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| : to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring; also : to gain especially by ingenuity or compelling argument |
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: a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome
a : a person of high birth : aristocrat
b : a person of breeding and cultivation |
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| : marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame : dishonorable
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: deserving of shame or infamy : despicable
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: humiliating, degrading |
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| : a word or word group functioning as a noun |
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: the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument
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b : a wrong name or inappropriate designation |
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a : an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor
b : anything derived from one's father or ancestors : |
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| : a system under which an authority undertakes to supply needs or regulate conduct of those under its control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relations to authority and to each other |
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| : to withdraw (oneself) from residence in or allegiance to one's native country |
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: name, designation
: the act or process or an instance of naming |
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| the removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body |
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| a lover or connoisseur of wine |
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| : deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (as air) into another (as glass) in which its velocity is different |
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| a 100th anniversary or its celebration |
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| the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
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| : a substance or agent causing cancer |
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| well-suited to the medium of television; especially : having an appearance and manner that are markedly attractive to television viewers |
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| : one who serves in a certain function |
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| any of the four values that divide the items of a frequency distribution into five classes with each containing one fifth of the total population; also : any one of the five classes |
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