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accentuate
his jacket unfortunately accentuated his paunch |
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make more noticeable or prominent.
overaccentuate, overaccentuated, overaccentuating.
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Aspire
we never thought that we might aspire to those heights |
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| direct one's hopes or ambitions toward achieving something. |
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boisterous
The students in the gym were really boisterous yelling and cheering-on their Bubble Ball teammates. |
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noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy
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decorum n.
It took all the decorum Frankie had to walk past the group of boys with class and not look at them while they screamed for her phone number. |
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| behavior in keeping with good taste; etiquette. |
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refugee n.
Many child refugees experience the horrors of war before they leave their home countries in order to find a safe place to live. |
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| (refugees) a person forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster. |
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endure v.
It is unbelievable that a child can endure such horrible living conditions and still manage to smile. |
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| (-d, -s, -ing, endurance) to patiently suffer something painful or difficult; to remain in existence or last a long time. |
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cringe v.
Many English teachers cringe when they hear their students use the non-word "mines." |
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| (-ed, -s, -ing) to feel disgust or embarrassment often through movement of your face or body; to make a sudden movement out of fear of being hurt. |
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alienate v.
He alienated most of his friends with his bad temper and soon no one even texted him anymore. |
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| (-ed, -s, -ing) to cause someone to feel that he or she no longer belongs to a particular group or part of society. |
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emit
when the motion sensor is triggered the alarm system emits. |
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to make a sound
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Mere
James thought that he had punched mike really hard but he merely tapped him. |
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the smallest or slightest
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I went into stealth mode as i saw the food. It passed by me and i sprung from the bus |
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| Cautious and surreptitious action or movement. |
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I calmed her down as she weeped about the loss of her husband. |
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| Make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense. |
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His favourite dictum in politics was, "Why not leave it alone ?" |
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| A formal pronouncement from an authoritative source |
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And though occasionally the council was called upon to arbitrate in a dispute |
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| (of an independent person or body) reach an authoritative judgment or settlement. |
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Im nacious from the boat rocking back and forth. |
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| Make (someone) feel sick; affect with nausea |
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I "accidently" shove him from behing. |
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| Having or showing a wish to do evil to others |
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A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. |
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| A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. |
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His aloof response made her look up. |
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| Not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant. |
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I was benign as i touched the baby hippo. |
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