SENSE, SENSITIVE AND SENSIBLE
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Function
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Sense
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Any of the
faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and
animals perceive estimulity originating from outside or inside the body:
a)
My
sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
b)
Their
operation or function; Sensation
c)
A
feeling or perception produced through the organs of touch, taste, etc., or
resulting from a particular condition of some part of the body: to have a sense of cold.
d) A faculty or function of the mind analogous to
sensation: the moral sense.
e)
Any
special capacity for perception, estimation, appreciation, etc.: a sense of humor.
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Sensitive
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Is physical or
emotional.
If your emotions are
easily swayed, you are sensitive.
If your sense of touch
is very good, you are sensitive.
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Sensible
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Is mental. If you do things that
make sense, you are sensible.
I was sensible when I bought clothes. I didn't buy the designer
clothes because they were too expensive.
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EXAMPLES
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Sense
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U But
give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be
administered only 50 at a time.
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It may be fun and it may get them paid, until
oversaturation ruins our sense for
irony and destroys the market for it.
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Sensitive
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The
back of your hand is one of the most sensitive parts of your
body.
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The nurse was sensitive to her patient's needs.
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Sensible
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. He
was a sensible young man, choosing to stay indoors and study rather
than go out with his friends.
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She wore a plain cotton dress which showed her sensible in fashion.
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Exercises:
1.
Sticking to a ______diet plan ensures
that the weight will stay off.
2.
Children on drugs often leave clues, and _______ parents
will investigate when their suspicions are aroused.
3.
"The children I saw in
Yugoslavia appeared _______ and level-headed without the
buoyancy of childhood. Here were children I could understand."
4.
An extremely ________ person can
have a severe reaction to the small amount of milk protein in a candy bar.
5.
_________medical
equipment requires an uninterrupted supply of power.
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