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v. To cut short or reduce
The performance was curtailed when a fire broke out in the theater. |
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discriminate
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v. 1.To make or recognize clear distinctions.
During hunting season, it's prudent for hikers to wear orange so that hunters can easily discriminate between people and other animals.
2.To treat in a less or more favorable way.
Some employers still discriminate against women by paying them less than their male counterparts. |
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n. The act of spying, especially a government spy obtaining secrets of another government.
Counterintelligence specialists use their knowledge of high-tech spying equipment to thwart acts of espionage. |
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adj. Not able to be taken or given away.
United States citizens are promised certain inalienable rights that are spelled out in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution. |
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v. To confine or to put in prison.
Maximum security prisoners were incarcerated on Alcatraz, an island in San Francisco Bay, until 1963.
n. His incarceration lasted five years, after which he was a free man. |
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n. An insult to one’s pride; offensive or humiliating treatment.
His mother waited until they got home to reprimand her son, in order to spare him the indignity of being criticized in front of his friends. |
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adj. Not marked by careful distinctions; haphazard.
She was an indiscriminate reader and devoured everything from comics to history books. |
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adj. Having a very bad reputation; notorious.
The CIA’s infamous agent, Aldrich Ames, sold compromising information to the Soviets that cost the lives of many Soviet secret agents.
2.Disgraceful; vicious.
The defendant was charged with an infamous crime.
n. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was an act of infamy. |
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v. To act or plead on another’s behalf; to try to smooth the differences between two parties.
Instead of interceding, my parents encouraged my brother and me to resolve our differences on our own. |
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v. To say negative and unfair things about; slander.
The proprietor thought maligning his competitor’s products would boost his own sales.
adj. Evil; showing ill will.
The malign look he gave me expressed his anger. |
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v. To commit, as a crime or other antisocial act.
The con artist was guilty of perpetrating a minor scam.
n. I couldn’t figure out who the perpetrator was until the end of the mystery. |
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adj. Threateningly wild, without restraint or control; widespread.
The rampant vines covered the slope and began to climb the surrounding trees. |
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n. A deep, long-held feeling of hatred or bitterness.
His rancor for the group turned him into its implacable foe. |
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n. 1.A mending or repair.
The building needed major reparation after the tornado.
2.(usually plural) A making up or payment for a wrong or damage done, especially in the case of an international war.
Iraq was required to pay reparations to Kuwait after the Gulf War. |
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n. 1.Superficial, scattered knowledge.
He picked up a smattering of Spanish while in Mexico.
2.A small amount.
She wrote thousands of letters, of which only a smattering have been published. |
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