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Outré

His art is a bit too outré for most people to enjoy.  His dramatic works, though effective on stage, are disfigured by extravagant incidents and preciosity of diction.  The old roué hopes to get possession of her fortune.  His senility follows a completely different pattern from Martha's.  He comes across as gregarious, humourous, and intense. 

Dossier

The dossier also has information on covert spying techniques.  He loves drumming on his bongos in a true beatnik fashion.  He claims that society has been far too permissive towards drugs.  To one who is sensitive to tales of blood, unexpurgated Japanese history must be a dreadful thing.  She was a really feisty, fearless woman who loved to laugh. 

Jaggery

The flowers also yield a juice which, when boiled down, produces a dark-brown, caramel-flavoured sugar called jaggery.  It is so easy to be vicariously charitable.  She needs to find her niche.  For some, this solution is motivated by an anti-white animus.  Historically, ophthalmology has developed as a specialization for medical doctors, while optometry originated as a profession that fitted people with glasses. 

Paleontology

The book is a valuable contribution to paleontology.  The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.  Unable to garner even a modicum of support for his plan he conceded to follow the others. He found a way to circumvent the law.  He had lost weight and his face had a sallow look.

Licence

Excessive freedom has led her to licence.  Given the circumstances, my behaviour to her is punctiliously correct.  There is nothing we can do except dig in and wait.  I must root up the trunks and the brambles and fill up the marshes.  The picture turned his private assignation into a spectacle for all the world and his wife to see. 

Reconnaissance

They did a reconnaissance of the enemy's position.  The animal rights activists challenge anthropolatry and all other anthropocentric practices.  What has been done has been reparative and all in the best taste.  His work on teratology is important.  It started to rain and we all scrambled for cover. 

Cynosure

Let faith be your cynosure to walk by.  The dog likes people he knows, but he is skittish around strangers.  He has tried to impose solutions to the country's problems by fiat.  Don't be fooled by his gruff manner; he is really very kind.  Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable. 

Egregious

The student has made egregious errors in the examination.  He set off in search of better opportunities.  From the tower, water flows to spigots located around the village.  The regenerated plantlets have diploid chromosome number.  He trims the hedge once a week. 

Raconteur

He was the most wonderful raconteur and he could make a good story last twenty minutes.  Insects are vectors of harmful diseases.  The discovery of bees' dance is one of the greatest achievements of modern ethology.  Their health problems are caused by their sedentary lifestyles.  He lived like a nomad for a few years after college, never holding any job position for very long. 

Secrete

The sweat glands secrete water.  The book gains not only perspicuity, but also a gripping momentum as the story moves chronologically.  The corner of his mouth turned up in a lopsided smile.  Huge waves slopped water into the boat.  I spent most of my childhood being shunted about between my parents. 

Swot

You should swot up on your French before travelling to Paris.  There was a dark smudge on his forehead.  She was a prissy little girl.  After he lost his eye, it took some time for him to receive his ocular prosthesis.  In his dark glasses and overcoat, he exudes menace. 

Stodgy

Its realism is a bit stodgy; its flights into fantasy are familiar.  His voice had scaled up at least an octave and sounded almost pubescent.  Adrienne is studying to be a pediatric nurse.  He is said to be very handsome and a terrible scapegrace.  She is facing discipline for charges of apostasy from church leaders. 

Ebony

Her ebony body is as graceful as a deer.  The couch was upholstered with a bright, floral fabric.  There was a hint of smug self-satisfaction in her voice.  The creaky old house and its odd inhabitants have not given up all their secrets.  She was no more a crackpot than the rest of us. 

Spectate

Other partygoers only spectated the plentiful dance battles that occurred.  They were Roman citizens who contemned the laws of the barbarians.  I appreciated the piquancy of the peppers in the sauce.  Toast, sentiment, and Anacreontic song succeeded each other at speedy intervals.  I bought this abridged version of the Mahabharata from a colporteur. 

Abstemious

We were very abstemious - teetotallers and non-smokers.  Those are sterling qualities to be admired in anyone.  I would not wish to give any ex cathedra opinion on this point.  The Romans of old were a very wise people, yet, certes, they kept their faith in such matters.  You have whetted my curiosity. 

Cartel

Mexico has been gripped by violence as drug cartels fight for control of the trade.  No one should condone violence and abuse at work.  The group is hoping to galvanize public opinion against the proposed law.  Until recently the withdrawal agreement was sacrosanct.  If he had not succeeded in escaping, the ferocious female would undoubtedly have eviscerated him. 

Feed into

Poverty and insecurity feed into each other.  Democracy is an idea with a pedigree stretching back to ancient Greece.  I need not spell out this simple thing to you.  The stallion started to appraise his situation with a man's intelligence.  Angry workers were responsible for the sabotage of the machines.