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  Word Descriptions indefatigable, resilient, clement, implacable, zealous, ingenious, didactic, querulous, aesthetic, culpable


   
Description of indefatigable (adjective)
untiring; persistent; industrious; inexhaustible

Samples of indefatigable
Late afternoon and after a brief nap at home in Edinburgh, Frank McBride, the indefatigable chauffeur who will have driven Mr Smith more than 10,000 miles by the end of the campaign, brought his master to Stirling.



   
Description of resilient (adjective)
flexible; capable of withstanding stress; buoyant; elastic

Samples of resilient
The elderly man attributed his resilient health to a good diet and frequent exercise.



   
Description of clement (adjective)
merciful; gentle; lenient; tender; mild

Samples of clement
To me he was just one of the patients enjoying the very clement weather of my home town.



   
Description of implacable (adjective)
unwilling to be pacified or appeased; impossible to pacify; inexorable

Samples of implacable
The baby was so implacable a warm bottle would not settle her.
The two year old was an implacable child; he cried no matter what his parents did to comfort him.



   
Description of zealous (adjective)
full of enthusiasm or eagerness; passionate; excited

Samples of zealous
Last autumn, a zealous policeman from Marseilles wrote a best-selling expose of Socialist involvement in a huge embezzlement of public money in south-east France.



   
Description of ingenious (adjective)
clever; resourceful; talented; inventive

Samples of ingenious
His ingenious idea made it possible to double production at no extra cost.



   
Description of didactic (adjective)
instructive; preachy; educational; tending to lecture others excessively

Samples of didactic
Our teacher's didactic technique boosted our scores.
The didactic activist was not one to be swayed.



   
Description of querulous (adjective)
given to fault-finding and complaining; discontented

Samples of querulous
A querulous voice told him to go and jump in the Thames so he knocked again and eventually the door swung open to reveal a tall, gaunt figure, dressed in a long robe of dyed brown fur.



   
Description of aesthetic (adjective)
of beauty; pertaining to taste in art and beauty

Samples of aesthetic
She found that her aesthetic sense and that of the artist were at odds.
His review made one wonder what kind of aesthetic taste the critic had.



   
Description of culpable (adjective)
deserving blame; guilty

Samples of culpable
The convicted criminal still denies that he is culpable for the robbery.



  Determinations of the words indefatigable, resilient, clement, implacable, zealous, ingenious, didactic, querulous, aesthetic, culpable

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