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11/04/2025

10/30/2025

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Oh, and before it comes up: NB stands for "nota bene": observe carefully or take special notice (used in written text to draw attention to what follows).

10/30/2025

truculent

adjective
/ˈtrʌk.jə.lənt/ uk /ˈtrʌk.jə.lənt/

unpleasant and likely to argue a lot:

a truculent teenager

He was truculent and difficult to deal with.

09/06/2025

Mollify: what is the secondary interpretation of mollify, beyond appeasing the anger or anxiety of (someone)?

09/05/2025

Indicative: from Latin, indicare:

serving as a sign or indication of something.

"having recurrent dreams is not necessarily indicative of any psychological problem"

Similar:
symptomatic
expressive
suggestive
evocative
typical
characteristic
representative
symbolic
emblematic
indicatory

2.Grammar :denoting a mood of verbs expressing simple statement of a fact.

10/17/2024

inconspicuous /ɪnkənˈspɪkjəwəs/ adjective

The students are passing a note in an inconspicuous way.

Definition of INCONSPICUOUS
[more inconspicuous; most inconspicuous]

: not very easy to see or notice : not conspicuous

an inconspicuous brick building

She tried to remain as inconspicuous as possible so that no one would see her there.

— inconspicuously adverb

He always dressed inconspicuously in a gray suit.

10/16/2024

concurrent \ kənˈkʌrənt \ adjective
: occurring or operating at the same time

10/14/2024

Exorbitant:

Exorbitant describes something that goes far beyond what is fair, reasonable, or expected (as by being too high, too expensive, etc.).

// The cost of our stay was so exorbitant you would have thought that we had bought the hotel and not just spent a few nights there.

10/12/2024

pe·jo·ra·tive
/pəˈjôrədiv/

adjective
expressing contempt or disapproval.
"permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term"

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10/12/2024

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10/12/2024

junta

noun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]
uk /ˈdʒʌn.tə/ /ˈhʊn.tə/ us /ˈdʒʌn.tə/ /ˈhʊn.tə/

a government, especially a military one, that has taken power in a country by force and not by election

10/10/2024

Words matter, my children.

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