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: an identifying mark, emblem, or device used by a printer or a publisher
: an inscription placed at the end of a book or manuscript usually with facts relative to its production |
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:intellectually or morally ignorant, unenlightened
:overtaken by darkness or night |
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:to praise highly
:laud
:eulogize |
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| :traditional garment of muslim or hindu women, black or drab, cloth or veil, head to foot, covers all or part of the face |
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:fundamental character of a culture, community or group
:underlying sentiment of a society
:dominant assumptions of a people or period
"in the Greek ethos the individual was highly valued" |
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:exemption from punishment
:immunity from detrimental effects |
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:establishment of harmonious relations
:reconciliation
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:careful, cautious, prudent
:astute, shrewd, knowing (a canny negotiator) |
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un·can·ny adjective \ˌən-ˈka-nē\
: seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie, mysterious
: being beyond what is normal or expected : suggesting superhuman or supernatural powers |
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1: given to or abounding in aphoristic expression
1: given to or abounding in excessive moralizing
2: terse, aphoristic, or moralistic in expression : pithy, epigrammatic |
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: a concise statement of a principle
: a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment : adage |
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1: a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought
2: a terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying
3: epigrammatic expression |
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| adjective \sə-ˈgā-shəs\
obsolete : keen in sense perception
2 a : of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning
b : caused by or indicating acute discernment
— sa·ga·cious·ly adverb
— sa·ga·cious·ness noun |
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1: keen, sharp
2: vigorously effective and articulate (a trenchant analysis); also : caustic (trenchant remarks)
3 a : sharply perceptive : penetrating (a trenchant view of current conditions)
b : clear-cut, distinct
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new colonialism
:the economic and political policies by which a great power extends its power over other areas or people |
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adjective \kən-ˈkä-mə-tənt\
accompanying in a subordinate or incidental way
"drug risks increase with the concomitant use of alcohol" |
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:a solid wall-like structure raised for defense
:seawall
:breakwater
:the side of a ship above the upper deck —usually used in plural
:strong support or protection |
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adjective
Thomas R. Malthus, 1821
: of or relating to Malthus or to his theory that population tends to increase at a faster rate than its means of subsistence and that unless it is checked by moral restraint or disaster (as disease, famine, or war) widespread poverty and degradation inevitably result |
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:to give in, surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms
:to give up resistance |
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adjective \ˈa-nə-ˌdīn\
: serving to alleviate pain
: not likely to offend or arouse tensions : innocuous |
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adjective \dis-ˈkər-siv\
NOTE: REMEMBER THIS? MEANS TWO OPPOSITE THINGS???
a : moving from topic to topic without order : rambling
b : proceeding coherently from topic to topic
: marked by analytical reasoning |
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:environment
:the physical or social setting in which something occurs |
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adjective \lī-ˈsen(t)-shəs\
: lacking legal or moral restraints; especially : disregarding sexual restraints
: marked by disregard for strict rules of correctness
— li·cen·tious·ly adverb
— li·cen·tious·ness noun |
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an omen, a sign foreshadowing a future event |
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noun \ˈfər-ˌlȯŋ\
: a unit of distance equal to 220 yards (about 201 meters, 1/8 mile, 0.2 kilometers) |
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noun \-lə-ˌfāt, -fət\
: the office or dominion of a caliph |
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: a successor of Muhammad as temporal and spiritual head of Islam —used as a title
: the spiritual head of the Islamic State |
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adjective \kwin-tik\
:of the fifth degree |
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noun \jau\
chiefly Scottish
:stroke (such a stroke charged to a player as a unit of scoring in golf), toll |
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:a military cap with a round flat top usually stopping toward the front and a visor |
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combining form (or, aniso)
:unequal |
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| unit of energy equal to the work done by a force of one newton acting through a distance of one meter |
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:a scarlet dye used chiefly for coloring food
. the dried bodies of a female scale insect, which are crushed to yield the dye
. a similar dye or preparation made from the oak kermes insect |
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: a rich crimson or scarlet lake made from cochineal
: a vivid red |
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:a beginner in learning, novice |
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:a new convert (as to a faith or cause) |
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:a new convert, proselyte
:novice
:tyro, beginner |
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:consisting of or having branches (a ramose sponge) |
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:a stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut |
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:a small inland or inshore island |
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:any system or practice that separates people by race, caste, etc.
:segregation of the non-white population in South Africa |
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:something that is disliked or to be avoided
:black animal, refers to a subject |
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:to bring under control and governance as a subject
:conquer, subdue |
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: with one leg on each side : astride a horse (she rode astride, not sidesaddle)
: with the legs stretched wide apart |
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:commonplace
:unimaginative
:going on foot |
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:falling off or away, deterioration, decent or slope
:a noun, adjective, or pronoun inflection. a class of them having the same form |
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:to instruct, esp. in religion and moral knowledge
:enlighten, inform |
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| :marked by expression or great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm "effusive praise" |
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:lasting only a very short time
:lasting only one day |
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| :likely to cause disagreement or argument (see Kate) |
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| :likely to cause disagreement or argument (see Kate) |
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| :difficult or irritating to deal with |
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:burning, irritating
:marked by direct and decisive sarcasm |
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:a sulfate of any various metals (copper, iron, etc.)
:virulence of feeling or speech ("political vitriol") |
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| :caustic, biting, rankerous |
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| :the policy of extending rule or authority of a nation over foreign nations |
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literary term
:describes a novel about moral and psychological groups of main character, such as a coming-of-age story |
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: centralized control by an autocratic authority
: the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority |
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noun, often proper
:the penal system of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consisting of a network of labor camps |
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: narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned
comes from pendant: one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
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