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::: prize - pry; move with a lever; value highly; esteem; Ex. his most prized possession; N: something captured during war-time (esp. an enemy ship)
::: suppliant - entreating; beseeching; N.
::: unassuming - modest; Ex. the champion's unassuming manner
::: evasive - not frank; trying to hide the truth; eluding; evading; V. evade: avoid (a duty or responsibility) or escape from by deceit
::: maim - mutilate; injure lastingly; disable; cripple; Ex. maimed for life
::: dismantle - take apart; disassemble
::: nutrition - process of nourishing or being nourished; CF. malnutrition
::: paraphrase - restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words
::: husbandry - frugality; thrift; economy; agriculture; farming; Ex. animal husbandry; CF. husbandman
::: promiscuous - mixed indiscriminately; indiscriminate; not choosing carefully; indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners; irregular, particularly sexually; Ex. promiscuous life/girl; N. promiscuity