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"conjurations", "glamours", "glamors", "incantations", "spells", "hexereis", "hoodoos", "occultisms", "spiritualisms", "curses", "hexes", "jinxes", "augurs", "omens", "alchemies" ], "near antonyms":[ "sciences" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "exorcising":{ "to get rid of as useless or unwanted":{ "examples":[ "please exorcise that offensive word from your vocabulary" ], "synonyms":[ "cashiering", "casting (off)", "chucking", "deep-sixing", "discarding", "ditching", "dumping", "eighty-sixing", "86ing", "flinging (off or away)", "jettisoning", "junking", "laying by", "losing", "pitching", "rejecting", "scrapping", "shedding", "shucking (off)", "sloughing (off)", "sluffing (off)", "throwing away", "throwing out", "tossing", "unloading" ], "near synonyms":[ "abandoning", "abdicating", "deserting", "forsaking", "dismissing", "kicking out", "abolishing", "annihilating", "eliminating", "eradicating", "expunging", "exterminating", "extinguishing", "extirpating", "liquidating", 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"accusations", "arraignments", "impeachments", "incriminations", "indictments", "prosecutions", "castigations", "censures", "condemnations", "denunciations" ], "antonyms":[ "convictions" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "exoduses":{ "a flowing or going out":{ "examples":[ "the mass exodus from the cities for the beaches and the mountains on most summer weekends" ], "synonyms":[ "gushes", "outflows", "outpourings", "outpours" ], "near synonyms":[ "drains", "flows", "ebbs", "reflows", "refluxes", "rushes", "stampedes", "diasporas", "emigrations", "flights", "discharges", "effluences", "emanations", "emissions" ], "near antonyms":[ "deluges", "floods", "inundations", "overflows", "spates", "torrents", "rivers", "streams", "tides" ], "antonyms":[ "fluxes", "inflows", "influxes", "inrushes" ] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "exordiums":{ "a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part":{ "examples":[ "in his exordium the author warns his readers that they should expect a radically 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"plates", "platings", "shields", "cartridges", "cassettes", "casettes", "barks", "crusts", "cuticles", "hides", "skins", "envelopes", "packages", "wrappers", "backings", "coatings", "covertures", "facings" ], "near antonyms":[], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "exorbitantly":{ "beyond a normal or acceptable limit":{ "examples":[ "the exorbitantly priced concert tickets had us wondering if we were personally footing the bill for the band's private jet" ], "synonyms":[ "devilishly", "excessively", "inordinately", "intolerably", "monstrously", "overly", "overmuch", "too", "unacceptably", "unduly" ], "near synonyms":[ "extravagantly", "immoderately", "intemperately", "extortionately", "inexcusably", "obscenely", "unbearably", "unconscionably", "unreasonably", "improperly", "inappropriately", "abnormally", "extraordinarily", "freakishly", "singularly", "uncommonly", "uncustomarily", "unusually", "astronomically", "considerably", "deadly", "eminently", "especially", "exceedingly", 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