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Terms
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grandeur
- the quality or state of being impressive or awesome: the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
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wryly
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produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features a why grin
- chaperon
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An older person who attends or supervises a social gathering of young people
- colluding
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to act together in a secret understanding
to conspire in a fraud
- deigned
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To think it appropriate to one's dignity; condescend: wouldn't deign to greet the servant who opened the door.
Nor would we deign him burial of his men" (Shakespeare).
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Domino effect
- a cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events
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eccentric
- deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person.
- headlong
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with the head foremost, headfirst: to plunge headmost into the water
without delay, hastily: to plunge headlong into work
without deliberation: to rush headlong into water
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horseplay
- rough or boisterous play or pranks
- inchoate
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not yet completed or fully developed, rudementary
just begun, incipient
not organized, lacking order
- incipient
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beginning to exist or appear, in an initial stage
- ineffable
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inexpressible
not to be spoken because of its sacredness:
This is the moment of ineffable, intangible ecstasy.
- interloper
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to intrude into someone's region or a field of trade without proper license
to thrust oneself into the affairs of others
- jostled
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to bump, push, shove, brush against or elbow roughly or rudely:
The crowd jostled him into the subway
To exist in close contact or proximity with:
The three women jostled each other in the small house
- largesse
- generous bestowal of gifts.
- nimble
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quick and light in movement, moving with ease:
nimble feet
quick to understand, device: a nimble mind
- pare
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to cut off the outer coating, layer or part of:
Private fund firms buy companies, fix them up or pare them down.
- pariah
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outcast
any animal or person that is generally despised or avoided
- parlance
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a way or manner of speaking, legal parlance, internet parlance
a formal discussion or debate
talk
- quaint
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Having an old fashioned attractiveness or charm:
a quaint old house
Strange, peculiar or unusual in an interesting, pleasing or amusing way
The era when dark truths were were kept by the CIA now seems almost quaint
- queasy
- inclined to or feeling nausea, as the stomach, a person,
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rendition (render)
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the act of rendering
Render: to cause to be or become, make: to render someone helpless
CIA controversial practices: rendition, domestic spying
- septuagenarian
- Age: =70 <80
- throngs
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a large group of people gathered or crowded closely together:
Police gathering is often not enough to rein in throngs of trash-talking teens.