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• (impregnate) – to make pregnant; get with child or young, ( /<br />

); The end of religious observance is the love of God, but the<br />

love of God requires more than feeling; it must impregnatelife. — Philo-<br />

Judaeus of Alexandria;<br />

• (saturate)- soak thoroughly, ( ; ); Perhaps a<br />

continuous set of such false targets would saturate the seeker. — The Sum of<br />

all Fears;<br />

fruition > fruit ~ upshot = consequence = result = aftermath = corollary :<br />

phenomena : incidence<br />

• (fruition)- the condition of bearing fruit;<br />

• attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment, ( ,<br />

, ); Here was her fruition, the period of her supremacy. —<br />

Within the Law;<br />

• (upshot)- the final result; the outcome; he could find no way out, and<br />

the upshot was a public auction sale of the farm effects and the household<br />

furniture. — Lloyd George The Man and His Story;<br />

• (aftermath)- a consequence, especially of a disaster or misfortune; It is a<br />

kind of aftermath, in which the historian gathers up scattered records, but<br />

does not preserve the dramatic character of the history. — Josephus;<br />

• (corollary)- an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion, (<br />

; ); Its corollary is the right of<br />

revolution. — Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham;<br />

perennial^ biennial<br />

• (perennial)- lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring, ( ,<br />

, ); Tea-plants are perennial, and are set about four feet<br />

apart on hillsides. — East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan;<br />

• (biennial)- happening every two years, ( ); The<br />

life cycle of a biennial weed requires two years to complete;<br />

• lasting or enduring for two years,( );<br />

arboretum # menagerie<br />

• (arboretum)- a plot of land on which many different trees or shrubs are<br />

grown for study or display; As a teacher, she believed that the arboretum was<br />

the perfect spot to observe and enjoy native plant life;<br />

• (menagerie)- a collection of wild or unusual animals, esp. for exhibition;<br />

His beasts were a most comic menagerie, and right fruitful of laughter. —<br />

The Princess and Curdie;<br />

exude = transude = transpire ~ seep = ooze

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