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Word: milieu

Definition: social environment; means of expression; Ex. feel out of one's milieu; Ex. His proper milieu is watercolor.


More Vocab Words

::: sensuous - giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin
::: dispense - distribute; prepare and give out (medicines); N. dispensation: dispensing; religious system; official exemption from an obligation or a rule
::: rue - regret; lament; mourn; Ex. He will rue the day; N. ADJ. rueful
::: fallow - (of land) plowed but not sowed (to improve the quality); uncultivated
::: insalubrious - unwholesome; not healthful; Ex. insalubrious place
::: raiment - clothing; garments; Ex. I have no raiment fit to wear.
::: provender - dry food for livestock; fodder
::: conscript - draftee; person forced into military service; V.
::: anthology - book of literary selections by various authors; CF. omnibus
::: enterprise - willingness to take new ventures; initiative; business organization; plan (that is difficult or daring); Ex. their latest enterprise to sail round the world in a small boat