You are a magician on a stage.
The audience cadges you.
You have a clothespin, a string and a pen.
How do you escape and appear behind the audience?
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You simply walk behind them. You are not in a cage or caged. Cadge means to beg or get something by begging. The audience was begging you.
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We go to a Mexican restaurant.
I offer you some cajole, a taco and ketchup.
Why do you get mad and leave?
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Cajole means to use flattery or deceit to persuade someone to do something. You are mad because I am only being nice to trick you.
It is pronounced: <ka-jol>
Not ... as you may have guessed: <ka-jol-lee>
You ask me to disencumber you from your cucumber.
What do I do with it.
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I eat it for you. Disencumber means free from encumbrance...
... so I release you from the obligation of having to eat it.
Disencumber
v. t. To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs.
To unburden.
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I am adamant that Adam Ant is best known as a classic cartoon.
You tell me the name is best known as a singer.
Am I so confused that you changed my mind?
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No. Adamant means to be inflexible. Like stone in your beliefs.
so... You cannot change my mind.
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You have on a wonderful diamond necklace and an elegant broach.
You are wearing a blue shirt.
Why do people only compliment your necklace, but not the other?
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Broach means to bring up an announce to begin talking about something.
So... they can't see it.
Were you thinking about a brooch? - Which is an elegant piece of pinned jewelry?
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Why does someone baleful cause you to wail full?
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Baleful means harmful or ominous. Creating and causing evil
I tell you "Your bedizen jewelry is so gorgeous! Just dazzling!"
Why don't you thank me?
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Bedizen means:
To adorn in a cheap and showy manner- such as costume jewelry.
I am calling your jewelry cheap or fake.
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Amortize
End a debt by setting aside money
No more ties when you no longer amortize.
1. To pay off a mortgage by installment payments
2. To write off an expenditure for office equipment by prorating over a period of time.
3. In computer science, amortized analysis is a method of analyzing algorithms that considers the entire sequence of operations of the program.
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Gainsay
<gane-say>
To contradict; to deny; to controvert; to dispute; to forbid.
Gainsay the need to water your lawn on a day that it is raining.
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Equanimity
<ek-kwa-nim-et-tee>
Calmness of temperament
n. Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as to bear misfortunes with equanimity.
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