reciprocal
adjectiveShared or exchanged by both sides.
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Clear all filtersShared or exchanged by both sides.
To respond with a similar action or feeling.
A person who lives apart from others.
Avoiding company and preferring seclusion.
To restore harmony or make differing accounts or ideas consistent.
Make consistent
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Little known and difficult to understand without specialized knowledge.
Cowardly or disloyal, especially in abandoning a duty.
Cowardly
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An accusation made in response to another accusation.
To correct or put something right.
Lying down or reclining.
To recover strength or well-being after strain or illness.
One word family: also includes recuperation.
Occurring again, especially repeatedly.
Having a strong scent or strongly suggesting a particular quality or memory.
Strongly scented
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To remedy a wrong or compensate for a harm.
Oversimplifying by removing important complexity or distinctions.
A group used as a standard for evaluating one's own attitudes, abilities, or circumstances.
A vote in which the public directly decides a specific proposal.
Stubbornly resistant to control or an attempted remedy.
Resisting control
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To hold oneself back from doing something.
To renovate or improve the condition and appearance of something.
An argument or evidence showing that a claim is false or mistaken.
To demonstrate that a claim or argument is false.
Royal or impressively dignified.
To entertain or delight someone with stories or other pleasures.
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