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::: obligatory - binding; required; compulsory; V. oblige: constrain; make grateful; do a favor; accommodate
::: culvert - artificial channel for water; drain crossing under a road
::: gamut - entire range
::: crevice - crack; fissure
::: disinterested - unprejudiced; free from bias and self-interest; objective
::: quench - assuage or satisfy (thrust); slake; douse or extinguish; put out; suppress
::: avalanche - great mass of falling snow and ice
::: preempt - prevent in advance; head off(forestall); forestall by acting first; appropriate for oneself before others; supplant; take the place of; displace; Ex. preempt any attempts; ADJ. preemptive
::: malediction - curse
::: dabble - work at in a nonserious fashion; splash around; move noisily in a liquid