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| 1 | obsolete | (adjective satellite) no longer in use; "obsolete words" (adjective satellite) old; no longer in use or valid or fashionable; "obsolete words"; "an obsolete locomotive"; "outdated equipment"; "superannuated laws"; "out-of-date ideas"
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| 2 | obstreperous | (adjective satellite) boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor" (adjective satellite) noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys"
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| 3 | obtain | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" (verb) come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" (verb) be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds"
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| 4 | obtrusive | (adjective satellite) sticking out; protruding (adjective) undesirably noticeable; "the obtrusive behavior of a spoiled child"; "equally obtrusive was the graffiti"
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| 5 | obviate | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" (verb) do away with
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| 6 | occluded | (adjective satellite) (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium" (adjective satellite) closed off; "an occluded artery"
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| 7 | occult | (noun) occult practices and techniques; "he is a student of the occult" (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively; "She doesn't believe in the supernatural" (verb) hide from view; "The lids were occulting her eyes" (verb) become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; "The beam of light occults every so often" (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies" (adjective satellite) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" (adjective satellite) hidden and difficult to see; "an occult fracture"; "occult blood in the stool"
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| 8 | odious | (adjective satellite) unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke
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| 9 | odium | (noun) hate coupled with disgust (noun) state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior
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| 10 | odor | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system (noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"
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| 11 | officious | (adjective satellite) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"
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| 12 | onerous | (adjective satellite) not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule"
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| 13 | opprobrious | (adjective satellite) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human (adjective satellite) expressing offensive reproach
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| 14 | opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living
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| 15 | ossify | (verb) become bony; "The tissue ossified" (verb) cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue" (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
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| 16 | ostensible | (adjective satellite) represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" (adjective satellite) appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
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| 17 | ostentation | (noun) pretentious or showy or vulgar display (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity (noun) a showy outward display
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| 18 | ostentatious | (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" (adjective satellite) of a display that is tawdry or vulgar
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| 19 | ostracism | (noun) the act of excluding someone from society by general consent (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
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| 20 | ostrich | (noun) fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird (noun) a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
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| 21 | outset | (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
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| 22 | overhaul | (noun) periodic maintenance on a car or machine; "it was time for an overhaul on the tractor" (verb) make repairs or adjustments to; "You should overhaul your car engine" (verb) travel past; "The sports car passed all the trucks"
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| 23 | overweening | (adjective satellite) presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times (adjective satellite) unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"
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| 24 | overwhelm | (verb) charge someone with too many tasks (verb) overcome by superior force (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech" (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
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| 25 | pacifist | (noun) someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
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| 26 | paean | (noun) a formal expression of praise (noun) (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
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| 27 | palate | (noun) the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
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| 28 | palatial | (adjective satellite) suitable for or like a palace; "palatial furnishings"; "a palatial yacht" (adjective) relating to or being a palace; "the palatial residence"
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| 29 | palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
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| 30 | palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain; "This pill will relieve your headaches" (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
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| 31 | palpability | (noun) the quality of being perceivable by touch
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| 32 | palpitate | (verb) beat rapidly; "His heart palpitated" (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated" (verb) cause to throb or beat rapidly; "Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart"
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| 33 | panegyric | (noun) a formal expression of praise (adjective satellite) formally expressing praise
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| 34 | paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example; "he is the prototype of good breeding"; "he provided America with an image of the good father" (noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time; "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm" (noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) (noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
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| 35 | parenthesis | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject (noun) either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material
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| 36 | pariah | (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home)
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| 37 | parsimonious | (adjective satellite) excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
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| 38 | partisan | (noun) a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries (noun) an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something (adjective) devoted to a cause or party (adjective satellite) adhering or confined to a particular sect or denomination or party; "denominational prejudice"
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| 39 | patron | (noun) a regular customer (noun) someone who supports or champions something (noun) the proprietor of an inn
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| 40 | paucity | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number
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| 41 | peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed
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| 42 | pedantic | (adjective satellite) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
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| 43 | pedestrian | (noun) a person who travels by foot (adjective satellite) lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
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| 44 | pellucid | (adjective satellite) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" (adjective satellite) transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal"
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| 45 | penchant | (noun) a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"
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| 46 | penitent | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) (adjective) feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
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| 47 | penury | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
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| 48 | peregrination | (noun) travel (especially by foot)
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| 49 | peremptory | (adjective satellite) putting an end to all debate or action; "a peremptory decree" (adjective satellite) not allowing contradiction or refusal; "spoke in peremptory tones"; "peremptory commands" (adjective satellite) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisteri
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| 50 | perennial | (noun) a plant lasting for three seasons or more (adjective satellite) recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" (adjective) lasting three seasons or more; "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant" (adjective satellite) lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal; "perennial happiness"
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