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  Word Descriptions mandatory, arrogant, blatant, devout, spirited, devious, primitive, ardent, nonchalant, somber


   
Description of mandatory (adjective: mandatory; more mandatory; most mandatory; less mandatory; least mandatory)
expected; required; describing a duty

Samples of mandatory
Serving in the army is mandatory in some countries.
It goes without saying that testing of the urine for glucose and ketones should be mandatory for all patients admitted with infarction and this should be continually charted for those found to be diabetic.



   
Description of arrogant (adjective: more arrogant; most arrogant; less arrogant; least arrogant)
overly proud

Samples of arrogant
His arrogant tones relating his accomplishments infuriated his peers.



   
Description of blatant (adjective: blatant; more blatant; most blatant; less blatant; least blatant)
overly loud or offensively conspicuous

Samples of blatant
That is a blatant lie!
The existence of one education and one health service for the whole country reduces the obvious and blatant forms of inequality even if social class differences in opportunity survive substantially within it.



   
Description of devout (adjective: more devout; most devout; less devout; least devout)
very religious

Samples of devout
The parents had been devout Catholics all their lives.



   
Description of spirited (adjective: spirited; more spirited; most spirited; less spirited; least spirited)
joyous and lively

Samples of spirited
She was a spirited individual that constantly helped the moral of her teammates.



   
Description of devious (adjective: more devious; most devious; less devious; least devious)
indirect; sly

Samples of devious
No one could trust Ted. He seemed too devious about everything he did.
Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus, which can hide within the cells of the body, that they felt a vaccine would be impossible.



   
Description of primitive (adjective: primitive; more primitive; most primitive; less primitive; least primitive)
not civilized; crude

Samples of primitive
Racism is considered primitive thinking.



   
Description of ardent (adjective: more ardent; most ardent; less ardent; least ardent)
passionate

Samples of ardent
He was an ardent student of classic literature.
Max Weber was an ardent nationalist whose political sociology was guided by the principle of the "primacy of the interests of the nation state", which he enunciated vigorously in his inaugural lecture at Freiburg in 1895; but he did not set himself to examine with any thoroughness the grounds of such "primacy".



   
Description of nonchalant (adjective: nonchalant; more nonchalant; most nonchalant; less nonchalant; least nonchalant)
not excitable; very casual

Samples of nonchalant
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".



   
Description of somber (adjective: somber; more somber; most somber; less somber; least somber)
gloomy and dark

Samples of somber
The song had a somber, mournful tone that touched many people in the audience.



  Determinations of the words mandatory, arrogant, blatant, devout, spirited, devious, primitive, ardent, nonchalant, somber

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