler"; "had a tall burly frame"; "clothing sizes for husky boys"; "a strapping boy of eighteen"; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term"

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30 burnish (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny

(verb) polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

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31 cabal (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

(noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

(verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government"

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32 cache (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)

(noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics

(noun) a secret store of valuables or money

(verb) save up as for future use

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33 cacophonous (adjective) having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten

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34 cacophony (noun) loud confusing disagreeable sounds

(noun) a loud harsh or strident noise

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35 cajole (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

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36 calamity (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

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37 caliber (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth; "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"

(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel

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38 callow (adjective satellite) lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"

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39 calumny (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

(noun) a malicious attack

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40 canard (noun) a deliberately misleading fabrication

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41 candid (adjective satellite) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me wh

(adjective satellite) starkly realistic; "I have never lacked candid critics in my own ranks"-Clement Atlee

(adjective satellite) openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness; "his candid eyes"; "an open and trusting nature"; "a heart-to-heart talk"

(adjective satellite) informal or natural; especially caught off guard or unprepared; "a candid photograph"; "a candid interview"

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42 cant (noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees

(noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition

(noun) insincere talk about religion or morals

(noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

(noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

(verb) heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting"

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43 caprice (noun) a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse"

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44 capricious (adjective satellite) determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions"

(adjective satellite) changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather"

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45 captious (adjective satellite) tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"

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46 cascade (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden cascade of sparks"

(noun) a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"; "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"

(noun) a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls

(verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible

(verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

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47 castigate (verb) censure severely; "She chastised him for his insensitive remarks"

(verb) inflict severe punishment on

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48 cataclysm (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

(noun) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

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49 catalyst (noun) something that causes an important event to happen; "the invasion acted as a catalyst to unite the country"

(noun) (chemistry) a substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected

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