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| a statement that seems contradictory but actually is true; a person or situation that seems to have inconsistent qualities. |
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| a rhetorical device in which a point is tressed by suggesting that it is too obvious to mention |
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| walking about, especially applied to the ancient school or Aristotle. |
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| the use of many words where one or a few would do; round-about way of speaking |
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| the point of contact between adjacent neurons where nerve impulses are transmitted from one to another |
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| the living together of two kinds of organisms, especially where the association is of mutual advantage |
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| designating a gland producing an internal secretion |
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| a parasite that inhabits the internal organs or tissues of a plant or animal |
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| a plant that grows within another plant |
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