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Pairs of Words
WRATH (intense anger): He hid his pipe for fear of incurring his father’s wrath WROTH (angry): It was plain to see that Ali was now extremely wroth. VERACITY: (accuracy, truthfulness): Officials expressed doubts concerning the veracity of the story. VORACITY (avarice, rapacity): There is a higher thirst and voracity for a variety of pertinent content. SUBTLER (elusive, knotty): Graham Taylor’s approach at Watford was far subtler than the critics portrayed. SUTLER (victualer, a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army): Essentially a sutler was a camp follower who sold provisions to the soldiers, part of early logistics. RETENUE (Restraint, Self-control): She smiled and some of her natural retenue melted. RETINUE (Suite, Entourage): And then his retinue of friends arrived, and he floated away. MINUTE (Extremely small): He will have no more than a minute chance of exercising influence. MINUET (A slow, stately ballroom dance): Louie, who dances a shaky minuet if properly guided, was a shoo-in. FUROR (fury; rage; madness): The killing was captured on cameras and caused an Internet furor. FURORE (frenzy, uproar, commotion, turmoil): He always follows the latest furores. DINGHY (A small inflatable rubber boat): Take a bulk spool of line and a dinghy with you on the beach. DINGY (Gloomy and drab): A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes. BONY (Of or like bone): The head contains bony plates with short spines at the tip of the snout BONNY (Attractive or beautiful): Aleeha is my niece and a bonny little thing she is. |
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