June 15 (2) ED5W_2019_11_27

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ostensibly
He has spent the past three months in Florida, ostensibly for medical treatment, but in actual fact to avoid prosecution. The e-mail requested account information, ostensibly to help clear up a "billing error"
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in a way that appears or claims to be one thing when it is really something else
scarcely
I was scarcely able to move my arm after the accident. I could scarcely believe it when she said she wanted to marry me. /Scarcely had I sat down to eat when the phone rang./ He's only two - you can scarcely blame him for behaving badly
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almost not; used to say that something happened immediately after something else happened; certainly not
venerable
a venerable tradition/company/family She has worked at such venerable institutions as Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York.
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deserving respect because of age, high position, or religious or historical importance
to loom
Dark storm clouds loomed on the horizon. Here, too, the threat of unemployment has been looming on the horizon.
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to appear as a large, often frightening or unclear shape or object
embodiment
He was the embodiment of the English gentleman. She was portrayed in the papers as the embodiment of evil.
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someone or something that represents a quality or an idea exactly
immense
They spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into perfect condition. He inherited an immense fortune.
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extremely large in size or degree
pigeonhole
He is a film producer who can't be conveniently pigeonholed. He’s was pigeonholed early on in his career as a gospel singer
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to have an often unfair idea of what type someone or something is
aspire
Most of his students aspired to a career in business. We aspire to become full-service providers to our clients
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to want something very much or hope to achieve something or be successful
nexus
Times Square is the nexus of the New York subway. Professor Eric Hobsbawm suggests that Marx was right to argue that the "contradictions of a market system based on no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest
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an important connection between the parts of a system or a group of things

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