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reticent
adjective |
quiet, reserved, or uncommunicative
Becuase she was so reticent, very few people got to know her well. |
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travail
noun |
hard work; exausting labor; agony
His family found that the travail of serving ten years in a prison camp had changed him greatly. |
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opulence
noun |
wealth; luxury; or abundance
She was amazed at the opulence of her neighbors. |
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arduous
adjective |
difficult, strenuous, or hard to acheive
Climbing the tree proved to be an arduous task but not a particularly dangerous one. |
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paltry
adjective |
practically worthless; petty; trifling
I complained not because of the paltry 3 cents that I was overcharged but because of the principle of the thing. |
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abduct
verb |
to carry off by force
The kidnappers abducted the cild from her home. |
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tractable
adjective |
easily managed; taught; or controlled
The horse was tractable as long as he was going in the right direction of the barn; otherwise he was unmanageable. |
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obliterate
verb |
to do away or destroy; to blot out completely
He tried to obliterate from his memory any trace of that horrible day. |
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prodigious
adjective |
extrordinary in size or amount; enormous
Anyone who has orited the Earth has perfromed a prodigious task. |
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haughty
adjective |
having or showing great pride in oneself and disdain; contempt; or scorn for others
He seemed at first to be rather cold and haughty, but we came to realize that this was due mainly to his shyness. |
