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genuine
  1. 1 genuine, real, authentic, standard, orthodox
  2. 2 full-scale, full-blown, all-out, full-fledged, fully fledged, full, proper, real, earnest, serious
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • It began to rain in earnest.

    sense 2 · full-scale

  • It's three years since I had a real vacation.

    sense 2 · full-scale

  • The superpowers negotiated in earnest for the settlement of the intense conflict.

    sense 2 · full-scale

  • Oh, sure, I studied English in my school days. But it wasn't until two or three years ago that I really started taking it seriously.

    sense 2 · full-scale

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