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| person who communicates by letters or through journalistic outlets |
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| someone named as equally responsible, usually in a legal sense |
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| grating or squeaking sound |
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| deserving of commendation |
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| gullible or prone to believe easily |
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plural form of criterion
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| refers to standards or measures |
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| n., small seedless raisin |
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n., movement in a river or general movement of thought
adj., contemporary |
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adj., refers to what causes death or extreme distress; also used in the sense of absolute or unqualified
adv., extremely or to an extreme |
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adj., applies to what resemble or suggests death
adv., extremely or to an extreme |
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| act of going down (the noun form of "descend" |
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v., to disagree
n., the act of disagreeing |
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deductive reasoning is from the general to the particular
[the conclusion follows logically from the stated premises] |
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inductive reasoning is from the particular to the general
[reasoning is applied to all members of a class after examination of a few members of that class] |
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| concerned with quality and refers to a discernible fault |
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| quantitative term indicating insufficiency or incompleteness |
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| means final or authoritative |
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| means "to give delight to others" |
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a false belief held without reservation or because of mental illness
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| false perception such as that based on wishful thinking, optical trickery or magic |
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| to decrease in value, especially in reference to capital goods |
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| that which slows or hinders a thing or action |
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| that which causes damage or injury |
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| usually preferred over "different than" unless the clause that follows would lead to a very clumsy construction |
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| pointed out by some authorities as having a literary tradition, especially in Britain |
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| v., to overwhelm, defeat or frustrate the expectations of another; secondary meaning of causing mild uneasiness or embarrassment |
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| n., lack of comfort, uneasiness or inconvience |
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| to find or find out something that already exists |
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| consisting of distinct parts or being discontinuous |
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| adj., impartial or without selfish interest |
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| adj., without any interest |
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| adj., refers to the quality of being different |
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| adj., describes a person who has lost hope |
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| adj., absent-minded or inattentive |
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| adj., distracted, harassed, upset or confused |
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| refers to a contest between two persons |
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"because of" is preferred
(most authorities continue to say that "due," a simple adjective, cannot be attached to "to" to make a two-word preposition; indeed, the term is not found in most standard lists of prepositions) |
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| use to refer to only two persons |
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| one another/one another's |
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| use if more than two are involved |
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| characterizes something more closely associated with the earth than the heavens; may mean conceivalbe or possible |
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| means as opposed to spiritual or concerned with earthly pleasures |
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spent or no longer productive; decadent, soft, overrefined
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usually used as a derogatory term in reference to men as womanish, soft and weak
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| related to self-interest; indicates the tendency to think or act with only one's self-interest in mind |
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| related to conceit and denotes the tendency to speak or write of oneself excessively and boastfully |
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adj., fundamenta, basic, or irreducible
*has the added meaning of being related to the primary forces of nature or feeling, such as, fire, wind or passion |
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adj., also means fundamental, basic or irreducible
*has the added meaning of first, simple or rudamentary parts of anything |
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| to tower over others, either figuratively or literally; to be distinguished, lofty, or prominent |
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| indicates something is about to occur |
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| prevalent to a locality or people |
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| spreading rapidly through an area, as a disease or a new idea might |
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| outrageousness or indicative or monstrous evil; it refers to a passing of all moral boundaries and should not be used in reference to size alone |
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| refers to that which is huge, gigantic or vast and is appropriate to size alone |
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| v. (transitive), to enclose or encase; it can also mean to surround or encircle |
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| n., the enclosure or surrounding cover |
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| adj., uniform without fluctuation |
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refers to bursting, sudden leaving or entering, or explosion or implosion
*action goes out |
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refers to bursting, sudden leaving or entering, or explosion or implosion
*action goes in |
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