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1.upstart (n.) a start-up enterprise

She was beateb to the top job by an upstart who join the firm barely a year ago.

2. meditate (v.) to engage in contemplation or reflection

I hear you are meditating giving up your job.

3.demonstrate (v.)- to prove or make clear by reasoning or evidence

His last remark demonstrates his total ignorance of the subject.

4. lousy (adj.) infested with lice

The town was lousy with tourists.

5. devastating (adj.) to bring to ruin or desolation by violent action

It is a devastating storm.

1. swamp (v.) to fill with or as if with water

We were stamped with phone calls after our advertisement in the paper.

2. incision (n.) an act of incising something

An incision was made into the diseased organ.

3. sloppy (adj.) wet so as to spatter easily

This is a very sloppy piece of work.

4. delve (v.) to dig or labor with or as if with a spade

He delved into the family archives looking for the facts.

5. association (n.) something linked in memory or imagination with a thing or person

She set up an association to help blind people.

1. excursion (n.) a going out or forth

We went on a day excursion to Blackpool .

2. foul (v.) to become or be foul

He was sent off for fouling the other team’s goalkeeper.

3. conquest (n.) the act or process of conquering

She is one of his numerous conquests.

4. incoherent (adj.) lacking orderly continuity, arrangement, or relevance

She become quiet incoherent as the disease got worse.

5. consequence (n.) a conclusion derived through logic

The high level of unemployment has produced harmful social consequence.

1. odour (n.) a quality of something that stimulates the olfactory organ

I have been in bad odour with the boss since he discovered that I had criticized him.

2. prompt (v.) to move to action

What prompted that remark?

3. paranoid (adj.) characterized by or resembling paranoia

My father locks every door and window in the house --- he is paranoid about being robbed.

4. glimpse (n.) a fleeting view or look

I glimpsed her among the crowed just before she disappear from sign.

5. expire (v.) to breathe one's last breath

The trade agreement between the two countries will expire next year.

1. terribly (adj.) exciting extreme alarm or intense fear

We were terribly lucky to find you here.

2. nonchalant (adj.) having an air of easy unconcern or indifference

She received the prize with an air of nonchalant.

3. accommodations (n.) something supplied for convenience or to satisfy a need

She stay in the tourist accommodations on a boat.

4. extol (v.) to praise highly

He keeps extolling the merits of his new car.

5. span (v.) to measure by or as if by the hand with fingers and thumb extended

A bridge spanned the stream.