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10. EYE-POPPING

adjective • Visually astonishing, stunning, incredible.

11. INANIMATE

• adj 1: (linguistics) belonging to the class of nouns denoting nonliving things; "the word car  is inanimate" ant: {animate} 
• 2: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" syn: {nonliving}, {dead} ant: {animate} 
• 3: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" syn: {breathless}, {pulseless}

12. INGRAIN

• v 1: thoroughly work in; "His hands were grained with dirt" syn: {grain} 
• 2: make a deep and indelible impression on someone syn: {impress}, {instill}

13. SNATCH

pronunciation

verb (snatches, snatching; past and past participle snatched)
• To grasp quickly.
• To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
• To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
to snatch a kiss

• To grasp and remove quickly.
• To steal.
• (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
• To do something quickly due to limited time available.

14. ENDOW
• v 1: give qualities or abilities to syn: {indue}, {gift}, {empower}, {invest}, {endue} 
• 2: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered" syn: {dower}

15. REFECTORY
noun (plural refectories)
• A dining-hall especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.

16. DISRUPT
• v 1: make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" syn: {interrupt}, {break up}, {cut off} 
• 2: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process" 

• 3: interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't disrupt  me while I'm on the phone" syn: {interrupt}
17. SWAMP
• n 1: low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog 
• 2: a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables; "he was trapped in a medical swamp" 
• v 1: drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor." syn: {drench} 
• 2: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" syn: {deluge}, {flood}, {inundate}

18. TAME

adjective (comparative tameer, superlative tameest)
• Not or no longer wild; domesticated
They have a tame wildcat.
• (chiefly) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
The lion was quite tame.

• Not exciting
This party is too tame for me.
For a thriller, that film was really tame.

• Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
• (mathematics) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

synonyms
• (not exciting) dull, insipid

antonyms
• (not wild) wild
• (mild and well-behaved) gentle
• (not exciting) exciting
• (mathematics) wild

verb (tames, taming; past and past participle tamed)
• (transitive) to make something tame
He tamed the wild horse.

• (intransitive) to become tame

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