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  1. Mesmerizing
  1. Adj
  2. Very attractive, making you want to keep looking at it.
  3. (a) Erelle said that she thought it could be quite mesmerizing for a young vulnerable girl and easy to fall into.
      (b) His hand was exquisitely gentle against her temple, and his light eyes       
were mesmerizing. 

(4) Ariel is a mesmerizing girl, especially when she is cooking.


2.  Quell
  1. Verb
2. To stop something, especially by using force.
3. (a) She clutches at her rib cage as if she can quell the cramp by containing it
     (b)Johnson's efforts to engage protesters to quell tensions have worked to an extent.
4. The authorities failed to quell the violence.


3.  Far-fetched
  1. Adj
  2. Very unlikely to be true, and difficult to believe.
  3. (a) I thought this sounded far-fetched on just about every possible level.
      (b) Is it too far-fetched to see the fall of the Berlin Wall as an analogy?

(4) His story about being chased away from school by aliens seems pretty far-fetched.

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