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| Description of arable (adjective) suitable (as land) for plowing; cultivatable Samples of arable When the land was deemed arable the farmer decided to plow.
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| Description of abstemious (adjective) sparing in use of food or drinks; satisfied with little; moderate Samples of abstemious If we become stranded in the snow storm, we will have to be abstemious with our food supply. In many abstemious cultures the people are so thin due to the belief that too much taken into the body leads to contamination of the soul.
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| Description of tensile (adjective) undergoing or exerting tension Samples of tensile The pipeline was capable of flexing to withstand the tremendous tensile strain that might accompany an seismic movement.
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| Description of recondite (adjective) hard to understand; concealed; deep; obscure; profound Samples of recondite The students were dumbfounded by the recondite topic. Many scientific theories are recondite, and therefore not known at all by the general public.
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| Description of conciliatory (adjective) making or willing to make concessions; appeasing; pacifying Samples of conciliatory The diplomat sought to take a conciliatory approach to keep the talks going.
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| Description of arrogate (verb) to claim or demand without right Samples of arrogate The teenager arrogated that he should be able to use his parent's car whenever he desired.
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| Description of prate (verb) to talking foolishly; to chatter; to gab; to babble Samples of prate It is not uncommon for people to prate when they become nervous about speaking to a superior.
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| Description of innocuous (adjective) harmless; dull; insipid; uninteresting Samples of innocuous The remark was rude but innocuous. He couldn't bear to sit through another innocuous lecture. The teens engaged in an innocuous game of touch football.
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| Description of seethe (verb) to be violently disturbed; to soak; to rage; to steep Samples of seethe By the time I arrived, she was seething with anger. He seethed at the prospect of losing the business to his conniving uncle.
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| Description of cataclysm (noun) extreme natural force; catastrophe Samples of cataclysm The earthquake has been the first cataclysm in five years.
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