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1. Disdain (n)

The feeling of not liking someone or something and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect. Ex. I would like to know why this substantial source of supply is so easily disdained.

2. Retort (v)

1. To answer someone quickly in an angry or funny way.

Ex. "That does not concern you!" She retorted

2. A container in which substances are heated at high temperatures, especially in a factory.

Ex. Since the 1700s, gas has been made by baking coal in airtight retorts.

3. Peculiarity (n)

Something that is typical of one person, group, or thing.

Ex. The peculiarity of Perrin's circumstances isn't lost on him; most life trajectories aren't shaped by a single sci-fi blockbuster.

4. Merit (n)

The quality of being good and deserving praise.

Ex. Einstein's theory has the very highest degree of aesthetic merit: every lover of the beautiful must wish it to be true.

5. Deduction (n)

1. The process of learning something by considering a general set of facts and thinking about how something specific relates to them.

Ex. It gives a vast unified survey of the operations of nature, with a techni--cal simplicity in the critical assumptions that makes the wealth of deductions astonishing.

2. An amount or part taken away from a total, esp. an expense that you do not have to pay taxes on, or the process of taking away an amount or part.

Ex. The tax and social security authorities normally insist upon deduction of payments and contributions at source.

6. Pay tribute to (n)

Respect or admiration for someone, or a formal event at which respect and admiration are expressed.

Ex. I pay tribute to the efforts he has made to change this state of affairs.

7. Consensus (n)

A generally accepted opinion or decision among a group of people.

Ex. They're trying to build a consensus on the need to improve the city's schools.

8. Cogency (n)

The fact of being clearly expressed and likely to persuade people.

Ex. I was struck by the cogency of his reasoning.

9. Elegance (n)

The quality of being graceful and attractive in appearance or behaviour.

Ex. The restaurant recreates the elegance of a 1930s supper club.

10. Universality (n)

The quality or state of being universal (= existing everywhere, or involving everyone).

Ex. The universality of this pattern explained the diversity of social life throughout the world, with different societies assigned to different stages of development.

11. Commitment (n)

A promise or firm decision to do something.

Ex. We will set an example to the rest of the public sector and business by malting a commitment to buy recycled goods.

12. Pecuniary (adj)

Relating to money.

Ex. A speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves. The pecuniary advantages which it promises to the Government are the least of its recommendations.

13. Savage (adj)

Extremely violent, wild, or frightening.

Ex. 1. It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters.

2. She had been badly hurt in what police described as 'a savage attack'.

14. Retard (v)

To make something slower.

Ex. The chemical will retard the spread of fire.

15. Sinister (adj)

Making you feel that something bad or evil might happen.

Ex. It was during the 1930s that the world became a much more sinister place and a scientific understanding of peace and war more necessary.

16. Delegate (n)

give a particular job, duty, right, etc. to someone else so that they do it for you.

Ex. It is the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic that the Cherokee people shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.

17. Transpire (v)

To happen.

Ex. No one is willing to predict what may transpire at the peace conference.

18. Deputy (n)

A person who is given the power to act instead of, or to help do the work of, another person.

Ex. For example, suppose a particular deputy is twice as likely to run for re-election as to retire.