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Main Entry:
palter [pawl-ter]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lie
Synonyms: babble, bargain, deceive, equivocate, falsify, fib, haggle, prevaricate, quibble
Main Entry: pick on
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: nag
Synonyms: badger, bait, blame, bully, carp, cavil, criticize, find fault, foment, get at, get to, goad, hector, incite, instigate, pick at, provoke, quibble, start, tease, torment
Main Entry: split hairs
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make an extremely fine distinction
Synonyms: cavil, chop logic, make a fine distinction, nitpick, pick nits, quibble, refine a distinction, sharpen a distinction, subtilize
Main Entry: nitpick
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: criticize
Synonyms: carp, cavil, quibble
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Main Entry: disagree
Part of Speech: verb
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Adjectives:
abusive, adverse, ajar, answerable, aristarchian, at a discount, at cross-purpose, at daggers drawn, at feud, at high words, at issue, at loggerheads, at odds, at sixes and sevens, at variance, bad, biting, blameworthy, blown upon, captious, carping, censorious, chid, clamorous, condemnatory, controversial, contumacious, critical, cutting, cynical, damnatory, defamatory, denominational, denunciatory, disagreeing, disapproved, disapproving, discontented, discordant, disgruntled, disparaging, disputatious, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, disunited, dry, embroiled, exceptionable, exploded, extorted, factious, fastidious, gladiatorial, grudging praise, hard upon, hostile, hypercritical, illaudatory, in bad odor, in hot water, inconsequential, inexcusable, intropunitive, judgmental, litigant, litigious, negative, non-content, non-juring, objurgatory, on bad terms, opposed, out of the question, out of tune, pejorative, pettifogging, polemic, protestant, quarrelsome, rabulistic, recusant, rejectaneous, rejected, rejectitious, reprehensible, reproachful, sarcastic, sardonic, scandalized, schismatic, sectarian, severe, sharp, snooty, sparing of praise, stuck-up, supercilious, taboo, to blame, together by the ears, tongue-whaled, torn, trenchant, unacknowledged, unapproved, unavowed, unbewailed, unblest, uncommendable, uncomplimentary, unconsenting, unconverted, unconvinced, underrated, undeserving, unfavorable, unflattering, unlamented, unpacific, unpacified, unplausive, unpopular, unpromising, unreconciled, unsatisfactory, unsung, unwilling, unworthy, up in arms, verboten, wrong
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Main Entry: evasion
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
avoiding, elusive, escaped, escaping, evasive, fugitive, lucifugous, neutral, runaway, shy, unattempted, unsought, wild
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