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| shrew | n. a mouselike animal that eats insects; a bad-tempered, nagging woman |
| lucrative | adj. profitable; producing more money or wealth |
| garrulous | adj. talking too much, especially about unimportant things |
| abridge | v. to shorten the number of words; to condense |
| verbose | adj. wordy; using or containing more words than necessary |
| invoke | v. to call upon a higher power for assistance; to ask or appeal for; to call forth |
| finality | n. the quality or condition of being complete or settled; conclusiveness |
| impromptu | adj. without previous thought or preparation; spontaneous |
| supercilious | adj. showing scorn and haughtiness; disdainful; aloof or conceited |
| emendation | n. a correction; a change in a written text |
| intangible | adj. not capable of being touched; not material; vague or not easily defined |
| idiomatic | adj. characteristic of a particular language |
| expletive | n. an oath or exclamation usually profane; a word with no meaning of its own, used to complete the pattern of a phrase or sentence |
| affable | adj. friendly, cordial, pleasant and easy to talk to; showing friendliness |
| bolster | n. a long, narrow pillow; anything used as a support; v. to prop up, support, or reinforce |
| reciprocate | v. to give, do or take in return; to move with a backward-forward motion |
| wistful | adj. full of longing; yearning; wishful |
| furor | n. frenzied anger; rage; a public uproar or outburst of indignation; great enthusiasm for |
| subterfuge | n. a trick, excuse, or deception used to escape something unpleasant |
| tawdry | adj. gaudy; showy and cheap |
