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Cautionary (adj)
- Offering or serving as a warning
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- Most fairy tales are cautionary ones; they are meant to teach a lesson.
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Flotilla (n)
- A small fleet of boats or ships
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- The flotilla of English ships was able to defeat the massive Spanish Armada.
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Gossamer (n) (adj)
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- 1. A thin, sheer fabric resembling gauze
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- The veil was gossamer and did little to conceal the box it was covering.
- 2. A fine filmy substance made of strands of cobwebs
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- The dewy grass held moist bits of gossamer.
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- 3. As light and delicate as a cobweb
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- The gossamer thread coudn'y possibly support the weight of the tight-rope walker.
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Ignomious (adj)
- Marked by, deserving, or causing shame and disgrace
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- The ignomious acts of the criminal could not be condoned.
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Incur (v)
- To bring upon oneself undesireable. such as a debt
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- The gambler incurred an angry mob of people whom he owed money to.
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Liquidate (v)
- 1. To settle the affairs of business; to convert to cash
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- They liquidated their assets by selling almost all their belongings, and then used the money to pay their debts.
- 2. To get rid of; to destroy or kill
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- Many Jewish people were liquidated during WW2 by Hitler's concentration camps.
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Magnate (n)
- An important, often welathy person prominent in a large industry or business
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- Steve Jobs was an important magnate as the CEO of Apple before he passed away.
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Misnomer (n)
A name that does not fit
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Onerous (adj)
- Burdensome, oppressive
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- After a long day of hard work, the mother considered cleaning up after her children an onerous task.
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Pandemonium (n)
A state or place of confusion or uproar
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Quixotic (adj)
- Romantic and idealistic but impractical
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- The notion of creating a huge park in the middle of Manhattan must have been a quixotic one when it was proposed.
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Tenacious (adj)
- Holding fast; persistent in adhering to something valued or habitual
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- Snapping turtles are notorious for their tenacious grip once they lodge onto something with their jaws.
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Vestige (n)
- A trace of something that was once present
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- The fossils preserved in the museum are the vestiges of a once mighty dinosaur.
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Zephyr (n)
A light gentle breeze
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Comatose (adj)
- Lacking energy or alertness; torpid
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- The comatose visage of the boy showed that he'd not slept well lately.
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