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TermDefinition
Allocation The act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate
Ascetic A person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self mortification for religious reasons
Beguile To influence by trickery, flattery, ect:; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving
Crass Without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid; crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts
Defray to bear or pay all or part ( the costs, expenses, ect.): the grant helped defray the expenses of the trip
Dint force; power: By dint of hard work she became head of the company
Enjoin To prescribe ( a course of action ) with authority or emphasis: The doctor enjoined a strict diet
Envoy a diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative
Interloper To intrude into some region or field of trade without proper license; to thrust oneself into the affairs of other
Vicarious performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment. Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute. Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others: a vicarious
Admmonish to caution, advise, or counsel against something ; to reprove or scold, esp. in a mild and good willed manner: The teacher admonished him about excessive noise
Akimbo with hand on hip and elbow bent outward: To stand with arms akimbo
Lassitude weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor; a condition of indolent indifference: the pleasant lassitude of the warm summer afternoon
Licentious sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertines; lewed; unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral
Muse ( verb )to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject; ( noun) any of a number of sister goddess
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