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::: ostracize - banish from a group; exclude from public favor; ban; Ex. His friends ostracized him. N. ostracism
::: pejorative - (of a word or phrase) suggesting that someone is of little value; negative in connotation; having a belittling effect; Ex. Many women now considers ``housewife'' a pejorative expression, because it patronized them.
::: heterogeneous - dissimilar; mixed; not homogeneous; consisting of dissimilar elements or plants
::: ferment - agitation; commotion(noisy and excited activity); unrest (of a political kind); V. produce by fermentation; undergo fermentation; cause (a state of trouble)
::: veritable - being truly so; real or genuine; actual; not false or imaginary
::: allude - refer indirectly; N. allusion: indirect reference
::: meteoric - like a meteor; swift; momentarily brilliant; Ex. meteoric rise to fame; N. meteor
::: niggardly - meanly stingy; parsimonious; N. niggard: stingy person
::: subsume - include (as a member of a group); encompass
::: exemplify - show by example; furnish an example; serve as an example of; Ex. His pictures exemplify that sort of painting.