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Adjure (Verb): Meaning: Formal exertion on someone to do something. Sentence: The doctor adjured his patient to concur for heart surgery. Badinage (Noun): Meaning: Witty conversation. Sentence: We had badinage last night. Carp (Verb): Meaning: Complaint continually. Sentence: Our neighbors keep carping about poor facilities in our county. Dogmatic (Adjective): Meaning: Thrusting one’s opinion or beliefs while reluctant to accept those of others. Sentence: The leader seems quite dogmatic. Effete (Adjective): Meaning: No longer effective. Sentence: The chamber is currently exhausted. Fulminate (Noun): Meaning: Protest strongly against something. Sentence: There is always some fulmination to new rules. Gofer (Noun): Meaning: Person who runs errands. Sentence: I am hunting for a gofer. Hark (Verb): Meaning: Remind something from the past. Sentence: She was harking back to childhood upon seeing her school. Ineffable (Adjective): Meaning: Too sacred to be spoken. Sentence: Sculptures of temple deities are impossible to be described in words. Jink (Verb): Meaning: Sudden quick change of direction. Sentence: The pilot jinked the plane for an emergency landing.