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Reticent
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Quiet, reserved, or uncommunicative.
Because she was to reticent, very few people got to know her well. |
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Travail
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Hard work, exhausting labor, agony.
His family found that the travail of serving ten years at a prison camp had changed him greatly. |
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Opulence
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Wealth, luxury, or abundance
She was amazed at the opulence of her neighbors. |
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Arduous
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Difficulty, strenuous, or hard to achieve.
Climbing the tree proved to be an arduous task. |
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Paltry
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Practically worthless, petty, trifling
I complained not because of the paltry three cents i was overcharged, but because of the principle of the thing. |
