Increase Your Vocabulary

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Raillery

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1: good-natured ridicule
2: jest

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Salient

Back 2

1: jutting forward beyond a line
2: standing out conspicuously : prominent; especially: of notable significance

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Compendius

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1: marked by brief expression of a comprehensive matter : concise and comprehensive; also : comprehensive

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Perdition

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1: eternal damnation
2: hell

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Taciturn

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1: temperamentally disinclined to talk

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Conversazione

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1: a meeting for conversation especially about art, literature, or science

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Subterfuge

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1: deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade
2: a deceptive device or stratagem

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Cerulean

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1: resembling the blue of the sky

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Patina

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1: a : a usually green film formed on copper and bronze by exposure to moist air and often valued aesthetically for its color
b : a surface appearance of something grown beautiful especially with age or use
2: an appearance or aura that is derived from association, habit, or established character
3: a superficial covering or exterior

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Visceral

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1: felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body
2: not intellectual : instinctive
3: dealing with crude or elemental emotions
4: of, relating to, or located on or among the internal organs of the body

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Ruminate

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1: to engage in contemplation : meditate
2: to chew again what has been chewed slightly and swallowed : chew the cud

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Microcosm

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N. 1: a little world; especially : the human race or human nature seen as an epitome of the world or the universe

2: a community or other unity that is an epitome of a larger unity