English Vocabulary

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adulterate

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to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article): to adulterate food.

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ambidextrous

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1.able to use both hands equally well: an ambidextrous surgeon.
2.unusually skillful; facile: an ambidextrous painter, familiar with all media.
3.double-dealing; deceitful.

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augment

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to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
2.Music.
a.to raise (the upper note of an interval or chord) by a half step.
b.to double the note values of (a theme): In the fugue's development the subject is augmented.

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deploy

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to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately: to deploy a battery of new missiles.
–verb (used without object)
3.to spread out strategically or in an extended front or line.
4.to come into a position ready for use: the plane can't land unless the landing gear deploys.

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dour

Back 5

3.Scot. (of land) barren; rocky, infertile, or otherwise difficult or impossible to cultivate.

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fortitude

Back 6

mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously: Never once did her fortitude waver during that long illness.
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gape

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to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
2.to open the mouth wide involuntarily, as the result of hunger, sleepiness, or absorbed attention.
3.to open as a gap; split or become open wide.
–noun
4.a wide opening; gap; breach.
5.an act or instance of gaping.
6.a stare, as in astonishment or with the mouth wide open.
7.a yawn.

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gibe

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to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
–verb (used with object)
2.
to taunt; deride.
–noun
3.
a taunting or sarcastic remark.

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guise

Back 9

general external appearance; aspect; semblance: an old principle in a new guise.
2.
assumed appearance or mere semblance: under the guise of friendship.
3.
style of dress: in the guise of a shepherd.

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insidious

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intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan.
2.
stealthily treacherous or deceitful: an insidious enemy.
3.
operating or proceeding in an inconspicuous or seemingly harmless way but actually with grave effect: an insidious disease.

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intimation

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to indicate or make known indirectly; hint; imply; suggest.

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opulent

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characterized by or exhibiting opulence: an opulent suite.
2.
wealthy, rich, or affluent.
3.
richly supplied; abundant or plentiful: opulent sunshine.

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pliable

Back 13

easily bent; flexible; supple: pliable leather.
2.
easily influenced or persuaded; yielding: the pliable mind of youth.
3.
adjusting readily to change; adaptable.

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tentative

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of the nature of or made or done as a trial, experiment, or attempt; experimental: a tentative report on her findings.
2.
unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant: a tentative smile on his face.

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unkempt

Back 15

not combed: unkempt hair.
2.
uncared-for or neglected; disheveled; messy: unkempt clothes; an unkempt lawn.
3.
unpolished; rough; crude.

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verbatim

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in exactly the same words; word for word: to repeat something verbatim.
–adjective
2.
corresponding word for word to the original source or text: a verbatim record of the proceedings.
3.
skilled at recording or noting down speeches, proceedings, etc., with word-for-word accuracy: a verbatim stenographer.