"Quash"

In one fell swoop, the instructor managed to quash all the hopes and dreams of her young and impressionable students. Too bad I was one of those students.

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"Masticate"

As he stood gnawing on the turkey leg, sauce dripping from his Mick Jagger lips, the man's masticating teeth were grinding against one another, to the utter horror and chagrin of all within a 100-yard radius.

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"Didactic"

I hope my didactic newspaper column helped reinforce the lesson I taught in rhetoric today.

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"Temporize"

Honestly, though I'm no fan of Valentine's Day, I do think it was kind of rude of the person who kept temporizing when my friend asked him to the dance, only to say at the last minute he didn't want to go.

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"Arcanum"

Racquelle marvelled at the arcana of the teenage years; she speculated that perhaps, that was the one subject that mere mortals would never be able to understand.

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"Egregious"

As soon as the words escaped her mouth, she realized she had committed an egregious error.

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"Gastronome"

Racquelle, the world-renowed gastronome, refuses to eat anything from McDonald's.

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