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pageant  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
continue; insist; persevere
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elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainment; show, spectacle, or display
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producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile
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deep; not superficial; far-reaching
paraphernalia  Speak Example sentences
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personal ornaments or accessories, as of attire; articles used in particular activity
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incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others
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privilege; unquestionable right; exclusive power to command
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pierce; go through; permeate
permeate  Speak Example sentences
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rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
Exercise
push at, as with a finger or an arm; search or look curiously; proceed in slow or lazy manner; thrust forward
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rash; moving rapidly and heedlessly; speeding headlong; occurring suddenly
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spread or flow throughout; pervade
permissible  Speak Example sentences
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advocate; speak, plead; argue in favor of
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clutch; squeeze between the thumb and a finger, the jaws of a tool, or other edges
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proper to be permitted; allowable; admissible.
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temporary; provided for present need only
perpendicular  Speak Example sentences
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temporary; provided for present need only
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all the animals and plants, which live at or near surface of waters; collection of small or microscopic organisms
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occurring or done after death; relating to a medical examination of a dead body
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vertical; upright; intersecting at or forming right angles; extremely steep
perplexity  Speak Example sentences
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organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles
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producing offspring or fruit in great abundance; fertile
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original work used as a model; original type
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quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; embarrassment
pinnacle  Speak Example sentences
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peak; tall pointed formation, such as mountain peak
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after death, as of child born after father's death or book published after author's death
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stipulated condition; act of supplying or fitting out; something provided
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push at, as with a finger or an arm; search or look curiously; proceed in slow or lazy manner; thrust forward
plankton  Speak Example sentences
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all the animals and plants, which live at or near surface of waters; collection of small or microscopic organisms
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extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
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impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous
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crime of pirate; robbery committed at sea; unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material
postmortem  Speak Example sentences
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pierce; go through; permeate
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occurring or done after death; relating to a medical examination of a dead body
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incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others
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edge, especially of a round surface; surface of a solid; circumference
preach  Speak Example sentences
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Exercise
incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others
Exercise
deep; not superficial; far-reaching
Exercise
extremely careful and diligent work or effort; taking of pains
Exercise
advocate; speak, plead; argue in favor of