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- The skirt of the sidewalk was festooned with beautiful arrangements of tulips, daffodils, and mary-golds.
- Definition: to adorn with or as with festoons
- fes·toon [fe-stoon]
- verb (used with object)
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- "I had the most irrefragable evidence of the absolute truth and soundness of the principle upon which my invention was based." -- Sir Henry Bessemer, Autobiography
- Definition: Impossible to refute; incontestable; undeniable
- [ih-REF-ruh-guh-buhl]
- adjective
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- "Dougan uses many words where few would do, as if pleonasm were a way of wringing every possibility out of the material he has, and stretching sentences a form of spreading the word." -- Paula Cocozza, "Book review: How Dynamo Kiev beat the Luftwaffe"
- Definition: The use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; as, "I saw it with my own eyes."
- [PLEE-uh-naz-uhm]
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- "The convert who is more punctilious in his new faith than the lifelong communicant is a familiar figure in Catholic lore." -- Patrick Allit, Catholic Converts
- Definition: Strictly attentive to the details of form in action or conduct; precise; exact in the smallest particulars.
- [puhnk-TIL-ee-uhs]
- adjective
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- Beneath a fey attitude, her sister was very competitive.
- Definition: Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
- [FAY]
- adjective
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