English - 14

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STIMULUS

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Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response. Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body. Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system. "an economic stimulus" Anything that induces a person to take action incentive. A stimulus is something that encourages activity in people or things. "Interest rates could fall soon and be a stimulus to the US economy." The pattern of physical energy set up by an object or event in the environment. An external event, act, or influence which causes physiological change in a sense organ. Any aspect of the outside world that directly influences our behavior or conscious experience. Something which incites to action; something which quickens a physical or mental process. A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, "The hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action". Anything in the environment to which one responds. Something that incites a sensation. Anything that elicits or evokes action in a person or creates a response in a muscle, nerve, gland or other excitable tissue or organ of the body. Anything that arouses action in the muscles, nerves or other excitable tissue.

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...keeping activities and stimulus materials lively and interesting.

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EXPLICIT

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Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed, offensive or graphic. "The film had several scenes including explicit language and sex." Very specific, clear, or detailed. "I gave explicit instructions for him to stay here, but he followed me, anyway." Definite, unfolded, plain, clear, open, express. Something that is explicit is expressed or shown clearly and openly, without any attempt to hide anything. "Sexually explicit scenes in films and books." "The play was the first commercially successful work dealing explicitly with homosexuality." "When the book was published, the energy and explicitness caught the popular imagination." Completely and clearly expressed without ambiguity or vagueness; fully developed. Explicit text is directly stated, not implied. With explicit text, the reader does not have to "read between the lines" in order to understand what the author is saying. Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, "an explicit declaration", described in detail, leaving nothing to the imagination. If you are explicit about something, you speak about it very openly and clearly. "He was explicit about his intention to overhaul the party's internal voting system." "She has been talking very explicitly about AIDS to these groups." Anything that is spelled out completely. "Within a class method, all references to the instance variables have to be explicit." Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; applied to persons; as, "he was earnest and explicit in his statement". "She made her wishes explicit."

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It requires an explicit knowledge of grammar.

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DEEM

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To evaluate according to one's beliefs. "She deemed his efforts insufficient." To hold as a personal opinion, to judge, conclude, think, a judgment, opinion, belief. To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. To account; to esteem; to hold in opinion; to regard. To evaluate according to ones beliefs. To pass judgment. To consider as true without need of further proof. "French and German were deemed essential." He says he would support the use of force if the UN deemed it nefessiz." I was deemed to be a competent shorthand typist." To accept a document or an event as conclusive of a certain status in the absence of evidence or facts which would normally be required to prove that status. For example, in matters of child support, a decision of a foreign court could be "deemed" to be a decision of the court of another for the purpose of enforcement. To consider or be of opinion.

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Containing material that might be deemed.

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QUACK

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Falsely presented as having medicinal powers. "Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!" A fraudulent healer or incompetent doctor of medicine, an impostor who claims to have qualifications to practice medicine. A charlatan. To make a noise like a duck. "Do you hear the ducks quack?" The sound made by a duck. To practice, commit quackery, the harsh sound of a duck, an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice. One who misrepresents his or her ability and experience in diagnosis and treatment of disease or effects to be achieved by his or her treatment. The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise. Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed. "Quack remedies or quack cures are medical treatments that you think are unlikely to work because they are not scientific."

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Testing grammar involved getting students to quack the various parts of speech.

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CULLER

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One who picks or chooses; an inspector who selects wares suitable for market, person who picks from a group, one who selects from many; inspector who picks out marketable items for market.

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Good hunting culler.

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CLARET

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Someone connected with Burnley Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. Of a deep purplish-red colour, like that of claret. A dry red wine produced in the Bordeaux region of France, or a similar wine made elsewhere. A British term for red wines produced in Bordeaux. Claret is a type of French red wine, blood. A light and fruity red wine produced in the region of Bordeaux.

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My divine claret refused to pour from one cup to another.

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ABOMINATION

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That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, "he holds tobacco in abomination", a very detestable act or practice disapproval. If you say that something is an abomination, you think that it is completely unacceptable = outrage. Someone or something that is extremely offensive or unacceptable. An object of hatred, a pollution, hate coupled with disgust. A cause of pollution or wickedness, loathing, detestation; shameful deed, evil, villainyan action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorence; "his treatment of the children is an abomination".

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I've got another corrupted clan of abominations for you to cull.

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SYLLABUS

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A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture, outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise. An abstract, the heads of a lecture. A list of course objectives, lecture topics, assigned readings, exams, etc. prepared and distributed by a professor at the beginning of the term. A document providing a curriculum framework which a school uses in preparing a work program for a senior. A syllabus comes from the curriculum, and contains topics, objectives, competencies, and a description of assessment. A description of an education and training program, the outcomes to be achieved and the evidence required to show that learners have achieved these outcomes. The syllabus is extremely useful for exam revision and as a means of keeping track of what you have covered or what you will need to cover in future. You may wish to refer to this when choosing a particular course, as it can provide very detailed information regarding what the course will cover and what will be expected of you. A syllabus is a document usually given out in the first class meeting. It contains information of great importance to successfully completing a course, such as: the name, phone number and office hours of the professor; the text(s) to buy; the manner in which your grade will be computed; class policies on attendance, missed exams, late papers etc; a listing of topics in sequential order with readings, exam times and dates; and just about anything else the instructor thinks you ought to know about the course. A course syllabus is a guide that outlines the goals, content, prerequisites, materials, assignments and grading procedures for a course. It often includes a course calendar that tells students when each topic will be covered and when the tests will take place. It is crucial to honor the syllabus in that it serves as a kind of contract between the department, the instructor and the students. A written set of objectives and expectations prepared by the professor of each class. The syllabus is usually handed out to students on the first day of class. You can refer to the subjects that are studied in a particular course as the syllabus. A document provided by the instructor of a course that explains the course material, what students are expected to do, and how students will be graded/evaluated. A syllabus may be printed or web-based. A course outline provided by instructors that lists course requirements, grading criteria, course content, expectations, and other relevant course information. An outline of topics covered in an academic course. A document students usually receive on the first day of a class, offering an overview of the course. Often included in a syllabus is an outline of topics, assignments, grading requirements, and related course details.

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Introduction to the course, syllabus review.

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TIER

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To cascade in an overlapping sequence. To arrange in layers. A layer or rank, especially of seats or a wedding cake. Something that ties. One who ties, knots, etc. A row or rank of guns in a ship, a set, row of the same altitude. A row of townships running from east to west. "tier upon tier of huge casks", "a three-tier wedding cake", "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers". A row or rank, especially one of two or more rows placed one above, or higher than, another; as, "a tier of seats in a theater". In general, a tier is a row or group in a series of similarly arranged objects. A tier is usually group of bytes, kbytes or data transfer blocks.

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Rarity tiers.

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CUNNING

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Cute, appealing. Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. Skillful, artful. The skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful. Aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency. Pretty or pleasing; as, "a cunning little boy". Knowledge; dexterity, drafty artfulness (especially in deception), shrewdness in deception; "as cunning as a fox". The faculty or act of using stratagem to accomplish a purpose; fraudulent skill; deceit. Knowing. Attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby". Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious; curious; as, "cunning work". Cunning is the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people. The ability to achieve what you want by deceiving people in a clever way. "These disturbed kids can be cunning." "Mr Blair's cunning plan." "They were cunningly disguised in golf clothes."

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The Eternal offered his cunning.

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QUANDARY

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A dilemma, a difficult decision or choice. "Then I would begin contemplating the next quandary." A state of not knowing what to decide; a state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation or puzzlement; a pickle; a predicament, a puzzling predicament, a doubt, uncertainty, difficulty. A state of not knowing what to decide. If you are in a quandary, you have to make a decision but cannot decide what to do. "The government appears to be in a quandary about what to do with so many people."

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With the candidates on hand either mediocre at best or maniacal at worst, I found myself in quite the quandary.

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FORSAKE

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To abandon, to give up, to leave (permanently), to renounce, desert, go away from, quit, to depart or withdraw from. If you forsake someone, you leave them when you should have stayed, or stop you helping them or looking after them. "I still love him and I would never forsake him." If you forsake something, you stop doing it, using it, or having it. "He doubted their claim to have forsaken military solutions to the civil war." Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch.

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God has forsaken us.

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WEAVE

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To spin a cocoon or a web. Human or artificial hair worn to alter one's appearance, either in addition to or by covering the natural hair altogether. "That rug has a very tight weave." To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. "This loom weaves yarn into sweaters." To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side. "The ambulance weaved its way through the heavy traffic." To make or move by turning and twisting. To form by texture, plait, insert. To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, "to weave wool, silk, etc." hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture; to unite intimately. To form, as cloth, by interlacing threads; to compose, as a texture of any kind, by putting together textile materials; as, "to weave broadcloth; to weave a carpet"; hence, to form into a fabric; to compose; to fabricate; as, "to weave the plot of a story". The process of forming a fabric on the loom by interlacing the warp and filling threads with each other. Pattern or texture in which a cloth is woven. To practice weaving; to work with a loom. If you weave your way somewhere, you move between and around things as you go there. "The cars then weaved in and out of traffic at top speed." "He weaves his way through a crowd." If you weave something such as a basket, you make it by crossing long plant stems or fibres over and under each other. "Jenny weaves baskets from willow she grows herself." "The floors are covered with woven straw mats." "Fabrics with a close weave are ideal for painting." Knit, interlace; wind (between obstacles); be knit, be interlaced; embroider. "She weaves imaginative elements into her poems." "Bragg weaves together the histories of his main characters."

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Friends and kin embraced in mortal struggles, their skin weaving with skin, flesh bonding with flesh, bone entwining with bone until the village had become One writhing giant, forged of strife and hatred.

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KIN

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Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to". "It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers." One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively. Family, kindred, relatives; relative, relation; kinship; family relationship, a relation, class, the same kind. Consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent related by blood. Your kin are your relatives. "She has gone to live with her husband's kin."

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Friends and kin embraced in mortal struggles, their skin weaving with skin, flesh bonding with flesh, bone entwining with bone until the village had become One writhing giant, forged of strife and hatred.

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ENTWINE

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To twist or twine around something (or one another), to interweave, weave, braid, interlace, twist together. To be twisted or twined. To wreathe together or round. If one thing is entwined with another thing, or if you entwine two things, the two things are twisted around each other. "His dazed eyes stare at the eels, which still writhe and entwine." "Facing each other, the giraffes were managing to entwine their necks in the most astonishing manner." "He entwined his fingers with hers." If two things entwine or are entwined, they closely resemble or are linked to each other, and they are difficult to separate or identify. "Once, years ago, he told me our lives should entwine."

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Friends and kin embraced in mortal struggles, their skin weaving with skin, flesh bonding with flesh, bone entwining with bone until the village had become one writhing giant, forged of strife and hatred.

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WRITHE

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To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress. To distort, wrest, be in agony or torture. Writhing movement, twisting of the body; contorting in pain; wriggling, squirming, contorting. To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort."If you writhe, your body twists and turns violently backwards and forwards, usually because you are in great pain or discomfort. "He was writhing in agony." "The shark was writhing around wildly, trying to get free." Having a twisting or snake-like or worm-like motion.

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Friends and kin embraced in mortal struggles, their skin weaving with skin, flesh bonding with flesh, bone entwining with bone until the village had become one writhing giant, forged of strife and hatred.

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STRIFE

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Violent conflict, usually brief or limited in nature, contention, contest, discord, endeavorlack of agreement or harmony. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. Strife is strong disagreement or fighting. "Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages." Trouble between two or more people or groups. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.

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Friends and kin embraced in mortal struggles, their skin weaving with skin, flesh bonding with flesh, bone entwining with bone until the village had become one writhing giant, forged of strife and hatred.

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OPPRESSION

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The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed. "The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution." A feeling of being oppressed. "Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun." The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner. Oppression is the cruel or unfair treatment of a group of people. When someone treats a group of people unfairly or cruelly and prevents them from having the same rights as other people have political/racial/sexual etc. Cruelty, hardship, heaviness.

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You've freed us from Templar oppression.

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TEMPLAR

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One of the Knights Templar. A barrister having chambers in the Inner Temple or Middle Temple. A student at law living in a templeor. Member of a religious military order of knighthood established during the Crusades. At its beginning (1119), the group consisted of eight or nine French knights who devoted themselves to protecting from Muslim warriors those on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They were given quarters near the site of the former Temple of Jerusalem, from which they derived their name. Taking vows of poverty and chastity, they performed courageous service, and their numbers increased rapidly, partly because of the propagandistic writing of St. Bernard de Clairvaux, who also wrote their rule of life. They flourished for two centuries, expanding to other countries, growing in number to 20,000, and acquiring vast wealth and property. By 1304 rumours, probably false, of irreligious practices and blasphemies had made them the target of persecution. In 1307 Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V initiated the offensive that culminated in the Templars' final suppression in 1312, including the confiscation of all their property and the imprisonment or execution of many members; their last leader, Jacques de Molay (1243-1314), was burned at the stake. A member of the order called Templars, Knights Templar, Knights of the Temple, etc. It was founded in 1118 or 1119 by nine Christian knights, the original object of the organization being to maintain free passage for the pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem gave them part of his palace, and they kept their arms in the Temple, hence their name of Templars. One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher.

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You've freed us from Templar oppression.

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QUAIL

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To shrink or waver; to become fearful or doubtful. "His heart quailed before the enormous pyramidal shape." A quail is a small, short-tailed chickenlike bird found in the wild. Draw back, as with fear or pain. If someone or something makes you quail, they make you feel very afraid, often so that you hesitate. "The very words make many of us quail." "He told Naomi she was becoming just like Maya. Naomi quailed at the thought." To shrink back in fear; cower. A small fat bird with a short tail that is hunted for food or sport, or the meat from this bird (quaille, from quaccula). To be afraid and show it by shaking a little bit or moving back slightly. To flinch from fear, recoil, cringe; falter. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way.

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A guide, cornered and quailing.

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PROFFERED

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To offer to another for acceptance, to tender, propose, attempt, essay, to present to the record in a trial what evidence a party has on a given point after the court has refused its admission into evidence in order that a reviewing court can know what was excluded at the original proceeding. A development plan and/or written condition that, when offered by an owner and accepted by the county, becomes a legally binding part of the property in question. To essay or attempt of ones own accord; to undertake. To propose to give; to make a tender of; as, "to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship".If you proffer something such as advice to someone, you offer it to them. "The army has not yet proffered an explanation of how and why the accident happened." If you proffer something to someone, you hold it towards them so that they can take it or touch it. "He rose and proffered a silver box full of cigarettes."

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And to drink from the proffered flask.

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STAGGER

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A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, "parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers". An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo. "the stagger of a drunken man" To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next. "We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track." In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. "She began to stagger across the room." Bewilderment; perplexity. To schedule in intervals. "We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers." To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. To cause to reel or totter. "The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer." To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. "Under severe criticism, the leader began to stagger." To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. "After the second earthquake, the clock tower began to stagger." To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. "He will stagger the committee when he presents his report." To walk with great difficulty; "He staggered along in the heavy snow." The difference in size between the tires on the left and right side of the car. "She was staggered with bills after she tried to rebuild her house following the earthquake." To arrange in a systematic order; "stagger the chairs in the lecture hall" walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room." If something staggers you, it surprises you very much. to"The whole thing staggers me." If you say that someone or something staggers on, you mean that it is only just succeeds in continuing. "Truman allowed him to stagger on for nearly another two years." To stagger things such as people's holidays or hours of work means to arrange them so that they do not all happen at the same time. "During the past few years the government has staggered the summer vacation periods for students." If you stagger, you walk very unsteadily, for example because you are ill or drunk. "He lost his balance, staggered back against the rail and toppled over." He was staggering and had to lean on the bar."

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Now the warrior staggers and crawls.

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WEEP

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To cry, shed tears, shed moisture, bewail, lament, mourn. If a wound weeps, liquid or blood comes from it because it is not healing properly. In severe cases, the skin can crack and weep. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. To flow in drops; to run in drops. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. To complain. If someone weeps, they cry. "She wanted to laugh and weep all at once." "The weeping family hugged and comforted each other." "She wept tears of joy." Weep is also a noun. "There are times when I sit down and have a good weep." "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs." To express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears.

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The bitterness stings his weeping eyes.

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MITIGATE

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To reduce, lessen, or decrease. "The plague had not been kind to him, yet had left him this small furry thing to mitigate his sorrow; and when one is very young, one can find great relief in the lively antics of a black kitten." To make milder or more endurable, make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances", to alleviation, diminution. To make mild and accessible; to mollify. To make less intense, rigorous, painful, etc. To soften; to meliorate; "to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief", soften in force or severity; lessen the impact or intensity of; appease, make easier, sweeten; be assuaged, become less severe (about punishments, circumstances, emotions, etc.) The action of reducing or minimizing the severity of the impact or likelihood of a risk or an event. "Risk mitigation usually consists of management strategies such as: insurance, transfer to a more acceptable risk, etc." To create, restore, or enhance a natural system, such as an estuary or wetland, to maintain the functional characteristics and processes of that system. To mitigate something means to make it less unpleasant, serious, or painful.

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It can be mitigated by sources of fire.

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AILMENT

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Something which ails one; a disease; sickness slight sickness, illness, disorder, indisposition, pain, ache, suffering. An ailment is an illness, especially one that is not very serious. "The pharmacist can assist you with the treatment of common ailments." Affliction.

Hint 25

Ailments - POE

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HARBINGER

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A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something. A forerunner, messenger, officer, something which foreshadows a future event, signal, omen. One who travels ahead of military troops to secure lodging and other necessities. Something that is a harbinger of something else, especially something bad, is a sign that it is going to happen. "The November air stung my cheeks, a harbinger of winter."

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The current challenge league is called Harbinger.

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INCURSION

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An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion, the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers); "the incursion of television into the American livingroom". Attack; occurrence. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid that penetrates into enemy territory. If there is an incursion into a country, enemy soldiers suddenly enter it. If someone or something enters an area where you would not expect them to be, or where they have not been found before, you can call this an incursion, especially when you disapprove of their presence.

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One of these currency types may lead you to the source of the Harbinger incursion.

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IMPLORE

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To beg for, to entreat urgently or earnestly. To beseech; to pray to, or for. If you implore someone to do something, you ask them to do it in a forceful, emotional way. "Opposition leaders this week implored the president to break the deadlock." "Tell me what to do!, she implored him."

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To beg, beseech, or implore, to present an argument, especially in a legal case.

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LASCIVIOUS

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Lewd, driven by lust, lustful, wanton, fond, softdriven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; lecherous; arousing or expressing sexual desire. If you describe someone as lascivious, you disapprove of them because they show a very strong interest in sex. "Their lewd and lascivious talk." Showing strong sexual desire, or making someone feel this way. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.

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"The man was lascivious, sexually perverted and insatiable."

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SQUABBLE

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To participate in a minor fight or argument. "The brothers were always squabbling with each other." A minor fight or argument as between children, for example to quarrel, a wrangle, debate peevishly, brawl, a scuffle. To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand away or are mixed and need careful readjustment; bicker over something of little value, petty dispute, trivial argument. When people squabble, they quarrel about something that is not really important. "Mother is devoted to dad although they squabble all the time." "My four-year-old squabbles with his friends." "In recent months its government has been paralysed by political squabbling." Squabble is also a noun. "There have been minor squabbles about phone bills."

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Squabbles between siblings are as old as time.

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SWANK

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A fashionably elegant person. "He's such a swank." "I went to a swank party last night." To swagger, to show off. "Looks like she's going to swank in, flashing her diamonds, then swan out to another party." Elegance by virtue of being fashionable. To behave in an arrogant or boastful manner, smartness, elegance; swagger, proud and arrogant behavior. If someone is swanking, they are speaking about things they own or things they have achieved, in order to impress other people. "I have always been against swanking about all the things I have been lucky enough to win." To speak or behave in a way that shows you think you are better than other people.

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...swank apartment...

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FARE

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To eat, dine, to get along, succeed

Money paid for a transport ticket. A paying passenger, especially in a taxi. Supplies for consumption or pleasure. Food and drink. To go, travel, provisions, diet, the hire of carriage. To be in a state good or bad, to live. Provisions for the table; entertainment; as, "coarse fare; delicious fare". The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, "the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway". Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. Ado; bustle; business. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, "a full fare of passengers". A journey; a passage money paid for a ticket. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, "he fared well, or ill". To happen well, or ill; used impersonally; as, "we shall see how it will fare with him". To behave; to conduct one's self. To get along, be an agenda of things to do. The food and drink that are regularly consumed. If you say that someone or something fares well or badly, you are referring to the degree of success they achieve in a particular situation or activity. "It is unlikely that the marine industry will fare any better in September." The fare at a restaurant or café is the type of food that is served there. "The fare has much improved since Hugh has taken charge of the kitchen." Cost for traveling (on a bus, train, etc.); one who pays to travel in such a vehicle; meals, provisions; something offered or supplied. "He could barely afford the railway fare." The designated payment for a ride on a passenger vehicle, whether cash, tokens, transfer, coupon or pass. The price charged for transportation. A paying passenger on a plane, train, or other public means of transport. Range of food, for example, "the fare served by a restaurant".

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Stark men don't fare well when they travel south.

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POUND

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Any of various units of currency used in Cyprus; Egypt; Lebanon; and formerly in the Republic of Ireland and Israel. To pitch consistently to a certain location. "The pitcher has been pounding the outside corner all night." The unit of currency of used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. To eat or drink very quickly. "You really pounded that beer!" A hard blow. To crush to pieces; to pulverize. To strike (something or someone) hard repeatedly. The part of a canal between two locks, and therefore at the same water level. An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold. The monetary unit of Great Britain. "Pounding thinner cuts of meat tenderizes it by breaking down muscle." "Kitchen mallets are generally used for pounding, but it can be done using a small frying pan as well." To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, "the engine pounds". To strike heavy blows; to beat. A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces. "He tried to lift 100 pounds." A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward. A public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound". To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; hit, shatter, smash; shake heavily. A section of a swale designed to detain runoff. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, "to pound spice or salt". If you pound something or pound on it, you hit it with great force, usually loudly and repeatedly. "He pounded the table with his fist." "Somebody began pounding on the front door." "She came at him, pounding her fists against his chest." If you pound something, you crush it into a paste or a powder or into very small pieces. "She paused as she pounded the maize grains." A storage area for holding live lobster. If your heart is pounding, it is beating with an unusually strong and fast rhythm, usually because you are afraid. "I'm sweating, my heart is pounding." "Pound the cows so they don't stray."

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pounding - door

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PURVEYOR

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Someone who supplies what is needed, especially food. "Economists are the purveyors of dangerous ideas." One who supplies, one who provides victuals, a pimp. Someone who supplies what is needed. A victualer; a caterer. A business that supplies goods, services, or information. An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.

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I was only a purveyor of information.

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GLOWER

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An angry stare or glare. "She sure has an awful glower on her face." To look or stare with anger. "He must be really angry, just look at him glower." If you glower at someone or something, you look at them angrily. "He glowered at me but said nothing." "He glowered and glared, but she steadfastly refused to look his way." To look at with an angry expression, scowl, stare sullenly, frown, to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl, look at with a fixed gaze.

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Nobody glowers quite like you.

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LISP

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A functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence. To pronounce the sibilant letter ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’. A defect common amongst children. To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid. The habit or an act of lisping. To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk. To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language. To pronounce with a lisp. To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially. If someone lisps, they say something with a lisp or speak with a lisp. "The little man, upset, was lisping badly." "Bochmann lisped his congratulations."

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He stays in the room next to mine and he has a lisp.

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FOWL

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To hunt fowl. A bird of the order galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail. Birds which are hunted or kept for food. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen. A fowl is a bird, especially one that can be eaten as food, such as a duck or a chicken. "Carve the fowl into 8 pieces."

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I mean, I suppose mammals demand a different kind of work than fowls.

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FRANTIC

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In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush. "They returned the missing child to his frantic mother." Insane, mentally unstable. Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted. "Cebel's frantic rites have made them mad." Frenzied, wild, hysterical. If you are frantic, you are behaving in a wild and uncontrolled way because you are frightened or worried. "A bird had been locked in and was by now quite frantic." "She clutched frantically at Emily's arm." If an activity is frantic, things are done quickly and in an energetic but disorganized way, because there is very little time. "A busy night in the restaurant can be frantic in the kitchen."

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When I found about the incoming attack, I got frantic.

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LANE

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A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles. A course designated for ships or aircraft, a narrow street, a close passage or road. An alley between buildings; a narrow way among trees, rocks, and other natural obstructions; hence, in a general sense, a narrow passageway; as, a lane between lines of men, or through a field of ice. Alone a narrow way or road a well-defined track or path; course or track which has clear boundaries on either side. A portion of a street or highway, usually indicated by pavement markings, that is intended for one line of vehicles. A lane is a route that is frequently used by aircraft or ships. "The collision took place in the busiest shipping lanes in the world." "Follow the lane to the river." Lane is also used in the names of roads, either in cities or in the country. "The lorry was travelling at 20mph in the slow lane."

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10 Cloverfield Lane

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ANTAGONIZE

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To work against; oppose; especially to incite reaction. "The other children constantly antagonized Joe to the point of tears." Provoke the hostility of. "Don't antagonize your boss." Act in opposition, to contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract, cause to hate, make an enemy of; cause hostility, provoke antagonism; oppose, counteract. If you antagonize someone, you make them feel angry or hostile towards you. "He didn't want to antagonize her." To annoy someone very much by doing something that they do not like.

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Honey, don't antagonize her.

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EULOGIZE

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To praise, celebrate or pay homage to (someone), especially in an eloquent formal eulogy to speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character. Praise formally and eloquently. "The dead woman was eulogized at the funeral." To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing. If you eulogize someone or something, you praise them very highly. "Barry Davies eulogized Keegan's part in the operation." "Taylor eulogised about Steven's versatility." If you eulogize someone who has died, you make a speech praising them, usually at their funeral. "Leaders from around the world eulogized the Egyptian president." Speak in praise of someone; write or speak a eulogy (also eulogise).

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I shouldn't be eulogizing him.

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STERNUM

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The breast bone. A long, flat bone in the center front of the rib cage, sometimes called the breastbone. Bone in chest separated during open heart surgery.

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Over your sternum.

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PREVAIL

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To succeed in persuading or inducing. "I prevailed on him to wait." To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence. "In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe." To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others. "Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag." To win, succeed; overcome, surpass, prove superior; predominate, rule, reign. If one side in a battle, contest, or dispute prevails, it wins. "He appears to have the votes he needs to prevail." "I do hope he will prevail over the rebels." To be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance. "He prevailed upon her to visit his parents." "The champion prevailed, though it was a hard fight." If a situation, attitude, or custom prevails in a particular place at a particular time, it is normal or most common in that place at that time. "A similar situation prevails in America." "How people in a certain era bury their dead says much about the prevailing attitudes toward death." To be valid, applicable, or true. If you prevail upon someone to do something, you succeed in persuading them to do it. "We must, each of us, prevail upon our congressman to act." If a proposal, principle, or opinion prevails, it gains influence or is accepted, often after a struggle or argument. "We hope that common sense would prevail." "Political and personal ambitions are starting to prevail over economic interests." To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; sometimes with over or against. To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain.

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My mercy prevails over my wrath.

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NIFTY

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Good; a general term for anything that is good, useful or beneficial. If you describe something as nifty, you think it is neat and pleasing or cleverly done. "Bridgeport was a pretty nifty place." "It was a nifty arrangement, a perfect partnership." Something that is nifty is good because it is clever, skilful, or effective.

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It's really nifty.

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POLARITY

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The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles. The condition of being positive or negative. As applied to electric circuits, polarity indicates which terminal is positive and which is negative. As applied to magnets, it indicates which pole is North and which pole is South. A relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies. "He viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil." If there is a polarity between two people or things, they are completely different from each other in some way. Polarity is the term describing which is which In electricity, refers to the condition of being either positive or negative.

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Down here, the polarity is reversed.

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ARID

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Describing a very dry climate. Parched up with heat. An arid area is dry and hot, with little rainfall and few plants. Having insufficient rainfall to support agriculture. Having no moisture, barren. If you describe something such as a period of your life or an academic subject as arid, you mean that it has so little interest, excitement, or purpose that it makes you feel bored or unhappy. "She had given him the only joy his arid life had ever known." Arid land is so dry that very few plants can grow on it. A term used for an extemely dry climate. The degree to which a climate lacks effective, life-promoting moisture. Describes regions where precipitation is insufficient in quantity for most crops and where agriculture is impractical without irrigation. A term describing a climate or region in which precipitation is so deficient in quantity or occurs so infrequently that intensive agricultural production is not possible without irrigation. An adjective applied to regions where precipitation is deficient in quantity; where agriculture is impractical without irrigation.

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A technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata.

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SQUAWK

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A shrill noise, a yell, scream, or call. To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret. To make a squawking noise or call out shrilly. To speak out; to protest. An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance. Note made in an aircraft maintenance log, log book, or clipboard which identifies a fault, an inoperative instrument, or any observation unusual to the normal operation of that aircraft. To utter a harsh abrupt scream, complain. To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly, the noise of squawking; "the squawk of car horns". Act of squawking; a harsh squeak, utter a loud harsh cry, screech. If a person squawks, they complain loudly, often in a high-pitched, harsh tone. "Mr. Arbor squawked that the deal was a double-cross." When a bird squawks, it makes a loud harsh noise. "I threw pebbles at the hens, and that made them jump and squawk." Squawk is also a noun. "A mallard suddenly took wing, rising steeply into the air with an angry squawk."

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Chickens squawking.

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SCRUTINISE

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To examine something with great care. "Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out. To audit accounts etc. in order to verify them. To examine, investigate, check closely, inspect, to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail."He scrutinized his likeness in the mirror."

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They observed and studied the way a man with a microscope might scrutinise the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

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DEEM

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To evaluate according to one's beliefs. To hold as a personal opinion, to judge, conclude, think, a judgment, opinion, belief. To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose. To account; to esteem; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard. To evaluate according to ones beliefs. To decide; to sentence; to condemn. To pass judgment. To consider as true without need of further proof. If something is deemed to have a particular quality or to do a particular thing, it is considered to have that quality or do that thing. "French and German were deemed essential."

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She deemed his efforts insufficient.

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AFFLICT

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To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress. To give pain, trouble, vex, affect. To cause bodily suffering, to cause pain or suffering in. To cause great unhappiness for; distress. To strike or cast down; to overthrow. To cause someone pain, suffering or distress. To make low or humble. To inflict some great injury or hurt upon, causing continued pain or mental distress; to trouble grievously; to torment. If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer. "Italy has been afflicted by political corruption for decades." "There are two main problems which afflict people with hearing impairments." To affect someone or something in an unpleasant way, and make them suffer, "afflict with/by".

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She was afflicted by the death of her parents.