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2025-8-4 14:59
cultivator Definition: (noun) Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil. Synonyms: agriculturalist, grower, raiser Usage: He soon became a land-holder, then a prosperous cultivator of the soil, and shortly after a town-officer.
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2025-8-5 13:36
coerce Definition: (verb) To cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral, or intellectual means. Synonyms: force, hale, pressure, squeeze Usage: The lawsuit alleged that her boss had coerced her into resigning and that she therefore deserved compensation.
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2025-8-6 16:07
penalize Definition: (verb) Impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on. Synonyms: punish Usage: The students were penalized for their tardiness and had to stay after school for detention.
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2025-8-7 13:24
nonviolence Definition: (noun) Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate. Synonyms: passive resistance Usage: Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., were two of the most articulate advocates of nonviolence.
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2025-8-8 12:06
seeker Definition: (noun) Someone making a search or inquiry. Synonyms: quester, searcher Usage: A seeker of the truth, he never took things at face value.
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2025-8-9 12:33
indisposed Definition: (adjective) Somewhat ill or prone to illness. Synonyms: ailing, peaked, poorly, under the weather, unwell, sickly, seedy Usage: The princess is indisposed and has cancelled her engagements for the week to allow herself time to recuperate.
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338楼
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2025-8-10 12:10
deep-seated Definition: (adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held. Synonyms: deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained, planted Usage: He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.
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339楼
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2025-8-11 15:39
hard-pressed Definition: (adjective) Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty. Synonyms: distressed, hard put, in a bad way Usage: Hard-pressed consumers are spending less on luxuries.
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340楼
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2025-8-12 15:31
curare Definition: (noun) A toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles. Synonyms: tubocurarine Usage: The arrow was usually tipped with a poison, such as curare, which would stun or kill the struck prey.
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2025-8-13 15:03
comeuppance Definition: (noun) A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one's just deserts. Synonyms: deserts Usage: The central character is an evil man who gets his comeuppance in the end.
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