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Cautionary
adj. Offering or serving as a warning.
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Constrain
- v. To confine, inhibit, or hold back by force or necessity.
- contraint n. a restriction or limitation.
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Flotilla
n. a fleet of small boats or ships
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Gossamer
- n. A thin sheer fabric resembling gauze.
- adj. As light and delicate as a cobwebb
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Ignominious
adj. Marked by, deserving, or causing shame or disgrace
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Incur
v. To bring apon one's self something undesirable, such as debt.
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Liquidate
v. to settle the affairs of business; to convert into cash
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Magnate
n. an important, often wealthy, person prominent in a large industry or business
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Misnomer
n. a name that dose not fit
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Onerous
adj. burdensome; oppressive
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Pandemonium
n. a state or place of great confusion or uproar
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Quixotic
adj. Romantic and idealistic, but impractical
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Tenacious
adj. Holding fast; presistent in adhering to something valued or habitual.
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Vestige
n. A trace of something that was once present
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Zephyr
n. A light gentle brezze
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