Word 1: Malinger Def: To try to avoid work by pretending to be
hurt Sent: Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There
is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. Marcel
Proust
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Word 2: Foreboding Def: Feeling something bad will happen Sent:
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without
some stirring of foreboding. Eric Hoffer.
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Word 3: Ramifications Def: A consequence of an action, often
which complicates a situation Sent: When a decision is made to go
to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has
ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
Carl Levin
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Word 4: Dearth Def: A scarcity or lack of something Sent:
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our
blindness we gather thorns for flowers. Grantland Rice
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Word 5: Clientele Def: All the people who regularly use a shop,
restaurant or other business Sent: I brought him so much clientele
that he had me open my own store and we ended up going into a
partnership together. Paul Wall
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Word 6: Petty Def: Small and unimportant Sent: Don't sweat the
petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. George Carlin
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Word 7: Mendacious Def: Having a lying, false character Sent:
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost
always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false,
misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. Russell
Baker
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Word 8: Undulate Def: To move in waves, fluctuate Sent: The
Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent
expression and an undulating throat. Hilaire Belloc
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Word 9: Bolster Def: To support, hold up, or maintain with
difficulty Sent: If we can't turn the world around we can at least
bolster the victims. Liz Carpenter
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Word 10: Diffuse Def: To spread about or scatter; disseminate
Sent: Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty
tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the
bad taste of the smoker. George Eliot
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Word 11: Fiasco Def: An embarrassing failure Sent: There's a
difference between a failure and a fiasco,... A fiasco is a
disaster of mythic proportions. Orlando Bloom
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Word 12: Furtive Def: Secretive and possibly dishonest Sent:
These days, acts of racism are furtive. And, all too often, they
happen in our own back yard. John Jordan
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Word 13: Intolerant Def: Not excepting of others beliefs or
behavior Sent: I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance
from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I
am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran
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Word 14: Integrity Def: The quality of being honest and having
strong moral principles Sent: Integrity is doing the right thing,
even if nobody is watching. Anonymous
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Word 15: Elixir Def: A magical or medicinal potion Sent: I
think Meryl Streep has some kind of miracle elixir that makes the
Academy nominate her every time she makes a movie. Peter
Travers
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Word 16: Jubilation Def: A feeling of great happiness and
triumph. Sent: Once the team acquired the signal after the
spacecraft reappeared from behind Mars, we all felt a tremendous
sense of jubilation. Jim Crocker
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Word 17: Trite Def: So clich and overused that it consequently
has little effect Sent: What is fanaticism today is the fashionable
creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Wendell Phillips
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Word 18: Sedentary Def: Accustomed to sitting or to taking
little exercise Sent: We are living in a world that promotes
obesity,... We have become more sedentary. Stephen Daniels
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Word 19: Elicit Def: To manage to get information from someone
or make someone react the way you want Sent: Adversity has the
effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances
would have lain dormant. Horace
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Word 20: Conflagration Def: A large destructive fire Sent: Two
World Wars within three decadeshad convinced political leaders from
both parties that we could neither afford another planet wide
conflagration nor prevent a new one alone. Stephen Schlesinger
