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Meaning of precocious, solemn, jovial, horrendous, potent, peevish, malicious, desolate, impromptu, prior

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

advanced to a higher level than expected

Example
Tommy was quite a precocious child; he could read at the age of four.

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

grave; mournful

Example
The solemn funeral left no one with dry eyes.
He hesitated before her a moment, and then he took her hands and bent his head, and gave her the solemn kiss of kinship; and before she could draw breath and touch her astonished fingers to her lips, he was out of the paddock and away across the clearing into the trees.

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

good-humored in a good natured way

Example
If it weren't for her jovial nature; the rest of the team would have been demoralized.

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

horrible; dreadful

Example
Popping a tire out in the middle of nowhere is often a horrendous experience.

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

strong; powerful

Example
The potent brew had the cowboys drunk after a very short time had passed.

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

annoyed; irritable

Example
He was peevish to his employees after being called into his boss's office.
The remark had been intended to put him in his place, but it had come out sounding peevish and sensitive, as though she actually gave a damn about what he thought of her.

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

with harmful intent; spiteful

Example
He was malicious during the divorce proceedings.
Laws used to specify offences such as loitering with intent or malicious wounding, so that it was up to the prosecutor to prove the evil character of an act that might be more or less culpable.
The men, who are claiming damages for false imprisonment, assault and malicious prosecution, were arrested in the early hours of the morning by officers of the Operational Support Division.

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

lonely; sometimes barren

Example
The desolate lands of the desert seem to go on for an eternity.
The railway in Glen Spean is the popular West Highland line between Glasgow and Fort William, a triumph of railway engineering through difficult terrain and completed only after incredible hardships and repeated problems in laying the line across the bogs of the desolate Moor of Rannoch.

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

without any preparation (e.g. remarks); unrehearsed

Example
He gave a nice impromptu speech at his buddy's wedding.
No after action reports seem to have been filed for any of these early raids, which is not surprising considering the impromptu nature of their planning and execution.

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

previous; before

Example
She couldn't make the date because she remembered that she had a prior engagement.
Prior to the nineteenth century children were dressed as miniature adults, complete with all the external manifestations of masculinity and femininity; exposed to the social aspects of adult sexuality earlier than modern children, they probably had much less difficulty in coping with their own biological changes.

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