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byzantine
Adjective
Meaning:
Intricate and complex; excessively complicated and typically involving a great deal of administrative detail
Usage:
It is true that America’s tax system is an abysmal and Byzantine mess
Those Byzantine negotiations have to be completed to renew the bond
expunge
Verb
Meaning:
To eliminate completely; to strike out, obliterate or mark for deletion; to efface completely; destroy; to eliminate from one’s consciousness
Usage:
We had to expunge the painful memory
Time and weather have expunged any evidence of a thriving community in this area
Quid pro quo
Noun
Meaning:
Something for something; this for that; something exchanged for something else
Usage:
The granting of pardon was a quid pro quo to bring stability and peace
plummet
Verb
Meaning:
Fall; drop straight down with great speed; descend; to drop sharply and abruptly
Usage:
As soon as the company increased the price of its videogame, it saw its sales plummet
chicanery
Noun
Meaning:
The use of tricks to deceive someone; trickery
Usage:
The politicians or corporate leaders will say anything to turn public opinion their way. This kind of deceit and manipulation is chicanery
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