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lorry (noun)

    A motor vehicle for transporting goods; a truck.

meander (noun)

    A winding, crooked, or involved course.
        e.g.: the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body
    A tortuous or intricate movement.
    Fretwork.

fretwork (noun)

    ornamental woodwork either carved in low relief or cut through with a fretsaw

correlation (noun)

    A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects

entrepreneur (noun)

    A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.
    A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur.

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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.

foreman (noun)

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

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.

10/30

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.

10/31

erupt (verb)

    To violently eject.
        e.g.: The volcano erupted, spewing lava across a wide area.
    To spontaneously release pressure or tension.
        e.g.: The crowd erupted in anger.

awry (adverb)

    Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
    Perversely, improperly.

lobe (noun)

    Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
    A division of the brain.

semblance (noun)

    likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
    Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

neatnik (noun)

    A stickler for neatness or cleanliness.
        e.g.: His mom is such a neatnik that a dirty dish never even hits her sink.

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fiat (noun)

    An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.

ogre (noun)

    A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
    A brutish man whose behavior resembles that of the mythical ogre.

rancor (noun)

    The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.
        e.g.: I could almost see the rancor in his eyes when he challenged me to a fight.

supplant (verb)

    To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
        e.g.: Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?

supersede (verb)

    Set (something) aside.
    Take the place of.
        e.g.: No one could supersede his sister.
    Displace in favour of another.
        e.g.: Modern US culture has superseded the native forms.