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Equivocal

Open to one or more interp/ambiguous Ex: Sadie sink's responded with an equivocal answer in response to her role in spiderman

Idiosyncratic

Unique or peculiar to an individual; Ex: Amanda has a idiosyncratic style of dressing that reflects her personal tastes

Eschew

To Avoid; He decided to eschew his way out of riding the biggest coaster because he is scared of heights

Delineate

To describe, trace, or outline; The divorce files clearly delineates the rules in who owns what assets.

Copious

Plentiful, present in large amounts; tacobell had a copius amount new items in the menu

Evince

Feeling Clearly or Display the presence of a quality; his firm handshake evinced confidence during the job interview

Supplant

to take the place of or replace someone or something; Long Lost island is being supplanted by a spongebob themed land

Augment

to increase or improve something by adding to it; Bob went to the beach to augment on his seashell collection

Abate

to become less intense, severe, or widespread; waited in the cafe for the rainstorm to abate

induce

to bring about, cause, or persuade someone to do something; I induced my friend to watch the odyssey because it was the first movie to be made in 70mm

ubiquitous

present, appearing, or found everywhere; smartphones have become ubiquitous in today’s life

sproadic

occuring occasionally or at irregular intervals/ scattered; the girl experiences sproadic seizures regularly

vindicate

to clear someone of blame or suspicion, or prove to be right; the new evidence served to vindicate the wrongly accused suspect

quintessential

representing the most perfect or typical example of quality or class; the teachers posterboard is the quintessential example of a posterboard

emanate

to issue or spread out from a source; my candle emanates the room with vanilla

Sagacious

having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement/wise; my mom has sagacious last minute decisions to help our family

meticulous

showing great attention to detail/very careful and precise; the painter was meticulous, spending hours fixing small details

recapitulate

to summarize and state main points again; the teacher had to recapitulate the whole civil war for the test tmrw.

proliferate

To increase rapidly in numbers; my sales for slime seem to proliferate day by day

ameliorate

to make a bad or unpleasant situation better; the new road layout helped ameliorate traffic congestion

extemporaneous

spoken or done without prep; my friend extemperated his whole goodbye speech to his mom

harbinger

a person or thing that signa;s the approach of another; the black cat is a harbinger of bad luck coming my way

assuage

to make an unpleasant feeling less intense; a glass of cool water helped assauge his thirst from running a 10k

insurmountable

impossible to overcome; hiking the mount everest but* naked is insurmountable

coalesce

to come together to form one mass or whole; the avengers were formed because all the superheros coalesced together to share a power of unity

oscillate

to move or swing back and forth regularly; the pendulum is oscillating back and forth