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| acrid | 1: sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating 2: deeply or violently bitter : acrimonious |
| anticipate | 1: to give advance thought, discussion, or treatment to 2: to meet (an obligation) before a due date 3: to foresee and deal with in advance : forestall 4: to use or expend in advance of actual possession 5: to act before (another) often so as to check or counter 6: to look forward to as certain : expect |
| billow | 1: wave; especially : a great wave or surge of water 2: a rolling mass (as of flame or smoke) that resembles a high wave |
| cavalier | 1: a gentleman trained in arms and horsemanship 2: a mounted soldier : knight 3capitalized : an adherent of Charles I of England 4: gallant |
| cavity | 1: an unfilled space within a mass; especially : a hollowed-out space 2: an area of decay in a tooth : caries |
| convey | 1obsolete : lead, conduct 2a : to bear from one place to another; especially : to move in a continuous stream or mass b : to impart or communicate by statement, suggestion, gesture, or appearance <struggling to convey his feelings> c (1) archaic : steal (2) obsolete : to carry away secretly d : to transfer or deliver (as property) to another especially by a sealed writing e : to cause to pass from one place or person to another <convey a message> |
| crave | 1: to ask for earnestly : beg, demand <crave a pardon for neglect> 2a : to want greatly : need < |
| digress | : to turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument |
| edifice | 1: building; especially : a large or massive structure 2: a large abstract structure |
| frivolous | 1a : of little weight or importance b : having no sound basis (as in fact or law) <a frivolous lawsuit> 2a : lacking in seriousness b : marked by unbecoming levity |
| germinate | : to cause to sprout or develop |
| intemperate | not temperate <intemperate criticism>; especially : given to excessive use of intoxicating liquors |
| temperate | : marked by moderation: as a : keeping or held within limits : not extreme or excessive : mild b : moderate in indulgence of appetite or desire c : moderate in the use of alcoholic beverages d : marked by an absence or avoidance of extravagance, violence, or extreme partisanship 2 a : having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature b : found in or associated with a moderate climate <temperate insects> |
| judicious | having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment : discreet |
| mandatory | 1: required by a law or rule : obligatory <the mandatory retirement age> 2: of, by, relating to, or holding a League of Nations mandate |
| martinet | 1: a strict disciplinarian 2: a person who stresses a rigid adherence to the details of forms and methods |
| orator | 1: one who delivers an oration 2: one distinguished for skill and power as a public speaker |
| ponderous | 1: of very great weight 2: unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size 3: oppressively or unpleasantly dull : lifeless |
| predator | 1: one that preys, destroys, or devours 2: an animal that lives by predation |
| protuberance | 1: something that is protuberant 2: the quality or state of being protuberant |
| quagmire | 1: soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot 2: a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position : predicament |
| quarry | 1: obsolete : a heap of the game killed in a hunt 2: game; specifically : game hunted with hawks 3: one that is sought or pursued : prey |
| recollect | 1: to bring back to the level of conscious awareness : remember <trying to recollect the name> 2: to remind (oneself) of something temporarily forgotten |
| scathing | bitterly severe |
| tycoon | 1: shogun 2a : a top leader (as in politics) b : a businessman of exceptional wealth and power : magnate |
