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Persecute:
Meaning: to treat someone unfairly or cruelly over a long period of time because of their race, religion, or political beliefs or to annoy someone by refusing to leave them aloneUse in sentence: Religious minorities were persecuted and massacred during the ten-year regime.
Prosecute:
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Use in sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
Meaning: to officially accuse someone of committing a crime in a court of law, or (of a lawyer) to try to prove that a person accused of committing a crime is guilty of that crime
Use in sentence: He was prosecuted for fraud.
Luxuriant:
Meaning: growing thickly, strongly and well
Use in sentence: This stretch of land was once covered with luxuriant forest, but is now bare.
Meaning: growing thickly, strongly and well
Use in sentence: This stretch of land was once covered with luxuriant forest, but is now bare.
Luxurious:
Meaning: very comfortable and expensive
Use in sentence: They have a very luxurious house.
Meaning: very comfortable and expensive
Use in sentence: They have a very luxurious house.
Mean:
Meaning: to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact
Use in sentence: These figures mean that almost 7% of the working population is unemployed.
Meaning: to express or represent something such as an idea, thought, or fact
Use in sentence: These figures mean that almost 7% of the working population is unemployed.
Mien:
Meaning: a person's appearance, especially the typical expression on their face
Use in sentence: His aristocratic mien and smart clothes singled him out.
Meaning: a person's appearance, especially the typical expression on their face
Use in sentence: His aristocratic mien and smart clothes singled him out.
Observation:
Meaning: when you observe something or someone
Use in sentence: The police are keeping the suspect under observation.
Meaning: when you observe something or someone
Use in sentence: The police are keeping the suspect under observation.
Observance:
Meaning: when someone obeys a law or follows a religious custom
Use in sentence: The State must enforce the observance of human rights in its domestic legal order.
Meaning: when someone obeys a law or follows a religious custom
Use in sentence: The State must enforce the observance of human rights in its domestic legal order.
Naughty:
Meaning: not behaving properly; mischievous or disobedient
Use in sentence: Now that's naughty - you mustn't throw food on the floor!
Meaning: not behaving properly; mischievous or disobedient
Use in sentence: Now that's naughty - you mustn't throw food on the floor!
Knotty:
Meaning: complicated and difficult to solve
Use in sentence: That's rather a knotty question.
Meaning: complicated and difficult to solve
Use in sentence: That's rather a knotty question.
Ghostly:
Meaning: pale and transparent
Use in sentence: The image is fading which gives the figure a rather ghostly appearance.
Meaning: pale and transparent
Use in sentence: The image is fading which gives the figure a rather ghostly appearance.
Ghastly:
Meaning: unpleasant and shocking
Use in sentence: Today's newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
Meaning: unpleasant and shocking
Use in sentence: Today's newspaper gives all the ghastly details of the murder.
Hew:
Meaning: to cut a large piece out of rock, stone or another hard material in a rough way
Use in sentence: The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain.
Meaning: to cut a large piece out of rock, stone or another hard material in a rough way
Use in sentence: The monument was hewn out of the side of a mountain.
Hue:
Meaning: a particular shade or tint of a given color
Use in sentence: In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every hue.
Meaning: a particular shade or tint of a given color
Use in sentence: In the Caribbean waters there are fish of every hue.
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