1. Desultory (???????, ?????)
Meaning: Something that is desultory is done in an unplanned and disorganized way, and without enthusiasm.
Example : The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.
2. Debacle
Meaning: debacleis an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
Example: After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again.
3. Diffident (??????, ???????)
Meaning: Someone who is diffident is rather shy and does not enjoy talking about themselves or being notices by other people.
Example : Helen was diffident and reserved.
4. Entice (???????, ??????)
Meaning: To enticesomeone to go somewhere or to do something means to try to persuade them to go to that place or to do that thing.
Example : Retailers have tried almost everything to entice shoppers through their doors.
5. Exacerbate (????? ????)
Meaning: If something exacerbates a problem or bad situation, it makes it worse.
Example : Long standing poverty has been exacerbated by racial divisions.
6. Word: Meagre (????, ?????)
Meaning: If you describe an amount or quantity of something as meager, you are critical of it because it is very small or not enough.
Example: The bank�s staff were already angered by a meager 3.1% pay rise.
7. Word: Morbid
Meaning: If you describe a person or their interest in something as morbid, you mean that they are very interested in unpleasant things, especially death, and you think this is strange.
Example: Some people have a morbid fascination with crime.
8. Word : Obliterate (?????? , ?????)
Meaning: If something obliterates an object or place, it destroys it completely.
Example: Their warheads are enough to obliterate the world several time over.
9. Word: Perennial (????-?? ????????, ??????????)
Meaning: You use perennial to describe situations or states that keep occurring or which seem to exist all the time; used especially to describe problems or difficulties.
Example: the perennial urban problems of drugs and homelessness.
10. Word: Patronize (??????? ????)
Meaning: If someone patronizes you, they speak or behave towards you in a way which seems friendly, but which shows that they think they are superior to you in some way.
Example: Don�t you patronize me!
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