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Replete

Adjective
Meaning

• Abundantly supplied or provided; filled
• Stuffed or gorged with food and drink.

Castigate

Verb
Meaning

• To criticize or reprimand severely.
• To punish in order to correct.

Extole

Verb
Meaning

• To praise highly; laud; eulogize.
• To subject (a drug) to an analysis for the determination of its potency or composition.

Frail

Adjective
Meaning

• Having delicate health; not robust; weak
• Easily broken or destroyed; fragile.
• Morally weak; easily tempted.

Importunate

Adjective
Meaning

• Urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
• Pertinacious, as solicitations or demands.
• Troublesome; annoying:

Lurk

Verb
Meaning

• To lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively.
• To go furtively; slink; steal.
• To exist unperceived or unsuspected.