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Atrocity
A cruel or terrible act.
It's sad that their country is letting this atrocity happen. |
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Ingenious
showing genius, smart
Some of their survival strategies are nothing short of ingenious. |
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Administer
To direct or control.
We are also able and happy to administer medication if required. |
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Contrive
To think up, design, plan.
He contrived a meeting with the president. |
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Virtually
Nearly, almost.
We spent virtually all day shopping. |
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Sadistic
Suffering, or humiliation on others.
She took a sadistic pleasure in tormenting him |
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Nationalization
The action of forming or becoming a nation.
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Banality
Something that is boring or ordinart.
Her writings never rose above banality. |
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Incompatible
So opposed in character as to be incapable of existing together.
This function is incompatible between Computer and Microwave. |
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Adjoining
Next to or joined with.
The cows had broken through the fence and were grazing in the adjoining field. |
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Apparatus
A tool or piece of equipment used for specific activities.
The physics laboratory has the best apparatus I've ever seen. |
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Destructive
Causing a very large amount of damage : causing destruction or harm.
It was one of the most destructive storms in recent memory. |
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Prevailing
Existing at a particular time; current.
The unfavorable prevailing economic conditions.
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Peculiar
strange or unusual.
This is not only strange things about the bionomics of this peculiar animal. |
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Vulnerable
Susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm.
He was scared and vulnerable. |
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