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    Tejashree Katdare

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    Updated: Oct 10, 2024
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    Expunge(v):

    Meaning: to cancel, remove

    Usage: All the allegations against him were expunged by the court, when he behaved properly for a year.

    Syn: discard, erase, obliterate

    Extant(adj):

    Meaning: still existing

    Usage: The earliest extant record of prehistoric man is still preserved in the museum.

    Syn: current, existent, immediate, subsisting
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  • Tejashree Katdare

    Member • Jul 20, 2010

    Glean(v):

    Meaning: to gather grain left behind by reapers, to gradually collect

    Usage: He combed the files and gleaned some useful information.

    Syn: accumulate, deduce, cull

    Gingerly(adj):

    Meaning: very cautious or careful

    Usage: I stepped over the broken pieces of glass gingerly.

    Syn: fastidiously, guardedly
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