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the action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society or group, typically with a ritual.
Sentence: the initiation into the group was weird.
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Definition: the state or quality of being divine.
Sentence: the divinity of this food is amazing.
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Definition: suggest or hint in an indirect and unpleasant way.
Sentence: I insinuated that he was failing but he didn't get the hint.
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Definition: destroy utterly
Sentence: we annihilated the other team.
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Definition: distribute or spread over a wide area.
Sentence: i dispersed the ashes over the ocean.
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Definition: a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name.
Sentence: The surname of my family is Johnson.
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Definition:restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
Sentence: the man is encumbered because of the quick sand.
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Definition: too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.
Sentence: the difference we made was insignificant.
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Definition: (of a state, quality, or emotion) very great or intense.
Sentence: the quality of this steel is profound.
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Definition: a person who has been or is being expelled from a country.
Sentence: my grandfather was a deportee.
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Definition: the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
Sentence: my dad emigrated to China.
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Definition: a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.
Sentence: we treatise over the candy.
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Definition: a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
Sentence: my father used to tell me this anecdote as a child.
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Definition: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Sentence: my friend's melancholy for no reason.
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Definition:kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
Sentence: my sexuality is surreptitious.
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