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| 1 | punctilious | (adjective satellite) marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
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| 2 | pundit | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
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| 3 | pungency | (noun) a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices" (noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"
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| 4 | purvey | (verb) supply with provisions
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| 5 | pusillanimous | (adjective satellite) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
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| 6 | pyre | (noun) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
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| 7 | quack | (noun) the harsh sound of a duck (noun) an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice (verb) act as a medical quack or a charlatan (verb) utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
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| 8 | quaff | (noun) a hearty draft (verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers"
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| 9 | quail | (noun) small gallinaceous game birds (noun) flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
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| 10 | qualm | (noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action (noun) a mild state of nausea
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| 11 | quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion" (verb) overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
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| 12 | quibble | (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections (verb) argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" (verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
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| 13 | quiescent | (adjective satellite) causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor" (adjective satellite) being quiet or still or inactive (adjective satellite) not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation" (adjective satellite) marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"
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| 14 | quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading (noun) a strange attitude or habit (verb) twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
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| 15 | quixotic | (adjective satellite) not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"
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| 16 | quotidian | (adjective satellite) found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
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| 17 | rabble | (noun) a disorderly crowd of people (noun) disparaging terms for the common people
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| 18 | radiant | (adjective satellite) radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"
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| 19 | raffish | (adjective satellite) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore (adjective satellite) marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
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| 20 | rail | (noun) any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud (noun) a horizontal bar (usually of wood) (noun) short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety" (noun) a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports (noun) a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll (verb) criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" (verb) spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" (verb) complain bitterly (verb) fish with a hand-line over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish" (verb) lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here" (verb) travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg" (verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium" (verb) separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace" (verb) provide with rails; "The yard was railed" (verb) enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"
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| 21 | ramify | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" (verb) have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify"
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| 22 | rancorous | (adjective satellite) showing deep-seated resentment; "preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley
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| 23 | rant | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
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| 24 | rapacious | (adjective satellite) devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" (adjective satellite) excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" (adjective satellite) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
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| 25 | rarefy | (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) (verb) make more subtle or refined (verb) lessen the density or solidity of; "The bones are rarefied"
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| 26 | reactionary | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism (adjective satellite) extremely conservative
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| 27 | rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off (verb) reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" (verb) force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
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| 28 | recalcitrant | (adjective satellite) marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators" (adjective satellite) marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius"
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| 29 | recant | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
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| 30 | recast | (verb) cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state" (verb) cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast" (verb) cast again, in a different role; "He was recast as Iago"
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| 31 | recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime
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| 32 | reciprocity | (noun) mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
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| 33 | recluse | (noun) one who lives in solitude (adjective satellite) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"
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| 34 | recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury (noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) (verb) make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated" (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
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| 35 | reconcile | (verb) bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities" (verb) make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" (verb) accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" (verb) come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
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| 36 | recondite | (adjective satellite) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
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| 37 | recourse | (noun) act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" (noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"
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| 38 | recuperate | (verb) get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating" (verb) restore to good health or strength (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate" (verb) regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"
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| 39 | redeem | (verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers (verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes) (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat (verb) save from sins
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| 40 | redemptive | (adjective satellite) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love" (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown
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| 41 | redoubtable | (adjective satellite) inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" (adjective satellite) having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"
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| 42 | redundant | (adjective satellite) repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant (adjective satellite) use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious" (adjective satellite) more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare
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| 43 | refine | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" (verb) make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation" (verb) attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet" (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" (verb) treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
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| 44 | refractory | (noun) lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace (adjective satellite) resistant to authority or control; "as refractory as a mule" (adjective satellite) stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" (adjective satellite) marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius" (adjective satellite) not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"
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| 45 | refulgent | (adjective satellite) radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"
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| 46 | refute | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
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| 47 | regale | (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"
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