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| puerile |
Adj. childishly foolish; immature or trivial: He turned in a puerile piece of writing and failed the assignment. |
adv - puerilely noun - puerility, puerileness |
| juvenile |
adj. immature; childish; infantile: His juvenile tantrums are not in keeping with his age. |
adv. - juvenilely; noun - juvenileness |
| guile |
noun - deceitful actions or behavior: She used guile to get him to propose to her. |
tr. verb - guiled, guiling |
| bilk |
verb - to cheat or to swindle: He bilked the government of almost a million dollars. |
noun - bilker |
| compel |
verb - to force: His desregard for the rules copels us to dismiss him. |
adv. complellingly; noun compeller; adj. compellable |
| telepathic |
adj - communication by reading minds;Some twins are said to be able to communicate telepathicly. |
noun - telepathy, adv. telepathically |
| soothsayer |
noun - a person who makes predictions of the future - I was convinced that the soothsayer knew my future when she was able to tell me details about my past. |
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| camaraderie |
noun - cheerful unity among a group - The camaraderie shared between roommates is like that of family. |
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| inveterate |
adj. habitual, long established - My husbands weight lifting routine is inveterate because he has practiced this ritual daily for the last twenty-five years. |
adv. inveterately; noun - inveterateness |
| delude |
verb - to mislead or deceive - Her excuse for not completing her homework assignment was intended to delude and hide the truth about her forgetfulness. |
noun - deluder; adv. deludingly |
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