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- keenly distressing to the feelings.
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- [poin-yuh[image]nt]
- The poignant cooking smells forced the chefs out of the kitchen.
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- moving to and fro rapidly
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- [vahy-bruh[image]nt]
- Ray Charles was not known to have a vibrant personality.
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- characterized by lack of seriousness or sense
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- [friv-uh-luh[image]s]
- The punishment for the frivolous football players was 100 sprints.
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- affected with vertigo
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- [gid-ee]
- The giddy baby forced the mom to raise her voice towards him.
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- expressive of or appealing to sentiment, especially thetender emotions and feelings, as love, or pity
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- [sen-tuh-men-tl]
- We kept the oldphotograph for purely sentimental reasons.
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