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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 p...