Lexicon
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Hello. Welcome to Lexicon. Here you'll have
a collection of word meanings gathered from websites all over the world, accumulated on a single page. We have designed this page especially for those who feel that they are not able to do
enough to hone their English skills, but don't you fret dear friends, because Lexicon is bound to improve
your English skills drastically.
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Word: Furtive
Meaning: adj. 1. Marked by quiet, caution or secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed. “A
furtive kiss.” 2. Characterized by stealth; surreptitious. “A
furtive attempt to take control of the business.”
Word: Longueur
Meaning: : a dull and tedious passage or section (as of a book, play, or musical composition) — usually used in plural
Example: The otherwise crisp pacing of the movie is marred by some unnecessary longueurs that do little to advance the main story.
Word: heteroclite
Meaning:
| noun: | 1. A person who is unconventional; a maverick. |
| | 2. A word that is irregularly formed. |
| adjective: | 1. Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric. |
| | 2. (In grammar) Irregularly inflected. |
Usage: “South Africa indeed repeated before the executive organ of the UN
a heteroclite set of tropes that mixed bad faith with ideological
dogmatism from a bygone era.”
Zweli Matshelwa; The Flagrant Isolation of South Africa;
New
Zimbabwe; Apr 11, 2020.
