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abate (verb)

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  • ascetic
  • assiduous
  • assuage
  • audacious
  • austere
  • avarice
  • aver
  • banal
  • belie
  • bolster
  • bombastic
  • burgeon
  • byzantine
  • cacophony
  • calumny
  • candor
  • capricious
  • castigate
  • caustic
  • chastise
  • chicanery
  • cogent
  • conciliatory
  • corroborate
  • cosset
  • covet
  • craven
  • credulous
  • cupidity
  • decorum
  • deference
  • deleterious
  • delineate
  • demur
  • denigrate
  • despot
  • desultory
  • diatribe
  • didactic
  • diffident
  • dilatory
  • dilettante
  • dirge
  • disabuse
  • disingenuous
  • disparage
  • disparate
  • dissemble
  • dissonance
  • dogmatic
  • ebb
  • ebullient
  • eclectic
  • efficacy
  • elegy
  • eloquent
  • enervate
  • engender
  • enigmatic
  • ennui
  • ephemeral
  • equivocate
  • erudite
  • esoteric
  • exacerbate
  • exculpate
  • exigent
  • exonerate
  • expedient
  • fastidious
  • fatuous
  • fervent
  • filibuster
  • florid
  • fractious
  • frugal
  • futile
  • garrulous
  • gregarious
  • hackneyed
  • harangue
  • hegemony
  • heterodox
  • histrionic
  • iconoclast
  • idolatrous
  • impassive
  • imperturbable
  • impetuous
  • implacable
  • inchoate
  • inexorable
  • inimical
  • innocuous
  • insipid
  • intransigent
  • intrepid
  • inured
  • invective
  • irascible
  • juxtapose
  • labile
  • laconic
  • lament
  • languid
  • largesse
  • lassitude
  • laud
  • lethargic
  • levity
  • lionize
  • loquacious
  • lucid
  • magnanimous
  • malleable
  • maverick
  • mendacious
  • mercurial
  • meticulous
  • misanthrope
  • mitigate
  • mollify
  • morose
  • mundane
  • myopic
  • nascent
  • nonplussed
  • obdurate
  • obfuscate
  • obscure
  • obsequious
  • obviate
  • onerous
  • opprobrium
  • ossify
  • ostentatious
  • panache
  • paradox
  • paucity
  • pedantic
  • pellucid
  • penury
  • perfidy
  • perfunctory
  • pernicious
  • phlegmatic
  • pithy
  • placate
  • platitude
  • plethora
  • polemic
  • pragmatic
  • preen
  • prevaricate
  • probity
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • propensity
  • prosaic
  • pugnacious
  • quiescent
  • quixotic
  • rancor
  • recalcitrant
  • recondite
  • reticent
  • sagacious
  • sanguine
  • soporific
  • specious
  • sycophant
  • taciturn
  • torpor
  • tractable
  • trenchant
  • ubiquitous
  • vacillate
  • venerate
  • veracity
  • zealot