Vocabulary Word
Word: aspersion
Definition: slanderous remark; Ex. cast aspersions on
Definition: slanderous remark; Ex. cast aspersions on
Sentences Containing 'aspersion'
Peggotty seemed to take this aspersion very much to heart, I thought.
Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.
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::: fluster - confuse; make nervous and confused; N.
::: knoll - little round hill; hillock
::: simian - monkeylike; N: ape or monkey
::: conception - beginning; forming of an idea; fertilization; V. conceive: form an idea in the mind; devise; become pregnant; CF. inception
::: wince - move back suddenly; shrink back; flinch; Ex. She winced as she touched the cold body.
::: execrable - very bad; detestable
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::: drama - prose or verse composition to be performed by actors; play; exciting and unusual situation
