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• vague: /veɪɡ/ not clearly expressed, known, described, or decided:

  eg: I do have a vague memory of meeting her many years ago.
• contemptuous: /kənˈtemp.tʃu.əs/ expressing or feeling a lack of respect:

  eg: As one of the senior members of the Senate, he was openly contemptuous of its junior members.
• consolation:  /ˌkɒn.səˈleɪ.ʃən/ something that makes someone who is sad or disappointed feel better:

  His visit home was some consolation to his mother.
• take down: to write something that another person has just said:

  He took down my address and phone number and said he'd call me.
• exterminate


  to kill all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type:

  Once cockroaches get into a building, it's very difficult to exterminate them.