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Published on Nov 19, 2015

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SHIZHENG TIE
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CAPRICIOUS

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Capricious

  • Adjactive
  • Being able to change unexpectedly
  • Eg, Her capricious personality soon
  • gave her a bad reputation for not
  • being responsible enough.
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ARDUOUS

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Arduous

  • Adjective
  • Characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion
  • especially physical; effort; difficult to accomplish
  • Eg. The task was way more arduous than he thought
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CANTANKEROUS

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Cantankerous

  • Adjective
  • stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate
  • Eg. He is a cantankerous old man.

ADROIT

Adroit

  • Adjective
  • quick or skillful
  • As an adroit worker, he makes
  • pretty good money.
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LOQUACIOUS

LOQUACIOUS

  • Adjective
  • full of trivial conversation
  • Eg. Her loquacious daughter never
  • stops talking, even when she is
  • doing her homework.

PROFLIGATE

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PROFLIGATE

  • Noun
  • a dissolute man in fashionable society
  • a recklessly extravagant consumer
  • Eg. The parents are pretty frugal, but
  • their son is a total profligate.
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PROFLIGATE

  • Adjective
  • recklessly wasteful
  • unrestrained by convention or morality
  • Eg. Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.
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TRANSIENT

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TRANSIENT

  • Adjective
  • of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind
  • enduring a very short time
  • Eg. Her feelings of depressions are transient.

DEARTH

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DEARTH

  • Noun
  • a lack, scarcity, insufficiency
  • Eg. There is a dearth of good
  • educational movies.

CAVIL

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CAVIL

  • Verb
  • To criticize unnecessarily
  • A carper will cavil at everything.

DEFENESTRATION

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DEFENESTRATION

  • Noun
  • the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
  • "I was told not to shoot the king's messenger, so I defenestrated
  • him; he broke both legs. I think the king got the message."
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