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Meaning of sinister, auspicious, benevolent, sober, stalwart, illicit, precise, pragmatic, ghastly, lofty

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Meaning of sinister (adjective)
forms: sinister; more sinister; most sinister; less sinister; least sinister

threatening and referring to evil and darkness

Example
The best horror movies include an actor that actually looks sinister.
We, the democracies, will still be faced by totalitarianism, in a form less clumsy but no less aggressive, and even more sinister in its ruthless unexhausted might.

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Meaning of auspicious (adjective)
forms: more auspicious; most auspicious; less auspicious; least auspicious

favorable (e. g. circumstances)

Example
The merger, when looked at carefully, was in fact auspicious for both parties.
Although the numerous rivers flowing from the Carpathian Mountains offered Conrad abundant lines of defense against any Russian invasion, it seemed to him that the sooner the Austrians attacked, the more auspicious the prospects, since they would shortly be heavily outnumbered.

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Meaning of benevolent (adjective)
forms: more benevolent; most benevolent; less benevolent; least benevolent

regarding kind or charitable acts; organizing benefits for charities

Example
He was always a generous; benevolent man.
The subject of this first version of the poem is the mainly benevolent influence of Nature in forming the imagination of the poet in childhood and early youth.

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Meaning of sober (adjective)
forms: sober; more sober; most sober; less sober; least sober

serious

Example
His wife's typical smiling face held a sober look and he wondered what she had heard on the telephone.

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Meaning of stalwart (adjective)
forms: stalwart; more stalwart; most stalwart; less stalwart; least stalwart

strong and robust

Example
The stalwart captain marched with his troops for two straight days.

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Meaning of illicit (adjective)
forms: more illicit; most illicit; less illicit; least illicit

illegal; unlawful

Example
She got caught receiving illicit funds and her career is over.

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Meaning of precise (adjective)
forms: precise; more precise; most precise; less precise; least precise

detailed; exact

Example
One has to be precise when installing explosives in buildings.
As a concise and precise international language like that longed for by the natural philosophers of the seventeenth century, where symbols would stand for things and not words, engineering drawing was valuable in opening machinery to scientific study.

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Meaning of pragmatic (adjective)
forms: pragmatic; more pragmatic; most pragmatic; less pragmatic; least pragmatic

realistic; practical

Example
The woman looked only for pragmatic solutions that gained her respect from her colleagues.
Successive generations of politicians, civil servants, judges and philosophers reared on a meagre intellectual diet of pragmatic utilitarianism and positivism had firmly rejected these ideas as a basis for ensuring constitutional government and citizens' rights.

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Meaning of ghastly (adjective)
forms: more ghastly; most ghastly; less ghastly; least ghastly

frightful (e.g. appearance); unpleasant

Example
The sick man had a ghastly appearance; as if he had come straight out of a horror movie.

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Meaning of lofty (adjective)
forms: lofty; loftier; loftiest; less lofty; least lofty

very high; grand

Example
He sets lofty goals, but doesn't work towards them.
We were taken to the main hall, a long lofty chamber dominated by a hammer-beamed roof with an oriel window at one end depicting the Lamb of God carrying a standard.

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