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adj
1. disagreeably direct and precise
e.g. he spoke with brutal honesty
2. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
e.g. a barbarous crime
brutal beatings
cruel tortures
Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks
a savage slap
vicious kicks
Synonym: barbarouscruelfellroughshodsavagevicious
3. resembling a beast
showing lack of human sensibility
e.g. beastly desires
a bestial nature
brute force
a dull and brutish man
bestial treatment of prisoners
Synonym: beastlybestialbrute(a)brutish
4. harsh
e.g. the brutal summer sun
a brutal winter
Synonym: unrelenting
noun
1. the act of changing your location in a downward direction
2. properties attributable to your ancestry
e.g. he comes from good origins
Synonym: originextraction
3. a movement downward
4. the descendants of one individual
e.g. his entire lineage has been warriors
Synonym: lineagelineline of descentbloodlineblood linebloodpedigreeancestryoriginparentagestemmastock
5. a downward slope or bend
Synonym: declivityfalldeclinedeclinationdeclensiondownslope
6. the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Synonym: line of descentlineagefiliation
noun
1. an illusory feat
considered magical by naive observers
Synonym: magic trickconjuring tricktrickmagiclegerdemainconjurationthaumaturgyillusion
2. the act of deceiving
Synonym: deceitdissemblingdissimulation
3. a misleading falsehood
Synonym: misrepresentationdeceit
adj
1. having no precedent
novel
e.g. an unprecedented expansion in population and industry
noun
1. righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
Synonym: uprightness
noun
1. the quality of being facile in speech and writing
Synonym: volubilityarticulateness
2. skillfulness in speaking or writing
3. powerful and effective language
e.g. his eloquence attracted a large congregation
fluency in spoken and written English is essential
his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police
Synonym: eloquencesmoothness