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Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words You Need Week 13

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Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words to keep people interested in something, e.g. a plan or idea, engage someone’s interest or attention, to interest someone, to make sure that someone remains interested and involved in something: Watch this video on YouTube The diplomat was invited to the negotiating table…

Inchoate 1100 Words You Need Week 13 Day 4

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Inchoate 1100 Words You Need Inchoate 1100 Words You Need  /ɪnˈkoʊət/ (adjective) starting to develop, just beginning, burgeoning, nascent, incipient, beginning, immature, undeveloped, emergent, developing, budding, embryonic: Watch this video on YouTube A basic idea of pragmatism can be formulated as the view that it is action, rather than consciousness, that is the vehicle of…

Cryptic 1100 Words You Need Week 13 Day 4

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Cryptic 1100 Words You Need Cryptic 1100 Words You Need /ˈkrɪptɪk/ (adjective) Something that is mysterious, secret, ambiguous, difficult to understand, puzzling, obscure, enigmatic, hidden, hazy, nebulous, vague: (Zoology) serving to conceal an animal in its natural habitat Watch this video on YouTube This Luxembourg cave is covered in cryptic looking marks left by mining…

Repress 1100 Words You Need Week 13 Day 4

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Repress 1100 Words You Need Repress 1100 Words You Need /rɪˈpres/ (verb) to hide a feeling and not let it be expressed, curb actions that show feelings, keep inside, block, suppress, cut back, hold back, inhibit, keep a stiff upper lip, conceal to use force to control a group of people or an expression of…

Curtail 1100 Words You Need Week 13 Day 4

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Curtail 1100 Words You Need Curtail 1100 Words You Need /kəˈteɪl/ (verb) to reduce the size, length, duration or volume of something, cut short, lessen, truncate, restrict, limit, restrain, cut back, hold back, rein in, inhibit, shorten, decrease, trim: Watch this video on YouTube Two United Nations human rights experts today urged the Hungarian government…

Surmise 1100 Words You Need Week 13 Day 4

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Surmise 1100 Words You Need Surmise 1100 Words You Need /ˈsə.maɪz/ (noun & verb) to guess something without having any evidence to prove it, make guess about something, conjecture, infer, deduce, conclude, assume, construe, presume, suppose, postulate, theorize, hypothesize, speculate, guesswork, inference, deduction, presumption, conclusion, assumption, hypothesis, postulation, supposition, speculation, theory: Watch this video on…

Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire 1100 Words You Need

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Out of the frying pan into the fire Out of the frying pan into the fire said when you move from a bad or difficult situation to one which is worse, worsen, get worse, deteriorate, decline, degenerate, go downhill, make something worse, degrade, downgrade, exacerbate, aggravate: Watch this video on YouTube The Fish and the…

Propitious 1100 Words You Need Week 13 Day 3

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Propitious 1100 Words You Need Propitious 1100 Words You Need /prəˈpɪʃ.əs/ (adj) likely to bring success, favorable, desirable, likely to result in good results, promising, fortunate, opportune, lucky, providential: Watch this video on YouTube Some Governments have become undemocratic and their accountability to the public has eroded. In short, the state of the public sector…

Incredulous 1100 Words You Need Week 13 Day 3

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Incredulous 1100 Words You Need Incredulous 1100 Words You Need /ɪnˈkred.jʊ.ləs/ (adj) showing disbelief, unwilling to believe, doubtful, skeptical, unbelieving, disbelieving, suspicious, unconvinced, doubting: Watch this video on YouTube An incredulous voice came out from the walkie-talkie. There was an incredulous tone in his voice. Source: The Book, Top Immortal Emperor in the City I…