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Definition:the action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society or group, typically with a ritual.
sentence: to get married at a church you need to do an initiation first. |
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Definition: The state or quality of being divine.
sentences:Christ's divinity |
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Definition:suggest or hint (something bad or reprehensible) in an indirect and unpleasant way.
Sentence: he was insinuating that I had no self-control. |
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Definition:destroy utterly; obliterate.
sentence:a simple bomb of this type could annihilate them all. |
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Definition:distribute or spread over a wide area.
sentience: storms can disperse seeds via high altitudes.
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definition:a hereditary name common to all members of a family, as distinct from a given name.
sentience: he changed his surname from Kaye to Kasmin.
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definition:restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
sentience:she was encumbered by her heavy skirts
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definition:too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.
sentience:the amount required was insignificant compared with military spending.
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definition:to a profound extent; extremely.
sentience:a profoundly disturbing experience. |
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definition:a person who has been or is being expelled from a country.
sentence:i got deportee from Canada |
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definition:the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
sentence:mass emigration from Ireland to the United States. |
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definition:a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.
sentence:a comprehensive treatise on electricity and magnetism.
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definition:a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
sentence:told anecdotes about his job.
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definition:a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
sentence:an air of melancholy surrounded him.
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definition: kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
sentence:they carried on a surreptitious affair.
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