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Highbrow |
adejtive, concerned with or interested in serious artistic or cultural ideas. |
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lowbrow. |
adjetive, having no connection with or interested in serious artistic or cultural ideas. |
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depict. |
verb, to show an imag of somebody or something in a picture; to describe something in words. |
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convey. |
verb, to make ideas, feeling, etc, known. |
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evocative. |
adejtive, making you tink or remember a stron gimage or feling; in a pleasant way. |
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indicative. |
adjetive, showing or suggesting something. |
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essence. |
noun, the most important quality or feature of something, that makes it what it is. |
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timeless. |
adejtive, not appearing to be affected by the passing of time or by changes in fashion. |
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contemporary. |
adjetive, belonging to th epresent time. |
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innovate. |
adejtive, introducing or using new ideas, ways of doing something. |
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startling. |
adjetive, extremely unusual and surprising. |
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arrenting. |
adejtive,attracting a lot of attention; very atractive. |
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implausible. |
adejtive, not seeming reasonable or likely to be true.
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incoherent. |
adejtive, of people,unable to express yourself clearly, or because of emotion; of sounds, not clear and hard to understand. |
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unenthusiastic. |
adjetive, not enthusiastic. |
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diasgreeable. |
adjetive, not nice or enjoyable; of a person. rude and undfriendly. |
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illogical. |
adjetive, not reasonable, wise, or practical, usually bacuase directed by the emotions rather than by careful though. |
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non-violent. |
adejtive, using paceaful methods, not force, to bring about political or social change; not involvin froce or injury to somebody. |
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irreverent. |
adjetive, usually approving, not showing respect to somebody / something that other people usually respects. |
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immoral. |
adjetive, not considered to be good or honest; not following accepted standards of sexual behaviour. |
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immodest. |
adejtive, having or showing a ver high opinion of yourself and your abilities; not considered to be socially acceptable by most people, especially concerning sexual behaviour. |
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illiterate. |
adjetive, not able to read and write. |
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unbiased. |
adejtive, fair and nor influenced by your own or somebody else´s opinions, desires, etc. |
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misunderstood. |
adejtive, having qualities that people do not see or fully understand. |
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irrelevant. |
adejtive, not important to or connected with a situation. |
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inauspicious
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adejtive (formal) showing sings that the future will not be good or successful.
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unconnected. |
adejtive, not related or connected in any way. |
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disconnected. |
adejetive, not related or connected with the things or people around, formerly connected. |
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interconnected |
adejtive, related to or connected with many similar things. |
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unassailable |
adejtive, not able to be attacked; undeniable or irrefutable. |
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uninhabited. |
adejtive, without inhabitants. |
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uncluttered. |
adejtive, not having or impeded by too many objects, details or elements. |
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inapt. |
adjetive, not suitable or appropiate in the circumstances. |
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overplay. |
verb.give undue importance to; overemphasize. |
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overplay one´s hand. |
expoil one´s chance of succes through excessive confidence in one´s position. |