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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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🔵 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
🗯 Example:
-"a banquet for the graduating seniors."
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🔵 plummet
♦️drop sharply and quickly
🗯 Example:
-"The stock market plummeted."
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🔵bravado
♦️a swaggering show of courage
🗯 Example:
-"You won't get away with this", he said with unexpected bravado.
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🔵 posterity
♦️all future generations
🗯 Example:
-"the victims'names are recorded for posterity."
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🔵 versatile
♦️having great diversity or variety of skills, interests or abilities
🗯 Example:
-"his vast and versatile erudition."
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🔵inexorable
♦️not to be persuaded, stopped, appeased or moved, even by begging and pleading; stubborn
🗯 Example:
Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty.
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🔵adroit
♦️quick,skillful or adept in action or thought
🗯 Example:
An exceptionally adroit pianist.
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🔵animus
♦️hostility or I'll feeling
🗯 Example:
The author's animus towards her.
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🔵 serene
♦️ calm, peaceful, and undisturbed
🗯 Example:
-"The serene lake reflected the beauty of the surrounding mountain."
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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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🔵 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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🔵 versatile
♦️having great diversity or variety of skills, interests or abilities
🗯 Example:
-"his vast and versatile erudition."
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🔵inexorable
♦️not to be persuaded, stopped, appeased or moved, even by begging and pleading; stubborn
🗯 Example:
Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty.
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🔵 spite
♦️ill will or hatred that takes the form of being irritating or offensive
🗯 Example:
-"She'd think I was saying it out of spite."
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🔵bravado
♦️a swaggering show of courage
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🔵posterity
♦️all future generations
🗯 Example:
The victims' names are recorded for posterity.
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🔵morale
♦️a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence, usefulness and purpose
🗯 Example:
Their morale was high.
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🔵instantiate
♦️represent as or by instance.
🗯 Example:
a study of two groups who seemed to instantiate productive aspects of this.
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🔵 majestic
♦️ grand, impressive, and awe-inspiring
🗯 Example:
-"we enjoyed watching the majestic waterfalls"
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