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assuage- verb
[uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh]
ex: He has partially assuaged the sense of insecurity developed by margaret thatcher. |
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to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.
to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger. |
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covet- verb
[kuhv-it]
ex- when he won the prize they all coveted. |
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to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
to wish for, especially eagerly |
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antipode- noun
[an-ti-pohd]
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| a direct or exact opposite. |
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prototype- noun/verb
[proh-tuh-tahyp]
ex- The first prototype cell to use photonic crystals looks promising. |
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noun-
the original or model on which something is based or formed.
someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar: She is the prototype of a student activist.
something analogous to another thing of a later period: a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing.
Biology . an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group.
verb- to create the prototype or an experimental model of: to prototype a solar-power car. |
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aloof- adverb
[uh-loof]
ex- They always stood aloof from their classmates. |
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| at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart: They always stood aloof from their classmates. |
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banal- adjective
[buh-nal, -nahl, beyn-l]
ex- a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier. |
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devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.
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antecedent- adjective
[an-tuh-seed-nt]
ex- Being smart, it seems, is a necessary antecedent to freedom. |
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| preceding; prior: an antecedent event. |
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plausible- adjective
[plaw-zuh-buhl]
ex- On Mythbusters, the results they say for the myths are either busted, confirmed or plausible. |
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having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
well-spoken and apparently, but often deceptively, worthy of confidence or trust: a plausible commentator. |
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prudent- adjective
[prood-nt]
ex- Such control may be prudent at one stage of the malady and not at a later stage.
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wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.
careful in providing for the future; provident: a prudent decison. |
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aesthetic- adjective
[es-thet-ik or, especially Brit., ees-]
ex- Aside from the obvious aesthetic benefits of this building style, there are engineering advantages. |
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pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.
having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.
pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality. |
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pre-: a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “before” ( preclude; prevent ); applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,” “beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” and with other figurative meanings ( preschool; prewar; prepay; preoral; prefrontal ).
-able: a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,” associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin ( laudable ); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition to stems of any origin ( teachable; photographable ).
ant-: variant of anti- before a vowel or h: antacid; anthelmintic
cred:
slang short for credibility : street cred
proto- : first in time, order or rank; oraginal. ex- prototype.
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