
Description of horrendous (adjective: more horrendous; most horrendous; less horrendous; least horrendous) horrible; dreadful
Samples of horrendous Popping a tire out in the middle of nowhere is often a horrendous experience.
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Description of agile (adjective: agile; agiler; agilest) nimble; able to move in a quick and easy way
Samples of agile Children are usually more agile than adults.
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Description of abhorrence (noun: no plural) horror; disgust
Samples of abhorrence It was strange, but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence; far better that than bring a child into the world that wasn't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption.
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Description of slack (adjective: slack; more slack; most slack; less slack; least slack) not busy; loose
Samples of slack There was slack time every Monday; so he knew Monday would be an easy day at work. The public spectacle of culture, the adoption of culture by the media, the standardization of culture, the cultural discourse, cultural self-satisfaction, a slack cultural conformism, the recuperation of culture never has so much apparently been done for culture, never have the results (another word that deserves some elaboration) been so disappointing.
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Description of detract (verb: detracted; detracting; detracts) to take away from
Samples of detract Bad make-up will detract from a woman's beauty. There are plenty of occasions when the High Court exercises a supervisory jurisdiction over tribunals or bodies whose procedures allow for a more relaxed approach to the rules of evidence, but this does not detract from the fact that the High Court is performing the functions of the High Court when it exercises this jurisdiction.
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Description of mobile (adjective: mobile; more mobile; most mobile; less mobile; least mobile) having the ability to move; portable
Samples of mobile The mobile camper allowed them to comfortably enjoy the outdoors.
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Description of coherent (adjective: more coherent; most coherent; less coherent; least coherent) clearly holding together
Samples of coherent Despite the fact she had much to drink she was still able to speak in a coherent manner. Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain: local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests -- the police, the business community, voluntary groups, and so on, into a coherent administrative whole.
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Description of efface (verb: effaced; effacing; effaces) to blot out; to erase; to remove
Samples of efface The official decided to efface the evidence.
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Description of haggard (adjective: more haggard; most haggard; less haggard; least haggard) worn-looking; faded; exhausted
Samples of haggard After staying up all night; the college student looked quite haggard.
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Description of pragmatic (adjective: pragmatic; more pragmatic; most pragmatic; less pragmatic; least pragmatic) realistic; practical
Samples of pragmatic The woman looked only for pragmatic solutions that gained her respect from her colleagues. Successive generations of politicians, civil servants, judges and philosophers reared on a meagre intellectual diet of pragmatic utilitarianism and positivism had firmly rejected these ideas as a basis for ensuring constitutional government and citizens' rights.
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