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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| humidor | an airtight container for keeping cigars or tobacco moist. |
| indiscernible | impossible to see or clearly distinguish. |
| settee | a long upholstered seat for more than one person, typically with a back and arms. |
| in cahoots | colluding or conspiring together secretly |
| divot | a piece of turf cut out of the ground by a golf club in making a stroke. |
| garrulous | excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. |
| incoherent | (of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear. |
| conceivable | capable of being imagined or grasped mentally. |
| forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely. |
| laden | heavily loaded or weighed down. |
| pasquinade | a satire or lampoon, originally one displayed or delivered publicly in a public place. |
| derange | cause (someone) to become insane. |
| surmise | suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it. |
| superfluous | unnecessary, especially through being more than enough. |
| elocution | the skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation. |
| unutterable | too great, intense, or awful to describe. |
| subtle | (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe. |
| orgastic | (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe. |
| borne | carried or transported by the thing specified. |
| ceaselessly | continuously and without end. |