absolve
verbTo release someone from blame, responsibility, or an obligation.
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Clear all filtersTo release someone from blame, responsibility, or an obligation.
A deliberate choice not to take part in an action, especially a decision not to cast a vote.
The deliberate practice of refraining from something.
To formally find someone not guilty of a charge; more generally, to clear someone of blame.
To cause someone to act or something to operate.
Move someone to act
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Having considerable wealth or financial resources.
Having considerable wealth
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A whole formed by combining several separate parts.
Open to more than one interpretation or not clearly expressed.
To improve an unfavorable condition or situation.
Willing to consider a proposal or respond favorably to influence.
Full of energy, movement, or lively expression.
A collection of selected writings or other creative works.
Requiring considerable effort or endurance.
Requiring sustained effort
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Showing an exaggerated sense of one's importance or superiority.
Overconfident of superiority
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The deliberate, unlawful burning of property.
Natural and without deliberate pretense or calculation.
Giving careful attention or showing thoughtful concern for another person's needs.
Giving careful attention
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Unreasonably intolerant of people or opinions outside one's own group or beliefs.
Involving support or cooperation from two political parties.
Strongly interested in books or learning, sometimes more than in practical experience.
A rude person who shows little consideration for others.
Rude and insensitive to others.
Rude and insensitive
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Deliberately planned to achieve a particular result.
One of the four traditional virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
One of four traditional virtues
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