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::: hindsight - understanding the nature of an event after it has actually happened
::: multilingual - having many languages; fluent in several languages
::: salutary - tending to improve; beneficial; wholesome; Ex. The punishment had a salutary effect on the boy; CF. health
::: ascendancy - controlling influence; position of controlling influence; CF. in the ascendant
::: enigma - puzzle; mystery; ADJ. enigmatic: obscure; puzzling
::: destitute - extremely poor; lacking means of subsistence; utterly lacking; devoid; Ex. destitute of any experience
::: prototype - original work used as a model by others
::: intoxicate - make drunk; stimulate or excite; Ex. intoxicated by all the money he might win
::: prurient - having or causing lustful desires and thoughts; arousing immoderate sexual desire
::: minion - servile dependent; obsequious follower