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Scavenge

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to clean refuse (waste) form; to reform unwanted substances form sentence

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Every large city in this country has its share of scavengers such as rats and raccoons.

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Immure

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to lock up or confine

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In June 1619 he was immured in the fortress of Louvestein near Gorcum.

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Gesticulate

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to show, express or direct through movement

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The football coach used nonverbal signals to gesticulate plays to the quarterback.

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Efflorescence

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the time or process of budding and unfolding of blossoms

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The flower is efflorescence.

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Uncommunicative

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not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions

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An elementary couple is very uncommunicative.

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crumple

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to gather something into small wrinckles or folds

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I crumple my paper then throw it into the garbage can.

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Swathe

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to wrap in swaddling clothes

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Their relationship was no longer swathed in innocence.

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irrelevance

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the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand

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The cover story notes the growing irrelevance of college presidents.

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Immerse

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to cause to be thrown into

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To keep her mind off her divorce, Jill will immerse herself in work.

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Submerge

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to put under water

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The ship was submerged in the ocean.Every large city in this country has its share of scavengers such as rats and raccoons.

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Whittle

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to cut small bits or pare shavings from

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He whittled out the model of a tiny paddle wheel.

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Underlay

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to place something under or beneath something else

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But the same persistent idea underlay all his efforts.

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Discursive

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tending to cover a wide range of subjects

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He was, for his time a voluminous as well as a very discursive writer.

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Hiatus

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an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

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After a three year hiatus, Simple Minds came back with a new CD.

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Tensely

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in a stressed manner

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He passed through them tensely, many of them as bloody or bruised as he was.

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Snivel

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cry or whine with snuffling

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I woke up in the morning and started to snivel.

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Crass

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lacking sensitivity, refinement, or inelligence

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Don't use melancholy for an excuse for crass behavior.

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Emboss

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to carve, mold, or stamp on a surface so that it stands out in relief

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I made an emboss

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Dangle

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to hang freely

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My feet were dangling from the edge.

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Impalpable

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not percaptible ( visible) t the touch

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Ludicrous

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laughably and obviously absurd ; foolish

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It's ludicrous that I have been fined.

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Ineffectual

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insufficient to produce a result; useless

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This battle ended a long series of ineffectual operations.

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Jeer

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to abuse vocally; to taunt or mock

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When the basketball bounced off the rim for the second time, Nolan knew that the crowd would probably jeer at him.

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Inarticulate

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incomprehensible; unable to speak with clarity

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Whenever the boy was around the girl of his dreams, he became inarticulate and was unable to speak.

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leviathan

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something very large; giant sea creature in the bible

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Versy appendix entitled The Catching of Leviathan the Great Whale.

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Clamor

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a loud outcry; great expression of discontent

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As soon as the people learn about the little boy’s murder, they are going to clamor for justice.

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Mutinously

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unruly; insubordinate

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With an empty treasury and unpaid mutinous troops, no faculty could have helped Requesens to succeed; and he was only an honest official who was worn out in trying to do the impossible.

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Crestfallen

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dispirited and depressed; dejected

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After losing comrades in battle, several crestfallen soldiers cried in their tents.

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impervious

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incapable of being penetrated or affected

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He wasn't impervious to harm, much as he might think so.

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enterprise

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an understanding or buisness organization; industrious

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What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery.

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Egregious

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extremely bad

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Egregious errors were caused by the tablet's failure to check spelling.

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Odious

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instilling hatred or intense displeasure

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Occasionally they appear in odious positions.

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Prosaic

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plain, lacking liveliness

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There is some poetry in this composition, but it alternates with very prosaic details.

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Vex

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to confuse or annoy

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ut this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us.

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Capricious

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subject to whim, fickle

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But "there is nothing more capricious than the memory of a child: what it will hold, and what it will lose.

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Assiduous

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hard working, diligent

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These methods, together with education, "assiduous preaching ...

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Feral

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wild, savage

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The feral fauna was once rather varied.

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Decry

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to criticize openly

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The liberal news media is constantly trying to decry the efforts of the country’s conservative president.

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Burnish

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to polish, shine

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Just like burnished copper.

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Zephyr

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a gentle breeze

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Listen to every zephyr for some reproof, for it is surely there, and he is unfortunate who does not hear it.

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Cerebral

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of or relating to the brain

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The skull is abnormally thick and the cerebral capacity small.

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Susceptible

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vielding readily to or copable of

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Children are much more susceptible than adults.

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Impediment

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something immaterial that interferes with action or progress

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In the north these ranges are low and offer no great impediment to railroad building.

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Woe

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misery resulting from affiction

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Here's stout stuff for woe to work on.

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whimper

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cry weakly or softly

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She started to groan with pleasure, but it came out more an eager whimper that sent a rush of heat to her face.

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perseverance

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persistent determination

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It took planning and perseverance to be successful.

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persistent

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never ceasing

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Ignoring the persistent ring, she put the chicken in the oven and closed the door.

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Ambidextrous

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equally skillful with each hand

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He was ambidextrous because he could use his left hand as well as his right hand.

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Minion

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servile or fawning dependant

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Each time the phone rang, Cynthia flinched, fearing some state minion was calling to drag Martha back to his lair in the dungeons of officialdom.

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Decrepit

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worm and broken down by hard use

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She opened her eyes and looked around, not recognizing the decrepit factory.

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Half breed

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Offensive term for an offspring of parents of different races (especially of Caucasian and NativeAmerican ancestry)

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My dog is a half-breed

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Vow

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Promise

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The bride shared her vow's.

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Pummel

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Strike, usually using your fist

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My friend started to pummel a bully at school.

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Stroll

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Walk leisurely and with no apparent aim

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I took a stroll around the block.

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Bureau

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An administrative unit of government

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Cynthia was standing at her bureau for a last minute comb of her hair.

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Impeding

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To lose in time; about to occur

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He now understood the whole meaning and importance of this war and of the impending battle.

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Rummage

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Search haphazardly

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I rummaged through my closet for my shoes.

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Petrify

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to change into stone

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I found a petrified wood in my grass.

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Articulate

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Characterized by clear expressive language

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There are many articulate people.

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Tautology

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A statement that is necessarily true

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The teacher was showing us tautology.

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Illiterate

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not able to read or write

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She was illiterate, and with difficulty scrawled an awkward E.Read more at http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/illiterate#zzcAgqzAjmdCCatv.99

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Dilate

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to make or become wider

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Internally: Dilate solutions of potash, like other alkalis, are used to neutralize the poisonous effects of strong acids.

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Redundancy

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no longer needy

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In fact, the great blemishes of In Memoriam, its redundancy and the dislocation of its parts, were largely due to the desultory manner of its composition.

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Secede

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withdraw fronian organization of policy

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From the same usage is derived the shorter political term "cave" for any body of men who secede from their party on some special subject.

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Monotonous

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sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch

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Jonny's voice was coldly monotonous but soft.218 93 Her varying tones would have thrown it off as well; it was programmed to the monotonous speech pattern of Anshan.60 46 "You can see the stars, kiri," he said in his monotonous, mechanical voice.42 31 His chief defects are a somewhat pretentious and at the same time monotonous style, and a want of sympathy and intensity.14 6 In general the main elevations of the two ranges form pairs lying opposite one another; the forms of both ranges are monotonous, but the colouring is splendid, especially when viewed from a distance; when seen close at hand only a few valleys with perennial streams offer pictures of landscape beauty, their rich green contrasting pleasantly with the bare brown and yellow mountain sides.12 4 The scenery is generally monotonous; even the mountainous districts rarely show striking features 1 Nos.17 9 The story of the Hungarian wars is a monotonous record of forays, of assistance given at times to the Babenbergs by the forces of the Empire, and ending in the gradual eastward advance of Austria.16 8 Between the Lot and the Aveyron is a belt of causses or monotonous limestone table-lands, broken here and there by profound and beautiful gorges - a type of scenery characteristic of Aveyron.14 7 The best critics admitted that his diction was too monotonous, too obviously artificial, and now and then turgid even to absurdity.16 9 They laid no claim to literary skill; their style was monotonous and soon became wearisome.11 4 Except during the hot season, when the crops are off the fields, the general aspect in normal years is that of a verdant and well-tilled but very monotonous plain, only merging into hilly or mountainous country at the extreme edges of the basin on the south and north.9 2 The low, swampy and monotonous shore of the Caribbean, with its numerous lagoons and estuaries, and its fringe of reefs a,nd islets, contains only three harbours: Gracias a Dios, Bluefields or Blewfields, and Greytown (San Juan del Norte).11 4 The best Ferrarese masters of the 16th century of the Ferrara school were Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535), and Doss° Dossi (1479-1542), the most eminent of all, while Benvenuto Tisi (Garofalo, 1481-1559) is somewhat monotonous and insipid.10 3 The western division consists of low fen or clay soil and presents a monotonous expanse of rich meadow-land, carefully drained in regular lines of canals bordered by stunted willows, and dotted over with windmills, the sails of canal craft and the clumps of elm and poplar which surround each isolated farm-house.7 1 The prospect was unlimited, but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding; not the slightest variety that I could see.12 6 The book of Judges with its " monotonous tempo - religious declension, oppression, repentance, peace," to which Wellhausen 4 refers as its ever-recurring cycle, makes us familiar with these alternating phases of action and reaction.8 2 It is true that there is nothing, or hardly anything, that properly deserves the name of poetry in them - no passion, no sense of the beauty of nature, only a narrow "criticism of life," only a conventional and restricted choice of language, a cramped and monotonous prosody, and none of that indefinite suggestion which has been rightly said to be of the poetic essence.7 1 Cochin-China consists chiefly of an immense plain, flat and monotonous, traversed by the Mekong and extending from Ha-Tien in the west to Baria in the east, and from Bien-Hoa in the north-east to the southern point of the peninsula of Ca-Mau in the south-west.7 1 As he grew up he became extremely dissatisfied with the dull and monotonous life he was compelled to lead; and his discontent was heartily shared by his sister, Wilhelmina, a bright and intelligent young princess for whom Frederick had a warm affection.9 3 The notes of the blackbird are rich and full, but monotonous as compared with those of the song-thrush.10 4 His prose, though not nearly so uniformly monotonous or polysyllabic as the parodists would have us believe, was at one time greatly overpraised.7 1 "I know, I know," answered Prince Vasili in his monotonous voice.10 4 His narrative contains frequent repetitions and contradictions, is without colouring, and monotonous; and his simple diction, which stands intermediate between pure Attic and the colloquial Greek of his time, enables us to detect in the narrative the undigested fragments of the materials which he employed.11 5 Inland, a network of interlacing creeks and broad sluggish channels fringed with monotonous mangrove forests.7 1 " The spectacle of these eternally dead masses gave me nothing but the monotonous and at last tedious idea, ` Es ist so.'10 4 There is a certain charm even about these monotonous tracts, and it cannot be said that Denmark is wanting in natural beauty of a quiet order.8 2 The domestic architecture of Verona cannot thus be now fairly estimated, and seems monotonous, heavy and uninteresting.9 4 Hence, amid the monotonous succession of ridge beyond ridge and valley after valley, diversity of detail has resulted from the varying composition and grouping of the rocks.7 2 Slight ridges along the streams and bayous which traverse it, and occasional patches of slightly elevated prairie, relieve in a measure the monotonous expanse.8 3 Sometimes through the monotonous waves of men, like a fleck of white foam on the waves of the Enns, an officer, in a cloak and with a type of face different from that of the men, squeezed his way along; sometimes like a chip of wood whirling in the river, an hussar on foot, an orderly, or a townsman was carried through the waves of infantry; and sometimes like a log floating down the river, an officers' or company's baggage wagon, piled high, leather covered, and hemmed in on all sides, moved across the bridge.6 1 Of the Lena) ranges, diversify these monotonous lowlands, which are covered with a thick sheet of black earth in the south and assume the character of barren tundras in the north.7 2 Ocean, how monotonous must have been the conditions of life! And what11 6 There is a little bird, the size of a starling, with brown back striped with black, and white breast, which the Indians call yncahualpa; it utters a monotonous sound at each hour of the night.7 2 When compared with such philosophic writing as Hume's, Diderot's, Berkeley's, then Comte's manner is heavy, laboured, monotonous, without relief and without light.7 2 The four volumes of the Meditations, the Harmonies and the Recueillements, which contained the prime of his verse, are perhaps the most monotonous reading to be found anywhere in work of equal bulk by a poet of equal talent.7 2 The music, vocal and instrumental, is generally of little compass, and in the minor key; it is therefore plaintive, and strikes a European ear as somewhat monotonous, though often possessing a simple beauty, and the charm of antiquity, for there is little doubt that the favorite airs have been handed down from remote ages.7 2 The greater part of Kordofan consists of undulating plains, riverless, barren, monotonous, with an average altitude of 1500 ft.7 2 They serve admirably to break the sombre and monotonous aspect of the Australian vegetation.9 4 The wealth and luxury of successive generations, the monotonous routine of life, the separation of the educated class from the higher work of the world, have produced their enervating and paralysing effect on the mainsprings of poetic and imaginative feeling.7 2 The surface is not so level and monotonous as it appears on many maps; for, although there are scarcely any running streams, it is diversified by a few lakes, of which Bacalar and Chichankanab are the largest, as well as by low isolated hills and ridges in the W., and in the E.7 2 Classical forms, variety of treatment and freedom of colouring, while the processions are monotonous and inferior in execution, intended rather to produce a decorative effect than beauty of form.9 4 Constructed and written in almost slavish imitation of Virgil, employing for medium a very unsuitable vehicle - the Alexandrine couplet (as reformed and rendered monotonous for dramatic purposes) - and animated neither by enthusiasm for the subject nor by real understanding thereof, it could not but be an unsatisfactory performance.7 2 These monotonous writings, all in Dutch, flowed in a continual stream from 1524 (though none is extant before 1529) and amounted to over 200 in number.11 7 In the Eastern Alps the political history is almost monotonous, for it relates simply to the advance or retreat of the house of Habsburg, which still holds all but the whole of the northern portion (the exception is the small bit in the north-west that belongs to Bavaria) of that region.6 2 The Beauce is a treeless, arid and monotonous plain of limestone formation; windmills and church spires are the only prominent features of the landscape.7 3 Towards the centre the almost treeless plain presents a monotonous aspect, broken only by a few rocky elevations that rise abruptly from the black soil.6 2 Weyrother, with the gesture of a man too busy to lose a moment, glanced at Kutuzov and, having convinced himself that he was asleep, took up a paper and in a loud, monotonous voice began to read out the dispositions for the impending battle, under a heading which he also read out:5 1 Bessenyei introduced the use of rhymed alexandrines in place of the monotonous Zrinian measure.6 2 Along the Atlantic coast from the mouth of the Adour to the estuary of the Gironde there stretches a monotonous line of sanddunes bordered by lagoons on the land side, but towards the sea harbourless and unbroken save for the Bay of Arcachon.5 1 There, before the colonists came, wide sweeps of dull green bracken or wiry yellow-green tussocks seemed bleak and monotonous enough.9 5 Topography, eec. - Physically the protectorate may be described as almost mountainous in contrast with the somewhat monotonous plains of the interior.8 4 When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted.6 2 Passing farther north, the shore line of the main island along the Japan Sea is found to be compara tively straight and monotonous, there being only one noteworth~ indentation, that of Wakasa-wan, where are situated the naval por of Maizuru and the harbour of Tsuruga, the Japanese point 0 communication with the Vladivostok terminus of the Trans-Asiai railway.6 2 As professional story-tellers many Moors are remarkable, but the national music is monotonous and not very harmonious.6 2 The remainder of the department, with the exception of a more broken and picturesque district in the extreme north-west, forms part of the sterile and monotonous plain known as Champagne Pouilleuse.5 2 It flows at first through rather monotonous country, but the latter portion of its course, from the village of Altenahr, over which tower the ruins of the castle of Ahr, or Are (10th century), is full of romantic beauty.5 2 The plateau, known as the Ogaden plateau, everywhere presents the same monotonous aspect of a boundless steppe clothed with a scanty vegetation of scrubby plants and herbaceous growths.5 2 Of a far inferior character was the monotonous Mohdcsi veszedelem (Disaster of Mohacs),in 13 cantos, produced two years afterwards at Vienna by Baron Liszti.5 2 Their lyrics celebrated the mountains and rivers of the magnificent country they had left; and, while introducing images and scenery unfamiliar to the inhabitants of monotonous Denmark, they enriched the language with new words and phrases.7 4 The adjutants and battalion and regimental commanders mounted, crossed themselves, gave final instructions, orders, and commissions to the baggage men who remained behind, and the monotonous tramp of thousands of feet resounded.4 2 She wrote to him formal, monotonous, and dry letters, to which she attached no importance herself, and in the rough copies of which the countess corrected her mistakes in spelling.3 2 They are a monotonous sandstone range, covered with extensive forests, which up to the sources of the rivers Ung and San are also called the eastern Beskids, and are formed of small parallel ranges.4 4 To pass Cook Strait and land in the middle province of South Island is to pass from Portugal to Switzerland, a Switzerland, however, with a seacoast that in the east centre is a dull fringe of monotonous sand dunes or low cliffs.6 6 9 But the devoted Anskar (801-865) went forth and sought out the Scandinavian Viking, and handed on the torch of self-denying zeal to others, who saw, after the lapse of many years, the close of the monotonous tale of burning churches and pillaged monasteries, and taught the fierce Northman to learn respect for civilized institutions.5 5 Throughout the whole of this vast area, their monotonous surfaces are diversified by only a few, and, for the most part, low, hilly tracts.4 6 Soothsaying was no modern importation in Arabia; its characteristic form - a monotonous croon of short rhyming clauses - is the same as was practised by the Hebrew " wizards who peeped and muttered " in the days of Isaiah, and that this form was native in Arabia is clear from its having a technical name (saj`), which in Hebrew survives only in derivative words with modified sense.'4 6 The monotonous Atlantic littoral is unbroken by any large inlet or estuary, and thus contrasts in a striking manner with the varied outlines of the Pacific coast, which includes the three bold promontories of Nicoya, Golfo Dulce and Burica, besides the broad sweep of Coronada Bay and several small harbours.3 5 She shivered, sensing something truly evil in his monotonous voice and cold hands.32 35 This vast area, shaped like a broad-limbed V or U, with Hudson Bay in the centre, is made up chiefly of monotonous and barren Laurentian gneiss and granite; but scattered through it are important stretches of Keewatin and Huronian rocks intricately folded as synclines in the gneiss, as suggested earlier, the bases of ancient mountain ranges.3 6 I have seen her rock her doll, making a continuous, monotonous sound, keeping one hand on her throat, while the fingers of the other hand noted the movements of her lips.6 10 The monotonous aspect of the Alfdld is in summer time varied by the deli-bdb, or Fata Morgana.5 15 These manifestations of the divine spirit again cannot be traced and understood by reducing (as Hegel did) the growth of the human mind in the individual, in society and in history to the monotonous rhythm of a speculative schematism; the essence and worth which is in them reveals itself only to the student of detail, for reality is larger and wider than philosophy; the problem, "how the one can be many," is only solved for us in the numberless examples in life and experience which surround us, for which we must retain a lifelong interest and which constitute the true field of all useful human work.10 21 A simple refrain of a childish song or the monotonous chaunt of the ploughman touched a hidden chord and thrilled her to tears.22 39 The grinding of heavy wagons on hard pavements and the monotonous clangour of machinery are all the more torturing to the nerves if one's attention is not diverted by the panorama that is always present in the noisy streets to people who can see.6 31 His style is clear, but monotonous and inelegant.12 60 Moreover, the absence of hearing renders the voice monotonous and often very disagreeable; and such speech is generally unintelligible except to those familiar with the speaker.

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Subtle

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difficult to declare or grasp by the mind or analyze

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It was a subtle shade of gray.

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Earnest

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showing sincere and intense conviction

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His simple, earnest response and the conviction on his face floored her.

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Taut

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pulled or diam tight

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She felt dwarfed and delicate next to the mass of roped muscle and taut skin.

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Retroactive

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affecting things post

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Under the retroactive trafficking proposal, convicted traffickers may receive reduced prison terms.