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::: drivel - nonsense; foolishness; V: talk nonsense
::: yeoman - man or farmer owning small estate; middle-class farmer
::: abortive - unsuccessful; fruitless
::: shrivel - make or become shrunken and wrinkled (often by drying)
::: posterity - descendants; future generations; Ex. go down to posterity; CF. posterior, anterior
::: foreboding - premonition of evil; feeling of coming evil; V. forebode: be a warning of (something unpleasant)
::: impecunious - without money
::: cursive - (of writing) flowing; running; having the successive letters joined
::: prepossessing - attractive; CF. preoccupying ?
::: graze - (of an animal) feed on growing grass; cause (an animal) to feed on grass; scrape (esp. the skin) or touch lightly in passing; brush; Ex. We can't graze the cattle till summer; N: surface wound