17887702 | allocation | (n.)-assignment; devotion to a place, person or purpose; designation | |
17887703 | ascetic | (n.)-person who leads a life of self-denial for contemplative or religious purposes; (adj.)-rigorously abstinent | |
17887704 | beguile | (v.)-influence by trickery, to charm or divert | |
17887705 | crass | (adj.)-without refinement or delicacy, gross, stupid, crude | |
17887706 | defray | (v.)-to bear or pay all or part of the cost of something | |
17887707 | dint | (n.)-force or power; (v.)-to dent or impress upon by force | |
17887708 | enjoin | (v.)-to order to do something; to prescribe with authority or emphasis | |
17887709 | envoy | (n.)-a diplomatic agent or messenger; a short closing stanza in a poem summarizing the main ideas | |
17887710 | interloper | (n.)-one who intrudes or interferes often for selfish reasons; a meddler | |
17887711 | vicarious | (adj.)-felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others; experienced secondhand |
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