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Term | Definition |
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Asceticism | (n) practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
Dint | (n) force; power |
Envoy | (n) a minister plenipotentiary accredited to a foreign government who ranks between an ambassador and a minister resident |
Defray | (tv) to provide for the payment of |
Crass | (adj) having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination |
Beguile | (v) to lead by deception |
Allocate | (tv) to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or thing |
Enjoins | (tv) to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
Oscillage | (iv) to swing backward and forward like a pendulum; to move or travel back and forth between points |
Interloper | (n) an illegal or unlicensed trader |