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Reticent |
Quiet, reserved, or uncommunicative When the teacher ask for homework, most of the kids were reticent. |
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Travail |
Hard work; exhausing labor; agony The man wanted to quit his job because it was very travail. |
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Opulence |
Wealth, luxury, or abundance The people had such an opulence that everyone wanted to see inside it. |
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Arduous |
Difficult, strensuous, or hard to achieve The man found out that climbing a mountain was arduous work. |
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Paltry |
Practically worthless; petty; trifling The food was so paltry that they couldn't take another bite. |
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Abduct |
To carry off by force The robbers abducted the money from the bank. |
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Tractable |
Easily managed, taught or controlled The dog was very tractable when he saw other dogs. |
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Obliterate |
To do away with or destroy; to blot out completely The house was obliterated during the bomb attack. |
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Prodigious |
Extraordinary in size or amount; enormous A very prodigious thing to do would be sailing across the whole Atlantic Ocean. |
