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dirigible
[dir-i-juh-buhl]
an airship

synecdoche
[si-nek-duh-kee]
a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in Texas won by six runs (meaning “Texas's baseball team”)

gloaming
[gloh-ming]
twilight; dusk

stalwart
[stawl-wert]
strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust

subjugate
[suhb-juh-geyt]
to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master

ubuntu
[oo-boon-too]
humanity or fellow feeling; kindness

comport
[kuhm-pawrt]
to bear or conduct (oneself); behave

contumacious
[kon-too-mey-shuhs]
stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient

banausic
[buh-naw-sik]
serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical

persnickety
[per-snik-i-tee]
requiring painstaking care

ken
[ken]
one's range of knowledge or sight

apprise
[uh-prahyz]
to give notice to; inform; advise (often followed by 'of')

shear
[sheer]
to cut something; to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument

loquacious
[loh-kwey-shuhs]
talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous

commensurate
[kuh-men-ser-it]
corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree

proliferate
[pruh-lif-uh-reyt]
to grow or produce by multiplication of parts, as in budding or cell division, or by procreation