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| 1. | an obsequious flatterer; sycophant. |
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| 1. | a book, esp. a very heavy, large, or learned book. |
| 2. | a volume forming a part of a larger work |
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| physician who practices osteopathy |
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| willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child. |
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| expurgate \EK-sper-geyt\, verb: |
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| 1. | to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales. |
| 2. | to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness |
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| interminable \in-TUR-muh-nuh-buhl\, adjective |
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| | 1.incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job | 2. | monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant: I can't stand that interminable clatter | 3. | having no limits: an interminable desert |
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| consternation \kon-ster-NEY-shuhn\, noun |
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| A state of paralyzing dismay. See Synonyms at fear |
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tautological \taw-TOL-uh-guh-kuhl\, adjective:
unnecessarily or uselessly repetitive |
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Perhaps the very term novel of ideas is tautological, for what novel is barren of ideas, unshaped by ideas?
-- Joyce Carol Oates, Loving the Illusions, New York Times, July 17, 1983It may sound tautological to suggest that he wrote historically, because that was the way his culture had taught him to think, but that is the case nonetheless.
-- Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder |
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| nocuous \NOK-yoo-uhs\, adjective |
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