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| n. an expression of praise (lat. plaudre--to applaud). (laud-praise) |
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| n. a period of fourteen days: two weeks. (a league-3 miles; a fathom-6 feet; a score-20 items) |
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| adj. 10 arousing fear, dread, or awe; redoubtable 2) dfficult to surmount, defeat, or undertake |
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| n. preference or patronage given to relatives (favoritism). (cronyism-the practice of favoring one's close friends, esp. in political appointments) |
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| adj. 1) petty; trifling; insignificant; picayune 2) worthless; trashy |
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| adj. 1) producing offspring or fruit in abundance 2) producing abundance works or results |
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| n. a subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, color, or tone; gradation (slight degree of difference) |
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| v. to cover with or as if with a thin layer of gold; aureate (e.g. "gilded china saucers" in Dinah's messy kitchen in U.T's.C.). also know--aureole: golden halo |
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| adj. lacking liveliness, zest, or interest; insipid; dull; boring; dryasdust (ant. sapid-savory; flavorful) |
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| n. one who leads a life of austerity, usu. for religious reasons (austere (adj) 1) severe or stern; somber 2) strict or severe in displine) |
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| adj. having a quarrelsome disposition; combative; bellicose (war-like). (lat. pugno-to fight) |
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| n. power; might. (puissant-powerful; mighty) |
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| adj. shrewd; keen in judgement; cunning; discerning (may be perspicacious...and have acumen) |
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| n. the way in which words are put together to form constructions, such as phrases or sentences; the structure |
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| adj. omnipresent; being everywhere at the same time. (omniscient adj-all knowing. omnipotent adj-all powerful) |
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| n. the highest point; peak; vertex; acme; summit; zenith (def 3$4); apogee (def #2). (not vortex-a whirlpool) |
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| v. to be greater in power, weight, or importance (...this overwhelming preponderance of American power...) |
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| adj. 1) oily; fatty 2) characterized by exaggerated, assumed, or superficial earnestness of language or manner (esp. as in seeking to persuade for money); oleaginous (oleo-butter); unguentary; lubricious. (smarm-insincere earnestness, adj-smarmy) |
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| v. to sparkle; to twinkle; flare; flash; fulgurate (to emit sharp flashes of life) |
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| n. one who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser. adj-parsimonious; stingy; miserly. good adj-frugal(characterized by prudence regarding money); thrifty(very good with money) |
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| n. the wise men of the east who paid homage to the infant jesus |
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| n. protection (supplies sent under the aegis of the U.N.) (pronunciation--eeges) |
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| n. a funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning; requiem; elegy; threnody; monody; jeremiad (a tale of woe) (remember eulogy=high praise) |
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| n. a state of alarm or dread; apprehension (intrepid--fearless and bold) |
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| adj. suggestive of death; corpselike (cadaver--a dead body); close to moribund--adj. approaching death; about to die |
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| adj. able to perceive/understand keenly; mentally perceptive; would have acumen |
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| v. to embezzle (not defecate--to remove the excessive waste; to poo) |
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| v. to try, especially a difficult task (may be a tour de force--a feat of a special difficulty that has never been done before) |
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| adj. pusillanimous; lacking courage; confessedly beaten or afraid of one's opponent; weakhearted |
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| adj. grossly dull or stupid; unrefined; crude |
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| adj. of a kind, gentle disposition; mild; favorable |
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| adj. defensible (a tenable theory) |
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| adj. difficult to understand; profound; deep; recondite |
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| adj. thrifty; spending little (pecunious, pecuniary, monetary--money. monitary-giving warning) |
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| n. 1) failure to restrain sexual appetite 2) inability to control body evacuative functions |
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| n. a sermon (usu. short, as during a wedding ceremony) (not hominy!) |
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| v. to place in a grave; to bury (disinter-to dig up or remove from a grave or tomb; exhume) |
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| adj. of or relating to discursive thinking; intellectual |
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| n. a person inwardly corrupt/wicked but outwardly or professedly virtuous or holy; a hypocrite; would be specious (outwardly good, true, plausible, but not so) |
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| adj. relevant; appropriate or fitting (arguments germane to the issue) |
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| adj. of a sickly yellow color (also-a European willow) |
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| n. an ornamental flower garden having the beds and paths arranged to form a pattern |
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| n. one who stresses trivial details of learning (adj. pedantic. n. pedantry-the act of it) |
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| n. calumny; contumely; slander; a maliciously false and injurious statement (not obsequy!--a funeral ceremony) |
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| adj. stout-hearted; courageous |
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| v. 1) to discharge matter from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting 2) to spit (the judges examine each wine, smell it, swirl an ounce or so in the mouth, and then expectorate discreetly into a bucket.) |
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| n. complete and confident composure or self-assurance; poise |
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| v. to establish residence; reside (domicile--a home, a dwelling place, or legal residence) |
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| v. to praise lavishly; eulogize |
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| v. 1) to ascribe (a crime or fault) to another; to charge 2) to attribute to a cause or source; to credit |
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| n. a song of joyful praise or exultation |
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2. a changing scene made up of many elements.
3. an optical illusion produced by a magic lantern or the like in which figures increase or diminish in size, pass into each other, dissolve, etc. |
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