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Definition of impetuous, digress, diffident, crafty, gruesome, insipid, detest, cumbersome, disdain, ingenuous

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

rash; hasty; acting on impulse

Examples
Young men and women are often impetuous in their decision making.
Highly nervous, he rushed into combat like a wound-up spring, diving on his foe in the impetuous manner that cost the life of many an inexperienced young aviator.

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Definition of digress (verb)
forms: digressed; digressing; digresses

to depart from the subject under consideration

Examples
His difference of opinion caused the politician to digress from his party and its platform.

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

shy

Examples
He seemed overly diffident to his boss at his promotion party.
He was diffident, seemingly vague, declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching, and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter.

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Definition of crafty (adjective)
forms: crafty; craftier; craftiest; less crafty; least crafty

sly

Examples
The policemen wasn't sure he would catch the burglar; for the criminal had proved quite crafty.

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

horrifying; terrible

Examples
The accident scene was quite gruesome; even to the seasoned policemen.

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

uninteresting (e.g. conversation); bland

Examples
The girl's insipid small talk caused annoyance to the rest of the group.

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Definition of detest (verb)
forms: detested; detesting; detests

to hate strongly

Examples
I detest politicians and their lying, said the college student.
I don't like not having enough money and I don't like not having enough sex and I detest the way the children dress and I detest going to your mother's every week and I loathe the way you clench your teeth and I loathe the way you never help and I hate the way you never ask but I love you.

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

bulky

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

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Definition of disdain (verb)
forms: disdained; disdaining; disdains

to look down on with scorn

Examples
The woman gave him a look of disdain when he asked her for a date.
Often disdaining to wear a left-hand glove, he tore into the bowling to such effect that he scored around 62 runs per hour, a rate beaten by no "proper" batsman in cricket history except Jessop.

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

naturally simple; not complicated

Examples
Her life on the farm was ingenuous compared to her cousin's in the city.
She ran her tongue nervously over her lips, tasting the honey-coral lipgloss she'd applied carefully in an effort to banish her image as the ingenuous young art student, fresh from college.

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