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cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
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liveliness; briskness. |
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a trembling; vibration.
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a state of flustered excitement or fear.
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to act irresolutely; vacillate.
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North England. to tremble with excitement or fear. |
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unlucky; luckless; unfortunate. |
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dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite.
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worn out or wearied, as by overwork or overuse.
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dissipated: a jaded reprobate. |
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a sharp, often virulent satire directed against an individual or institution; a work of literature, art, or the like, ridiculing severely the character or behavior of a person, society, etc.
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to mock or ridicule in a lampoon: to lampoon important leaders in the government. |
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pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.
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showing warmth and friendliness; benign; pleasant: an affable smile. |
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to make more certain; confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
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Archaic. confirmed. |
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a written essay, treatise, or thesis, esp. one written by a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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any formal discourse in speech or writing. |
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former; of times past: erstwhile friends.
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a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
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a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.
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any gap or opening.
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Grammar, Prosody. the coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.
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Anatomy. a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure. |
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an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
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a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.
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(in ancient Greece) a person who received free meals in return for amusing or impudent conversation, flattering remarks, etc. |
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to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert.
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to turn aside; evade or dodge: to parry an embarrassing question.
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to parry a thrust, blow, etc.
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an act or instance of parrying, as in fencing.
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a defensive movement in fencing. |
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extremely beautiful or attractive; enchanting; entrancing. |
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in a low, soft voice so as not to be overheard. |
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a book, esp. a very heavy, large, or learned book.
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a volume forming a part of a larger work. |
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a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about. |
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a person who tries to influence legislation on behalf of a special interest; a member of a lobby. |
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–adjectiveAlso, prag·mat·i·cal (for defs. 1, 2, 5).
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of or pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
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Philosophy. of or pertaining to pragmatism (def. 2).
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of or pertaining to pragmatics (defs. 1, 2).
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treating historical phenomena with special reference to their causes, antecedent conditions, and results.
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of or pertaining to the affairs of state or community.
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busy; active.
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officious; meddlesome; interfering.
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dogmatic; opinionated.
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pragmatic sanction.
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to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
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the act of proffering.
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an offer or proposal. |
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–verb (used with object),-gat·ed, -gat·ing.
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to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
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to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.). |
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the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
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an original draft, minute, or record from which a document, esp. a treaty, is prepared.
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a supplementary international agreement.
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an agreement between states.
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an annex to a treaty giving data relating to it.
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Medicine/Medical. the plan for carrying out a scientific study or a patient's treatment regimen.
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Computers. a set of rules governing the format of messages that are exchanged between computers.
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Also called protocol statement, protocol sentence, protocol proposition. Philosophy. a statement reporting an observation or experience in the most fundamental terms without interpretation: sometimes taken as the basis of empirical verification, as of scientific laws.
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to draft or issue a protocol. |
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extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions. |
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