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Question English Answer English
fortuitous
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lucky
opportune
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lucky
propitious
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changla muhurta
serendipity
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lucky
despair
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lose hope
hapless
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no luck
wretched
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very unhappy un lucky
adversity
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difficult situation suffering
affliction
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pain suffering
mishap
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pain suffering
ordeals
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unpleasant experience suffering
tribulations
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pain suffering
evocative
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remembering past
i do not have evocative memory to right biography
hindsight
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the knowledge and understanding that youhave about an event only after it hashappened
nostalgia
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remembering past
reminiscence
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remembering past
retrospect
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a review of or meditation on past events
wistful
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nostalgic
chauvinism
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blind patriotism... male chauvisim
fanatic
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marked by excessive enthusiasm and oftenintense uncritical devotion
jingoism
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blind patriotism
zealot
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person who has very strong feelingsabout something (such as religion or politics
exiguous
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very less
meager
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very small
puny
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small and weak
scanty
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very less
skimpy
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very less in size
spare sparse
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very less
Obtain
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Routine behaviour
Wont
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Routine behavior
Affluent
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Wealthy
Opulent
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Wealthy
Accretion
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increase
aggrandize
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increase
augment
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increase
Balloon
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increase rapidly
dilate
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increase
Her eyes dilated with horror
Enhance
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Increase
Mounting
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Increase
profilerate
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increase rapidly
Wax
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become larger or stronger
Amalgamate
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Combine
Coalition
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combining
Meld
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combining
synthesis
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combining
Constrict
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make narrow
contracts
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narrows
curtail
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restrict
dwindle
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reduce
Flag
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lose energy, interest,
wane
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reduce
Frugal
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provide very less
Thrift
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careful and wise spending
closefisted
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unwillingly to spend money
Miser
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unwilling to spend money
niggardly
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unwilling to spend money
Parsimonious
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unwilling to spend money
Skinflint
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unwilling to spend money
stingy
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unwilling to spend money
stint
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frugal
tightfisted
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unwilling to spend money
abate
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become less intense
ebb
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make less intense
We will talk to him when his anger ebbs.
Recede
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move back or become faint or distant
The sound of the truck receded into the distance.
subside
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make less intense
he waited nervously for his anger to subside.
apposite
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relevant
apropos
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appropriate
Germane
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relevant
pertinent
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relevant
abound
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exist in large numbers
Barrage
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a large number of things coming together
The media's barrage of attacks on the President's wife
Bounteous
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abundant
copious
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abundant
gult
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large amount
INUNDATE
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to flood someone with requests, demands, etc
plethora
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large amount
profuse
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abundant
profilic
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abundant
steep
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excess. to soak in something to get flavor
surfeit
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excess amount
teem
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excess
ambivalent ambiguous equivocal
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unlear in meaning
belabor
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argue or discuss in excessive details
under statement
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explain less
impervious
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cannot be defeated
indomitable
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cannot be defeated
invincible
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cannot be defeated
dearth
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lack of something
deficit
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lack of
paucity
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lack of
vacuous
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lack of expression, thought
a vacuous smile
bankrupt
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poor
destitute
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poor
impecunious
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having no money
impoverish
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make poor
indigent
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poor
insolvent
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not able to pay debts
penury
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extreme poverty
solvent
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able to pay debts
exorbitant
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very high price
gouging
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excessive price for something
prohibitive
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so high that people are prevented from buying
restive
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impatient
skittish
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nervous
extravagance
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spend lavishly
prodigal
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carelessly spending
spendthrift
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spend lavishly
squander
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to use something wastefully
absolute
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certain
categorical
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said in clear and definite way
certitude
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a state of feeling certain
emphatic
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certain
incontrovertible
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not being able to doubt
unqualified
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certain
youbhave my unqualified support
contingent
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likely but not certainly
provisional
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accepted but might change in further
qualify
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in certain
tentative
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not certain

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