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| Avid (adj.) | greedy: enthusiastic; moved by a strong & urgent desire or interest; |
| Cantankerous (adj.) | hard to deal with; disagreeable, cranky, irritable; |
| Circumvent (v.) | get around by trickery; to defeat another's plan; |
| Correlate (v) | to show or see how one thing relates meaningfully to another: |
| Depict (v) | to paint, draw, to describe, to portray; |
| Derive (v) | to get or obtain something from something else: |
| Devise (v) | to create, develop: to invent a plan, system, object, etc., usually cleverly or imaginatively: |
| Disinclined (adj) | unwilling, reluctant: a feeling of not wanting to do something: |
| Dispel (v) | to remove fears, doubts and false ideas, usually by proving them wrong or unnecessary: |
| Dissipate (v) | to disappear or to lessen in intensity, to (cause to) gradually disappear or waste: |
| Distraught (adj) | extremely worried, anxious or upset: |
| Dubious (adj) | causing doubt about its value or truth: suspicious, skeptical; |
| e.g. | for example: Our university offers strong programs in the sciences, e.g., chemistry, biology, and physics. |
| Element (n.) | natural environment; to be unhappy and feel uncomfortable in a particular situation |
| Elite (n) | the richest, most powerful, best educated or most highly trained group in a society: |
| Eloquent (adj) | clear and persuasive speech or writing: |
| Emaciate (adj) | very thin and weak, usually because of illness or extreme hunger; |
| Embellish (v) | to make something more beautiful or interesting by adding something to it:to exaggerate; |
| Empathy (n) | the ability to share or understand another person's feelings; |
| Enable (v) | to make someone able to do something, or to make something possible: |
