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- A person's face, with reference to the form or proportions of the features: "an elegant, angular visage".
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The chemical element of atomic number 51, a brittle silvery-white metalloid. |
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resulting in education; "an educative experience". |
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- Characterized by the inference of particular instances from a general law.
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Characterized by the inference of general laws from particular instances; logical: "inductive reasoning".
Of, relating to, or caused by electric or magnetic induction.
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- Of or relating to the arrangement or accurate representation of the physical features of an area.
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| An urgent need or demand. |
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| An exigent circumstance, in the American law of criminal procedure, allows law enforcement to enter a structure without a warrant, or if... |
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| rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated". |
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| Make (something) clear; explain: "work that will help to elucidate this matter"; "they would not elucidate further". |
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| characterized by high spirits and animation. |
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- The action or process of distributing things or people over a wide area.
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| the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination. |
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| Insolent or impertinent behavior: "had the effrontery to challenge the decision". |
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| impudence - impertinence - cheek - insolence - nerve |
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| the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors". |
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The practice of severe self-discipline.
asceticism: rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint. |
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- Overcome (a difficulty or obstacle).
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- Faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support.
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- Moral corruption.
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| Depravity; wickedness: "acts of moral turpitude". |
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| Of the highest quality or degree: "a superlative piece of skill". |
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| A superlative adjective or adverb. |
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- Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
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- Occupying or containing much space; large in volume, in particular.
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- Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words: "ineffable beauty".
- Too sacred to be uttered.
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| (of body tissue or an organ) Waste away, typically due to the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution. |
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- Diverse in character or content: "a large and heterogeneous collection".
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- Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).
- Reduce the severity of (something); soften.
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- A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged: "bureaucratic inertia".
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| Depravity; wickedness: "acts of moral turpitude". |
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- Representing a number of different Christian churches.
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| intransigency: the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise. |
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- The action of informing against someone.
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- Having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless: "a vacuous smile".
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- Representing a number of different Christian churches.
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An adherent of the same religion as another person. |
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- A wrong or inaccurate name or designation: "“king crab” is a misnomer".
- A wrong or inaccurate use of a name or term.
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| with care and persistence; "she worked assiduously on the senior thesis". |
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: marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose <a dragged-out ordeal of…desultory shopping — Herman Wouk>
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- A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person: "the stigma of mental disorder".
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| Unusually or disproportionately large; excessive: "an inordinate amount of time". |
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- The force or energy or momentum with which a body moves.
- The force that makes something happen or happen more quickly: "the crisis provided the impetus for change".
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A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. |
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A derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one, such as “loony bin” for “mental hospital.”. |
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ambiguity of speech, especially from uncertainty of the grammatical construction rather than of the meaning of the words, as in The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose. |
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in an anachronistic manner; "let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically".
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Discrepancy between the chronological order of events and the order in which they are related in a plot.
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| Just as common, and as historically illiterate, is the blaming of science for political movements with a pseudoscientific patina, particularly Social Darwinism and eugenics. Social Darwinism was the misnamed laissez-faire philosophy of Herbert Spencer. It was inspired not by Darwin’s theory of natural selection, but by Spencer’s Victorian-era conception of a mysterious natural force for progress, which was best left unimpeded. Today the term is often used to smear any application of evolution to the understanding of human beings. Eugenics was the campaign, popular among leftists and progressives in the early decades of the twentieth century, for the ultimate form of social progress, improving the genetic stock of humanity. Today the term is commonly used to assail behavioral genetics, the study of the genetic contributions to individual differences. |
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| No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.[1] When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim ("no Scotsman would do such a thing"), rather than denying the counterexample or rejecting the original universal claim, this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule ("no true Scotsman would do such a thing").[citation needed]It can also be used to create unnecessary requirements. |
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of or relating to the imposition or enforcement of a rule or method.
"these guidelines are not intended to be prescriptive"
(of a right, title, or institution) having become legally established or accepted by long usage or the passage of time.
"a prescriptive right of way"
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very numerous.
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| a statement, word, or phrase that indicates that the author is confident of a premise or inference. |
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enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves.
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represent as or by an instance.
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incapable of being removed or excluded from consideration.
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