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Word: Demure
Meaning: adj. 1. Modest and reserved in manner or behavior. “Despite her
demure appearance, she is an accomplished mountain climber.”
Word: Titanic
Meaning: : having great magnitude, force, or power
: colossal
Example: "A supernova occurs when a massive star in the bright disk of the galaxy runs out of fuel at the end of its life. With no 'fire' in its belly to beat back gravity's inexorable pull, the star implodes and then rebounds in a titanic explosion that rips it apart." — Bob King, The Duluth (Minnesota) News Tribune, 30 Aug. 2020
Word: abscond
Meaning: (verb)
To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution.
Synonyms: go off, run off, decamp, bolt
Usage: Just as the case was about to go to trial, the lawyer panicked and absconded with his client's money.
Word: bolshie or bolshy
Meaning:
| adjective: | 1. Rebellious; uncooperative; combative. |
| | 2. Politically radical. |
| noun: | 1. Someone who is rebellious, uncooperative, combative, etc. |
| | 2. A politically radical person. |
Usage: “I was a bolshie teenager, full of argument.”
Katherine Hassell; Jeremy Vine: My Family Values;
The Guardian
(London, UK); Sep 11, 2015.
See more usage examples of
bolshie in Vocabulary.com’s
dictionary.
Thought: The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds
left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (14 Jun
1811-1896)