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| Acquiesce(—but a certain callousness of soul, a certain acquiescence of despair) |
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(Verb) - To accept something
reluctantly but with out protest. |
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| Ebullient (She was ebullient about going to prom.) |
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| cheerful and full of energy. |
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| Circumscribed (The square circumscribed the circle.) |
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| to restrict within limits, keep within bounds |
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| Calamity (my punishment might have gone on for years, but for the last calamity which has now fallen, and which has finally severed me from my own face and nature.) |
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1. A great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
2. Grievous affliction; adversity; misery. |
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| Exacting (It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was...) |
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| rigid or severe in demands or requirements |
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| ENDOW (I plan to endow a million dollars to my former college.) |
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| Give or bequeath an income or property; provide with a quality, ability, or asset. |
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| Estrange (“Such unscientific balderdash," added the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias." |
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| remove from customary environment or associations. |
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| Amity (Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities;...) |
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| Conflagration (Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration;) |
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| A very intense and uncontrolled fire |
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| Depravity (When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.) |
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| The state or instance of moral corruption or impairment of virtue and moral principles. |
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| Coquette (The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus of their gains in coquetry; so that the shop fronts stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like rows of smiling saleswomen.) |
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| a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men to win their admiration and affection; flirt. |
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| Enigmatic (He took the money with an enigmatic smile) |
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| deceitfulness in speech or conduct; speaking or acting in 2 different ways concerning the same matter with intent to deceive. |
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| Apocryphal ( I took the liberty of pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal, and that a man does not, in real life, walk into a cellar door at four in the morning and come out of it with another man'’s cheque for close upon a hundred pounds.) |
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| of doubtful authorship or authenticity. |
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| Perennial(And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.” ) |
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| Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time. |
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