wIn s@m adjective attractive or charming; winning. The little girl charmed the casting director with her winsome smile and genuinely sweet demeanor.
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charnel
char n@l noun a place for depositing human corpses or their bones. adjective of, suitable for, or suggesting a charnel.
vouchsafe
vaUch seIf [or] vauch seIf transitive verb to grant or give with condescension or as a special favor. At long last, the company president vouchsafed us fifteen minutes of his precious time…
abate
@ beIt intransitive verb to become less in amount, degree, or intensity; subside. The wind died down as the storm abated. Their anger abated after they received a good explanation. When the…
siege
sij noun 1. a military maneuver in which a fortification, such as a city or a fort, is surrounded, subjected to attack, and cut off from supplies or reinforcements in order to…