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propensity  Speak Example sentences
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subordinate; secondary; serving to assist or supplement
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deserving high respect; impressive because of age; profoundly honored
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natural inclination; tendency or preference; predilection
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reduce or eliminate gradually, with a knife; cut small bits off
quizzical  Speak Example sentences
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holding; having quality, power, or capacity of retaining, as to retain knowledge with ease
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a viewer who enjoys seeing sex acts or sex organs of others
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suggesting puzzlement; mocking; curious
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final result; outcome or effect; central idea or point; gist
rapacious  Speak Example sentences
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comical because of strangeness; ludicrously comical; clownish; bizarre
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excessively greedy; predatory; taking by force; plundering
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saw-like; having a row of sharp or tooth-like projections
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popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
repudiate  Speak Example sentences
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disown; refuse to acknowledge; reject validity or authority of
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dull and unimaginative; lacking taste or flavor
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establish by evidence; make firm or solid; support
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prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs
retentive  Speak Example sentences
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a viewer who enjoys seeing sex acts or sex organs of others
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ravenous; excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities
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turned to one side; twisted; marked by humorous twist, often with a touch of irony
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holding; having quality, power, or capacity of retaining, as to retain knowledge with ease
retort  Speak Example sentences
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sudden sharp turn or twist; strange attitude or habit; the peculiarity of behavior
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popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
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reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner
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ravenous; excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities
salient  Speak Example sentences
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prominent or protruding; projecting outwardly; moving by leaps or springs
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dull and unimaginative; lacking taste or flavor
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relaxation; leisure; freedom from worry; peace of mind
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suggesting puzzlement; mocking; curious
soliloquy  Speak Example sentences
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deadlock; the situation in which further action is blocked
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a vocabulary of technical terms used in a particular field, subject, science, or art
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talking to oneself; the act of a character speaking to himself to reveal his thoughts to the audience
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subordinate; secondary; serving to assist or supplement
strut  Speak Example sentences
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sudden sharp turn or twist; strange attitude or habit; the peculiarity of behavior
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popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
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supporting bar or rod; proud step or walk, with the head erect; stubbornness
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a person guided and protected by a more prominent person
substantiate  Speak Example sentences
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neigh, as a horse, especially in gentle tone; cry of a horse
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the drawback or shrink involuntarily, as in pain or from a blow
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reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner
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establish by evidence; make firm or solid; support