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  Word Explanations beseech, ignominious, amiss, raze, malinger, palatial, recalcitrant, pittance, rudimentary, incorporeal


   
Explanation of beseech (verb)
to ask earnestly; to entreat; to plead; to beg

Sample of beseech
The soldiers beseeched the civilians for help.



   
Explanation of ignominious (adjective)
contemptible; degrading; humiliating; base; mean

Sample of ignominious
The behavior was so ignominious he was ashamed to be associated with it.
She left him because of his ignominious treatment of her.



   
Explanation of amiss (adverb)
in a defective manner

Sample of amiss
Its new muffler aside, the car was behaving amiss.



   
Explanation of raze (verb)
to scrape or shave off; to obliterate; to tear down completely; to demolish

Sample of raze
The plow will raze the ice from the road surface.
It must be time to give the cat a manicure; she razed my skin last night.
They will raze the old Las Vegas hotel to make room for a USD 2.5 billion gambling palace.



   
Explanation of malinger (verb)
to pretend to be ill in order to escape work

Sample of malinger
He will malinger on Friday so he can go to the movies.
The soldier will malinger to avoid fighting.



   
Explanation of palatial (adjective)
large and impressive; palace-like; magnificent

Sample of palatial
The new palatial home contained two pools and an indoor track for jogging.



   
Explanation of recalcitrant (adjective)
stubbornly rebellious; disobedient

Sample of recalcitrant
The boy became recalcitrant when the curfew was enforced.
The recalcitrant youth dyed her hair purple, dropped out of school, and generally worked hard at doing whatever others did not want her to do.



   
Explanation of pittance (noun)
small amount

Sample of pittance
The reward money was only a pittance compared to the money lost.
The little girl received a pittance every week for keeping her room clean.



   
Explanation of rudimentary (adjective)
immature; not fully developed; fundamental

Sample of rudimentary
Readers with even rudimentary medical knowledge will be aware that swollen joints, clenching hands and itching or scaling skin are among the baleful symptoms of advanced psoriatic arthropophy.
The study tentatively identifies a number of factors which distinguished between teams in social work activities and in rudimentary measures of client outcome.



   
Explanation of incorporeal (adjective)
not consisting of matter; having no material existence; insubstantial

Sample of incorporeal
The apparition appeared to be incorporeal.



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