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Definition of despondent, slender, barren, spiritual, solemn, prior, literal, hostile, sinister, singular

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Definition of despondent (adjective)
forms: more despondent; most despondent; less despondent; least despondent

depressed

Examples
Sergeant Meeks was worried about his troops being so despondent.

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Definition of slender (adjective)
forms: slender; more slender; most slender; less slender; least slender

small in size or amount

Examples
Her slender waist and striking face got her many looks from the college football team.

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

unfruitful

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

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Definition of spiritual (adjective)
forms: spiritual; more spiritual; most spiritual; less spiritual; least spiritual

referring to the soul; having no body, form, or substance

Examples
The pastor was there for spiritual matters, he tried to help with other things but was not adept at it.

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

grave; mournful

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

previous; before

Examples
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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Definition of literal (adjective)
forms: more literal; most literal; less literal; least literal

following the exact words or intended meaning of the original (e.g. translation)

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Stenographers take literal recordings of court trials.

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Definition of hostile (adjective)
forms: more hostile; most hostile; less hostile; least hostile

unfriendly (e.g. unwelcome)

Examples
The tribe was hostile to all intruders.
Many of the animals are hostile to humans: for example, poisonous snakes and fierce mountain cats.

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Definition of sinister (adjective)
forms: sinister; more sinister; most sinister; less sinister; least sinister

threatening and referring to evil and darkness

Examples
The best horror movies include an actor that actually looks sinister.
We, the democracies, will still be faced by totalitarianism, in a form less clumsy but no less aggressive, and even more sinister in its ruthless unexhausted might.

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Definition of singular (adjective)
forms: singular; more singular; most singular; less singular; least singular

hard to believe; strange; remarkable

Examples
His singular take on the issue left no room for discussion.
In his social criticism Eliot assumes an idea of England which never existed and proposes an England which could not exist: in the same way, his own vision of the world was too singular for him to be able to invest his social dramas with the emblematic or representative significance to which he aspired.

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