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Meaning of mercenary, apprehensive, discrete, bellicose, murky, tangible, itinerant, truculent, ubiquitous, sporadic

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Meaning of mercenary (adjective)
working or done for payment only; hired for service

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Lila was suspicious that Joe had jumped at the chance only for mercenary reasons.

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Meaning of apprehensive (adjective)
fearful; aware; conscious; worried; concerned

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The nervous child was apprehensive about beginning a new school year.

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Meaning of discrete (adjective)
separate; individual

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There were four discrete aspects to the architecture of the home.
The citizens committee maintained that road widening and drainage were hardly discrete issues.

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Meaning of bellicose (adjective)
quarrelsome; warlike

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The bellicose guest would not be invited back again.

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Meaning of murky (adjective)
dark; cloudy; gloomy

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The two main parties, defined by Ireland's civil-war allegiances in the 1920s, coexist in a murky world of unprincipled favor-mongering.

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Meaning of tangible (adjective)
real; actual; substantial

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So, while product development has been impressive, and confirms a certain level of re-investment, it does not usually lead to development of medium-sized businesses with tangible assets.

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Meaning of itinerant (adjective)
traveling about; wandering

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Ian Franchi, of Britain's Open University, and his colleagues have just spent three weeks on crampons and skidoos, combing the ice sheet for these itinerant boulders.
Evidently the general itinerant care exercised by Paul and his helpers is supplemented by permanent resident officeholders.

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Meaning of truculent (adjective)
fierce; savage; cruel; destructive; harsh; barbaric

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Truculent fighting broke out in the war-torn country.
The truculent beast approached the crowd with wild eyes and sharpened claws.

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Meaning of ubiquitous (adjective)
omnipresent; present everywhere

Example
A ubiquitous spirit followed the man wherever he went.
Water may seem ubiquitous, until a drought comes along.

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Meaning of sporadic (adjective)
rarely occurring or appearing; intermittent; occasional; irregular; infrequent

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In the desert there is usually only sporadic rainfall.
Infection commonly occurs in children and infants, and the clinical progression of the disease is similar to syphilis when it is seen in the sporadic form; the late manifestations, however, tend to be seen at a much younger age.

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