English #10

1. Inevitable : unavoidable

Eg: We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.

2. Winnow : to get rid of the unwanted or undesirable part

Eg: A discerning publishing agent can winnow promising material from a mass of submissions, separating the good from the bad.

3. vicariously : to experience it through imaginative participation in the actual experience of someone else.

Eg: Ramona had never visited Niagara Falls, but she could appreciate their splendor vicariously through the descriptions of others

4. Adversarial :attitude of the team members would suggest that working together would be quite difficult

Eg: Members of the research team were initially so adversarial that coopertion seemed impossible

5.Heretical : too divergent or growing further apart

Eg: Joshua's radical ideas were frowned on by most of his co workers, who found them too heretical for their conservative tastes. 

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