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📌 Reverence - noun

📖 Definition:
deep respect for someone or something

🔅 Example:
rituals showed honour and reverence for the dead
📌 Boast - noun

📖 Definition:
speaking of yourself in superlatives; verb show off; wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

🔅 Example:
she boasted about her many conquests
📌 Allude - verb

📖 Definition:
suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.

🔅 Example:
she had a way of alluding to Jean but never saying her name
📌 Provoke - verb

📖 Definition:
stimulate or give rise to (a reaction or emotion, typically a strong or unwelcome one) in someone.

🔅 Example:
the decision provoked a storm of protest from civil rights organizations
📌 Inherent - adj.

📖 Definition:
existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; in the nature of something though not readily apparent

🔅 Example:
any form of mountaineering has its inherent dangers
📌 Preposterous - adj

📖 Definition:
contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous.

🔅 Example:
a preposterous suggestion
📌 Tenacity - Noun

📖 Definition:
The quality or fact of being very determined; determination.

🔅 Example:
You have to admire the tenacity of these two guys.

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📌 Ambivalent - Adj.

📖 Definition:
Uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

🔅 Example:
Some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her

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📌 Endeavor - Noun

📖 Definition:
An attempt to achieve a goal.

🔅 Example:
An endeavour to reduce serious injury

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📌 Compel - Verb

📖 Definition:
Force or compel somebody to do something; make someone do something

🔅 Examples:
⊛ It uses physical force to compel men to obey the laws.
⊛ Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness
⊛ The court may compel discovery of a secret trust for superstitious uses
📌 Conceive - Verb

📖 Definition:
Form an idea or plan in mind; become pregnant; have the idea for

🔅 Examples:
⊛ God is often conceived of as male
⊛ It is certainly possible to conceive of a single day without war
⊛ He conceived the project while he was on vacation
📌 Feasible - Adj.

📖 Definition:
Capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

🔅 Examples:
⊛ It is not feasible to monitor such a range of organisms.
⊛ We are looking for the most feasible scenario.
⊛ It is not a feasible option for many of us
📌 Conjecture - Noun

📖 Definition:
Reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence; a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence);

🔅 Examples:
⊛ I have never counted the number of posts, but I conjecture that there are less than five.
⊛ We have to conjecture what the Board's reasons were.
⊛ conjecture the possibility of enjoying it at the intensity-level of sensation.
📌 Decree - Noun

📖 Definition:
A legally binding command or decision entered on the court record; (verb) decide with authority

🔅 Examples:
⊛ The Roman decree was again disregarded.
⊛ Napoleon III issues a decree.
⊛ The decree of god
📌 Prudent - Adj.

📖 Definition:
Someone who has good judgment and is careful and practical; wise

🔅 Examples:
⊛ She agreed it had been prudent to warn her.
⊛ This prudent advice was unfortunately rejected.
⊛ He wondered if the decision had been a prudent one.
📌 Inexorable - Adj.

📖 Definition:
Impossible to stop or prevent.

🔅 Examples:
⊛ The inexorable truth is that Shelley is going to die within six month.
⊛ The public is enraged by the inexorable rise in gas prices.
⊛ Elaine went into an inexorable depressive state.
📌 Sluggish - Adj.

📖 Definition:
With little movement; very slow; slow and apathetic; (of business) not active or brisk

🔅 Examples:
⊛ She felt sluggish in comparison.
⊛ Social life was sluggish in some ways and wild in others.
⊛ a sluggish economy
📌 Vanity - Noun

📖 Definition:
The quality of being valueless or futile; the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; feelings of excessive pride

🔅 Examples:
⊛ Vanity is her worst failing.
⊛ He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness.
⊛ She described her accomplishments without exaggeration or vanity.