prove more powerful or superior

"It is hard to for logic to prevail over emotion for many people"

Synonyms:win, triumph

persuade someone to do something

Synonyms:persuade, coax, induce, convince

to avoid telling the truth; speak or act in an evasive way

"Instead of confessing his love, he choose to prevaricate and lost her"

Synonyms:equivocate, vacillate

a moralistic person who behaves as if they are superior to other

"She was religious but not a prig"

feeling or showing disapproval of anything regarded as improper; stiffly correct

"A very prim and proper lady"

Synonyms:proper, demure

Antonyms:disheveled

of the earliest time in history

Synonyms:ancient

(of emotion or behaviour) strongly instinctive and unreasoning

Synonyms:instinctive, primitve, basic

existing from the beginning of time

"The primordial oceans were home to the first forms of life on Earth"

Synonyms:primaeval, prehistoric, primitive

in its original, clean, and perfect condition

"The beach was pristine, with no trash anywhere"

Synonyms:immaculate, perfect, unspoiled

a state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking

"Economic privation is pushing the poor towards crime"

Synonyms:deprivation, hardship, poverty, penury

Synonyms:investigate, search, inquiry, scrutiny, explore

a number of people or vehicles moving forward in an orderly fashion, especially as part of a ceremony

"A funeral procession"

Synonyms:parade, march

announce officially or publicly

"All the European countries have proclaimed their loyalty to the European Union"

obtain or acquire something

"She managed to procure a ticket to the concert"

Synonyms:obtain, acquire

treat something sacred with irreverence or disrespect

Synonyms:desecrate, defile

Antonyms:sacred

claim that one has a quality or feeling

"He had professed his love for her only to walk away"

Synonyms:declare, announce, admit, proclaim

recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources

Synonyms:wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, prodigal, unthrifty

Antonyms:thrifty, frugal

"He lacked profundity and intelligence"

Synonyms:wisdom, insight, intelligence

offspring or children

"A cat's new litter of kittens is her progeny"

a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation

Synonyms:forecast, prediction, projection

take a leisurely public walk, ride, or drive

"They went for a promenade along the beach"

Synonyms:walk, stroll, saunter

Synonyms:licentious, unrestrained, immoral, profligate, wanton