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Complete exhaustion
to enervate: Mental, physiological, emotional exhaustion
Tongue Lashing
to castigate: scolding someone out of irritation and questioning his honesty, ambition, fairness, even his ancestry
Altruistic
to self-abnegate: keeping others (say family) needs on priority than her own
Repetition
to recapitulate: to repeat some important point of lecture/ discussion so that others will remember it.
No joie de vivre
to vegetate: living or spending a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
Pretense
to Simulate: Pretending to be paying attention
Slight hint, no more
to intimate: no equivocal commitments, no clear-cut promises, only the slight and oblique mention of possibilities; hint
Helpful
to alleviate: Expresses the action of aspirini.e. doesn’t cure any disease but relieves the pain
When the bell tolls
to commiserate: vicarious sharing of sorrow with someone who directly suffers
When two men propose
to vacillate: Pendulum-like indecision
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