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Usage

• minuscule

  Something minuscule is extremely small in size or amount.

• recapitulate

  When someone recapitulates, they summarize material or content of some kind by repeating the most important points.

• gesticulate

  When someone gesticulates, they make movements with their hands and arms when talking, usually because they want to emphasize something or are having difficulty in expressing an idea using words alone.

• undulate

  Something that undulates moves or is shaped like waves with gentle curves that smoothly rise and fall.

• crepuscular

  If something is crepuscular, it is dim, indistinct, and not easily visible; this word usually refers to twilight.

• capitulate

  When you capitulate, you accept or agree to do something after having resisted doing so for a long time.

• formulate

  When you formulate a plan of action, you carefully work it out or design it in great detail ahead of time.

• granule

  A granule is a small particle or tiny grain of something.

• calculate

  When you calculate something, you find an answer to it by using math.

• formula

  A formula is a method or plan used to solve a problem or help something succeed.

• particular

  A particular thing is one thing you pick out from many other things.

• Dracula

  a cruel, purportedly Transylvanian ruler aka Vlad the Impaler

• calculus

  a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts

• circulation

  the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines)

• encapsulation

  the condition of being enclosed (as in a capsule)

• homunculus

  a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal

• matriculate

  enroll as a student

• ovulation

  the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle)

• pendulous

  having branches or flower heads that bend downward

• tuberculosis

  infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)