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aberrant
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adj 1: markedly different from an accepted norm; "aberrant
behavior"; "deviant ideas" [syn: aberrant, deviant,
deviate]
n 1: one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a
group
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apparent
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adj 1: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment;
"the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who
sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest
disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning
plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in
plain view" [syn: apparent, evident, manifest,
patent, plain, unmistakable]
2: appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his
apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the
committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the
ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"
[syn: apparent(a), ostensible, seeming(a)]
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arrant
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adj 1: without qualification; used informally as (often
pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete
coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain";
"gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly";
"what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a
thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the
unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a),
consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a),
gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a),
stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a),
unadulterated]
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deterrent
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adj 1: tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices"
n 1: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action
or progress [syn: hindrance, hinderance, deterrent,
impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap]
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errant
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adj 1: straying from the right course or from accepted
standards; "errant youngsters"
2: uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an
errant breeze"
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godparent
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n 1: a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism
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incoherent
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adj 1: without logical or meaningful connection; "a turgid
incoherent presentation" [ant: coherent, consistent,
logical, ordered]
2: (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase
relation [ant: coherent]
3: unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt tongue-
tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief" [syn:
incoherent, tongue-tied]
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inerrant
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adj 1: not liable to error; "the Church was...theoretically
inerrant and omnicompetent"-G.G.Coulton; "lack an
inerrant literary sense"; "an unerring marksman" [syn:
inerrable, inerrant, unerring]
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inherent
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adj 1: existing as an essential constituent or characteristic;
"the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of
periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the
truth" [syn: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt,
inherent, integral]
2: in the nature of something though not readily apparent;
"shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying
meaning" [syn: implicit in(p), inherent, underlying]
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parent
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n 1: a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth
to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the
role of guardian [ant: child, kid]
2: an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are
obtained
v 1: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn:
rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent]
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transparent
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adj 1: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
"the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal
clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the
limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook";
"transparent crystal" [syn: crystalline, crystal
clear, limpid, lucid, pellucid, transparent]
2: so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil";
"filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down";
"gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent
chiffon"; "vaporous silks" [syn: diaphanous, filmy,
gauzy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer,
transparent, vaporous, vapourous, cobwebby]
3: free of deceit [syn: guileless, transparent]
4: easily understood or seen through (because of a lack of
subtlety); "a transparent explanation"; "a transparent lie"
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arendt
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n 1: United States historian and political philosopher (born in
Germany) (1906-1975) [syn: Arendt, Hannah Arendt]
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ferrant
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guerrant
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emerant
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berent
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