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Word Explanations reprehensible, retrospective, climactic, seamy, ample, noncommittal, compact, chaste, dolourous, gnarly

Explanation of reprehensible (adjective)
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; deplorable; vicious

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Explanation of retrospective (adjective)
concerned with or related to the past

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Explanation of climactic (adjective)
consisting of or causing a climax

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Explanation of seamy (adjective)
forms: seamier; seamiest
morally degraded; sleazy; sordid; squalid

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Explanation of ample (adjective)
forms: ampler; amplest
fairly large; sizeable

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Explanation of noncommittal (adjective)
refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view or the like

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Explanation of compact (adjective)
briefly giving the gist of something; succinct; summary

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Explanation of chaste (adjective)
forms: chaster; chastest
abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

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Explanation of dolourous (adjective)
showing sorrow; lachrymose; tearful; weeping

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Explanation of gnarly (adjective)
used of old persons or old trees; knotted; knotty; knobbed

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