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Regard with great respect; revere. |
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1. A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so.
2. A promoter in the entertainment industry. |
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1. Each of the twelve chief disciples of Jesus Christ.
2. Any important early Christian teacher, esp. St. Paul. |
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An embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation. |
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Never done or known before |
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1. (among Muslims) A war or struggle against unbelievers
2. The spiritual struggle within oneself against sin |
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1. The quality or state of being unknown or unacknowledged
2. One that is unknown or unacknowledged. |
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Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective: random movements |
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Marked by or given to innovations. |
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1. Chemistry
a. Evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures.
b. That can be readily vaporized.
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a. Tending to vary often or widely, as in price: the ups and downs of volatile stocks.
b. Inconstant; fickle: a flirt's volatile affections.
c. Lighthearted; flighty: in a volatile mood.
d. Ephemeral; fleeting.
3. Tending to violence; explosive: a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation.
4. Flying or capable of flying; volant. |
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1. Unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness.
2. Zoology Instinctive behavior that is detrimental to the individual but favors the survival or spread of that individual's genes, as by benefiting its relatives. |
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1. The condition or quality of being completely forgotten: "He knows that everything he writes is consigned to posterity (oblivion's other, seemingly more benign, face)" (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. The act or an instance of forgetting; total forgetfulness: sought the great oblivion of sleep.
3. Official overlooking of offenses; amnesty. |
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1. A deviation from the proper or expected course. See Synonyms at deviation.
2. A departure from the normal or typical: events that were aberrations from the norm.
3. Psychology A disorder or abnormal alteration in one's mental state.
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a. A defect of focus, such as blurring in an image.
b. An imperfect image caused by a physical defect in an optical element, as in a lens.
5. The apparent displacement of the position of a celestial body in the direction of motion of an observer on Earth, caused by the motion of Earth and the finite velocity of light.
6. Genetics A deviation in the normal structure or number of chromosomes in an organism. |
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1. The act of inclining or the state of being inclined; a bend or tilt: The inclination of the child's head suggested sleep.
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a. A deviation or the degree of deviation from the horizontal or vertical; a slant: the steep inclination of a roof.
b. An inclined surface; a slope.
3. A tendency toward a certain condition or character: the alkaline inclination of the local waters.
4. A characteristic disposition to do, prefer, or favor one thing rather than another; a propensity: "I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking of themselves" (Benjamin Franklin). |
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1. Taking by force; plundering.
2. Greedy; ravenous.
3. Subsisting on live prey. |
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| Noun: The killing of a large number of people |
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verb: be (a part) of a whole.
Making up; to be made up of. |
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noun: The state or fact of being impaired, esp. in a specified faculty: "memory impairment.
Handicaps. |
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consisting of, containing, or bearing glands.
Related to bodily secretions. |
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adj. Most noticeable or important: "the salient points of the case".
Outstanding; attention getting; important. |
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| verb. Bring to an end: "he was advised to terminate the contract". |
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| noun: An area or portion that is distinct from others |
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| verb: To find a way around (an obstacle). |
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| noun: female sex hormone. |
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A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification
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A comparison made between one thing and another in order to explain or clarify |
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adhering strictly to laws and rules and customs
Obedient to the laws of society |
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a negative motivational influence.
A thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something |
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| Not justified or authorized |
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Displaying or proceeding from a lack of careful consideration of the possible consequences of an action:
Acting or done impetuously, without careful consideration |
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Waving or flourishing as a threat or in anger or excitement |
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Occurring or done after the event
When one event precedes another in time, the first is assumed to cause the other. |
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| Latin for "after this, therefore because of this", is a logical fallacy |
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False analogy is an informal fallacy applying to inductive arguments
Ignoring differences and stressing similarities, often in an attempt to prove something |
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Hasty generalization is a logical fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient
conclusion based on too few reliable instances |
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he logical fallacy of false dilemma (also called false dichotomy, the either-or fallacy) involves a situation in which only two
Presenting only two alternatives from which to choose when there may be another |
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An ad hominem (Latin: "to the man"), also known as argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a...
Abusing and discrediting your opponent instead of keeping to the main issues of the argument. |
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| Taking the opposing view into account, mainly to point out its fundamental weakness |
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| The topic sentence of an argument paragraph or the thesis of an argument essay. |
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