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Meaning of passive, aesthetic, innocuous, despise, detain, deter, detect, efface, grotto, slovenly

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

not active; usually not aggressive

Example
He is more passive than his brother.
Behavioural precursors of schizophrenia included a poor emotional rapport in the psychiatric interview, and parental observations that he or she had been a passive baby, with a short attention span in childhood, and often impolite behaviour, while school reports often noted that the child was isolated, uneasy about criticism, easily upset, and disturbed the class.

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

having to do with beauty; pertaining to beautiful appearances

Example
The school had an aesthetic appeal to it.
If art is no longer to be considered as of a different order than life, then the idea of aesthetic avant-gardes is questioned.

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

safe; harmless

Example
Some snakes are innocuous while others are deadly.

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Meaning of despise (verb)
forms: despised; despising; despises

to scorn; to hate

Example
"I despise you!" said the fed-up woman.

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Meaning of detain (verb)
forms: detained; detaining; detains

to delay temporarily

Example
The police may detain a person before that person's trial.

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Meaning of deter (verb)
forms: deterred; deterring; deters

to keep someone from doing something

Example
France tried to deter America from going to war with Iraq.

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Meaning of detect (verb)
forms: detected; detecting; detects

to uncover something that is not obvious

Example
The police use dogs to detect drugs in vehicles.

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Meaning of efface (verb)
forms: effaced; effacing; effaces

to blot out; to erase; to remove

Example
The official decided to efface the evidence.

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Meaning of grotto (noun)
form plural: grottoes or grottos

a little cavern; small cave

Example
The natural grotto was just what the kids wanted to find.
In spite of the local Comune's siting of a modern aqueduct through the grounds of the former villa, (leaving the oddity of a twentieth-century industrial ruin within a sixteenth-century one) a grotto, three fountain niches with inscriptions, and a tabernacle formerly frescoed by Allori all survive.

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

unkempt; not clean and untidy

Example
Bachelors have a stereotype for having slovenly dwellings.
He was dull, untidy in his books, arrogant and morose, with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother.

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