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| a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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| the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
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| uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. |
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| a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical |
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| a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation |
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| a temporary departure from a main theme or topic, esp. a parenthetical comment or remark; short digression |
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| a comment made by the author |
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| a word used in construction with and preceding certain forms of other verbs, as infinitives or participles, to express distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, etc |
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| a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.” |
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