| predilection | (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, preference |
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| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, preference, taste |
| prehensile | (adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object | - |
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| (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy |
| (adjective) having a keen intellect | - |
| privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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| (noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
| (noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
| (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| privileged | (adjective) blessed with privileges | - |
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| (adjective) confined to an exclusive group | Synonyms: inner, inside |
| (adjective) not subject to usual rules or penalties | - |
| profile | (noun) biographical sketch | - |
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| (noun) an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics | - |
| (noun) a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers | - |
| (noun) an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side) | - |
| (noun) degree of exposure to public notice | Synonyms: visibility |
| (verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
| (verb) write about | - |
| projectile | (adjective) impelling or impelled forward | - |
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| (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: missile |
| (noun) any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine | Synonyms: rocket |
| propenonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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| protractile | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractible |
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| protrusile | (adjective) capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | Synonyms: protrusible |
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| puerile | (adjective) of or characteristic of a child | - |
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| (adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, jejune, juvenile |
| quartile | (noun) (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores | - |
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| reconcile | (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, conciliate |
| (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: resign, submit |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, settle |
| reconciled | (adjective) made compatible or consistent | - |
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| reconciler | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker |
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| refractile | (adjective) of or relating to or capable of refraction | Synonyms: refractive |
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| reptile | (noun) any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | Synonyms: reptilian |
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| resile | (verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed | - |
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| (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. | - |
| retailer | (noun) a merchant who sells goods at retail | Synonyms: retail merchant |
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| retractile | (adjective) capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back | - |
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| revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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| revilement | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, vilification |
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| rile | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: roil |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, vex |
| riled | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, roiled, steamed, stung |
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| roiled | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, steamed, stung |
| rutile | (noun) a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium | - |
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| sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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| sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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| sacrilegiously | (adverb) in a sacrilegious manner | - |
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| sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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| sandpile | (noun) a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in | Synonyms: sandbox, sandpit |
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| saxatile | (adjective) growing on or living among rocks | Synonyms: saxicoline, saxicolous |
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| semilegality | (noun) The property of being of partial or questionable legality. | Synonyms: semi-legality |
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| semitrailer | (noun) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle | Synonyms: semi |
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| senile | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, doddery, gaga |
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| servile | (adjective) submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants | - |
| servilely | (adverb) in an obsequious manner | Synonyms: obsequiously, subserviently |
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| sessile | (adjective) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk | Synonyms: stalkless |
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| (adjective) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about | - |
| shopsoiled | (adjective) worn or faded from being on display in a store | Synonyms: shopworn |
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| silence | (noun) the absence of sound | Synonyms: quiet |
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| (noun) a refusal to speak when expected | Synonyms: muteness |
| (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secrecy, secretiveness |
| (noun) the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking) | - |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, still |
| (verb) keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure | - |
| silenced | (adjective) reduced to silence | - |
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| silencer | (noun) a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise | Synonyms: muffler |
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| (noun) short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing | - |
| silene | (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, catchfly |
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| silent | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: tacit, understood |
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| (adjective) unable to speak because of hereditary deafness | Synonyms: dumb, mute |
| (adjective) having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility | - |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: soundless, still |
| (adjective) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to | Synonyms: mum |
| (adjective) not made to sound | Synonyms: unsounded |
| (adjective) expressed without speech | Synonyms: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless |
| silently | (adverb) without speaking | Synonyms: mutely, taciturnly, wordlessly |
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| silents | (noun) a movie without a soundtrack | Synonyms: silent movie, silent picture |
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| silenus | (noun) any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs) | - |
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| silesia | (noun) a sturdy twill-weave cotton fabric; used for pockets and linings | - |
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| silex | (noun) a pure form of finely ground silica | - |
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| simile | (noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | - |
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| smile | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, grinning, smiling |
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| (verb) change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure | - |
| (verb) express with a smile | - |
| smiler | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, visage |
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| (noun) a person who smiles | - |
| smiley | (noun) an emoticon of a smiling face | - |
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| snowmobile | (noun) tracked vehicle for travel on snow having skis in front | - |
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| (verb) ride a snowmobile | - |
| soiled | (adjective) soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime | Synonyms: dirty, unclean |
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| spermophile | (noun) any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops | Synonyms: gopher, ground squirrel |
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| spile | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: bung |
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| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, piling, stilt |
| spoiled | (adjective) having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| (adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | Synonyms: bad, spoilt |
| spoiler | (noun) a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag | - |
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| (noun) an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds | - |
| (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider |
| (noun) a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning | - |
| (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer |
| stabile | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immovable, immoveable, unmovable |
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| (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change | - |
| (noun) a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support | - |
| sterile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, unfertile |
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| (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: aseptic |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive |
| sterileness | (noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: antisepsis, asepsis, sterility |
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| stile | (noun) an upright that is a member in a door or window frame | - |
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| stiletto | (noun) a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
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| stockpile | (noun) a storage pile accumulated for future use | - |
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| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: backlog, reserve |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stock |
| strobile | (noun) cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts | Synonyms: cone, strobilus |
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| tactile | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: haptic, tactual |
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| (adjective) producing a sensation of touch | Synonyms: tactual |
| tailed | (adjective) having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination | - |
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| technophile | (noun) a person who is enthusiastic about new technology | - |
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| tensile | (adjective) of or relating to tension | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tractile |
| textile | (adjective) of or relating to fabrics or fabric making | - |
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| (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, fabric, material |
| thermoacidophile | (noun) archaebacteria that thrive in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures | - |
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| thermolabile | (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) readily changed or destroyed by heat | - |
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| thermopile | (noun) a kind of thermometer for measuring heat radiation; consists of several thermocouple junctions in series | - |
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| tile | (noun) a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces | - |
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| (noun) game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc. | - |
| (noun) a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing | Synonyms: roofing tile |
| (verb) cover with tiles | - |
| tiled | (adjective) covered or furnished with tiles | - |
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| tilefish | (noun) yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | Synonyms: Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
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| (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: blanquillo |
| tiler | (noun) a worker who lays tile | - |
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| toiler | (noun) one who works strenuously | - |
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| toilet | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilette |
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| (noun) a room or building equipped with one or more toilets | Synonyms: bathroom, can, john, lav, lavatory, privy |
| (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne |
| (noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: gutter, sewer |
| toiletry | (noun) artifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body) | Synonyms: toilet articles |
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| toilette | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilet |
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| tractile | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile |
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| trailer | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy | Synonyms: house trailer |
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| (noun) a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor | - |
| (noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: preview, prevue |
| (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke |
| turnstile | (noun) a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering | - |
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| uncoiled | (adjective) no longer coiled | Synonyms: straight |
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| undefiled | (adjective) (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased | Synonyms: uncorrupted |
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| (adjective) free from stain or blemish | Synonyms: immaculate |
| underprivileged | (adjective) lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society | - |
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| unfertile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, sterile |
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| unoiled | (adjective) in need of oil treatment | - |
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| (adjective) not having oil rubbed into the surface | - |
| unreconciled | (adjective) not made consistent or compatible | - |
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| unservile | (adjective) not servile or submissive | Synonyms: unsubmissive |
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| unsilenced | (adjective) not silenced | - |
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| unsoiled | (adjective) without soil or spot or stain | Synonyms: unspotted, unstained |
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| unspoiled | (adjective) not left to spoil | Synonyms: good, unspoilt |
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| (adjective) not decayed or decomposed | Synonyms: uncorrupted |
| unveiled | (adjective) revealed; especially by having a veil removed | - |
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| utile | (adjective) being of use or service | Synonyms: useful |
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| vagile | (adjective) having freedom to move about | - |
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| veiled | (adjective) having or as if having a veil or concealing cover | - |
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| (adjective) muted or unclear | - |
| versatile | (adjective) able to move freely in all directions | - |
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| (adjective) competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another | - |
| (adjective) changeable or inconstant | - |
| (adjective) having great diversity or variety | Synonyms: various |
| vile | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, worthless, wretched |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening |