cadaverous
adjectiveVery pale, thin, and corpse-like in appearance.
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Clear all filtersVery pale, thin, and corpse-like in appearance.
The level of quality or ability of someone or something.
Something that brings about or accelerates a change.
Sharply critical or sarcastic; literally, able to burn or corrode.
Biting in tone
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To place limits or restrictions on something.
To become tiresome or unpleasant through an excess of something initially pleasing.
To think carefully or deeply about something.
Mental activity involved in knowing, thinking, perceiving, or remembering.
Aware of or having knowledge of something.
One word family: also includes cognizance.
Corresponding in size, degree, or value to something else.
Payment for work, or something provided to make up for a loss or disadvantage.
To grasp the meaning, nature, or significance of something.
To admit a point or yield something after resistance.
Admit or yield
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Expressing the needed information in few words.
One word family: also includes conciseness.
Clear in few words
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The arrangement of parts within a whole.
General agreement within a group.
Permission or voluntary agreement to something proposed.
Voluntary permission or agreement
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To assign or hand something over to a particular place, person, or fate.
In agreement or harmony with something.
To complete or bring something to its final fulfillment.
To introduce something unwanted that makes a substance or result impure or unreliable.
A strong feeling that someone or something is unworthy of respect.
Showing that someone or something is regarded as unworthy of respect.
To devise or arrange something through planning or ingenuity.
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