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| Reveal , disclose | They divulged the secret (2) |
| Restless, fidgety, edgy | The crowd has been waiting for long hours and many were becoming restive (3) |
| Present, permeate, fill, suffuse | The spirit of hopelessness pervaded (4) |
| Form again | They tried to recast the statement less formal |
| Sin, vice, godlessness | He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety of people (3) |
| Generator | A dynamo on a bicycle will power a pair of lights while the wheels are going around. |
| Defeat, conquer, surmount (verb) | The vanquished army surrendered their weapons |
| Undulating ,meandering, Serpentine, windy, winding | The hikers followed the sinuous path through the trees. (4) |
| Calumny, strong criticism | His controversial essays have brought him much obloquy. |
| Dogged, cohesive, determined (adj) | There has been tenacious local opposition to the new airport. (3) |
| Appeasing, assuaging, propitiatory(adj) | A conciliatory gesture/remark (3) |
| Eulogy, paean,panegyric (adj) | They need no encomium of mine, but I am prepared to stand by them to the last ditch.(3) |
| Disuse, inactivity (noun) | But it seems that up to the cession, these regulations had fallen into desuetude.(2) |
| Luxurious,delightful,sexy,sensuous | I have not schemed to win a pampered and voluptuous existence (3) |
| Enthral, fascinate, stupefy, enchant,transfix(verb) | I was completely mesmerized by the performance.(5) |
| Annouy, disconcert ( noun, verb) | Yet, despite his chagrin, he realized that he could not send her from him forthwith.( 2) |
| The act of killing a king | Regicide |
| Woebegone, sad(adj) | Yet the thought of her had persisted as a plaintive undertone through all the days after.(2) |
| Burnish, dazzling, gleaming, glistening(adj) | The colouring is not so good; in the mass, it is not so lustrous, nor so varied(4) |
| Confusion, jumble, tangle(noun) | We are reducing the company's welter of development projects(3) |
| Adorn, deck, drape, decorate(verb) | The hall was festooned with Christmas lights(4) |
| Corrective, penal ,diciplinary (adj) | The UN has imposed punitive sanctions on the invading country.(3) |
| Lightheartedness, frivolity, jocularity(noun) | A brief moment of levity amid the solemn proceedings (3) |
| Truce (noun) | A two-week armistice has been declared between the rival factions (1) |
| Inquisition, examination, quest, probe(noun) | An inquest into the department's poor performance (4) |
| Attribute, impute, refer, put down (verb) | To ascribe them specially to God would seem to us far-fetched (3) |
| Budgetary,economic, financial (adj) | Fiscal policy (3) |
| Make stronger | We need to find some new players to beef up the team. |
| A mistake | They claimed it was simply (an) oversight.(1) |
| Disobey, defy, infringe | Who is supposed to have committed these transgressions?(3) |
| Covert, hidden, underlying | He claims he just wants to help Lisa but I suspect he has an ulterior motive |
| Instil,breathe, inject(verb) | The arrival of a group of friends on Saturday infused new life into the weekend(3) |
| Dispute | There's no point quibbling about/over a couple of dollars |
| Instill,fix,implant,ingrain | To inculcate this principle is the highest mission of the higher education |
| Happy,pleasant(adj) | She recalled the halcyon days of her youth(2) |
| Negligent,careless(adj) | The subcommittee contends that the authorities were lax in investigating most of the cases(2) |
| Officially having the named position,bearer,holder. | The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office. |
| Necessary | It is incumbent upon (= necessary for) all of us to create a safe community |
| Recompense, propitiate (verb) | Each man should atone for his own sin (2) |
| Esoteric,recondite, arcane(adj) | This abstruse notion is the foundation of the Hegelian logic (2) |
| Facede,semblance, surface (noun) | Truthfulness is essential to culture, which, without it, will be only a veneer. (3) |
| Written statement of belifs, aims... | In their election manifesto, the Liberal Democrats proposed increasing taxes to pay for improvements in education. |
| Desultory,careless(adj) | He fell to them with only a perfunctory acknowledgment of my agency in procuring them(2) |
| Embrace,take up, adopt,support | He espoused conservative political views (4) |
| Prurient,obscence,lewd | Salacious comment/look |
| In decline (adj) | The figures show a moribund remortgage market(1) |
| Comatose, dallying,dull, inactive (adj) | I repel the imputation that our race, as a class, is lazy and slothful(4) |
| Merge, | The different offices will be amalgamated as/into employment advice centres |
| Dormancy,latency(noun) | The project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding (2) |
| Discern,note,observe,make out,pick out(verb) | I think they can only descry them in virtue of the elementary blunders which they themselves have made.(3) |
| Glut,oversupply(noun) | The country has a surfeit of cheap labour(2) |
| Ruinous,incendiary,riotous.(adj) | The FBI had the duty of obtaining evidence of subversive activity.(3) |
| Recession, decrease | The value of property has slumped(2) |
| Apprehension, consternation, palpitations,dismay(noun) | We view future developments with some trepidation(4) |
| Extravagant,immoral,debauchee(adj) | The profligate use of antibiotics has led to the evolution of resistant bacteria. |
| Accompanying,attendant(2) | Loss of memory is a natural concomitant of old age (noun) |
| Abjure,recent,retract,repudiate,renounce,disavow (verb) | To forswear all violence(6) |
| Complacent,proud(adj) | A smug grin(2) |
| Fabrication,dream | Some think it obvious that values are figments of our imagination or projections of our feelings, that talk about values is mere exclamation or prescription. |
| The most important fact in a situation | The bottom line is we don't have enough health care professionals. |
| Model,exempler, specimen | Some of these educators are hoping to produce a change in the current cultural paradigm |
| Dilemma | I’ve had two job offers, and I’m in a real quandary about/over which one to accept |
| Brazenly,recklessly | I will not hesitate to identify countries which repeatedly and wantonly violate international law. |
| Clear,intelligible,coherent,articulate | Pellucid prose/water |
| Revoke,repeal,repudiate,end | The treaty was abrogated in 1929. |
| Complain,cavill,grumble | I can't stand the way he's always carping |