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| badly put together or crude. origin: in (bad) + condere (to put together) |
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| comical, laughable; of or relating to laughter. risible muscles |
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| descendant, child; a detached living portion of a plant joined to a stock in grafting |
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| a joyously exulted song or hymn of praise/tribute |
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| of colossal proportions or extraordinary height. origin: Brobdignag, a country of giants in Gulliver's Travels |
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| of or relating to the alphabet, alphabetically arranged |
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| pun, the use of words similar in sound to achieve a specific effect like humor or dual-meaning. Greek: para (closely resembling) + onoma (name) |
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| natural, spontaneous verbal utterance; a wild or natural musical tone. |
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| characteristic or appropriate even if not true |
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| commonly accepted or supposed, reputed. The putative boss of the mob |
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| a trail, esp downhill ski trail, the area used for fencing |
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| an employee or assistant who serves in a wide range of capacities. origin: facere (to do) + totum (everything) |
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| a memorial or complimentary volume issued in honor of a scholar. German: fest (celebration) + schrift (publication) |
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marterteral (a)
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of or like an aunt.
or or like an uncle. |
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| a sharp-crested ridge of jagged mountains |
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| (broadly) a skeptical outlook or attitude, philosophic doubt to the objective reality of phenomena |
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| one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune. Wilkins Micawber, a character in the Dickens novel David Copperfield |
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| a nickel, a bus with a regular route and flexible schedule. comes from the original $.05 fare of such a bus |
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| at, near or toward the posterior, moving in a backward direction |
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| a nickname, a descriptive name or epithet |
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| protuberant, bulging, enlarged, marked by swelling |
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| a fitting return or recompense |
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| to yawn or gape from drowsiness |
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| to reduce the value or impair the quality of, to corrupt morally or debase, to invalidate |
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| a group of a thousand, millenium |
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| of or relating to the summer |
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| social/personal instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values |
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| defense using a projecting line of spikes on top of a wall often strung with barbed wire |
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| indigenous, native. Greek: auto {same, self) + chthon (earth) |
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| a tag on the end of cord, lace or ribbon to facilitate passing through eyelet holes |
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| a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character. |
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| friendly social atmosphere, social harmony (comity of nations); a loose widespread community based on common social institutions |
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| a theory of history which proposes that political and social crises arise from the deliberate actions of evil or misguided leaders rather than as a natural result of conditions |
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| a liniment or lotion, the act of moistening and rubbing part of the body with a liniment or lotion |
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| an odorous emanation, esp the stuffy atmosphere of a poorly ventilated space. |
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| a natural or artificial passage or channel |
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| perspiration, excretion of sweat |
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| favoring, conducive to or operating towards peace or conciliation |
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| a prolonged lamentation or complaint |
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| a slit/notch made by a saw |
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| alert, facile quickness of mind or body |
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| of, relating to, suggestive of marble or a marble statue, esp in coldness and aloofness |
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| the study of housekeeping |
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| opposite of optimal, maximally bad |
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| someone, an anonymous or unknown person |
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| fulfilling gratification of the senses, luxurious, hedonistic. origin: notorious luxury of the Sybarites |
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| a beginner in learning, a novice |
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| the amount that a container lacks to be full, deficiency |
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| the charge taken by bookies/gambling houses on bets, interest paid to a moneylender |
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| being twisted or contorted |
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| white persons having light hair and fair skin |
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| last evening or last night |
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| a small marine crustacean (isopod) that destroys submerged lumber |
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| brassy or golden green in color |
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| of, relating to, or supported by charity |
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| frills and fancy finery, disturbance over a trifle |
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| a rickety vehicle, a chaise with a hood |
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| slow-paced or moving slowly; of or pertaining to the Tardigrada (an old classification including sloths, now one that comprises minute aqueous anthropods) |
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| of or relating to having real being |
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| little by little, gradually |
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| a hawker of food or vegetables. origin: costard (type of apple) + monger (seller) |
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| a bald-headed man; a man looked upon with humorous contempt or mock pity |
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| any of several large English apples |
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| a rapid involuntary oscillation of the eyes that can be vertical, horizontal or torsional, as from dizziness or balance disorders. origin: grk nystagmos (drowsiness) |
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| the act of twisting, the state of being twisted |
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| in speech or in writing, a descent from the sublime to the commonplace, anticlimax; sentimentality or mawkishness |
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| a feeling of doubt. also dubiosity |
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| a mean or base fellow. origin: middle english coillion (testicle) |
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| a dwarfed, feebles animal or person (Scottish) |
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| fine, splendid (Scottish) |
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| letter for letter, literally (verbatim: word for word) |
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| a hill or ridge with a steep face on one side and a gentle slope on the other. |
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| a drug that allays pain, serving to assuage pain, something that soothes, calms or comforts; not likely to offend or arouse tensions, bland/innocuous. origin: grk a (without) + odyne (pain) |
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| to shrink or shrivel, to cause to shrink |
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| wintery. originL ltn bruma (winter solstice) |
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| a cafe or coffeehouse (French) |
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| of a fleshy-pink color; blood-red |
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| vegetable, in the sense of a person who is severely mentally or physically impaired. |
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| a representation of the external female genitals, regarded as the symbol of Shakti; the opposite of phallic |
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| living near or sinking to the bottom of the sea |
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| a flat floral ornament, esp in relief sculpture or painting. origin: diminutive of anthos (flower) |
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| to claw with nails; to scold, revile |
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| a deep glen, ravine (Afrikaans) |
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| timid. origin: ltn pavidus (frightened) |
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| a mythical creature often depicted as a two legged dragon with a barbed tail |
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| speaking indistinctly; speaking in a tricky or ingratiating way |
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| a granule of cosmic origin, found often in meteoric stones and sometimes in marine sediment. origin: grk chondros (grain) |
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| false logic in which a premise is assumed to be true without proof or in which what is going to be proved is already implicitly taken for granted |
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| belly, stomach (Scottish) |
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| hangover; distress, depression; a discordant clamor. origin: german katzen (cats) + jammer (distress) |
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| designed especially to appeal to the ignorant or unwary through sensationalism or cheapness |
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| (kwink-unks) an arrangement of five things with one at each corner, and one in the middle of a square or rectangle. origin: ltn "five twelfths" |
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| of, relating to or characteristic of Rabelais, or his works; marked by gross, robust humor, extravagance or caricature, or bold naturalism |
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| appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, conving; pertinent, relevant; having power to compel or restrain |
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| abnormal lack of ability to act or make decisions |
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| habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep. origin: grk bryx(is) (gnashing of the teeth) |
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| of or relating to Aeolus, Greek god of the winds; giving forth or marked by a moaning or sighing sound or musical tone produced by, or as if by the wind |
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| incapable of being broken or separated; inviolable |
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| an inept chess player. origin: german patzer (bungler) |
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| in the game of poker, the extra card, or joker, which make have any value the holder wishes; a variation of poker (usually draw-poker) where the blank card or joker is played as a wild card in this manner. origin: french mistigri the knave of clubs, presumably played as a wild card in certain games |
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| hatred or fear of change or innovation |
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| to pull off shoes or sandals; barefoot or wearing only sandals (used of certain religious orders). origin: ltn dis + calceus (shoe) |
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| imitation, specifically in art and literation or in speech or behavior etc. |
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| redundance of words in speaking or writing; the use of more words than necessary in expressing ideas |
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| a hard indigestible mass of material, such as hair, vegetable fibers found in the stomachs or intestines of some ruminant animals (wild goat, gazelle, llama, and sometimes humans; formerly regarded as an antidote for poisons and pestilential diseases, so also meaning any antidote or panacea. two kinds were particularly esteemed, the bezoar orientale of India, and the bezoar of occidentale of Peru. origin: persian pad (protecting)+ zahr (poison) |
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| hoofed mammal or cud-chewing quadraped, such as gazelle, cattle, camel, antelope, giraffe. chewing the cud/ruminating; contemplative or meditative. a ruminant scholar |
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| cure-all, a remedy for all diseases; a solution to every problem. "his economic philosophy is a good one, but he tries to use it as a panacea" |
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| the use of a word to modify two or more words, usu. in such a manner that it applies to each word in a different sense or makes sense with only one. ex: she opened the door and her heart to the orphan. |
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| of or pertaining to Demiurge or his work, creative. origin: ltn demiurgos (public or skilled worker) and grk demos (of the people) + urgos (worker) |
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| name for the maker or creator of the world, later conceived by some as being subordinate to the Supreme Being, sometimes as the author of evil |
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| government by the worst people. origin: grk kakistos (worst) cratos (rule, sway, authority) |
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| a small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall; a loud firecracker. origin: french petard (a fart) |
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| the doctrine that Jesus was merely a human being. origin: grk psilo (mere, bare) + anthro (man) |
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| to mix up in confusion, to bewilder |
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| an artificial language invented about 1879 for proposed international use as an auxiliary language by JM Schleyer of Baden, Germany. origin: german vol (world, universe) + puk (language) |
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| applause, the sound of clapping, or clap-like sounds |
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| an artificial language for international (chiefly European) use, based on word bases common to the main European languages invented in 1887 by Dr. LL Zamenhof |
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| to turn, twist, writhe, roll or wiggle about; to move unsteadily, to stagger or reel; a |
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| a person who has special knowledge or experience, an expert. origin: hebrew mebin (to understand) |
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| of, relating to or like a pillow or pad, resembling a cushion or pillow |
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| persons knowledgeable about computers or technology |
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| an introductory discourse, especially a formal essay introducting a work of considerable length or complexity. (2) preliminary remarks or observations |
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| pertaining or belonging to the previous day |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole. ten sail meaning ten ships |
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| the use of an object or concept for another which is related. the bottle for strong drink or scepter for sovereignty |
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| to put an end to. "what is common to each case is the abrogcation of responsible behavior which it implies" |
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| to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words. "However much he might inveigh against the corrupting influence of money, he would never have admitted for one moment that it could possibly corrupt him." |
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| a poem, speech or song of lamentation, esp. for the dead, a dirge or funeral song. "His introdutory Satire, with its forgers, gigolos, informers and crooked advocates, is a threnody on the theme of collapsing social values." |
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| "Pity the poor rentier: robbed of his perquisites by clever foreigners, despised and humiliated by the upstart nouveaux riches who have replaced his traditional patrons both in the professions and at court, caught between the twin horrors of beggary and moral self-abasement." |
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| sparing or moderate in drinking and eating. "He never loses an opportunity to contrast the thrift, abstemiousness, simplicity, patriotism and moral rectitude of the good old days with the selfish hedonism and social flux he sees all around him" |
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| inordinately greedy, predatory, extortionate. "snarling away at the mercenary rapacity or women" |
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| indirect. "put the finger on a successful murderer, let alone an Imperial favourite, and you are liable to end as a human torch in the arena. Therefore the oblique approach must be cultivated... This disclaimer has produced a whole host of interpretations." |
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| "a vast and sudden influx of wealth had corrupted former standards of behavior and promoted reckless ambition" |
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