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Description of indispensable (adjective: more indispensable; most indispensable; less indispensable; least indispensable)
absolutely necessary; of importance

Samples of indispensable
He was an absolutely indispensable member of the team.
Electricity is an indispensable source of energy which we take for granted in our everyday lives.

Determination of indispensable
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Description of glum (adjective: glummer; glummest; less glum; least glum)
gloomy

Samples of glum
The baseball player was glum after the game was canceled.
Try coping with a party of underprivileged schoolchildren from a housing estate in Manchester with a near-hysterical social worker, a ghetto blaster and some crisp bags to sniff glue, two glum shaven-headed squaddies with flatulence, and a computer programmer from Maidstone who wants to tell you about why his promotion fell through, and then with one eye twitching, accuses you of having stolen his processed cheese.



   
Description of callous (adjective: more callous; most callous; less callous; least callous)
cold; hard; or unfeeling

Samples of callous
She wondered how he could be so callous about something that meant so much to her.



   
Description of outright (adjective: outright; more outright; most outright; less outright; least outright)
thorough; complete

Samples of outright
He was always outright with his information.



   
Description of graphic (adjective: more graphic; most graphic; less graphic; least graphic)
vividly realistic

Samples of graphic
The movie was to graphic for small children.
The exhibition includes posters borrowed from the Imperial War Museum in London, and book illustrations, but concentrates on the quintessential Expressionist graphic technique, the woodcut.



   
Description of credulous (adjective: more credulous; most credulous; less credulous; least credulous)
given to believing anything too easily

Samples of credulous
The man would not be a good detective, he was much too credulous in character.



   
Description of germane (adjective: more germane; most germane; less germane; least germane)
having an important part of the issue at hand; pertinent

Samples of germane
The germane topic was all they wanted to discuss.
If the public were schooled to discriminate between the germane and the irrelevant, the authentic and the phony, and the reality and the appearance, nine-tenths at least of the advertising industry would be out of work.



   
Description of auspicious (adjective: more auspicious; most auspicious; less auspicious; least auspicious)
favorable (e. g. circumstances)

Samples of auspicious
The merger, when looked at carefully, was in fact auspicious for both parties.
Although the numerous rivers flowing from the Carpathian Mountains offered Conrad abundant lines of defense against any Russian invasion, it seemed to him that the sooner the Austrians attacked, the more auspicious the prospects, since they would shortly be heavily outnumbered.



   
Description of credible (adjective: credible; more credible; most credible; less credible; least credible)
believable

Samples of credible
The man was proved not to be guilty due to a credible alibi.



   
Description of ornate (adjective: ornate; more ornate; most ornate; less ornate; least ornate)
elaborate; often referring to decorations

Samples of ornate
The vase had many ornate details about it.
It seemed to Maggie that the whole place was almost hanging in the air because it seemed impossible that such slender columns could hold such intricate, lacy arches and ornate ceilings.



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