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Meaning of obstinate, intricate, barren, infamous, deprive, cumbersome, nonchalant, apt, agile, compatible

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

not easy to persuade; stubborn

Example
The man was obstinate about coming in from the rain.

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

delicate; complicated; having many connecting factors

Example
Atomic engines are quite intricate in design.

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

unfruitful

Example
Despite the farmer's work; he could not grow anything on the barren soil.

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

having a bad reputation; well-known for something

Example
The politician was infamous for his gambling and adulterous practices.
Chinese ladies used perfume from plants for their hair, the Romans used herbs of all kinds, especially lavender, for bathing -- even the ancient Britons used a plant for colouring their skins, the infamous woad, Isatis tinctoria, whose leaves, made into a paste, supplied a blue dye.

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Meaning of deprive (verb)
forms: deprived; depriving; deprives

to keep someone from having or getting something

Example
Boot camp will deprive someone of his or her freedom for a short time.
Whatever the nature of protection provided by registration, it is also a wise precaution for a chargee to deprive a company of the title deeds to its properties --; this is another advantage of having trustees who can take possession of the deeds.

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

bulky

Example
It was hard to fit the cumbersome couch through the front door.

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

not excitable; very casual

Example
The man was nonchalant even after hearing that his brother had died.
She begins to describe, in the most nonchalant tone of voice, the variety of hard and soft drugs: "I'm beginning to become familiar with them all, hashish, cannabis, heroin".

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Meaning of apt (adjective)
forms apter; aptest: less apt; least apt

suitable or quick to learn and attentive

Example
The Combat Lifesaver class was full of apt pupils.
In British political life of the previous twenty years, latent anti-Jewish feeling had been apt to surface in response to particular events.

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Meaning of agile (adjective)
forms: agile; agiler; agilest

nimble; able to move in a quick and easy way

Example
Children are usually more agile than adults.

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

capable of getting along together

Example
On their first date; they found each other quite compatible.
Unix International said last week that it has finalised its systems and network management requirements, focused on a single object-based model, making them compatible and interoperable with the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Management Environment (DME).

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