excellent
/ˈɛk.sə.lənt/ adjective A1- Having excelled, having surpassed.
- Of higher or the highest quality; splendid.
- Exceptionally good of its kind. · Bill and Ted had an excellent adventure last week in preparation for their history exam.
- Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.
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The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree.
“Now as you are a new listener and can carry our words back to the Jungle-People so that they may notice us in future, we will tell you all about our most excellent selves.
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Rachel came, wandering at her own sweet will through the lush, tremulous grasses splashed with ruddy evening sunshine; so that good lady had an excellent chance to talk her illness fully over, describing every ache and pulse beat with such evident enjoyment that Marilla thought even grippe must bring its compensations.
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