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Definition of dilemma, misnomer, alacrity, bombast, adversary, fealty, construe, dispatch, hyperbole, archetype

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Definition of dilemma (noun)
difficult situation; difficult decision

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The observational data show that Easton's neighborhood police have two recipes for resolving this dilemma and its associated conundrum.

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Definition of misnomer (noun)
name or term that describes wrongly

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Parents' evenings are a bit of a misnomer, in some schools these traditional semi-formal meetings are staggered throughout the day to give shift workers opportunity to attend.

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Definition of alacrity (noun)
eager readiness; speed

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The manager was so impressed by the worker's alacrity; he suggested a promotion.
On the first day of her new job, the recent college graduate was able to leave early after completing all of her tasks with alacrity.

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Definition of bombast (noun)
pompous speech; pretentious words; trite cliches

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After he delivered his bombast at the podium, he arrogantly left the meeting.
The presenter ended his bombast with a prediction of his future success.

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Definition of adversary (noun)
enemy; foe; opponent; rival

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The peace treaty united two countries that were historically great adversaries.

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Definition of fealty (noun)
faithfulness; loyalty

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The baron was given land in exchange for his fealty to the king.

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Definition of construe (noun)
to interpret; to explain the sense of; to analyze; to understand

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His refusal to construe a trust appears to rest solely on the fact that he deprecates interference of this kind in the rights of another.

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

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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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Definition 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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Definition of archetype (noun)
original pattern or model

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This man was the archetype for scores of fictional characters.
The scientist was careful with the archetype of her invention so that once manufacturing began, it would be easy to reproduce it.

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