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Elaborate

Definitions:

1. Adjective: Involving many carefully arranged details; detailed and complicated.
2. Verb: Develop or present a theory, policy, or system in detail.
3. Verb: Add more information to an existing idea or statement; clarify or explain further.

Sample Sentences:

1. The artist created an elaborate painting with intricate details.
2. The professor asked the student to elaborate on their research findings during the presentation.
3. She elaborated her argument by providing additional evidence.

Glib

Definitions:

1. Adjective: Fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow.
2. Adjective: (of words or a speaker) Thoughtlessly smooth and easy, but often insincere or shallow.

Sample Sentences:

1. His glib response failed to address the seriousness of the situation.
2. The politician's glib promises did not convince the audience.

Story

Definitions:

1. Noun: A narrative, either true or fictitious, told in prose or verse, that is designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader.
2. Noun: A report or account of a matter.
3. Noun: A lie or fabrication.
4. Verb: To tell or relate (a story).

Sample Sentences:

1. She enjoyed listening to her grandfather's bedtime stories when she was a child.
2. The newspaper published a story about the recent political scandal.
3. His explanation was just a made-up story to avoid getting into trouble.
4. He liked to story his adventures from the trip to his friends.