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Usage

• plenary

  A plenary session or meeting is attended by all members of an organization.

• ancillary

  When something is ancillary to something else, such as a workbook to a textbook, it supports it but is less important than that which it supports.

• tertiary

  Something or someone that is tertiary is third in rank.

• vagary

  A vagary is an unpredictable or unexpected change in action or behavior.

• pecuniary

  Pecuniary means relating to or concerning money.

• plenipotentiary

  A plenipotentiary is someone who has full power to take action or make decisions on behalf of their government in a foreign country.

• arbitrary

  If you describe a decision, rule, or plan as arbitrary, you think that it has been decided without any thought, principle, or system to guide it; therefore, it can seem unfair.

• sedentary

  Someone who has a sedentary habit, job, or lifestyle spends a lot of time sitting down without moving or exercising often.

• salutary

  A salutary experience can be unpleasant or difficult; nevertheless, it is useful for or of benefit to you because it strengthens your character.

• auxiliary

  An auxiliary device is one that acts in support of a main one, such as a backup generator that replaces power in case the main source of that power goes down.

• centenary

  A centenary period has lasted one hundred years.

• contrary

  If you have a contrary opinion or act in that fashion, you oppose or go against an existing opinion or fashion.

• culinary

  Someone who has excellent culinary skills is able to cook food very well.

• exemplary

  An exemplary person is one that sets an ideal or praiseworthy example for others to follow.

• fiduciary

  A fiduciary relationship arises when one individual has the trust and confidence of another, such as a financial client; subsequently, that trustworthy person is entrusted with the management or protection of the client's money.

• incendiary

  An incendiary device causes objects to catch on fire; incendiary comments can cause riots to flare up.

• rudimentary

  Rudimentary skills and knowledge are basic or simple things that are learned early on in life.

• contemporary

  A contemporary object exists at the same time as something else or exists at the current time.

• preliminary

  A preliminary action is one that comes before something else and that leads up to the main occurrence.

• legendary

  Someone or something that is legendary is well-known but also not real, such as a hero or monster from mythology.

• stationary

  When something is stationary, it is still, fixed, or not moving at all.

• customary

  A customary practice is the usual or established way of acting.

• solitary

  A solitary person is by themselves; they are all alone with no one else around.

• supernumerary

  A supernumerary amount of something is an extra or additional amount of it.

• primary

  The primary thing on a list of things to do is the most important thing, so it is at the top of the list or first.

• complimentary

  If you are complimentary towards someone, you say nice things to them, such as how intelligent they are or how beautiful they look.

• anniversary

  An anniversary is a yearly remembrance of something important that happened in a previous year, such as a wedding or birth.

• voluntary

  If a task or job is voluntary, you can choose whether or not you want to do it; it is a type of work for which you do not get paid.

• elementary

  An elementary part of something, such as a subject in school, is the most basic or among the very first things that you learn about it.