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05/05/2016

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GAIT 

a persons individual way of walking.

Definition

 

 

 

 

walk, step, stride, pace, tread, bearing, carriage; 

formalcomportment
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PURLOIN

to steal somthing

Definition
PURLOINED, PURLOINS,PURLOINING
Term

CAPACIOUS

containging a large amount of somthing

Definition
CAPACITY,CAPACIOUSLY,CAPACIOUSNESS
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TREPIDATION 

a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen.

Definition
TREPID,TREPIDLY
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EXPURGE 

To strike or plot something but erase obliterate

Definition
(ed,ing,es)
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ELUIDATE 

make (something) clear

Definition

EXPLAIN, SORT OUT, CLARIFY

Term

trepidation

 feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen

Definition
fear,dread,worry, ect.
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IROSCIBE

having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.

Definition

irritable, quick-tempered, short-tempered, hot-tempered, testy, touchy, tetchy, edgy,crabby, petulant, waspish, dyspeptic, snappish

 

 
 
 
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Pithy

(of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive.

Definition

 

succinct, terse, concise,

 compact, short and sweet 

brief, condensed, to the point,epigrammatic,

 crisp, thumbnail 

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