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trite, hackneyed, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, stale, banal.
These adjectives describe something, such as writing or speech that lacks
appeal or power because it lacks freshness.
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trivial, trifling, paltry, petty, picayune.
These adjectives all apply to what is small and unimportant.
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trust, faith, confidence, reliance, dependence.
These nouns denote a feeling of certainty that a person or thing will not fail.
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truth, veracity, verity.
These nouns refer to the quality of being in accord with fact or reality.
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turn, rotate, revolve, gyrate, spin, whirl, circle, eddy, swirl.
These verbs all mean to move or cause to move in a circle.
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type, kind, sort, nature, character, ilk.
These nouns refer to groups of people or things regarded as constituting a
class because of their shared attributes or characteristics.
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uncertainty, doubt, dubiety, skepticism, suspicion, mistrust.
These nouns all refer to the condition of being unsure about someone or
something.
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unity, union, solidarity.
These nouns denote the condition of accord resulting from an identity or
coincidence of interests, purposes, or sympathies among the members of a group.
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unruly, ungovernable, intractable, refractory, recalcitrant, willful, headstrong, wayward.
These adjectives all mean resistant or marked by resistance to control.
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urge, press, exhort, prod, prick.
These verbs mean to constrain or impel to action.
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use, employ, utilize.
These verbs mean to avail oneself of someone or something in order to make
him, her, or it useful, functional, or beneficial.
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valid, sound, cogent, convincing, telling.
These adjectives describe assertions, arguments, conclusions, reasons, or
intellectual processes that are persuasive because they are well founded, as in
fact, logic, or rationality.
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vent, express, utter, voice, air.
These verbs mean to give outlet to thoughts or emotions.
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vertical, upright, perpendicular, plumb.
These adjectives are compared as they mean being at or approximately at right
angles to the horizon or to level ground.
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vindictive, vengeful, revengeful.
These adjectives mean desiring or proceeding from a desire for revenge.
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vociferous, blatant, boisterous, strident, clamorous.
These adjectives all mean conspicuously and usually offensively loud.
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voluntary, intentional, deliberate, willful, willing.
These adjectives mean being or resulting from one's own free will.
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wander, ramble, roam, rove, range, meander, stray, gallivant, gad.
These verbs mean to move about at random or without destination or purpose.
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warn, caution, forewarn.
These verbs mean to give someone notice of and put the person on guard against
actual or possible danger or risk.
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way, route, course, passage, pass, artery.
These nouns refer to paths leading from one place or point to another.
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weak, feeble, frail, fragile, infirm, decrepit, debilitated.
These adjectives mean lacking or showing a lack of strength.
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wet, damp, moist, dank, humid.
These adjectives mean covered with or saturated with liquid.
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wit, humor, sarcasm, irony.
These nouns are compared as they denote forms of expression that elicit
amusement or laughter.
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work, labor, toil, drudgery, travail.
These nouns refer to the exertion of physical or mental faculties in order to
accomplish something, contrasted with play or recreation.
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yearn, long, pine, hanker, hunger, thirst.
These verbs mean to have a strong desire for something.
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yield, relent, bow, defer, submit, capitulate.
These verbs all mean to give in to what one can no longer oppose or resist.
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