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Day1

Unconcerened/

Having no feelings/

careless

Deadpan

Impassive

Inured

Indifferent

Insensate

Insouciant

Stoic

Stolid

Wooden

Mechanical

Pachyderm

NonchalantPoker face

Apathetic

Tepid

Callous

Halfhearted

Insentient

Day2Weak/ Lack of strength

Asthenic

Debilitate

Enervate

Infirm

Invalid

Feeble

Frail

Fragile

FlaccidFlabby

Emasculate

Effeminate

Impotent

Impuissant

Meager

Mendicant

Senile

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Dotage

Dilapidated

Decrepitude

Crumbling

Ramshackle

Rickety

Decadent

Day3

Confused

Discombobulated

Perplexed

Confounded

Embroil

 Addled

Fuddle

Muddle

Baffled

Befuddled

Bemused

Bamboozled

Bewildered

Non-plussed

Discomfit

Disconcert

Obfuscate

FlummoxFaze

Fluster

Boggle

Day4

Too particular/Hate

approximation/ Difficult to please

Meticulous

Punctilious

Fastidious

Fussy

Finicky

Queasy

Picking

Stickler 

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Exacting

Hairsplitting

Persnickety

Niggling

Painstaking

Censorious

CaptiousQuibbler 

Carping

Day5

Harmful/Infecting

Bane

Baneful

Baleful

Nemesis

Deleterious

Detrimental

Nocuous

Nocent

Venomous

Virulent

Ominous

Perilous

Pestiferous

Pestilential

Pernicious

Parlous

Deadly

Malignant

Toxic

Lethal

Fatal

Caustic

Inimical

Maleficent

Day6

Difficult situation

1. Deadlock

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2. Standstill

3. Stalemate

4. Slough

5. Swamp

6. Predicament

7. Precarious

8. Precipice9. Peril (Also in Harmful category)

10. Plight

11. Impasse

12. Imbroglio

13. Dire

14. Mire

15. Quagmire

16. Quandary

17. Quicksand

18. Bog19. Morass

20. Jeopardy

21. catch-22

22. Cul-de-Sac

Day 7

To Cheat/ type of cheating

1. Fraud

2. Deceive

3. Deceit

4. Dissimulation

5. Gull

6. Guile

7. Beguile

8. Cozen,Scam,Wily,Crafty

9. Mulct

10. Hoodwink

11. Swindle12. Bilk

13. Dupe

14. Chicanery

15. Deception

16. Artifice

17. Stratagem(Ploy/Gambit)

18. Ruse

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19. Subterfuge

20. Hornswoggle

21. Diddle

22. Bunco

23. Flim-Flam

24. Fob

25. Hose

26. Gimmick

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Definition

expressionless

without emotion

tough

unconcerned

no feeling

carefree

A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing

 their feelings or complaining

calm / dependable

large mammal with thick skin

feeling relaxed An impassive expression that hides one's true feelings

Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern

Only slightly warm; lukewarm

Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

Incapable of feeling or understanding things

Definition

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DefinitionSomething, typically poison, that causes death.

exceedingly harmful.

which has a harmful effect

the inescapable

causing harm or damage

Tending to cause harm.

Noxious, harmful, or poisonous.

having a tendency to cause harm.

poisonous/harmful

Extremely severe or harmful

Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen

full of danger or risk

bringing or bearing diseases

Harmful or destructive to crops or livestock.

having a harmful effect

Full of danger or uncertainty

this to u know

infectious

this to u know

Sufficient to cause death.

Causing death/deadly

capableofburning,corroding,ordestroyinglivingtissueunfavourable/harmful

harmful or evil in intent or effect.

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unpleasent situation

 dangerously likely to fall or collapse.

 A very steep rock face or cliff,serious / immediate danger

dangerous situation

situation where no progress is possible

extremly confused/complicated situation

extremely serious/urgent

 A stretch of swampy or boggy ground / muddy

 An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation

 A difficult situation; a practical dilemma

Loose wet sand that yields easily to pressure and sucks in anything

wet muddy ground An area of muddy or boggy ground.

Danger of loss, harm, or failure.

 A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain

 A dead-end street

Definition

to make someone believe something which is not true A dishonest act or statement.

the act of deceiving

 A person who is fooled or deceived.

Sly or cunning intelligence. (Chaalaaki)

charm or enchant someone in deceiptive way/ Trick

trick/fraud/Skilled at gaining an advantage/Clever at achieving one's

 aims by indirect or deceitful methods.

Extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation / penelty

Deceive / trick

a fraudlent schemecheat or defraud

Deceive / trick

The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose.

action of deceiving someone / chutiya kaatna

tricky, guile, craftiness

a plan / scheme to outwit(defeat) someone

 An action intended to deceive someone; a trick:

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Deceit used in order to achieve one's goal

Get the better of (someone) by cheating or deception.

Cheat or swindle (someone) so as to deprive them of something

swindle / cheat

deceive somebody; / chutiya kaatna

Deceitfully attempt to satisfy someone by making excuses / goli dena

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Sentence

 The man's face was deadpan, he showed no emotion at all.

His face is impassive

Twenty years in the salt mines inured the man to the discomforts of dirt and grime.indifferent to foreign affairs

The blow on the back of Oscar's head rendered him insensate

Sarah had a very 'insouciant' attitude toward her failed math exam

Even though the Titanic was sinking underneath them, and the passengers were frantic with fear,

the band remainedstoic until the end.

Dravid has a stolid personality

a dull wooden sound

Elephant is a pachyderm

 Although I get nervous, some people are nonchalant about giving speeches.He can tell a funny story with a poker face

 He was apathetic towards his parents because of the gifts he received on his birthday

tepid applause

callous disregard for innocent lives.

“Now it bound him with insentient fetters, walling his soul in darkness and silence,

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SentenceAlcoholism was his bane. Bane means worst problem.

Karen's baneful remark about Christine's hair ruined the rest of her day.

he shot a baleful glance in her direction

one risks nemesis by uttering such words

Pollution has adeleteriouseffect on the environment

Smoking is adetriment to one's health."

Poorly tuned engines can put out up to 800 times thenocuousemissions of properly maintained ones

After the tornado, a band of hungry, homeless, nocent rodents overran what was left of the neighborhood's cellar

she replied with a venomous glance".

"the man had a virulent snake

As I I approached the volcano, I could hear itsominous rumblings

'We passed through theperilous forest of death and misery

He tried to import severalpestiferous beetle into the country

Thepestilential spray killed the bugs right away

The storm was verypernicious (Destructive) in strength.

"the parlous state of the economy

The tumor wasmalignant, therefore the patient needed more serious treatment

She was fatally injured due to alethal stab to the chest"

The injury provedfatal and he died the next day.

Hercaustic reply really hurt my feelings and my reputationThe inimical police officer writes the guy a ticket / The inimical boy at school acts like a bully.

She was amaleficent fairy, full of evil and deceit.

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 I knew I was in a predicament when my father walked in on me fondling my blowup doll. ..

the plight of poor children

the current political impasse

the Watergate imbroglio".

 I had a dire weekend, because of that stupid dog!

The boy was having trouble walking through the mire because the ground was wet

"a legal quagmire

Jim is in a quandary

I accidently stepped into the quicksand

 After the bad storm, the roads were a bog.Behind the house the ground was morass, so it was hard to walk through

 Any risk of double jeopardy  is excluded in either caseTrying to find work when you're young is a catch-22

We had less traffic living on the cul-de-sac, but trouble getting in and out when the street was b

Sentence

In order to deceive a buyer, a used-car seller sometimes turns back the mileage counter on theHe may use deceit to reach his goal

The pig cannot dissimulate because it cannot lie.

 Although physically smaller, the fighter used his experience and guile to win a victory.

a beguiling smile

"He cozened the money out of the old man./ Fox is a wily creature.

There are companies of them, who guarantee to cure anything, and skilfully mulct the sick of the

We will hoodwink her out of all her money, then we will throw her away like a snotty Kleenex

You should be careful. This company will swindle you out of your moneyThe realtor tried to bilk the homeowner out of his deposit."

The salesman duped the customer into buying the shirt for seven times what it was worth.

I would never trust anyone who used such chicanery to fool the whole town into doing his will.

  And with that last lie, his deception was complete

 It was an artifice designed of the idea of the trojan horsetried various stratagems  to get the cat into the carrier, but the feisty feline was wise to them all

Eleanor tried to think of a ruse to get Paul out of the house".

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When her subterfuge was uncovered, her partners removed her from the pannel

The boy sitting next to me in math class tried to hornswoggle by looking at my answers on my test!

On the contrary, everyone diddles, cheats, and frustrates everyone else,

We flim flammed the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week".

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car 

ir last penny.