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Usage

• caricature

  A caricature of someone is an exaggerated drawing or description that is designed to make that person look silly.

• stricture

  A stricture is a rule or condition that imposes restrictions or limits on what you can do.

• censure

  Censure is written or verbal disapproval and harsh criticism of something that someone has done.

• conjecture

  A conjecture is a theory or guess that is based on information that is not certain or complete.

• fissure

  A fissure is a narrow and long crack or opening, usually in a rock face.

• nurture

  When you nurture someone, you feed and take care of them.

• stature

  A person's stature in society is their social standing; this level of importance is determined by their position in life or their character.

• composure

  When someone exhibits composure, they remain calm—even in difficult times or conditions.

• nomenclature

  Nomenclature is a specialized form of vocabulary that classifies or organizes things in the sciences or the arts into a clear and usable system.

• leisure

  When you are at leisure, you are not working; rather, you have free time that you can use to do what you wish.

• embouchure

  The word embouchure refers to how the lips and tongue are placed on a wind instrument or to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument.

• prefigure

  When something prefigures a future occurrence, it foreshadows, hints at, or suggests that it may very well happen.

• adventurous

  An adventurous person loves trying new things or taking risks to make their life more exciting.

• natural

  Something that happens in a natural way is the usual or normal way that it occurs.

• fracture

  A fracture is a break or crack, such as of or in a bone.

• manufacture

  When workers manufacture things, they make a lot of them, usually with the help of machines.

• procedure

  A procedure is a way of doing something or the steps taken to complete something.

• feature

  A feature of something is a part of it.

• capture

  When you capture something, you take it so that you have it.

• structure

  The structure of something is how the parts that make it up are put together; it can also be the thing, such as a building, that those parts make.

• culture

  A culture is the beliefs, practices, behavior, and art of a group of people at a time in history.

• acupuncture

  treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin

• aperture

  a device that controls amount of light admitted

• closure

  terminate debate by calling for a vote

• creature

  a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• exposure

  vulnerability to the elements

• failure

  an act that fails

• gesture

  show, express or direct through movement

• lecture

  deliver a lecture or talk

• nature

  the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

• picture

  imagine

• pressure

  to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"

• rupture

  separate or cause to separate abruptly

• venture

  proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers