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  Word Descriptions eject, inflexible, deplete, aquatic, acme, intricate, infallible, loath, indignant, plausible


   
Description of eject (verb: ejected; ejecting; ejects)
to throw out; to remove from something

Samples of eject
The litterbug decided; once again; to eject the trash from his vehicle onto the side of the road.



   
Description of inflexible (adjective: more inflexible; most inflexible; less inflexible; least inflexible)
unbending; unwilling to compromise

Samples of inflexible
She was inflexible about her rules on drinking and driving.
In this functional bureaucracy, Ford's top-down management style made decision-making slow and inflexible with a heavy emphasis on short-term financial criteria.



   
Description of deplete (verb: depleted; depleting; depletes)
to use up

Samples of deplete
If we deplete the rainforest for more farm land; eventually there will be none left.



   
Description of aquatic (adjective: more aquatic; most aquatic; less aquatic; least aquatic)
living, growing or practicing in or on water

Samples of aquatic
Divers work in an aquatic environment.
Inorganic pollution is not harmful to aquatic life to the same extent, unless it happens to be toxic; thus its consequences are frequently less evident.



   
Description of acme (noun: no plural)
high attainment; peak of achievement

Samples of acme
My wife reached her professional acme when she was appointed CEO of one of the largest IT companies in the UK.
The great Continental stations, Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Constantinople, have been the beginning and ending and en route stopping-places in the wealth of literature inspired by that acme of railway luxury, the Orient Express, the train on which James Bond once shot a man for ordering red wine with his fish.



   
Description of intricate (adjective: more intricate; most intricate; less intricate; least intricate)
delicate; complicated; having many connecting factors

Samples of intricate
Atomic engines are quite intricate in design.



   
Description of infallible (adjective: more infallible; most infallible; less infallible; least infallible)
unable to make a mistake or error

Samples of infallible
A computer's advice is said to be completely infallible.
If there were a check, one need not require it to be an infallible one; the fact that we might always be wrong about how the original sensation was (a sort of memory scepticism) is not a part of the argument at all.



   
Description of loath (adjective: more loath; most loath; less loath; least loath)
averse; unwilling; extremely reluctant

Samples of loath
He was loath to take out the trash since he knew it would leak on his clothing.



   
Description of indignant (adjective: more indignant; most indignant; less indignant; least indignant)
very angry, showing strong feelings

Samples of indignant
She was indignant at the accusations.
I was gone for about three hours: scrambling through hedges; rummaging in undergrowth; wrestling with tangled nets; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets, who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits' necks.



   
Description of plausible (adjective: plausible; more plausible; most plausible; less plausible; least plausible)
seeming to be the truth; apparently true

Samples of plausible
Since he had a plausible excuse, his wife did not get mad for his being late for the party.
The government gave a series of reasons for its decision, some of them more plausible than others; but the main aim seemed to be to acquire cash or foreign credit for the rehabilitation of its industries.



  Determinations of the words eject, inflexible, deplete, aquatic, acme, intricate, infallible, loath, indignant, plausible

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