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Word Explanations unruly, prosaic, discerning, retroactive, pertinacious, bovine, seminal, determinate, nautical, artless

Explanation of unruly (adjective)
forms: unrulier, more unruly; unruliest, most unruly
of persons; ungovernable

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Explanation of prosaic (adjective)
forms: more prosaic; most prosaic
not challenging; unglamorous; unglamourous

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Explanation of discerning (adjective)
able to make or detect effects of great subtlety

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Explanation of retroactive (adjective)
taking effect on a past date

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Explanation of pertinacious (adjective)
stubbornly unyielding; persistent; tenacious; unyielding

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Explanation of bovine (adjective)
dull and slow-moving and stolid

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Explanation of seminal (adjective)
containing seeds of later development

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Explanation of determinate (adjective)
not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex; definitive

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Explanation of nautical (adjective)
relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen; marine

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Explanation of artless (adjective)
natural; unaffected; uncultured

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Meaning of unruly, prosaic, discerning, retroactive, pertinacious, bovine, seminal