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attire (noun)

    One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
        e.g.: He was wearing his formal attire.
    The single horn of a deer or stag.

canteen (noun)

    a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work
    a temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc
    a box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc
    a military mess kit

utensil (noun)

    An instrument or device for domestic use, in the kitchen, or in war.
    A small hand tool or material-handling implement specialized for specific types of processing such as is used in the kitchen or a laboratory.

mess kit (noun)

    A compact set of eating utensils (including plate, cup, utensils) and sometimes cooking pots etc, used in the field by soldiers and by campers.
    A formal uniform, worn for occasions such as mess dinners.


cosmopolitan (adjective)

    all-inclusive; affecting the whole world
    composed of people from all over the world
    at ease in any part of the world

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singleton (noun)

    A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
    A single object, especially one of a group.

envision (verb)

    To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.

facetious (adjective)

    Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
        e.g.: Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious.
    Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

knead (verb)

    ​To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
    To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.

optimum (noun)

    The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances.

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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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paternal (adjective)

    Of or pertaining to one's father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family; as, "paternal grandfather" (one's father's father).
    Fatherly; behaving as or characteristic of a father.
    Received or inherited from one's father.
    Acting as a father; as in "paternal filicide" (murder of a son committed by his father).

filicide (noun)

    A person who kills his or her own child.  
    The killing of one's own child.

relinquish (verb)

    To give up, abandon or retire from something.
    To let go (free, away), physically release.
    To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
    To accept to give up, withdraw etc.
        e.g.: The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction

rudimentary(adjective)

    of or relating to one or more rudiments
        e.g.: I have only a rudimentary grasp of chemistry.
    Basic; minimal; with less than, or only the minimum, necessary.
        e.g.: His grasp of rudimentary English allowed him at least to do the shopping.

rudiment (noun)

    A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
        e.g.: We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
    Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
        e.g.: I have the rudiments of an escape plan.

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suffocate (verb)

    To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
        e.g.: Open the hatch, he is suffocating in the airlock!
    To die due to, or kill someone by means of, insufficient oxygen supply to the body.
        e.g.: He suffocated his wife by holding a pillow over her head.

trite (adjective)

    Worn out; hackneyed; used so many times that it is no longer interesting or effective (often in reference to a word or phrase).

hackneyed (adjective)

    Repeated too often.
        e.g.: The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

vicarious (adjective)

    Experienced or gained by the loss or to the consequence of another, such as through watching or reading.
        e.g.: People experience vicarious pleasures through watching television.
    Done on behalf of others
        e.g.: The concept of vicarious atonement, that one person can atone for the sins of another, is found in many religions.

anticlimax (noun)

    A break in the final crescendo or climax of a narrative, producing a disappointing end.