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P.3 assuaged
(v) make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. Ex.Sen. The crowd made the players feel assuaged at game point.
P.3 apothecary
(n) a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs Ex.Sen. One day monkeys will do apothecary.
P.4 taciturn
(adj) (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little. Ex.Sen.When presenting he was tactiturn
P.4 chattel
(n) (in general use) a personal possession. Ex.Sen. Most of the books are chattel to the mother.
P.4 unsullied
(adj) not spoiled or made impure. Ex.Sen. All her life she was unsullied unlike her brother.
P.4 dictum
a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source. Ex.Sen. The dictum was an awkward fact for her.
P.4 strictures
(n) a restriction on a person or activity. Ex. The baby has strictures on what rooms she could go in.
P.4 dispatched
(v) send off to a destination or for a purpose. Ex.Sen.She was dispatched to pick berries.
P.5 ambled
(v) walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace. Ex.Sen. They walked ambled at the beach shore
P.5 detention
(n) the punishment of being kept in school after hours. Ex.Sen. Mag has 7 hours of detention left.
P.5 dispatched
(v) deal with (a task, problem, or opponent) quickly and efficiently. Ex.Sen. She was dispatched to another class to drop off papers.
P.6 detachment
(n) a group of troops, aircaft, or ships sent away on a separate mission. Ex. the detachment of Marines was sad.
P.8 repertoire
(n) a stock of skills or types of behavior that a person habitually uses. Ex.Sen. “his repertoire of threats, stares, and denigratory gestures.
P.8 malevolent
(adj) having or showing a wish to do evil to others Ex.Sen. the shadow of dark, malevolent eyes.
P.8 vapid
(adj) offering nothing that is stimulation or challenging Ex.Sen. Trying to draw outside was a vapid problem due to the wave noise.