ANALOGOUS

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ANALOGOUS

• (adjective)
• comparable similar

• The mechanic said that the pumps in a car are
  analogous to a heart in a person.

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BEQUEATH

• (verb)
• to leave behind or pass along in a will (when a
  person dies)

• The nice lady next door bequeathed one million
  dollars to RPI College in her will.

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CELESTIAL

• (adjective)
• heavenly having to do with the sky

• Satellites are celestial while they orbit the
  earth.

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DEVOID

• (adjective)
• totally lacking or empty of

• The convicted murderer was devoid of moral
  principles.

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DISPERSE

• (verb)
• to spread out or to scatter

• After the last day of school, some students will
  disperse to camps for the summer.

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ELUSIVE

• (adjective)
• hard to pin down difficult to capture hard to
  comprehend

• The elusive criminal was almost impossible for
  the police to catch.

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FORLORN

• (adjective)
• sad and lonely because of isolation or
  desertion nearly hopeless

• The cats at the animal shelter looked so forlorn
  that we wanted to adopt them all.

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GARNER

• (verb)
• to earn to accumulate to collect

• The detective garnered bits of evidence from the
  crime scene.

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HYPOCRITICAL

• (adjective)
• insincere pretending to be what one is not

• It was hypocritical of the policeman to be
  involved in illegal activity.

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IMMATERIAL

• (adjective)
• unimportant of no consequence

• A fancy cover is immaterial if your essay is
  poorly written.

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JARGON

• (noun)
• special vocabulary of a certain group of people

• James likes to use the jargon of street gangs,
  but he is actually a kid who lives on a farm.

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LAMPOON

• (verb)
• to mock to parody to satirize to
  ridicule

• Cartoons on the editorial page of the newspaper
  usually lampoon the actions of our politicians.

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MALICIOUS

• (adjective)
• wishing to cause harm deliberately bad or evil

• Sam was not being malicious when he broke the
  mirror, because it was an accident.

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METICULOUS

• (adjective)
• extremely careful about details

• Jake was meticulous about his appearance, but he
  could not care less about the condition of his
  bedroom.

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OBSOLETE

• (adjective)
• out of date old (not the same as expired)

• A computer that was new five years ago is
  obsolete today.