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Disdainful (adjective) – Showing or feeling contempt or lack of respect.

Disdainful (adjective) – Showing or feeling contempt or lack of respect. “The girls acted disdainful when asked to try a new food.” “And one disdainful suitor added this: “May his fortune grow an inch for every inch he bends it!”.

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Disdainful (adjective) – Showing or feeling contempt or lack of respect.

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  1. Disdainful (adjective) – Showing or feeling contempt or lack of respect. “The girls acted disdainfulwhen asked to try a new food.” “And one disdainful suitor added this: “May his fortune grow an inch for every inch he bends it!”

  2. Commandeer (verb) – To take possession of (something) without authority “When you shoplift from a store, you are considered to have commandeered an item.” “My lords, hear me: suitors indeed, you commandeered this house to feast and drink in, day in and night, my husband being long gone, long out of mind.”

  3. Adversity (Noun) – Difficulties, Misfortune Bob suffered an adversity when he had a crash on his motor bike “I bore adversities, but in the twentieth year I am ashore in my own land.”

  4. Contemptible (adj.)-deserving of scorn; despicable As he became more contemptible, more and more started to distrust him. “My hand and eye are sound, not so contemptible as the young men say.”

  5. Revelry (n.)- noisy merrymaking; festivity The revelry across the street can be heard from miles away. “In that revelry amid his throng of friends who would imagine a single foe-through a strong foe indeed- could dare to bring death’s pain on him and darkness on his eyes?”

  6. Restitution (n.)- a making good for loss or damage; repayment • The businessman still has many restitution of funds to many people. • “As for ourselves, we’ll make restitution of wine and meat consumed, and add, each one, a tithe of twenty oxen with gifts of bronze and gold to warn your heart.”

  7. Implacable (Adjective) - Relentless or unstoppable “Olympic athlete’s attitudes are implacable when it comes to winning a gold medal.” “Friends, he said, “The man is implacable.”

  8. Revulsion (Noun) – A sense of disgust “The teenage driver showed revulsion on his face as he stared down at the road kill he had just run over.” “Revulsion, anguish in his heart, with both feet kicking out, he downed his chair, while the shrouding wave of mist closed on his eyes. Anguish in his heart, with both feet kicking out, he downed his chair, while the shrouding wave of mist closed on his eyes.”

  9. Aloof • adjective • distant; remote; stand-offish

  10. Aloof continued… • My cat prefers to be aloof from the rest of our family. • “Who else in the world would keep aloof as you do from her husband if he returned to her from years of trouble, cast on his own land in the twentieth year?”

  11. Tremulous • adjective • marked by trembling or shaking

  12. Tremulous continued… • His knees became tremulous as he gazed at the giant crowd. • “Their secret! As she heard it told, her knees grew tremulous and weak, her heart failed her.”

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