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1. Shamefaced or guilty.
2. Downcast; intimidated.
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A sneaky or despicable person.
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downcast, furtive, or guilty in appearance or manner
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| to deny, dispute, or contradict. 2. to speak or act against; oppose. |
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| meaning to practice or hone skills, particularly musical skills |
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acrid /"akrId/
· adj. unpleasantly bitter or pungent.
– DERIVATIVES acridity n. acridly adv.
– ORIGIN C18: formed irregularly from L. acer, acri- ‘sharp, pungent’ + -id1; prob. influenced by acid. |
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acrimony /"akrIm@ni/
· n. bitterness or ill feeling.
– DERIVATIVES acrimonious adj. acrimoniously adv.
– ORIGIN C16 (in the sense ‘bitter taste or smell’): from Fr. acrimonie or L. acrimonia, from acer, acri- ‘pungent, acrid’. |
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| Causing annoyance, weariness, or vexation; tedious |
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· adv. & adj.
1 associated with a particular person.
2 (of an argument) personal rather than objective.
– ORIGIN L., lit. ‘to the person’. |
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| a sort of monocle held to one's eye with a long handle |
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| a candidate seeking admission into a religious order |
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· adj. artificial; contrived.
– DERIVATIVES factitiously adv. factitiousness n.
– ORIGIN C17 (in the sense ‘made by human skill’): from L. facticius ‘made by art’. |
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· adj. poetic/literary sooty; dusky.
– ORIGIN C16 (orig. describing a vapour as ‘thick and noxious’): from late L. fuliginosus, from fuligo, fuligin- ‘soot’. |
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| · n. Brit. informal something done badly or inefficiently. |
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prithee /"prIDi;/
· exclam. archaic please.
– ORIGIN C16: abbrev. of I pray thee. |
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· n. a female spirit or nymph imagined as inhabiting water.
– ORIGIN C19: from mod. L. undina (a word invented by the C16 Swiss physician Paracelsus), from L. unda ‘a wave’. |
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| the very pink of propriety |
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| most discreet, proper etiquette |
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| Marked by an elegant or exclusive manner or quality: a tony country club. |
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freshet /"frESIt/
· n. the flood of a river from heavy rain or melted snow. Ø a rush of fresh water flowing into the sea.
A flood resulting from heavy rain or a spring thaw. Whereas heavy rain often causes a flash flood, a spring thaw event is generally a more incremental process, depending upon local climate and topography. |
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fain archaic
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1 pleased or willing under the circumstances.
2 obliged.
· adv. gladly.
– ORIGIN OE fægen ‘happy’, of Gmc origin; rel. to fawn2. |
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auberge /@U"bE;Z, French obE1Z/
· n. an inn in French-speaking countries.
– ORIGIN Fr., from Provençal alberga ‘lodging’. |
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diligence2 /"dIlIdZ(@)ns/
· n. historical a public stagecoach.
– ORIGIN C17: from Fr., shortened from carrosse de diligence ‘coach of speed’. |
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ibid. /"IbId/
· adv. in the same source (referring to a previously cited work).
– ORIGIN abbrev. of L. ibidem ‘in the same place’. |
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modality
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1 modal quality.
2 a method or procedure.
3 a form of sensory perception. |
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1 a : deductive b : relating to or derived by reasoning from self-evident propositions — compare a posteriori c : presupposed by experience
2 a : being without examination or analysis : presumptive b : formed or conceived beforehand
A priori - An a priori truth is one that can be arrived at without any observations of the world. A priori reasoning looks only to logical connections between ideas. For example, the fact that all bachelors are unmarried is an a priori truth. In order to determine that this claim is correct you do not need to go out into the world and survey all bachelors. Rather, so long as you understand the meaning of the words involved, you know that the claim is true. Many philosophers believe that all a priori truths are tautologies like "all bachelors are unmarried." Though the term was not yet in use during Descartes' lifetime, Descartes would be an example of a philosopher who believed that a priori reasoning could produce substantive claims about the way the world is. |
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1 : inductive
2 : relating to or derived by reasoning from observed facts — compare a priori
A posteriori - An a posteriori truth is a truth that is arrived at by observing the world. An a posteriori fact is arrived at through a posteriori reasoning (reasoning that involves facts observed in the world). For example, the fact that John has blonde hair would be an a posteriori truth, based on a posteriori reasoning. The fact that heat is molecular motion would be another such fact. Many philosophers claim that all substantive facts about the world are a posteriori. |
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| 2. (intr; foll by with) to agree (with); correspond (to) |
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1 : olla podrida 1
2 a : a miscellaneous mixture : hodgepodge b : a miscellaneous collection (as of literary or musical selections)
olla podrida
Etymology: Spanish, literally, rotten pot
Date: 1599
1 : a rich highly seasoned stew of meat and vegetables usually including sausage and chick-peas that is slowly simmered and is a traditional Spanish and Latin-American dish
2 : hodgepodge |
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| a tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere. |
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| Surface decoration applied to plates, bridges, and rotors comprising an even pattern of partially overlapping dots, applied with a quickly rotating plastic or wooden peg |
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| clear off-white to yellowish, usually nephrite jade. Nephrite and jadeite jade ranges in color from a somewhat greasy-appearing, white ("mutton fat jade") to dark and light shades of green, gray, blue-green, lavender, yellow, orange, brown, reddish-brown, and black. An important dark green variety of nephrite is sometimes known as "spinach jade". The chromophore in all nephrite jades is usually Fe. Nephrite jade is usually opaque to translucent in thinner pieces. |
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Synecdoche is closely related to metonymy (the figure of speech in which a term denoting one thing is used to refer to a related thing); indeed, synecdoche is sometimes considered a subclass of metonymy. It is more distantly related to other figures of speech, such as metaphor.
More rigorously, metonymy and synecdoche may be considered as sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII). In Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms,[2] the three terms have somewhat restrictive definitions, arguably in tune with a certain interpretation of their etymologies from Greek:
metaphor: changing a word from its literal meaning to one not properly applicable but analogous to it; assertion of identity rather than, as with simile, likeness.
metonymy: substitution of cause for effect, proper name for one of its qualities, etc.
Metonymy (pronounced /mɨˈtɒnɨmi/) is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, "Washington", as the capital of the United States, could be used as a metonym (an instance of metonymy) for its government.
synecdoche: substitution of a part for whole, species for genus, etc. |
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| Etymology: Italian, from bravo brave. Date: 1597. : villain, desperado; especially : a hired assassin. |
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| To praise or admire excessively; fawn on. |
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| Described as one of the most beautiful and educated women of her era, Aspasia became the consort of Pericles, leader of democratic Athens. Their relationship caused scandal in the male-dominated world of Classical Athens, not only because the couple remained unmarried, but because of her determination to be treated as an equal. Mixing with some the greatest minds of her generation, and at the very center of Athenian political life, Aspasia's story is unique among the women of her time… |
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| cf. is an abbreviation for the Latin word confer, meaning "compare" or "consult", and is hence used to refer to other material or ideas which may provide different information or arguments. It is mainly used in scholarly or educated contexts, such as in academic (mainly humanities) or legal texts. |
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| A person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner |
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