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5 new words:
acerbity
| Definition: | (noun) A rough and bitter manner. |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, thorniness, tartness |
| Usage: | "You are ignorant," Miss Bordereau remarked; not with acerbity but with a strange, soft coldness. |
wizened - Lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
Synonyms: shrunken, withered, wizen, shriveled, shrivelled
Usage: There was nothing left to eat except a few wizened apples that had been left on the shelf too long.
mendicant - Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging.
Synonyms: friar, beggar
Usage: Although it began as a mendicant order, donations soon allowed it to build lavish churches.
admonitory - Serving to warn.
Synonyms: monitory, warning, cautionary, exemplary
Usage: Paying as little regard to this admonitory cough, as to the significant gesture that had preceded it, the stranger pursued his questioning.
clandestine - Kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
clandestine - Kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
Synonyms: hush-hush, on the quiet, cloak-and-dagger, undercover, underground, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, secret, surreptitious
Usage: Whether the torments of absence were softened by a clandestine correspondence, let us not inquire.
Arjun
