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::: exemplify - show by example; furnish an example; serve as an example of; Ex. His pictures exemplify that sort of painting.
::: initiate - begin; originate; receive into a group; introduce to a new field or activity; Ex. initiate someone into the mysteries of a secret religion; N: one who has been initiated
::: amalgamate - (of societies or groups) combine; unite in one body
::: refractory - unmanageable; disobedient and stubborn; Ex. refractory horse
::: marsupial - one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in a pouch(pocket of skin or leather); CF. kangaroo, opossum, wombat
::: crest - top (as of a hill or wave); showy feathers on the head of a bird
::: polygamist - one who has more than one spouse at a time; CF. bigamy; CF. polyandry
::: destitute - extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence; utterly lacking; devoid; Ex. destitute of any experience
::: centripetal - tending toward the center
::: citadel - fortress