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Today's Words: Capitulate, Menagerie, Inimitable, Salubrious


Capitulate 

To capitulate means to give in to something. If your parents refuse to raise your allowance, you might try to argue until they capitulate. 

To capitulate is to surrender outright or to give in under certain terms. Either way, you’re agreeing to something you don’t really want.


Menagerie 

A diverse or miscellaneous group.

1. The office is a menagerie of egotists and sycophants.
2. Isadora arrived with her menagerie of admirers.
3. The whole menagerie produced just a single litter.
4. Leverich also staged "The Glass Menagerie " here.


Inimitable

So good or unusual as to be impossible to copy; unique.
"They took the charts by storm with their inimitable style"
Incapable of being imitated or copied; surpassing imitation; matchless.
Very unusual or of very high quality and therefore impossible to copy: your own inimitable style/way 
He was describing, in his own inimitable style/way, how to write a best-selling novel.
He had an inimitable style that captured people's approval.


Salubrious

Health-giving; healthy
 The surroundings were not very salubrious.
2. He doesn't live in a very salubrious part of town.
Other employers have resorted to less salubrious solutions.
7. They live in a very salubrious area.
8. Kennington is a not particularly salubrious part of London.
9. Paper victories aside, the salubrious effect on humans was also recognized early on.
10. We had to move to a house in a less salubrious area.


Review
Surveil...         surveillance 
Equanimity .. calmness
Expedient .... action 
Exigent...... ...urgent 
Obdurate...    stubborn 
Recondite... incomprehensible 
Compendious... concise 
Egregious .... extremely bad
Adjure......urge,order.
Cavil....petty objections
Importune.. harras repeatedly
Fractious.. unruly
Obfuscate..make intentionally unclear
Asperity... harshness of tone
Cliche... overused phrase
Gauche...tactless
Disparate... opposites
Iterate...to repeat again
Riposte....a quick cleaver reply
Menagerie..a diverse or miscellaneous group
Inimitable..so good... impossible to copy.
Salubrious.. health-giving
Eclectic.... diverse
Facile...too easily
Capitulate...give in

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