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| Tr. V. To authorize; to certify; to believe |
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| N. Belief; acceptance as true |
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| Adj. Believing too easily; gullible |
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| N. A statement of belief or principle |
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Tr. V. To foretell by supernatural means
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N. A god or goddess; a divine being
OR the statue of being divine
OR the study of Christian theology |
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N. Making a god of something; deification
OR A glorified ideal; an essence |
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| N. Government by divine power or priests |
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| N. A person who believes there is no god. |
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| N. Identifying god with nature; belief in all gods |
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| N. All the gods of a people or religion (When capitalized, pantheon refers to the circular domed temple in Rome built in 27 B.C. and dedicated to all the gods.) |
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| – barbarian, rough leader; King of the Huns from 433-453; most successful of the barbarian invaders of the Roman Empire |
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| – destructively or frenetically violent, mental or emotional upset; a warrior clothes in bearskin who worked himself into a frenzy before battle |
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| – to censor, expurgate prudishly, to modify, as by shortening or simplifying or by skewing content; after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who expurgated Shakespeare |
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| – to act together in abstaining from using, buying or dealing with as an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion; after Charles C. Boycott (1832-97) of Ireland. Boycott, a former British soldier, refused to charge lower rents and ejected his tenants. Boycott and his family found themselves without servants, farmlands, service in stores, or mail delivery. Boycott’s name was quickly adapted as the term for this treatment. |
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| – an overhanging protection or shelter, to cover or hover above; Middle English word canapé taken from Latin canapeum or conopeum, meaning “net curtains” |
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| – a man who is amorously and gallantly attentive to women; a promiscuous man; Giovanni Jacopo Casanova De Seingalt (1725-98), an Italian adventurer who established a legendary reputation as a lover |
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| – one who has a militant devotion to and glorification of one’s country, fanatical patriotism; prejudiced belief in the superiority of one’s own gender, group, or king; after Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary French soldier devoted to Napoleon |
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| – a machine for hoisting and moving heavy objects, consisting of a movable boom equipped with cables and pulleys and connected to the base of an upright stationary beam, a tall framework over a drilled hole, esp. an oil well, used to support boring equipment; name after a London hangman Derick (1600) |
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| – any riotous occasion; taken from the _____ Fair, held in Dublin County, Ireland, until 1855, which was famous for rioting and dissipation |
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| – a style of casual work pants; from a coarse cotton fabric of East Indian origin; from the Hindu word dungri |
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| – a place of reputed wealth; from the legendary city in South America, sought by early Spanish explorers |
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| – to make something banal or trite by frequent use; a horse for ordinary riding, a horse kept for hire, let out, employed or done for hire; from Hackney, the most common breed of heavy harness horses in the US |
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| – one who believes that a person can make it on his own merits; from (1832-99) writer of inspirational adventure books; a meritocracy connotes a society in which one is able to achieve success through diligent effort. |
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| – using or marked by the use of few words, brief; lakonikos, from the reputation of the Spartans for brevity of speech |
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| – a humorous or nonsense verse of vie lines; from ____, a county in the Republic of Ireland where the form is said to have originated |
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| – of or relating to ____(-n) or _________(+ism), characterized by expedience, deceit, and cunning; after Niccolo _________(-n) (1469-1537), a philosopher known for his treaties and political expedience; wrote The Prince (1513) |
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