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Usage

• intransigent

  An intransigent person is stubborn; thus, they refuse to change their ideas or behavior, often in a way that seems unreasonable.

• prodigal

  Someone who behaves in a prodigal way spends a lot of money and/or time carelessly and wastefully with no concern for the future.

• ambiguous

  If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in multiple ways.

• mitigate

  If you mitigate something that causes harm, you reduce the harmful or painful effects of it.

• castigate

  When you castigate someone, you criticize or punish them severely.

• exiguous

  An exiguous amount of something is meager, small, or limited in nature.

• litigate

  When you litigate, you go before a court in order to bring forth a lawsuit or voice another serious concern you have.

• allege

  When you allege that someone has done something, you say or claim that they have done it without showing any proof.

• navigate

  When you navigate, you find your way from one place to another.

• ambiguity

  an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

• castigation

  a severe scolding

• exigency

  a pressing or urgent situation

• intransigence

  the trait of being intransigent

• litigation

  a legal proceeding in a court

• navigator

  the ship's officer in charge of navigation

• prodigality

  the trait of spending extravagantly

• unmitigated

  not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity