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P.3 assuaged

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(v) make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. Ex.Sen. The crowd made the players feel assuaged at game point.

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P.3 apothecary

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(n) a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs Ex.Sen. One day monkeys will do apothecary.

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P.4 taciturn

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(adj) (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little. Ex.Sen.When presenting he was tactiturn

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P.4 chattel

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(n) (in general use) a personal possession. Ex.Sen. Most of the books are chattel to the mother.

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P.4 unsullied

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(adj) not spoiled or made impure. Ex.Sen. All her life she was unsullied unlike her brother.

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P.4 dictum

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a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source. Ex.Sen. The dictum was an awkward fact for her.

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P.4 strictures

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(n) a restriction on a person or activity. Ex. The baby has strictures on what rooms she could go in.

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P.4 dispatched

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(v) send off to a destination or for a purpose. Ex.Sen.She was dispatched to pick berries.

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P.5 ambled

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(v) walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace. Ex.Sen. They walked ambled at the beach shore

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P.5 detention

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(n) the punishment of being kept in school after hours. Ex.Sen. Mag has 7 hours of detention left.

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P.5 dispatched

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(v) deal with (a task, problem, or opponent) quickly and efficiently. Ex.Sen. She was dispatched to another class to drop off papers.

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P.6 detachment

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(n) a group of troops, aircaft, or ships sent away on a separate mission. Ex. the detachment of Marines was sad.

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P.8 repertoire

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(n) a stock of skills or types of behavior that a person habitually uses. Ex.Sen. “his repertoire of threats, stares, and denigratory gestures.

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P.8 malevolent

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(adj) having or showing a wish to do evil to others Ex.Sen. the shadow of dark, malevolent eyes.

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P.8 vapid

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(adj) offering nothing that is stimulation or challenging Ex.Sen. Trying to draw outside was a vapid problem due to the wave noise.

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P.9 morbid

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(adj) of the nature of or indicative of disease. Ex.Sen. There is morbid treatments throughout the world.

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P.9 nocturnal

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(adj) done, occurring, or active at night. Ex.Sen. Most lions are nocturnal for food.

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P.9 stealthy

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(adj) behaving, done, or made in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard. Ex.Sen. When sneaking out she was stealthy.

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P.9 mutilated

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(v) inflict serious damage on Ex.Sen. She mutilated on her baby sister.

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P.9 predilection

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a preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something. Ex.Sen. My predilection on Nike shoes.

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P.10 domiciled

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(v) treat a specified country as a permanent home. Ex.Sen. The goverment made the souldier chose a domiciled.

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P.10 flivver

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(n) a cheap car or aircaft, especially one in bad condition. Ex.Sen. The flivver was taken to the junkyard.

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P.11 intimidation

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(n) the action of intimidating someone, or the state of being intimidated. Ex.Sen. During the basketball game Billy had intimindation of the shooting gurad.

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P.11 nebulous

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(adj) in the form of a cloud or haze; hazy Ex.Sen. The mist was a nebulous glow.

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P.11 transition

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(n) the process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another Ex.Sen. Workers in transition to meeting to meeting.

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P.14 concession

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(n) a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands; a thing conded. Ex.Sen. Her parents made several concessions.