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adjacent (adjective)

    Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on.
        e.g.: Because the conference room is filled, we will have our meeting in the adjacent room.
    Just before, after, or facing.
        e.g.: The picture is on the adjacent page.

antenna (noun)

    A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
    An apparatus to receive or transmit radio waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
    The faculty of intuitive astuteness.

intuitive (adjective)

    Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought.
        e.g.: The intuitive response turned out to be correct.
    Easily understood or grasped by intuition.
        e.g.: Designing software with an intuitive interface can be difficult.
    Having a marked degree of intuition.

spontaneous (adjective)

    Self generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
        e.g.: He made a spontaneous offer of help.
    Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
    proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
    arising from a momentary impulse

constrain (verb)

    to force physically, by strong persuasion or pressurizing; to compel; to oblige
    to keep within close bounds; to confine
    to reduce a result in response to limited resources

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hamper (noun)

    A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals

excavate (verb)

    To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
    To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
    To uncover (something) by removing its covering.

escalate (verb)

    to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up
        e.g.: Violence escalated during the election.
    in technical support, to transfer a telephone caller to the next higher level of authority
        e.g.: The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2.

foreman (noun)

    The leader of a work crew.
    The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

mow (verb)

    To cut something (especially grass or crops) down or knock down.
        e.g.: He mowed the lawn.

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ostentatious (adjective)

    Of ostentation.
    Intended to attract notice.
    Of tawdry display; kitsch.

tawdry (adjective)

    Cheap and gaudy; showy.
    Unseemly, base, shameful.

kitsch (noun)

    Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.

gaudy (adjective)

    very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner

vulgar (adjective)

    Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
    Having to do with ordinary, common people. 

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invoice (noun)

    a bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
    The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
        e.g.: The merchant receives a large invoice of goods.

deception (noun)

    An instance of actions and/or schemes fabricated to mislead and/or delude someone into errantly believing a lie or inaccuracy.

prompt (adjective)

    Ready, willing
    Quick, acting without delay.
        e.g.: He was very prompt at getting a new job.
    On time, punctual.
        e.g.: Be prompt for your appointment.

groove (noun)

    A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.
    A fixed routine
    The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
    A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.

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avouch (verb)

    To declare freely and openly; to assert.
    To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
    To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
    To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.

substantiate (verb)

    To verify something by supplying evidence; to corroborate or authenticate
    To give material form or substance to something; to embody

subsist (verb)

    To survive on a minimum of resources.
    To have ontological reality; to exist.
    To continue; to retain a certain state.

futile (adjective)

    Incapable of producing results; useless; not successful; not worth attempting.

offspring (noun)

    A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
    All a person's descendants, including further generations.
    An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.