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Term | Definition |
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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. |