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Definition: Dispensable; Unnecessary
Expendable Definition: Dispensable; Unnecessary Sentence 1: And the caveman, please note, is not just any expendable man, no! Sentence 2: The need for food, water and supplies during the hurricane season are three important things that are certainly not expendable. Charayne .S
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Sentence 1: It came on great oiled resilient legs.
Definition: capable of bouncing or springing back to an original shape after being stretched or bent. Sentence 1: It came on great oiled resilient legs. Sentence 2: The slinky resiliently sprung back into its circular shape as it was pulled from one end. Charayne .S
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Annihilate Definition: To destroy completely; wipe out
Sentence 1: With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice! Sentence 2: Termites can annihilate everything in a log cabin. Ashlee .T
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Undulate Def: To move in waves or in a smooth wavelike motion.
1. In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move
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Taint A trace of something that harms, spoils or corrupts
1. Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there.
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Revoke Definition: To cancel or withdraw
Sentence 1: They might revoke our license to travel. Sentence 2: A person who violates probation will likely have his probation revoked and will have to serve the original sentence. Ashlee .T
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Definition: Below the threshold of conscious perception, subconscious
Subliminal Definition: Below the threshold of conscious perception, subconscious Sentence 1: A chemical taint so subtle, so slight that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there. Sentence 2: Some people believe that the government tries to brainwash them through subliminal messages on the television. Johnoi .L
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Infinitesimally Definition: In steps so small as to be immeasurable or incalculable Sentence 1:. Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. Sentence 2: My mother cleans the house infinitesimally to a point where not a spec of dirt can be found. Johnoi .L
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Definition: enclosed in a protective covering
Sheathed Definition: enclosed in a protective covering Sentence 1:. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Sentence 2: After battling, the knight sheathed its sword back into place. Jessica .B
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Definition: belonging to the earliest times or ages.
Primeval Definition: belonging to the earliest times or ages. Sentence 1:. Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror. Sentence 2: The dinosaurs were considered the most primeval animals to walk the earth. Jessica .B
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