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Candid
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Completely honest, straightforward
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Candace's candidness overwhelmed her business colleagues, who were not used to such honesty.
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Incoherent
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Lacking cohesion or connection
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Maury's sentences were so incoherent that nobody understood a word.
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Conjecture
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Inference; guesswork
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At this point, Kimaya's hypothesis about single-cell biorhythms is still conjecture: She doesn't have conclusive evidence.
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Didactic
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Instructive
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The tapes were entertaining and didactic; they both amused and instructed children.
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Euphemism
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A mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term
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"To pass away" is a common euphemism for dying.
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Extrapolate
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To infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information
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Seeing the wrecked bike and his daughter's skinned knees, Heath extrapolated that she had had a biking accident.
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Lucid
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Easily understood; clear
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Our teacher provides lucid explanations of even the most difficult concepts so that we can all understand them.
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Insinuate
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To imply or communicate stealthily
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Sean insinuated that Grace stole the arsenic, but he never came out and said it.
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Rhetoric
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The art of using language effectively and persuasively
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Since they are expected to make speeches, most politicians and lawyers are well-versed in the art of rhetoric.
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