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Ulterior
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Situated beyond; Unstated; Secret; Intentionally Concealed
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"You must have an ulterior motive for your behavior, since there is no obvious reason for it." |
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Ultimate
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Final; Not susceptible to further analysis
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Scientists are searching for ultimate truths. |
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Unaccountable
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Inexplicable; mysterious
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"I have taken an unaccountable dislike to my doctor: ""I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. The reason why, I cannot tell.""" |
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Unanimity
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Complete agreement
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"We were surprised by the unanimity with which members of both parties accepted our proposals. unanimous,ADJ." |
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Unassailable
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Not subject to question; Not open to attack
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"Penelope's virtue was unassailable; while she waited for her husband to come back from the war, no other man had a chance." |
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Unassuming
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Modest; Unpretentious
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He is so unassuming that some people fail to realize how great a man he really is. |
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Unbridled
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Violent, Unrestrained
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She had a sudden fit of unbridled rage. |
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Uncanny
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Strange; Mysterious
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You have the uncanny knack of reading my innermost thoughts. |
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Unconscionable
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Unscrupulous; Excessive; Immoral
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She found the loan shark's demands unconscionable and impossible to meet. |
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Uncouth
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Outlandish; Clumsy; Boorish
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Most biographers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man. |
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Unctuous
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Oily; Servile; Insincerely suave
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"Uriah Heep disguised his nefarious actions by unctuous protestations of his ""humility.""" |
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Underlying
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Fundamental; Lying below; to be the basis of
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"The underlying cause of the student riot was not the strict curfew rule but the moldy cafeteria food. Miss Marple seems a sweet little old lady at first, but there's an iron will underlying that soft and fluffy facade." |
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Undermine
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Weaken; Sap
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The recent corruption scandals have undermined many people's faith in the city government. The recent torrential rains have washed away much of the cliffside; the deluge threatens to undermine the pillars supporting several houses at the edge of the cliff. |
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Underscore
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Emphasize
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"Addressing the jogging class, Kim underscored the importance to runners of good nutrition." |
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Undulating
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Moving with a wavelike motion
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The Hilo Hula Festival was an undulating sea of grass skirts. |
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Unearth
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Dig up
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"When they unearthed the city, the archeologists found many relics of an ancient civilization." |
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Unequivocal
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Plain; Obvious; Unmistakable
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"My answer to your proposal is an unequivocal and absolute ""No.""" |
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Unerringly
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Infallibly; Accurately
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My teacher unerringly pounced on the one typographical error in my essay. |
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Unfathomable
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Incomprehensible; Impenetrable; Bottomless
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"Unable to get to the bottom of the mystery, Watson declared it was unfathomable." |
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Unfetter
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Liberate; Free from chains
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"Chained to the wall for months on end, the hostage despaired that he would ever be unfettered." |
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Unfrock
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To strip a priest or minister of church authority
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"To disbar a lawyer, to unfrock a priest, to suspend a doctor's license to practice-these are extreme steps that the authorities should take only after careful consideration." |
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Ungainly
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Awkward; Clumsy; Unwieldy
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"""If you want to know whether Nick's an ungainly dancer, check out my bruised feet,"" said Nora. Anyone who has ever tried to carry a bass fiddle knows it's an ungainly instrument." |
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Uniformity
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Sameness; Monotony; Harmony
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"At Persons magazine, we strive for uniformity of style; as a result, all our writers wind up sounding exactly alike." |
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Unimpeachable
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Blameless and exemplary; Pure
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Her conduct in office was unimpeachable and her record is spotless. |
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Uninhibited
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Unrepressed
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The congregation was shocked by her uninhibited laughter during the sermon. |
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Unintimidating
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Unfrightening
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"Though Phil had expected to feel overawed when he met Steve Young, he found the famous quarterback friendly and unintimidating." |
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Unique
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Without an equal; Single in kind
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You have the unique distinction of being the only student whom I have had to fail in this course. |
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Universal
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Characterizing or affecting all; Present everywhere
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"At first, no one shared Christopher's opinions; his theory that the world was round was met with universal disdain." |
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Unkempt
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Disheveled; Uncared for in appearance
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Jeremy hated his neighbor's unkempt lawn: he thought its neglected appearance had a detrimental effect on neighborhood property values. |
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Unmitigated
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Unabated; Absolute; Pure
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"After four days of unmitigated heat, I was ready to collapse from heat prostration. The congresswoman's husband was an unmitigated jerk: not only did he abandon her, he took her campaign funds, too!" |
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Unobtrusive
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Keeping a low profile; Modest or Reserved
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"Reluctant to attract notice, the governess took a chair in a far corner of the room and tried to be as unobtrusive as possible." |
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Unpalatable
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Distasteful; Disagreeable
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"""I refuse to swallow your conclusion,"" said she, finding his logic unpalatable." |
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Unprecedented
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Original; Unparalleled
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"For a first novel, Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind was an unprecedented success." |
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Unprepossessing
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Unattractive
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During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is unprepossessing. |
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Unravel
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Disentangle; Solve
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With equal ease Miss Marple unraveled tangled balls of yarn and baffling murder mysteries. |
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Unrequited
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Not reciprocated
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"Suffering the pangs of unrequited love, Olivia rebukes Cesario for his hardheartedness." |
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Unruly
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Disobedient; Lawless
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The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas. |
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Unscathed
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Unharmed
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They prayed he would come back from the war unscathed. |
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Unseemly
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Unbecoming; Indecent; In poor taste
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"When he put whoopie cushions on all the seats in the funeral parlor, his conduct was most unseemly." |
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Unsightly
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Ugly
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"Although James was an experienced emergency room nurse, he occasionally became queasy when faced with a particularly unsightly injury." |
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Unstinting
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"Generous, altruistic"
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The dean praised the donor of the new science building for her unstinting generosity. |
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Untenable
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"Indefensible (an argument); Not fit to be occupied, as an apartment, house"
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"Wayne is so contrary that, the more untenable a position is, the harder he'll try to defend it." |
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Unwarranted
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Unjustified; Groundless; Undeserved
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"Your assumption that I would accept your proposal is unwarranted, sir; I do not want to marry you at all. We could not understand Martin's unwarranted rudeness to his mother's guests." |
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Unwieldy
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Awkward; Cumbersome; Unmanageable
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The large carton was so unwieldy that the movers had trouble getting it up the stairs. |
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Unwitting
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Unintentional; Not knowing
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She was the unwitting tool of the swindlers. |
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Upbraid
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Severely scold; Reprimand
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"Not only did Miss Minchin upbraid Ermengarde for her disobedience, but she hung her up by her braids from a coat rack in the classroom. uproarious" |
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Upshot
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Outcome
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The upshot of the rematch was that the former champion proved that he still possessed all the skills of his youth. |
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Urbane
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Suave; Refined; Elegant; Civilized
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"The courtier was urbane and sophisticated. urbanity, N." |
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Usurp
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Seize another's power or rank
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The revolution ended when the victorious rebel general succeeded in his attempt to usurp the throne. |
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Utopia
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"Ideal place, state, or society"
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"Fed up with this imperfect universe, Don would have liked to run off to Shangri-la or some other imaginary utopia. utopian," |
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Vacuous
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Empty; Inane; Unintelligent
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"The vacuous remarks of the politician annoyed the audience, who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes." |
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Vagabond
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Wanderer; Tramp
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"In summer, college students wander the roads of Europe like carefree vagabonds. alsoADJ." |
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Vagrant
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A homeless wanderer
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"Because he was a stranger in town with no visible means of support, Martin feared he would be jailed as a vagrant. vagrancy, N." |
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Valedictory
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Pertaining to farewell
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I found the valedictory address too long; leave-taking should be brief. |
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Valid
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Logically convincing; Sound; Legally acceptable
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You're going to have to come up with a better argument if you want to convince me that your reasoning is valid. |
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Validate
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Confirm; Ratify
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I will not publish my findings until I validate my results. |
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Valor
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Bravery
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He received the Medal of Honor for his valor in battle. |
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Vampire
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Ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living
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Children were afraid to go to sleep because of the many legends of vampires roaming at night. |
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Vanguard
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Forerunners; Advance forces; Leader(s)
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We are the vanguard of a tremendous army that is following us. |
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Vantage
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Position giving an advantage
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"They fired upon the enemy from behind trees, walls and any other point of vantage they could find." |
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Vapid
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Dull and unimaginative; Insipid and flavorless
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"Bor-ing!" said Jessica, as she suffered through yet another vapid lecture about Dead White Male Poets." |
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Vaporize
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Turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc)
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"Zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he vaporized another deadly foe. |
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Variegated
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Many-colored
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"Without her glasses, Gretchen saw the fields of tulips as a variegated blur." |
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Veer
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Change in direction
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"After what seemed an eternity, the wind veered to the east and the storm abated." |
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Vehement
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Forceful; Passionate; With marked vigor
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"Alfred became so vehement in describing what was wrong with the Internal Revenue Service that he began jumping up and down and frothing at the mouth. vehemence, N." |
