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(n.) dispute; quarrel; debate; strife
What is controversy?
100
(n.) bad happening; misfortune; unlucky accident; mischance
What is mishap?
100
(adj.) 1. not deep 2. lacking intellectual depth; superficial; uncritical
What is shallow?
100
(v.) (usually followed by to) agree; assent; consent; acquiesce
What is accede?
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(adj.) able to be worn with either side out
What is reversible?
200
(adj.) completely obvious; without any attempt at concealment
What is blatant?
200
(adj.) having to do with the country (as distinguished from the city or town)
What is rural?
200
(n.) very large number of people or things; crowd; throng; horde; swarm
What is multitude?
200
(v.) lose or have to give up as a penalty for some error, neglect, or fault; sacrifice
What is forfeit?
200
(n.) A gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity; a break
What is hiatus?
300
(adj.) having no money; poor; penniless
What is impecunious?
300
(v.) 1. to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit 2. to learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly
What is glean?
300
(adj.) of or relating to an enemy or enemies; unfriendly; inimical
What is hostile?
300
(n.) a beginner in learning anything; novice
What is tyro?
300
(n.) lawsuit; act or process of carrying on a lawsuit
What is litigation?
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(adj.) having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning
What is perspicacious?
400
(adj.) characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning
What is obsequious?
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(adj.) inclined to associate with the “flock’ or group; fond of being with others; sociable
What is gregarious?
400
(adj.) extremely or excessively careful about small details; fussy
What is meticulous?
400
(n.) the state, practice, or condition of being or becoming out of date or discarded
What is obsolescence?
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(adj.) resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly
What is obstreperous?
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(adj.) melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
What is histrionic?
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(adj.) 1. bad; unfortunate 2. of very poor quality or condition 3. causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad
What is deplorable?
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(adj.) very sad or mournful, esp. in a way that seems exaggerated or ridiculous
What is lugubrious?
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(adj.) beginning to show itself; commencing; in an early stage; initial
What is incipient?
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