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aroma (noun)

    A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
        e.g.: I love the aroma of cinnamon.

obscene (adjective)

    Offensive to current standards of decency or morality
    Lewd or lustful
    Disgusting or repulsive
    Beyond all reason
    Liable to deprave or corrupt

lewd (adjective)

    Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.

repulsive (adjective)

    tending to rouse aversion or to repulse
    having the capacity to repel

repel (verb)

    To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.
    To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
    To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
    To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).

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aversion (noun)

    Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.
        e.g.: Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.
    An object of dislike or repugnance.
        e.g.: Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.

repugnance (noun)

    extreme aversion, repulsion
    contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.

liable (adjective)

    Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
        e.g.: The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
    Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable

deprave (verb)

    To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile
    To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt

malign (adjective)

    evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence.
    malevolent.  
    malignant

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malignant (adjective)

    Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
        e.g.: malignant temper;  malignant revenge;  malignant infection

Antonym (noun)

    antonym (word which has the opposite meaning as another word)

cancerous (adjective)

    Relating to or affected with cancer.
    Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.

traduce (verb)

    To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.  
    To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
    To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.

rephrase (verb)

    To find a different way to say something syn.

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defame (verb)

    To harm or diminish the reputation of.
        e.g.: to defame somebody
    To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
    To publish a libel about.
    To charge; to accuse.

disrepute (verb)

    To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.

bequeath (verb)

    To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
    To hand down; to transmit.
    To give; to offer; to commit.

pervadere (verb)

    To pervade or permeate

permeate (verb)

    To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
    To enter and spread through; to pervade.

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yarn (noun)

    A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.

judicial (adjective)

    Of or relating to a court of law, or to the administration of justice.
        e.g.: Judicial days are days on which courts are open.

coalition (noun)

    A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
        e.g.: The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.

ornament (noun)

    ​ An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
        e.g.: A Christmas tree decoration.

lodge (noun)

    A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
    Porter's or caretaker's rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate.
    A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.

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