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  • 91ominous — I adjective adverse, alarming, augurial, auspicial, baleful, bodeful, dangerous, dark, depressing, dire, direful, disastrous, dismaying, dispiriting, disquieting, disturbing, divinatory, fatidic, fatidical, fear inspiring, fearful, forbidding,… …

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  • 92cosmetic neurology — n. The use of pharmaceuticals to enhance cognitive function in a healthy brain. Example Citations: Still, even if you acknowledge that cosmetic neurology is here to stay, there is something dispiriting about the way the drugs are used the kind of …

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  • 93gallery rage — n. Extreme anger displayed by an art gallery patron when a visit is marred by huge crowds or rude gallery staff. Example Citations: Gauguin: Maker of Myth has drawn what is thought to be a record number of visitors to a Tate exhibition, but many… …

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  • 94globophobe — (GLOH.boh.fohb) n. A person who fears or is against globalization. globophobic adj. globophobia n. Example Citation: Saturday is trash time in Davos. On the third day of the World Economic Forum, globophobes and anticapitalists of every stripe… …

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  • 95revenge effect — (ri.VENJ uh.fekt) n. An unintended and negative consequence of some new or modified technology. Example Citations: It s possible that by reducing traditional workplace hazards and making all work less strenuous, Americans have increased the risk… …

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  • 96bitter — Synonyms and related words: Siberian, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, affecting, afflictive, aftertaste, algid, alienated, amaroidal, annoying, antagonistic, antipathetic, arctic, asperous,… …

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  • 97black — Synonyms and related words: American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Brunswick black, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, Stygian, WASP, abominable, absolute,… …

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  • 98cheerless — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, anguished, anxious, apathetic, bitter, bleak, bored, comfortless, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, discomforting, disconsolate …

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  • 99cold — Synonyms and related words: Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, Laodicean, Olympian, Siberian, abruptly, absolutely, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, affectless, ague, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anesthetized, anthracosilicosis,… …

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  • 100depressant — Synonyms and related words: Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dial, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Sulfonal, Trional, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic,… …

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