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bailiwick [ BEY-luh’-wik ]
[noun]
MEANING:
- the area or district of jurisdiction of a bailiff or a bailie
2. one’s area of specialization, interest or authority
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The Key West islands were Ernest Hemingway’s bailiwick.
apostate [ uh’-POS-teyt, -tit ]
[noun,adjective]
MEANING:
- (n.) one who has forsaken or abandoned one’s religion, faith, party or cause
2. (adj.) pertaining to or characteristic by apostasy.
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
He was termed an apostate, for having forsaken his religion and his family in order to remarry.
valiant [ VAL-yuh’nt ]
[noun,adjective]
MEANING:
- (adj.) possessing courage
2. (adj.) marked by bravery
3. (n.) a courageous person
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The novel was about the crusades and the valiant battles that were fought by the knights.
furor [ FYOO’R-awr ]
[noun]
MEANING:
- a general disorder or general commotion
2. violent anger
3. a public outburst of excitement or ecstasy or a state of intense enthusiasm
4. a craze or fad. (Also, especially British, furor)
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
The poison pen letters circulating the campus created a furor among the students and had to be suppressed.
sluice [ sloos ]
[noun,intransitive verb,transitive verb]
MEANING:
- (n.) an artificial channel fitted with a gate for conducting and regulating the flow of water
2. (n.) a channel or drain for surplus water
3. (n.) a stream of surplus water
4. (tr. v.) to drain the water from
3. (tr. v.) to flush or cleanse with a rush of water
4. (intr. v.) to flow through
USAGE EXAMPLE 1:
When the water in the dam reached the overflow mark they opened all the sluices for the water level to subside.
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