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  1. 15/01/2020
  2. irony - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
  3. prototype - a standard or typical example
  4. obvious - easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
  5. 16/01/2020
  6. convolution - the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
  7. impromptu - with little or no preparation or forethought (spontaneously)
  8. trivial - of little substance or significance
  9. 17/01/2020
  10. anticipate - realize beforehand
  11. emotive - characterized by emotion
  12. incorporate - include or contain
  13. 18/01/2020
  14. dissent - ojection or protest
  15. prevail - continue to exist
  16. seldom - not often
  17. 08/02/2020
  18. contain - incorporate, comprise [A totally new idea is comprised in this paper.]
  19. expertise - skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge
  20. fragile - easily broken or damaged or destroyed
  21. 10/02/2020
  22. apprehensive - mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger
  23. murky - cloudy, muddy, mirky, turbid
  24. reprimanded - censure severly or angrily [The mother scolded the child for entering a
  25. stranger's car]
  26. 29/05/2020
  27. buoyant - tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas
  28. exotic - strikingly strange or unusual
  29. insistence - continual and persistent demands
  30. 26/09/2020
  31. devolution - the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or
  32. vitality or essential quality
  33. devolvement - the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional
  34. government)
  35. persistent - continually recurring to the mind; haunting memories; stubbornly unyielding;
  36. 11/08/2021
  37. inhibit - limit, block (contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs)
  38. plea - supplication (a humble request for help from someone in authority)
  39. encompasses - embrace, comprehend, include in scope (this group encompasses a wide range
  40. of people from different background)
  41. 12/08/2021
  42. conjugal - the relationship between a wife and husband
  43. prejudice - bias, preconception (a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an
  44. issue or situation)
  45. opulence - luxury, luxuriousness, sumptuousness (wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living)
  46. 13/08/2021
  47. luminous - softly bright or radiant
  48. generic - any product that can be sold without a brand name, applicable to an entire group
  49. peril - hazard, risk, endanger, jeopardize, menace (a state of danger involving risk)
  50. 16/08/2021
  51. distinction -
  52. dichotomous -
  53. requisite -
  54. 17/08/2021
  55. stimulus -
  56. tranquilizers -
  57. 18/08/2021
  58. obfuscate -
  59. exuberance -
  60. stagger -
  61. 30/08/2021
  62. prognosticating - make a prediction about; tell in advance;
  63. predict; foretell, prognosticate; forebode; anticipate; promise
  64. prognosis - a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop; forecast
  65. ludicrous - broadly or extravagantly humorous (absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, laughable, nonsensical, ridiculous)