Word: Resorted
- Parts of Speech: Noun/Verb
- Meaning: Turning to someone or something for assistance; have recourse to.
- Example: In desperation, they resorted to tactics such as strapping small bombs to dogs’ backs and sending them to blow up German tanks.
Word: Causality
- Parts of Speech: Noun
- Meaning: Connection between a cause and its result or consequence.
- Example: Sometimes it is difficult to figure out the Causality of the stomach ache, it could be due to stress or something you ate.
Word: Quantifiable
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Expressible as quantity; relating to or susceptible to measurement.
- Example: Rather than give him any quantifiable amount of time, I thought, why would I want to do that?
Word: Lessen
- Parts of Speech: Verb
- Meaning: To lessen is to make smaller, reduce, or weaken; decrease in size.
- Example: The smoke had lessened, but it still wafted out the door, a dark, hazy cloud covering the entire area.
Word: astute
- Parts of Speech: Adjective
- Meaning: Marked by practical, hardheaded intelligence; Someone who is astute, is clever and has good judgment.
- Example: An astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease.
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