Vocabulary: indulge and persist

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threatened

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to dampen the

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spirit now let's go through some of the

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advanced English vocabulary you have

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just read in this

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story indulged or too

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indulge means to allow yourself or

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oneself to enjoy or partake in something

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pleasurable often to

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excess for example you can indulge in a

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big slice of

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cake persist to persist is to continue

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or endure despite challenges obstacles

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or

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difficulties he kept persisting and he

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finally got the job he

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wanted

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profound if something is profound it has

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great depth significance or intellectual

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intensity his ideas were very

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profound quaint we use this word a lot

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in our stories and it means attractively

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unusual Charming old-fashioned or having

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a unique picturesque quality for example

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the Tiny Village was very quaint

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a

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Relentless if something is Relentless it

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is unyielding