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(adj) extremely talented
He is adroit at doing schoolwork. |
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(adj)
She is a very amicable person. |
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(adj)
He is averse to school work and that is why he gets in trouble so often. |
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(adj)
The football team was very belligerant. |
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(adj)generous,charitable,giving
The group is very benevolent. |
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(adj)quick,brief,short
The detective searched his house cursory. |
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(noun) sneaky,deceatful
The girls duplicity gets her into alot of trouble. |
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(verb)to praise highly
They extoled the artist's painting. |
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(adj)likely,probable
That excuse is not feasible. |
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(noun)facial contortion
(verb)to contort your face
Everytime I ask you about something dont make a grimace.
When she ate a sour apple she made a grimace. |
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(noun)
Alot of people died in the holocaust between the french and britain. |
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(adj) incapable of being affected
In the tv show Law & Order the mother was diagnosed with hiv and she was pregnant the doctor told her that her daughter is impervious to the disease. |
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(noun) a moving force,stimulus
When I heard Rose speak Italian so fluently,my determination to master that language received a fresh impetus. |
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(noun) risk or danger
The family was in jeopardy after they tryed to get a criminal in jail. |
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(adj) precise,thorough;paying close attention to detail
In art I work meticulously because I dont want my project to mess up. |
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(noun) desire to return to a former time/place;a sentimental yearning
After I finished middle school I was filled with nostalgia because I had so much fun. |
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(noun) most perfect imbodiment of something
Leonardo Da Vinci art work of Mona Lisa is so quintessence. |
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(verb) to go backward,usually to a worse condition
At first my grades were excillent until I stopped studying and it went into a completee retrogress. |
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(verb) to examine in detail
The doctor had to scrutinize the patient. |
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(adj) luke warm;room temperature
Because had had left the cold water out for to long it became tepid. |
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