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Usage

• interlocutor

  An interlocutor is the person with whom you are having a (usually formal) conversation or discussion.

• gubernatorial

  A gubernatorial office is the position that a governor of a state holds.

• notorious

  A notorious person is well-known by the public at large; they are usually famous for doing something bad.

• pastoral

  A pastoral environment is rural, peaceful, simple, and natural.

• predecessor

  A predecessor comes before someone else in a job or is an ancestor of someone.

• progenitor

  A progenitor is someone's ancestor; they can also be the originator of something.

• authoritarian

  An authoritarian system, such as a government or military school, demands that people obey all orders without question.

• advertorial

  An advertorial is a long advertisement—usually appearing in a newspaper or magazine—that has the form and feel of a normal article or editorial but which is actually trying to sell something or push a point of view.

• authorize

  When one person authorizes another to do something, they are given official permission to do it.

• authority

  Authority is the power to command or having control over something or someone.

• narrator

  A narrator is a person who is telling a story, either in the real world or as a character in a book.

• ancestor

  An ancestor is someone who came before you in your family, such as your great-grandmother or great-grandfather.

• activator

  (biology) any agency bringing about activation

• administrator

  someone who administers a business

• auditor

  someone who listens attentively

• contractor

  someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things

• depositor

  a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution

• dictator

  a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine

• exterminator

  someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

• jailor

  someone who guards prisoners

• operator

  (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation

• proctor

  watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating)

• purveyor

  someone who supplies provisions (especially food)

• surveyor

  an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures

• orator

  a person who delivers a speech or oration