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  • 51hair — n. 1) to brush; comb hair 2) to backcomb (BE), tease (AE); braid; do; set; style hair 3) to cut; trim hair 4) to shampoo, wash hair 5) to color; dye; tint hair 6) to part one s hair (he parts his hair in the middle, and I part mine on the side)… …

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  • 52clumsy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. awkward, lumbering; bungling, bumbling, left handed; cumbersome, unwieldy. See unskillfulness, gravity, ugliness. Ant., adroit, facile. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ungainly, inept, tactless,… …

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  • 53naughty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. disobedient, wayward, mischievous, troublesome, perverse; improper. See disobedience, impurity.Ant., obedient, nice. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wayward, disobedient, mischievous, impish, fiendish,… …

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  • 54obstreperous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. noisy, clamorous, vociferous; recalcitrant, unruly, riotous. See violence, disobedience. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. boisterous, noisy, vociferous, raucous; see loud 2 . See Synonym Study at… …

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  • 55recalcitrant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. refractory, stubborn, difficult, intractable; balky, mulish, cussed (inf.), cantankerous (inf.). See disobedience, obstinacy, resistance. Ant., obedient, cooperative. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn.… …

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  • 56refractory — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unruly, unmanageable, obstinate, stubborn, intractable. See disobedience. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Stubborn] Syn. obstinate, headstrong, willful, disobedient; see contrary 4 , naughty , obstinate …

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  • 57unwieldy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. clumsy, awkward, cumbersome, ungainly, bulky, ponderous, hulking (inf.). See gravity, size. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ponderous; see heavy 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 58wayward — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. perverse, willful, for ward; delinquent; capricious, changeable, wanton; rebellious; irregular, accidental. See changeableness, disobedience. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unruly, disobedient,… …

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  • 59bulky — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. massive, big, cumbersome; see fat 1 , heavy 1 , large 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. massive, unwieldy, cumbersome, huge, ponderous, prodigious, mammoth, sizable, unmanageable, hulking, voluminous. ANT.: small,… …

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  • 60difficult — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Hard to achieve] Syn. laborious, hard, arduous, strenuous, demanding, exacting, hard won, stiff, heavy, painful, labored, trying, titanic, bothersome, troublesome, burdensome, backbreaking, not easy, wearisome, onerous,… …

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