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| Imminent | The ice hanging from the roof was imminent, threatening destruction to any person that passed under it.
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| Knoll | The rounded knoll was covered in glass and, as she sat on this small hill, it seemed as though the sun was aiming directly at her.
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| Minaret | The mosque, like most, had a small tower called a minaret attached to it.
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| Palatable | The dinner she made was very palatable, as she had always been a good cook.
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| Sensuous | Her perfume, of some undefined yet pretty scent, was very sensuous and almost seemed to add to her beauty.
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| Thwart | The principle had heard of the fight right before it was supposed to happen and, like he should have, he thwarted it.
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| Wheedle | “Don’t try to wheedle me, miss,” said the cop, “flattery will get you nowhere.”
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| Brusque | Because she had not been social in so long, her conversations were brusque and rude in the sense that they were so blunt.
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| Clandestine | The wife was shocked to find out about her husbands affair, which was apparently very clandestine.
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| Dearth | The dearth of potatoes during the potato famine was not made up for by any surplus in corn.
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| Fauna | Dinsouars were around for many years before humans, but the fauna seemed to die out unexplainably.
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| Implacable | The kid, who apparently had minor ADHD, was very implacable, and for that reason went through baby-sitters like they were nothing.
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| Jocund | His jocund ways made him hard to be mean to; he was just so lighthearted to yell at.
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| Mundane | There was something so mundane about doing the same thing everyday, that after a while she got sick of it and looked for something more atypical.
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| Pallid | The young girl was pallid, as though in a permanent shock, but instead, they later realized, she was just naturally pale.
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| Rendezvous | “When should we have our rendezvous”, she said pulling out her date book and pen.
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| Skulk | After being chased out of the town by angry mobs with torches, he had to skulk in the woods for a while.
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| Tortuous | The tortuous paper contained many complex words and difficult wording, and his inability to be straight forward got him a C.
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| Wily | Growing up, he was a very wily, and, in fact, he was so cunning that we all thought he’d grow up to be a con artist.
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| Ascetic | His life was very ascetic, as the laws of Amish country were very strict and kept him very well disciplined.
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