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1. to speak to or tease lightly or jokingly
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2. light, teasing, or joking language or repartee
*Banter is joking, badinage is playful
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1. light, playful banter or raillery.
–verb (used with object)
2. to banter with or tease (someone) playfully.
*Badinage is playful, banter is joking
(this was the best distinction I could make)
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1. a quick and witty reply
2. a succession or interchange of clever retorts
3. amusing and usually light sparring with words
4. adroitness and cleverness in reply; skill in repartee |
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1. with great care or caution; warily.
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2. cautious, careful, or wary.
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1. running or moving lightly over a surface: lambent tongues of flame.
2. dealing lightly and gracefully with a subject; brilliantly playful: lambent wit.
3. softly bright or radiant: a lambent light.
4. (esp of a flame) flickering softly over a surface |
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–noun
1. a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
2. fermented dough reserved for producing fermentation in a new batch of dough.
3. an element that produces a gradual altering or transforming influence.
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4. to add leaven to (dough or batter) and cause to rise.
5. to permeate with an altering or transforming element.
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verb (used with object)
1. to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain: an explanation that elucidated his recent strange behavior.
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2. to provide clarification; explain.
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–noun, plural -nies.
1. the manifestation of a supernatural or divine reality
2. any moment of great or sudden revelation |
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1. very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent.
2. delicately hazy. |
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1. intellectually or morally ignorant; unenlightened: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition.
2. overtaken by darkness or night. |
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