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::: demur - object (because of doubts, scruples); raise an objection (showing qualms); hesitate; Ex. demur at the idea of working on Sunday
::: iota - very small quantity
::: stricture - severe and adverse criticism; critical comments; limit or restriction
::: ragamuffin - dirty child in torn clothes; person wearing tattered clothes
::: avarice - greediness for wealth
::: harrowing - agonizing; distressing; traumatic; V. harrow: break up and level (soil) with a harrow; inflict great distress on; agonize; N: farming machine to break up the earth
::: sequester - isolate; segregate; seclude; retire from public life
::: mediate - settle a dispute through the services of an outsider; act as an intermediary; produce by mediating; Ex. mediate a cease-fire
::: apprise - inform
::: apotheosis - elevation to godhood; an ideal example of something