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definition: A formal piece of writing or speech, usually longer than a essay
sentence:I asked Isbell a simple question about his son, but gave me a ten minute treatise on baseball. |
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Definition: the action of admitting someone into a secret or obscure society or group, typically with a ritual.
Sentence:My mom warned us about the towns initiation
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Definition:the study of religion; theology.
Sentence: He went to university of 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
Sentence: 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
Sentence:he changed his surname from Kaye to Kasmin |
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Definition: restrict or burden
Sentence: she was encumbered by her heavy skirt |
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Definition:too small or unimportant to be worth consideration
Sentence: the amount required was insignificant compared with military spending |
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Definition:to a profound extent; extremely.
Sentence: a profoundly disturbing experience |
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a person who has been or is being expelled from a country.
Sentence: People with invalid papers are deported to another country
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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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Denfinition:a short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
Sentence:told anecdotes about his job |
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Denfinition: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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