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  Word Descriptions explicit, haughty, penurious, prescriptive, gloat, igneous, taut, grandiose, incommodious, fallible


   
Description of explicit (adjective)
specific; definite; clear

Samples of explicit
The explicit recipe gave directions for making a very complicated dessert.



   
Description of haughty (adjective)
proud of oneself and scornful of others; snobbish; arrogant; disdainful

Samples of haughty
The haughty ways she displayed her work turned off her peers.
The haughty girl displayed her work as if she were the most prized artist.



   
Description of penurious (adjective)
stingy; miserly; indigent

Samples of penurious
The penurious man had millions of dollars, but lived in a cottage to save money.
Charles Dickens' Scrooge is the most penurious character in any of his tales.



   
Description of prescriptive (adjective)
done by custom; unbending

Samples of prescriptive
At the heart of the Australian aborigines' prescriptive coming-of-age rite for men is a walkabout.



   
Description of gloat (verb)
to brag; to glory over; to feel triumphant; to exult

Samples of gloat
She gloated over the fact that she received the highest score on the exam, annoying her classmates to no end.



   
Description of igneous (adjective)
having the nature of fire; volcanic; fiery

Samples of igneous
When the sun shone upon it, the material took on an igneous quality.



   
Description of taut (adjective)
stretched tightly; organized; tense; nervous

Samples of taut
They knew a fish was biting, because the line suddenly became taut.



   
Description of grandiose (adjective)
magnificent; flamboyant; impressive; grand

Samples of grandiose
His grandiose idea was to rent a plane to fly to Las Vegas for the night.



   
Description of incommodious (adjective)
inconvenient; uncomfortable

Samples of incommodious
The incommodious illness caused her to miss an important interview.



   
Description of fallible (adjective)
erroneous; not foolproof

Samples of fallible
By not differentiating themselves from the popular band, the group was especially fallible.



  Determinations of the words explicit, haughty, penurious, prescriptive, gloat, igneous, taut, grandiose, incommodious, fallible

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