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Deleterious Skiing without a helmet can lead to deleterious consequences. |
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| adj. having an often obscure/harmful effect |
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Despoil The robbers desoiled the family of all its valuables. |
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| adj. to strip of possessions, rob |
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Ubiquituous Air is ubiquituous to the world. |
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| adj. existing or being everywhere at the same time |
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Perpetuate He perpetuated himself by having his name remembered. |
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| v. to cause to last indefinetaly |
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Supplant He supplanted the king and became ruler. |
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| v. to overthrow, to take place of (usually w/ force) |
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Chronicle The journalist chronicled the events in the story incorrectly so his final article confused everyone. |
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| v. to put in order, record |
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Upbraid "Momma ubraided you like that because you was a coward." |
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Indolent His indolent son chose to to sleep and eat all day. |
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Listless The listless feeling in the air made everyone drowsy. |
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Mercurial His mercurial nature made him someone who wasn't to be trusted with errand and favors. |
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Cognitive We can say that Eugene's cognitive skills aren't very up to par due to his SAT score. |
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| adj. related to the brain |
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Ephemeral You will regret the ephemeral joys that you have now when you don't get into college. |
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Exhume The coffin was exhumed and looted last night. |
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| v. to take out of the ground |
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Laud Timmy's parents never lauded him and because of that, he had very little self-esteem. |
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Ameliorate Joseph's problems weren't ameliorated even after he got a new job. |
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Prosaic The prosaic professor made the economics class very unenjoyable. |
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| n. boring, straightforward, factual, dull, unimaginable |
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