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Enterprise
-a project undertaken or to be undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult or that requires boldness or energy: To keep the peace is a difficult enterprise. |
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Preordinance
-an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command. |
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Confounded
-bewildered; confused; perplexed. |
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Interminably
-incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job. |
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Prodigious
-extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant. |
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retentive
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tending or serving to retain something.
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having power or capacity to retain.
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Commend
-to present, mention, or praise as worthy of confidence, notice, kindness, etc.; recommend: to commend a friend to another; to commend an applicant for employment. |
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Imminent
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likely to occur at any moment; impending: Her death is imminent.
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projecting or leaning forward; overhanging.
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Maim
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to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
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to impair; make essentially defective: The essay was maimed by deletion of important paragraphs.
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Expedient
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tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances: It is expedient that you go.
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conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right.
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