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| The amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought. |
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| Of vegetation: growing on rocks or cliffs. Also: living among or occupying rocks or cliffs. |
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| The part of medicine concerned with dosage |
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pregnant
distended with or full of eggs
carrying young
a writer may be gravid with ideas as she sits down to write; a cloud may be gravid with rain; or a speaker may make a gravid pause before announcing his remarkable findings. |
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| Enchant; fascinate; bewitch |
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Make small enhancing alterations to (something).
to make or become smart or spruce |
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| The leader or conductor of a choir or orchestra. |
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| To be completely different from either parent. |
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lenticular
Lenticular printing |
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| Shaped like a lentil, especially by being biconvex; images with an illusion of depth, or the ability to change or move as the image is viewed from different angles. |
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| A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead. |
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| Lacking initiative, weak, ineffective. |
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miffy
miffier, miffiest, miffily, miffiness, |
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Easily offended or irritated; touchy; inclined to take offense; oversensitive.
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Of a plant: delicate, not robust; failing or likely to fail to thrive. |
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| One new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month. |
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-the flaunting of expensive flashy possessions or the flashy associated with it.
-conspicuous consumption.
-expensive and flashy jewelry, clothing, or other possessions.
-flashy; ostentatious
-to dress or adorn in a flashy way: "_____
up your wardrobe!"
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sotto voce
[sot-oh voh-chee;
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in a low, soft voice so as not to be overheard.
Italian: literally, under (the) voice |
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| -profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services: Tips are an emolument in addition to wages. |
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alert, facile, quickness of mind or body.
agility: the gracefulness of one quick and nimble |
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| worship of whatever flag (vexillum) already exists in an inhabited place. |
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| old-fashioned term for graphite |
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| a strike by unionized workers without union leadership's authorization, support, or approval. |
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| apheresis (2 definitions) |
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Loss of sounds/letters from the beginning of a word. knife from (Ka-nife to nife;
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Where blood is drawn from a donor, plasma, platelets, or white blood cells are removed, and the rest is returned to the donor by transfusion. |
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propugnaculum
propugnacula |
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a bulwark, or rampart.
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"He thought copious use of hand-sanitizer a ____________against disease." |
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metal breastplate worn under a coat of mail.
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quilted pad worn by fencers to protect the torso and side.
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The front of a man's dress shirt.
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The ventral part of the shell of a turtle or tortoise. |
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| A medicine which removes obstructions and opens the natural passages of the fluids of the body. |
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a person who frequently shifts opinions, attitudes, interests, etc.
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a person who is vacillating or evasive in an argument. |
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Urge or request (someone) solemnly or earnestly to do something.
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to command solemnly under or as if under oath or penalty of a curse
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to urge or advise earnestly |
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Stichomythia (stick-a-MYTH-ia)
stichomythic |
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| -dramatic dialogue with two characters in violent dispute with the rhythmic intensity of the alternating lines combined with quick, biting ripostes. |
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to split up into branches or constituent parts
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Sometimes turbulent years of middle adulthood.
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the middle-age period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment. |
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-a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as one aspect is solved.
-(often initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. a water or marsh serpent with nine heads, each of which, if cut off, grew back as two; Hercules killed this serpent by cauterizing the necks as he cut off the heads |
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-To chirp as a bird.
-To emit a mournful sound, as birds collected together before a storm.
-Specifically, the mournful sound emitted before a storm by birds collected together. |
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Erectile hairs along the back of a dog or other animal that rise when it is angry or alarmed.
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one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or back of a bird.
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the neck plumage of the domestic fowl
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a comb or board with long metal teeth for dressing flax, hemp, or jute
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(of insects or other animals) frequenting flowers.
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-nesting on the ground
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hypocritical; insincere.
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Origin of crocodilian
Crocodilian can mean "hypocritical, insincere." The insincerity of crocodiles has been noted since ancient times and is also reflected in the term "crocodile tears" (crocodiles supposedly weep for the victims they are eating). Crocodile tears are mentioned in a collection of ancient Greek proverbs attributed to Plutarch (a.d. c46–c120). The proverbs compare the crocodiles’ behavior to that of people who desire or cause the misfortune or death of others but afterward publicly mourn them. Crocodilian entered English in the 17th century. |
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steez
A person's distinctive and attractive or impressive style of dress or way of doing things. |
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-adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus ).
-a person who is obstinate or zealous about such strict correctness |
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| (of an organism) able to tolerate a wide range of habitats or ecological conditions. |
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| The opening sentence or paragraph of a news article, summarizing the most important aspects of the story. |
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A vertical layer of mortar between two bricks.
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to reflect on carefully, ponder
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to be attentive, reflect |
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vallum
A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
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the supercilium or eyebrow.
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supercilium |
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| to pass, spend, or survive the winter |
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| Traced back to the Greek verb sarkazein, which initially meant "to tear flesh like a dog." Sarkazein eventually developed extended senses of "to bite one's lips in rage," "to gnash one's teeth," and "to sneer." The verb led to the Greek noun sarkasmos, ("a sneering or hurtful remark"), |
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lack of knowledge; ignorance.
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| craquelure (crack-LUE-er) |
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| a network of fine cracks or crackles on the surface of a painting, caused chiefly by shrinkage of paint film or varnish. |
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in a left-handed, wrong, or contrary direction
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