English Vocab: Abridge-Verbose
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lucrative
adj. profitable; producing money or wealth
supercilious
adj. showing scorn and haughtiness; disdainful; aloof or conceited
garrulous
adj. talking too much, especially about unimportant things
impromptu
adj. without previous thought or preparation; spontaneous
verbose
adj. wordy; using or containing more words than necessary
emendation
n. a correction; a change in a written text
shrew
n. a mouselike animal that eats insects; a bad-tempered, nagging woman
finality
n. the quality or condition of being complete or settled; conclusiveness
invoke
v. to call upon a higher power for assistance; to ask or appeal for; to call forth
abridge
v. to shorten the number of words; to condense
