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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. 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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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. the way in which words are put together to form constructions, such as phrases or sentences; the structure |
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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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n. a cure-all; a remedy for all ills and difficulties (Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, name one of his daughters Panakeia, all-healing) |
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polite respect for the wishes or opinion of another; veneration; obeisance (act of) |
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v. to deceive by a false impression; to trick (n.duplicity) |
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v. to lie; to stray from veracity; mendacious (n. mendacity) |
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adj. sexually unchaste; lewd; lickerish; lascivious; libertine; lecherous; lubricious (def #3); debauched; dissolute; wanton; rakish(rake-pervert); prurient; salacious; concupiscent; randy; libidinous (n. libido) |
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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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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. 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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n. the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability |
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–noun 1. a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination. 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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