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::: gross - total; fragrant; clearly wrong; (of people's behavior) coarse; corpulent; Ex. gross insolence/behavior; V: earn as a total amount; N: 12 dozens
::: paraphrase - restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words
::: circumscribe - limit; confine; draw a line around
::: palatable - agreeable; pleasing to the taste
::: refractory - unmanageable; disobedient and stubborn; Ex. refractory horse
::: sloth - slow moving tree-dwelling mammal; laziness; ADJ. slothful: lazy; indolent
::: bleak - cold or cheerless; frigid; unlikely to be favorable; depressing
::: canny - shrewd in money matters; thrifty
::: badinage - teasing conversation; banter; joking talk
::: redolent - odorous; fragrant; suggestive (of an odor); Ex. redolent of onions/mystery