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Definition: (adjective) In a smooth, lyrical, flowing style.
Synonyms: singing.
Usage: The last part of the movement, a sweet, cantabile passage, resonated with the young audience.
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Definition: (verb) To talk casually.
Synonyms: chat, natter.
Usage: Three old friends met in a café to confabulate together.
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Definition: (noun) Division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions.
Synonyms: duality.
Usage: One of the novel's themes is the dichotomy of Eastern and Western culture.
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Definition: (noun) A state of uncertainty or perplexity.
Synonyms: dilemma.
Usage: The situation was awkward, but nothing like the quandary they had found themselves in when their car had broken down on a deserted road.
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Definition: (noun) A particular manner of speaking.
Synonyms: idiom.
Usage: In vulgar parlance the condiments of a repast are called by the American "a relish," substituting the thing for its effect.
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Definition: (adjective) Everyday; commonplace.
Synonyms: mundane, routine, workaday.
Usage: There's nothing quite like a real train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute.
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Definition: (noun) The element believed in ancient and medieval civilizations to fill all space above the sphere of the moon and to compose the stars and planets.
Synonyms: quintessence.
Usage: The stars, the ancients believed, both inhabited and were composed of the ether.
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Definition: (noun) Remains from which the substance or character is gone.
Synonyms: remains, remnants.
Usage: At one end of the camp lies the carcass of an aircraft which crashed in the mountains.
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Definition: (adjective) Idyllically rustic.
Synonyms: arcadian, bucolic.
Usage: Last I heard he bought a cottage on farmland and now leads a perfectly pastoral existence.
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Definition: (noun) The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up.
Synonyms: debris, rubble.
Usage: The streets of the new town were built over the detritus of past habitations.
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