Vocabulary Word
Word: quiescent
Definition: dormant; temporarily inactive; at rest; N. quiescence
Definition: dormant; temporarily inactive; at rest; N. quiescence
Sentences Containing 'quiescent'
They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and no perspective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.
Diving beneath the settling ship, the whale ran quivering along its keel; but turning under water, swiftly shot to the surface again, far off the other bow, but within a few yards of Ahab's boat, where, for a time, he lay quiescent.
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