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adumbrate foreshadow, foretell, harbinger, shadow, darken - The light behind her adumbrated her featues in the picture. affliction adversity, anguish, calamity, cross, crux, depression, difficulty, pain - AIDS has been a worldwide affliction which only recently has come under the control of medical management. apocryphal of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true - The story that Washington threw a dollar across the Potomac enhances his legend but is, in the end, apocryphal. brusque abrupt almost rude, Her brusque response was"no!" consonant in agreement or harmony,parallel, similar - British and American foreign policies have often been consonant in the last century. credible capable of being believed; believable - The idea that Iraq had nuclear weapons tunred out not to be credible. emulate imitate,mimic, mirror - The little girl tried to emulate her mother as she had a little desk and plastic computer set up in her mom's office. idiosyncrasy feature, habit, mannerism, peculiarity - The phrase "ya know" is a verbal idiosyncrasy which many of us need to eliminate in public speaking. kludge configuration that, while inelegant, inefficient, clumsy, or patched together, succeeds in solving a specific problem - While my software scripts were hardly works of art, they were kludges which kept the server running. turophile a connoisseur or lover of cheese - While she rarely turned down any offer of cheese this turophile loved brie.