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  Word Explanations banter, coalesce, incontrovertible, acumen, anthology, festoon, monologue, epigram, deplorable, dispatch


   
Explanation of banter (noun)
conversation which is amusing and not serious; tease; joke

Sample of banter
Throughout, his banter came as thick and fast as softshelled crab, only halting as he paused to take a slurp from his Dixie Beer or to wipe the steam off the camera lens.



   
Explanation of coalesce (verb)
to grow together; to merge; to unite

Sample of coalesce
The bride and groom coalesced their funds to increase their collateral.
At the end of the conference the five groups coalesced in one room.



   
Explanation of incontrovertible (adjective)
unquestionable; impossible to debate

Sample of incontrovertible
The government had never been prepared to take any action without incontrovertible proof of a direct relationship between an industrial process and a particular pattern of death, disease or environmental damage.



   
Explanation of acumen (noun)
keenness of mind; insight; astuteness; shrewdness

Sample of acumen
She had no workshop, nobody to help her and no business acumen.
A striking feature of the campaign is the firm grasp voters seem to have of the main issues, and the shrewdness and acumen they show in arguing not only for one side or the other but for all sides at once.



   
Explanation of anthology (noun)
collection of choice literary works; compilation

Sample of anthology
Their anthology, like Grigson's, is valuable in that it steps outside the ordinary canon of eighteenth century verse to recover poets whose works bear consideration.



   
Explanation of festoon (verb)
to decorate with chains of flowers or leaves, etc.

Sample of festoon
You're an architect, someone who's supposed to improve this planet, not festoon it with ill-placed coils of lurid metal.



   
Explanation of monologue (noun)
speech by one person

Sample of monologue
Like a best-man's speech, Edward Petherbridge's The Eight O'Clock News is an anecdotal monologue, often rambling, occasionally funny and inevitably far too long.



   
Explanation of epigram (noun)
witty or satirical poem or statement; letter; ingenious saying; proverb; phrase

Sample of epigram
The poet wrote an epigram about the upcoming election.



   
Explanation of deplorable (adjective)
lamentable; wretched

Sample of deplorable
It is deplorable that the Americans took a lot of land cheap from Cubans and Spaniards.



   
Explanation of dispatch (noun)
sending off; shipment; message; communication; promptness

Sample of dispatch
On the last day of 1921 the Party Central Committee appointed Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Cheka and Commissar for Transport, to the commission for the dispatch of food supplies and grain seed from Siberia and the Ukraine.



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