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🔔 Galumph

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🔔 Moratorium

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🔴 The convention called for a two-year moratorium on commercial whaling.

🟠 A five-year worldwide moratorium on nuclear testing.

🟡 City officials declared a moratorium on building more houses in that part of the city.

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🔔 Comme il faut

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🔔 Galore

🔴 Always follows the word it modifies.

🟡 There were no cabs on the side streets, but on the main street there were cabs galore.

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🔔 Profundity

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🔔 Querulous

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🔴 He complained in a querulous voice about having been woken up.

🟡 He became increasingly dissatisfied and querulous in his old age.

🟣 A querulous male voice said, "look, are you going to order, or what?"

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🔔 Impugn

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🔔 Sybarite

Ex: The prince was remembered as a self-indulgent sybarite, not as a statesman or warrior.

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🔔 Chutzpah

Ex: It took a lot of chutzpah to talk to your boss like that.

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🔔 Throes

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🔔 Pathos

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🔔 Travesty

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🔴 Their production of "Macbeth" was quite the worst I've ever seen. It was a travesty.

🟣 It is a travesty and tragedy that so many people would be denied the right to vote.

🟡 The investigation into the causes of the accident was a complete travesty.

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🔔 Shenanigans

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🔔 No claims bonus

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In Persian we say: مهمان ناخوانده 😄

Ex: The party was ruined by a couple of rowdy gatecrashers.

In Persian we say: زن ذلیل 😄

Ex: His father, a henpecked husband, is petrified to raise a voice.