Definition: (adjective) Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable.
Synonyms: flagitious.
Usage: Abusing an animal is a heinous act.
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Definition: (adjective) Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable.
Synonyms: flagitious.
Usage: Abusing an animal is a heinous act.
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Definition: (verb) To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
Synonyms: consume, have, take in.
Usage: Chocolate can be lethal to dogs if they ingest too much of it.
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Definition: (verb) To stimulate to action.
Synonyms: startle.
Usage: The appeal has galvanized them into taking positive action.
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Definition: (noun) Whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash.
Synonyms: bootleg, corn liquor.
Usage: I drank too much moonshine last night, and now I have a terrible hangover.
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Definition: (verb) Speak unfavorably about.
Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce.
Usage: He is always maligning his wife when she is not around, telling people what a bad spouse and mother she is.
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Definition: (noun) A small, roofed structure in a park or garden affording shade and rest.
Synonyms: gazebo.
Usage: George decided that the summerhouse, open to the sights, smells, and sounds of the garden that Anna adored, would be the perfect place to ask for her hand in marriage.
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Definition: (noun) Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant.
Synonyms: lenience, mildness.
Usage: I promise to show all the lenity in my power; but if the charges brought against this Bonapartist hero prove correct, why, then, you really must give me leave to order his head to be cut off.
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Definition: (adjective) Grave or even gloomy in character.
Synonyms: melancholy.
Usage: The Colonel, with little sense of humor and of the fitness of things, related a somber episode of those dark and bitter days.
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Definition: (noun) An indifference to pleasure or pain.
Synonyms: stolidness.
Usage: With the stoicism of the brutes who had raised him he endured his suffering quietly.
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Definition: (adjective) Expressed without speech.
Synonyms: mute, unspoken, tongueless.
Usage: Never a hearty breakfaster, he had found himself under the influence of her wordless disapproval physically unable to consume the fried egg that confronted him.
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