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🔵 perfunctorily
♦️ in a manner that lacks serious attention or enthusiasm
🗯 Example:
-"the officer read perfunctorily from a written text."
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🔵 ominous
♦️ threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
🗯 Example:
-"ominous rumbling of discontent."
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🔵 dissipate
♦️cause to separate and go in different directions
🗯 Example:
-"He dissipated the landing birds. "
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🔵 craggy
♦️having hills, steep rugged rock or cliffs that are called crags.
🗯 Example:
-"craggy cliffs"
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🔵 betrothal
♦️the act of becoming engaged or be married
🗯 Example:
-"the play revolves round the betrothal of a Duke to a doctor's daughter."
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🔵 shrewd
♦️marked by practical intelligence and clever discernment
🗯 Example:
-"she was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind his gesture."
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🟣catch up
✍ to move faster to reach someone or something that is ahead of you.
⭕️For example:
"If you don't catch, you'll get left behind.
So hurry up!"
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🔵 hackles
♦️the hairs on an animal's neck and back that rise when the animal is angry or afraid
🗯 Example:
-"the cat continues to growl, it's hackles raised."
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🔵 phlegmatic
♦️showing little emotion
🗯 Example:
-"the phlegmatic British character."
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🔵 defunct
♦️no longer in use or functioning; inactive
🗯 Example:
-"a defunct organization."
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🔵 disdainful
♦️having or showing arrogant superiority to and scorn for people or things perceived to be unworthy
🗯 Example:
-"some economists are disdainful of their colleague in other social disciplines."
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🔵 capsize
♦️overturn accidentlly
🗯 Example:
-"Don't rock the boat or it will capsize. "
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🔵 banquet
♦️a ceremonial dinner party for many people
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-"a banquet for the graduating seniors."
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🔵 plummet
♦️drop sharply and quickly
🗯 Example:
-"The stock market plummeted."
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🔵 unanimity
♦️ agreement by all people involved; consensus.
🗯 Example:
-"there is almost complete unanimity on this issue."
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🔵 persistent
♦️continuing without change even in the event of interference.
🗯 Example:
-"persistent rain will affect many areas. "
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🔵 unperturbed
♦️free from emotional agitation or nervous tension
🗯 Example:
-"she seemed unperturbed by the news "
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🔵 prudence
♦️the ability to use reason and good judgement in choosing one's words and actions
🗯 Example:
-"we need to exercise prudence in such important matters."
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🔵 kinetic
♦️characterized by motion; active or lively
🗯 Example:
-"He is installing a kinetic sculpture made of old bikes, vital to the denouement."
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🔵 lucent
♦️softly bright or radiant
🗯 Example:
-"the lucent moon."
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🔵 abyss
♦️a bottomless gulf or pit
🗯 Example:
-"He led down into the dark abyss."
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🔵 morale
♦️the confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time.
🗯 Example:
-"their morale was high."
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🔵 careen
♦️move headlong at hight speed
🗯 Example:
-"the train careened out of control."
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🔵 oblige
♦️make someone legally or morally bound to an action or course of action.
🗯 Example:
-"doctors are obliged by law to keep patients alive while there is a chance of recovery."
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🔵 defunct
♦️No longer in use or functioning
🗯 Example:
-"a defunct organization ."
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🔵 subsequent
♦️following in time, place or order
🗯 Example:
-"subsequent development."
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🔵 somber
♦️grave, serious or gloomy in character
🗯 Example:
-"a somber mood."
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🔵 dilettante
♦️an mature who engages in an activity without serious intentions
🗯 Example:
-"a wealthy literary dilettante."
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