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trivial collapse: obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"; concerned with trivialities; "a trivial young woman"; "a trivial mind"

diversify collapse: vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified"; spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified"; make (more) diverse; "diversify a course of study"

disjoin collapse: become separated, disconnected or disjoint; make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

modify collapse: make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage"; add a modifier to a constituent

hairsplitting collapse: making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"

differentiate collapse: become distinct and acquire a different character; become different during development; "cells differentiate"; calculate a derivative; take the derivative

segregate collapse: someone who is or has been segregated; separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others; "the sun segregates the carbon"; "large mining claims are segregated into smaller claims"; divide from the main body or mass and collect; "Many towns segregated into new counties"; "Experiments show clearly that genes segregate"; separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation; "This neighborhood is segregated"; "We don't segregate in this county"

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

distinguish collapse: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"; be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers"

casuistry collapse: moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas; argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading

analyze collapse: subject to psychoanalytic treatment; "I was analyzed in Vienna by a famous psychiatrist"; make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features; "analyze a specimen"; "analyze a sentence"; "analyze a chemical compound"; consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives"; break down into components or essential features; "analyze today's financial market"

equivocation collapse: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

evasion collapse: the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver; nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"; the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"; a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

rhyme collapse: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds); compose rhymes; be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"

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