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Vocab 10.7 Flashcards

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Parenthesis

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  • But what is the plural of parenthesis

Parentheses

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Hypothesis

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Hypotheses

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Premise

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An idea, a notion, a theory, a proposition upon which an argument is based or from which you draw a conclusion

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Premises

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  • “A premises”
    • A tract of land or a piece of land
      And everything that is built upon it
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Suffice

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  • To be sufficient
    • To be adequate
      To be enough
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Feign

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  • To pretend
    • To give false impression of something
      He’s not sleeping, he’s just feigning
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Unwittingly

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  • To do something without being aware of
    • To do something without being cognizant of
    • To do something unintentionally
    • To do something not on purpose
      To do something inadvertently
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Unbeknownst

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  • Without being known.
    • Without the knowledge of
    • Without the awareness of
      Unbeknownst to his wife he has been going to this club
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Moribund

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  • Related to morbid - to die
    • On the verge of dying
    • About to die
      This marker is moribund
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Canvass (verb)

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  • To go door to door soliciting votes, subscriptions, orders
    • To conduct a survey of public opinion
    • To take poll
    • Second meaning: to examine something thoroughly
    • To scrutinize something closely
    • To discuss something thoroughly
    • Or in detail
      So in this case we are canvassing
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Expression : To gain currency

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  • To become widely acceptable
    • To become popular
    • To become prevalent
    • To become common
    • Remember the example of haresh tagging sanjana
      The idea ………………………………………… is gaining currency
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Breach

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  • To breach, or “ a breach”
    • A violation or infraction of a law, legal obligation or a promise or a custom or a tradition
      To breach someone’s confidence
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Inordinate

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  • Excessive
    • Unreasonable
    • Immoderate
    • Exceeding norms
      Exceeding reasonable limits
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Inebriated

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Drunk or intoxicated

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Jejune

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  • Something that is not robust
    • Something that is insubstantial
    • Dull
    • Not interesting
    • Immature
    • Argument to be a jejune argument
    • Silly, childish
    • How did you like the movie? I found the plot to be jejune
    • Infantile
      Childish
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Puerile

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  • Childish
    • Infantile
    • You think you are making a very good point, but that is a jejune point
      Infantile - like an infant
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Infantile

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Like an infant

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Verbatim

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  • You might find it in mathematics
    • Word for word
    • Using exactly the same words
    • To quote someone
      Because I’m saying these words in verbatim
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Antonym of the word - Verbatim - No longer saying the same words, putting it in your own words

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Paraphrase

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  • To say something in your own words

I’m paraphrasing what he said, I’m not quoting him

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Visceral (Adjective)

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  • Literal meaning : comes from the word viscera (plural), which means guts, intestines, inner organs, what’s basically there in your stomach
    • Metaphorical Meaning : To feel something at your gut level. To feel it in your gut
      To have a intuition ,
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Inkling

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  • To have a hunch, to feel it in your guts

I can’t put the sentence exactly on the black board - verbatim, I’ll paraphrase it

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“My decision to become something was not so much cerebral as it was visceral”

Not based on some intellectual analysis, but it was intuition

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some extra material to learn the word

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Cerebral

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  • Literal meaning: it means having to do with brain or the cerebral
    Metaphorical meaning: something that is intellectual, something that is well planned with great deal of intellectual analysis
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Analyses

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The plural form of analysis

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Naught

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  • Zero
    • Nothing
    • Something of more in a colloquial manner
    • Zilch
    • Cipher
    • It was all for naught
      Generally all the preparation that I do is for naught
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Cipher or cypher

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  • It is an Arabic word meaning zero
    • Worthless
    • Something of no value
    • But there’s a another meaning to this word
    • Depending on pronunciation the meaning changes
    • “To write something in codes”
    • Means to encrypt
    • Means to encode
    • Means to figure out a coded message
      It’s important to learn the words to spell the words phonetically
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Antonym of the word cipher

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  • To break the code
    • To decipher it
    • To decode
      To understand
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Proverb

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  • Saw, axiom, cliché, overly used expression, maxim

Adage - (find the meaning properly)

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-banal, mundane, trite, hackneyed, pedestrian, prosaic

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revision words

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Prosaic comes from the word prose

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  • Full of emotions
    • Soporific - saffron, makes you feel sleepy
      Makes you drowsy
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Onus (Noun)

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  • Burden
    • Responsibility
    • Usually a big one
    • Adjective: Onerous
      Burden - burdensome
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Enumerate

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  • To make a list
    • To count off
      To name one by one
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Adulterate

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  • To make something impure
    • “Adultery”
      Eg: unadulterated drivel (pure nonsense)
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Drivel

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  • Literally: to drool, to slobber, saliva dripping down from the side of the mouth
    • Metaphorically: to speak nonsense
    • To speak stupidly
      To make no sense
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I did not understand a word of that Gibberish

It was an unadulterated drivel

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Gibberish

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A nonsensical talk

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Poppycock

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A nonsensical talk

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Piffle (noun)

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  • Foolish talk or an idea

Non sense

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Cockamamie

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  • Not a real word. Just a slang
    • Something that is silly
    • Ludicrous
    • Nonsensical
      He gave me some cockamamie excuse
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Humbug

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  • Non sense or rubbish
    • But an intention to deceive, to fraud
      Has this connotation
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Gobbledygook

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Something that may have trouble understanding but not because it is nonsense because it full of Jargon(34)

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Blather or blither

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  • To talk nonsensically, stupidly

Blithering idiot

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Masochism

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  • Driving pleasure from being subjected to abuse or physical pain
    • Roose bolten
    • And the person who drives the pleasure
    • Masochist or masochistic
      Usually used in the context of sexual activities
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Hedonism

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  • Doing something because it is pleasurable without any regards to morality of it.
    Hedonist (someone who is doing it for the pure purpose of satisfaction
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Monastic

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  • A person who lives a simple life
    • Like a monk
      A very bear or Austere or Ascetic existence as in a monastery
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Austere or Ascetic

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Look for the meaning of this word

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Monastery

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Devoid of all luxuries

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Austere

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  • Without worldly comforts
    • A very simple life devoid of all luxuries
      Noun - Austerity
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Ascetic

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  • Living like a monk

Synonyms of Austere

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Minutia

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  • Singular word

Minute little details or trivial details of a procedure

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Minutiae

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All the small little things

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Stickler

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  • Person who is strict about all the rules and regulations

Person who demands exactness

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Subscribe

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  • To sign a contract to buy a newspaper or magazine

To believe in a certain idea, certain thought, certain theory, certain notion

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Bombastic

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  • A loud, pretentious, pompous speech
    • Speech or writing - full of grand gestures and promises but devoid of substance
      Politicians come in mind
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Grandiloquent

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  • Synonym of bombastic
    • Grand - big loquent - speech
    • Simply a grand speech
      Noun : Grandiloquence
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Circumlocution

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  • Circum - around
    • Locution - speak
    • Speak around the subject
    • Beating around the bush
      Evade the question
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Circumspect

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  • Spect - look
    • Circum - around
    • Looking around
    • Paying attention
    • Cautious, to be wary of your surroundings
      To be very careful
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Synonyms

Circumlocution

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  • To prevaricate
    • To equivocate
      To qualify
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Loquacious

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  • To be talkative

Noun: loquacity

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Garrulous

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Habitually talkative

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Milieu

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  • French word
    • Noun
    • Atmosphere, surroundings, environment
      I don’t like the milieu
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Lieu

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  • Used in a idiom typically

“In lieu of” - instead of, or in place of

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Ban lieu

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  • Suburbs

Outskirts

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Asymptote

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  • Is a upper limit on a curve
    • Adjective: Asymptotic
      Adverb: Asymptotically
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Semantics

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  • Used with a singular word
    • Study of words, phrases, expressions, historical backgrounds
    • Linguistics - origin of languages and words, semantics is branch in this
      Don’t get into the semantics of the terms
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Parlance

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  • A particular way of speaking

Legal parlance - talking about legal terminologies, jargons, vernacular

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Idiom

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  • Group of words that have particular meaning in a given language
    • If you translate word for word, then it will lose all its meaning
    • Adjective : Idiomatic
      Adverb: Idiomatically
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Sheer

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  • Adjective
    • Pure, undiluted, unadulterated
      Sheer happiness, sheer laziness, sheer dumb luck, sheer courage, sheer incompetence
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outflank

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  • To out maneuver
    • To out smart
      To gain tactical advantage over
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To keep abreast

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  • To keep up to date
    • to be fully informed
    • To have up to the minute knowledge of all the going-ons
      So you are keeping abreast
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Apprise

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  • To give notice

To inform

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“To make a clean breast of something”

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  • To come clean
    • To admit to your (own doing)
      To finally admit whatever wrong or illegal thing you did
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Rail

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  • To criticize someone harshly

To scold someone vehemently

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Vehement

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  • Adjective
    • With a great deal of force or emotions
    • With forceful expression
    • With vigor, energy, passion
    • Noun: vehemence
      Do u deny it - “Vehement”, with every fiber of my being
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Emphatic

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  • To do something with a great deal of vigor, energy, passion, emotion
    Doing with a great deal of emphasis
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Vehement and Emphatic are synonyms

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All these words we are going to see now are synonyms

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build up

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Esoteric

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  • Adjective
    • His comment is esoteric, lecture
    • Understood by only a few
      Something very difficult to understand
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Recondite

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Not easily understood

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Abstruse

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Synonym of esoteric and recondite

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Cryptic

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  • Difficult to understand
    • Something that is Mystifying
      enigmatic
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Enigma

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  • Something that is puzzling
    • Ambiguous
    • Something who meaning is not clear
    • Something that is difficult to understand
      Adjective (Enigmatic)
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Crow

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  • If we use it as a verb
    • If you are crowing is you are bragging
    • To show off
      To boast
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Cow

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  • As a verb (to cow)
    • Past tense (cowed , cowing)
    • To frighten someone
      To scare someone with threats or show force
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Dog

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  • Verb( to dog)
    • This thing is dogging me
    • Dogging
    • Something that is a constant source of annoyance
      Something that is constant source of nuisance, irritation, bother
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Badger

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  • It’s an animal (see the animal)
    • To annoy or to irritate
    • To pester
      To bother

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