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

Example
The soldiers beseeched the civilians for help.

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

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

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Meaning of amiss (adverb)
in a defective manner

Example
Its new muffler aside, the car was behaving amiss.

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

Example
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.

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

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

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

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

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Meaning of recalcitrant (adjective)
stubbornly rebellious; disobedient

Example
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.

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Meaning of pittance (noun)
small amount

Example
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.

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

Example
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.

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

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The apparition appeared to be incorporeal.

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