
Explanation of glum (adjective) forms: glummer; glummest; less glum; least glum gloomy
Sample of glum The baseball player was glum after the game was canceled. Try coping with a party of underprivileged schoolchildren from a housing estate in Manchester with a near-hysterical social worker, a ghetto blaster and some crisp bags to sniff glue, two glum shaven-headed squaddies with flatulence, and a computer programmer from Maidstone who wants to tell you about why his promotion fell through, and then with one eye twitching, accuses you of having stolen his processed cheese.
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Explanation of devour (verb) forms: devoured; devouring; devours to eat up greedily
Sample of devour I am so hungry I could devour a whole cow.
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Explanation of sleek (adjective) forms: sleek; more sleek; most sleek; less sleek; least sleek often shiny; smooth and glossy
Sample of sleek The new Ford Mustang has a nice sleek look to it.
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Explanation of preposterous (adjective) forms: preposterous; more preposterous; most preposterous; less preposterous; least preposterous very silly; ridiculous
Sample of preposterous The plan was so preposterous that the board would not bother discussing it. Now Freud, in trying to the explain the origins of ambivalence about incest, suggests the apparently preposterous and farfetched idea, that in the beginning, human beings lived in these kinds of primal hoards, and er, there was no incest prohibition as such.
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Explanation of menial (adjective) forms: menial; more menial; most menial; less menial; least menial low level (usually refers to tasks or positions)
Sample of menial The menial job was all he could do for now.
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Explanation of deplete (verb) forms: depleted; depleting; depletes to use up
Sample of deplete If we deplete the rainforest for more farm land; eventually there will be none left.
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Explanation of obsolete (adjective) forms: obsolete; more obsolete; most obsolete; less obsolete; least obsolete no longer used; out-of-date
Sample of obsolete Computers made five years ago are quite obsolete now.
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Explanation of immense (adjective) forms: more immense; most immense; less immense; least immense very large; enormous
Sample of immense The cave was immense in size.
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Explanation of devoid (adjective) forms more devoid; most devoid: less devoid; least devoid completely free of (e.g. feeling)
Sample of devoid The man was devoid of thoughts as he watched television. China was so remote from Europe that when silk first became available for the wealthier classes in Imperial Rome no one knew where it came from, but the fact that it reached Rome shows that these two civilizations were not totally devoid of contact with each other.
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Explanation of ingenuous (adjective) forms: more ingenuous; most ingenuous; less ingenuous; least ingenuous naturally simple; not complicated
Sample of ingenuous Her life on the farm was ingenuous compared to her cousin's in the city. She ran her tongue nervously over her lips, tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student, fresh from college.
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