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Meaning of glum, devour, sleek, preposterous, menial, deplete, obsolete, immense, devoid, ingenuous

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Meaning of glum (adjective)
forms: glummer; glummest; less glum; least glum

gloomy

Example
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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Meaning of devour (verb)
forms: devoured; devouring; devours

to eat up greedily

Example
I am so hungry I could devour a whole cow.

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

often shiny; smooth and glossy

Example
The new Ford Mustang has a nice sleek look to it.

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

very silly; ridiculous

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

low level (usually refers to tasks or positions)

Example
The menial job was all he could do for now.

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Meaning of deplete (verb)
forms: depleted; depleting; depletes

to use up

Example
If we deplete the rainforest for more farm land; eventually there will be none left.

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

no longer used; out-of-date

Example
Computers made five years ago are quite obsolete now.

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

very large; enormous

Example
The cave was immense in size.

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

completely free of (e.g. feeling)

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

naturally simple; not complicated

Example
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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