humdrum

DEFINITION: (adjective) Lacking variety or excitement; dull.
SYNONYMS: unglamorous, commonplace, prosaic.
USAGE: So here I shall end my days; and I must …

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cram

DEFINITION: (verb) Study intensively, as before an exam.
SYNONYMS: bone up, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up.
USAGE: I spent the week before my Latin final exam cramming, a strategy that paid off when I aced the class.

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careen

DEFINITION: (verb) Move sideways or in an unsteady way.
SYNONYMS: wobble, tilt, shift.
USAGE: The ship careened out of control.

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gustation

DEFINITION: (noun) The faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth.
SYNONYMS: taste.
USAGE: Her cold had muted all sense of gustation, and she had no appetite for food.

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progeny

DEFINITION: (noun) One born of, begotten by, or derived from another.
SYNONYMS: issue, offspring.
USAGE: He was naturally a very nervous, shuddering sort of little fellow, this bread-faced steward; the progeny of a bankrupt baker and a hospital nurse.

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putrefaction

DEFINITION: (noun) Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles.
SYNONYMS: depravation, depravity, degeneracy, corruption.
USAGE: The country had fallen into a state of moral putrefaction, with corruption running rampant throughout the government ranks.

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imprimatur

DEFINITION: (noun) Formal and explicit approval.
SYNONYMS: countenance, endorsement, indorsement, sanction, warrant.
USAGE: The candidate’s campaign was bolstered by the imprimatur of New York’s governor.

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opine

DEFINITION: (verb) Express one’s opinion openly and without fear or hesitation.
SYNONYMS: animadvert, sound off, speak out, speak up.
USAGE: “I dare say it is all for the best,” opined Mrs. Munt.

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doyen

DEFINITION: (noun) A man who is the eldest or senior member of a group.
SYNONYMS: dean.
USAGE: Raffles regarded me with that tantalizing smile of his…and in a flash I was convinced that our most jealous enemy and dangerous rival, the doyen of an older school, had paid him yet another visit.

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mantic

DEFINITION: (adjective) Of, relating to, or having the power of divination; prophetic.
SYNONYMS: divinatory, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic.
USAGE: The oracle’s mantic powers were well known, and pilgrims came from far and wide to worship and bring gifts.

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