Definition: (noun) A playful leap or hop.
Synonyms: capriole.
Usage: The child's playfulness was amusing at first, but they soon grew tired of his capers.
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Definition: (noun) A playful leap or hop.
Synonyms: capriole.
Usage: The child's playfulness was amusing at first, but they soon grew tired of his capers.
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Definition: (noun) An unforeseen event that disrupts the normal course of things; an inopportune occurrence.
Synonyms: mishap, predicament, calamity.
Usage: His cross-country tour had its full share of comic contretemps.
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Definition: (adjective) Very cold; icy.
Synonyms: arctic, frigid, glacial, polar.
Usage: After only a few minutes in the gelid wind, they were shivering too hard to speak.
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Definition: (noun) One who has the power and position to rule over others.
Synonyms: dictator.
Usage: She was a potentate in her home, all her relatives being too cowed to protest her decisions.
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Definition: (adjective) Being an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one; artificial.
Synonyms: imitation.
Usage: He was fairly sure that no coffee beans had been involved in its production, but he was tired enough to drink the ersatz coffee anyway.
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Definition: (noun) An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
Synonyms: vista.
Usage: The panorama from the summit, with glistening lakes and green forests in every direction, is unmatched in the east.
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Definition: (noun) Mental responsiveness; discernment; awareness.
Synonyms: aesthesia.
Usage: After nine months in a coma, the patient began to exhibit sensibility.
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Definition: (noun) A small thin piece of metal, plastic, bone, or similar material, used to pluck the strings of certain instruments, such as the guitar or lute.
Synonyms: pick.
Usage: When he first struck the guitar's strings with his plectrum, we knew we were in for a great performance.
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Definition: (adjective) Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
Synonyms: dreary, woeful, morose, funereal, doleful.
Usage: He was so lugubrious that he could find melancholy in a child's birthday party.
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Definition: (noun) One that serves as a pattern or model.
Synonyms: epitome, prototype.
Usage: Their company is a paradigm of the small high-tech firms that have recently sprung up in this area.
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