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rive Definition: (verb) Tear or be torn violently. Synonyms: pull, rend, rip Usage: As he rose, a flash of lightning, that seemed to rive the remotest heights of heaven, illumined the darkness.
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sibylline Definition: (adjective) Resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy. Synonyms: divinatory, mantic, vatic Usage: It was a sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to all sorts of questions about the future.
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rector Definition: (noun) A person authorized to conduct religious worship. Synonyms: curate, minister, parson, pastor Usage: She was the daughter of a clergyman, and it was with her father, the rector of a village in Lincolnshire, that Mr. Carey had spent his last curacy.
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wring Definition: (verb) To clasp and twist or squeeze (one's hands), as in distress. Synonyms: wrench Usage: And the little princess began to cry capriciously like a suffering child and to wring her little hands even with some affectation.
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torrent Definition: (noun) A heavy, uncontrolled outpouring. Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation Usage: She frowned and overwhelmed Pierre with a torrent of reproaches and angry words.
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Floor 167
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specious Definition: (adjective) Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing. Synonyms: gilded, meretricious Usage: "You are a specious fellow," returned Sir John, fixing his eyes upon him, "and carry two faces under your hood, as well as the best."
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voracious Definition: (adjective) Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy. Synonyms: rapacious, ravening Usage: She was a voracious reader and loved to spend her afternoons at the library.
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mensuration Definition: (noun) The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule. Synonyms: measuring Usage: The mensuration of the faculties of the mind has, I believe, no place in the catalogue of known arts.
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pensive Definition: (adjective) Deeply or seriously thoughtful. Synonyms: contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative, brooding, broody Usage: Emma's pensive meditations, as she walked home, were not interrupted; but on entering the parlor, she found those who must rouse her.
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solace Definition: (verb) To give comfort or cheer to (a person) in time of sorrow or distress. Synonyms: comfort, console, soothe Usage: I grieved quietly and solaced myself with the knowledge that she was in a better place.
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