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Meaning of attribute, taunt, epithet, hyperbole, virago, fallacy, glutton, invective, compensation, demagogue

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Meaning of attribute (noun)
inherent quality; characteristic

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This is defined as a condition in which the responsibility for housework is felt as a feminine, and therefore a personal attribute, normally as a result of a childhood identification with the mother as role model.

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Meaning of taunt (noun)
provocation; insulting, jeering or bitter remark; mockery

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The newspaper reported that detectives believe it was just a vicious taunt to terrify the girl.

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Meaning of epithet (noun)
name; nickname; title; designation

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She sometimes appeared on earth as a hippopotamus, too, and her epithet was The Golden.
The usual epithet applied to his bearing is patrician, and his batting, as a matter of course, is liberally endowed with arrogance.

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Meaning of hyperbole (noun)
exaggeration; overstatement

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The full moon was almost blinding in its brightness, he said with a measure of hyperbole.

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Meaning of virago (noun)
scolding or ill-tempered woman

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It had been a fairly commonplace murder, a henpecked husband at the end of his tether who had taken a hatchet to his virago of a wife.

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Meaning of fallacy (noun)
illusion; misconception; untruth; falsehood

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The fatal fallacy is to try to turn the world inside-out and make economic progress the criterion of the pursuit of knowledge.
It would constitute a typically academic fallacy to believe that analysis on its own - the sheer power of thought - could change or reverse such a situation, but it could well affect it.

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Meaning of glutton (noun)
person who eats and drinks to excess; overeater

Example
The glutton ate 12 hot dogs.

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Meaning of invective (noun)
insult; curse; affront; offense

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Take one opposition spokesman, simmer for an hour in a heavy sauce of sarcasm, season with scornful adjectives, throw in liberal amounts of contempt, add several pinches of disdain, and spice with invective.

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Meaning of compensation (noun)
payment for services; repayment

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A park keeper was ordered to pay USD800 compensation to the owner of a 1,000 model yacht he sank.
Compensation of USD8,500 for structural damage, and further sums for damage to personal property, were paid by the Metropolitan Police.

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Meaning of demagogue (noun)
one who manipulates public emotions to gain power or popularity

Example
The greatest demagogue in history no longer had an audience.
For any would-be telegenic demagogue, Mr Bruce offers a lot of practical advice, most of it garnered when he was the Tories' director of communications.

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