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Meaning of notorious, chronic, punitive, incisive, autocratic, perverse, immaculate, articulate, gregarious, ambiguous

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What does notorious mean?
Meaning of notorious (adjective)
renowned; having an unfavorable connotation; known for disgrace

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Discovering that her new neighbor was notorious for thievery, she decided to purchase an alarm system for her home.
The criminal had a notorious reputation.

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What does chronic mean?
Meaning of chronic (adjective)
continuing a long time; habitual; lingering; constant; lasting

Example
Contracts overseas are one way that Japanese firms can fight back against a chronic shortage of trained programmers.
If the glands in the urethra are involved, and chronic infection sets in, there may be fibrous tissue deposited at the sites of the chronic infection, and stricture formation may occur.

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What does punitive mean?
Meaning of punitive (adjective)
serving as a penalty; penalizing

Example
The pattern of childrearing that produces the most hostile children is one where the parents use punitive methods persistently against a background of rejecting, hostile parental attitudes.

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What does incisive mean?
Meaning of incisive (adjective)
getting to the heart of things; to the point

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His incisive questioning helped settle the matter quickly.

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What does autocratic mean?
Meaning of autocratic (adjective)
despotic; dictatorial

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The old fears of Russia's autocratic, ultra-centralized state were surely right.
More specific economic policies, which have been widely discussed in recent years, fit within this tendency towards an autocratic state.

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What does perverse mean?
Meaning of perverse (adjective)
willfully bent on doing the wrong thing; distorted; deviant

Example
He finds nothing perverse about a man of the arts fighting sport's corner.
As a result, those at the bottom of the social heap were abandoned in a perverse kind of educational apartheid.

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What does immaculate mean?
Meaning of immaculate (adjective)
perfectly clean; correct; pure

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An immaculate house is free of dust or clutter.

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What does articulate mean?
Meaning of articulate (adjective)
clear; distinct; expressed with clarity; skillful with words

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You didn't have to vote for him to agree that Bill Clinton was articulate.
A salesperson must be articulate when speaking to a customer.

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What does gregarious mean?
Meaning of gregarious (adjective)
fond of the company of others; sociable

Example
Gregarious people may find those jobs with human contact more enjoyable than jobs that isolate them from the public.

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What does ambiguous mean?
Meaning of ambiguous (adjective)
not clear; uncertain; vague

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The ambiguous law did not make a clear distinction between the new and old land boundary.

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Meanings of notorious, chronic, punitive, incisive, autocratic, perverse, immaculate, articulate, gregarious, ambiguous
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