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  Word Descriptions precocious, elate, disintegrate, derive, devour, grotto, haughty, colossal, pious, spontaneous


   
Description of precocious (adjective: precocious; more precocious; most precocious; less precocious; least precocious)
advanced to a higher level than expected

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



   
Description of elate (verb: elated; elating; elates)
to make happy; to cause good feelings

Samples of elate
He tried to elate her spirits but it was to no avail.
The poem's language has also advanced from the darkness and dullness in which it began to a more pleasant and brighter world with words like, "white", "light" and "elate", bringing forth a totally new mood.



   
Description of disintegrate (verb: disintegrated; disintegrating; disintegrates)
to fall apart

Samples of disintegrate
Oil can cause rubber to disintegrate.
More shamefully, some owners of newly acquired imposing homes delight in "libraries" which, seen in the gloom or at a distance, bestow a pretty glow of opulence and erudition but which, at close quarters, disintegrate into a heterogeneous muddle of worthless books, sometimes bought in bulk.
Equally important for vulnerable areas is the availability of safety glass -- toughened or laminated: toughened glass -- resists some impact, and shatters into harmless fragments when broken; laminated glass is much more difficult to break, and is held together by clear plastic film between the layers of glass, so won't disintegrate.



   
Description of derive (verb: derived; deriving; derives)
to obtain from a source; to reason; to infer; to deduce

Samples of derive
He derived the solution by looking at all of the facts.
A subject as vulnerable within the curriculum as art education needs to be seen by pupils, teachers, headteachers and administrators to be functioning in a healthy state and that judgment is likely to be made in terms derived from educational theory and include the results of assessment procedures and examination performance whether art teachers consent or not.



   
Description of devour (verb: devoured; devouring; devours)
to eat up greedily

Samples of devour
I am so hungry I could devour a whole cow.



   
Description of grotto (noun: plural: grottoes or grottos)
a little cavern; small cave

Samples of grotto
The natural grotto was just what the kids wanted to find.
In spite of the local Comune's siting of a modern aqueduct through the grounds of the former villa, (leaving the oddity of a twentieth-century industrial ruin within a sixteenth-century one) a grotto, three fountain niches with inscriptions, and a tabernacle formerly frescoed by Allori all survive.



   
Description of haughty (adjective: haughtier; haughtiest; less haughty; least haughty)
arrogant; overly proud

Samples of haughty
He was haughty about his minor achievements which earned him no friends.



   
Description of colossal (adjective: more colossal; most colossal; less colossal; least colossal)
huge

Samples of colossal
The whale was colossal.
The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century, who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe.



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

Samples of pious
One would hope that a pastor of a church would have a pious disposition.
In early sixteenth-century London it was customary for the most pious lay people to rush from church to church in order to be present at as many elevations of the host as possible in a single day.



   
Description of spontaneous (adjective: spontaneous; more spontaneous; most spontaneous; less spontaneous; least spontaneous)
happening due to a natural reason; no planning

Samples of spontaneous
He liked her spontaneous nature as he was never bored around her.
It is from the chaos of spontaneous analogizing that creativity breaks into the ordered by closed realm of analytic thinking.



  Determinations of the words precocious, elate, disintegrate, derive, devour, grotto, haughty, colossal, pious, spontaneous

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