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unconversant

adjective as in raw

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Like a lot of people, I stopped watching the show around season four, when bad things started happening to the protagonists – don’t mess with the formula, guys! – so when I sat down to watch the saga’s big-screen finale this week, I did so unconversant with the last five years’ worth of Vince’s vanity, E’s exasperation, Drama’s disgruntlement and Turtle’s total narrative irrelevance.

Unconversant as she was with the world, imbued with the timidity of her sex and her youth, many enterprises were arduous to her, which would, to age and experience, have been easy.

It will be seen what a difficult task the Secretary of the Navy had before him, and how unjust are many of the censures that were cast upon him, by persons unconversant with naval affairs.

Now to some minds unconversant with scientific research and knowledge, such a supposition may seem to be incredible, but that incredibility may disappear, when I say that the fact that the Aether is bound to the earth, and goes along through space with it, has actually been proved by some of the most delicate and successful experiments that have been made in recent times: experiments of which Lord Kelvin has stated that he can find no error or flaw in them.

It wasn't that I was unconversant with the physical evidence of death.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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