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1
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Mien

A

Appearance

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Raconteur

A

A storyteller

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Beatific

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Rapturous
Blessed
Ecstatic

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Bergamot

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An oily substance that is derived from a tree in Seville

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Limitrophe

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Bordering

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Sororal

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Of or like a sister

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Pariah

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An outcast

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Andragogy

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Pedagogy for adults

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Herbary

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An herb garden

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Conurbation

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An extended urban area

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Homunculus

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A very small human or humanoid creature

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Legerity

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Physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility

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Grimoire

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A book of magic spells and invocations

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Quaesitum

A

Something that is sought

The solution to a problem

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Panegyric

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A public speech or public text in praise of someone or something

Eulogy

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Quotidian

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Daily

Ordinary

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Fait accompli

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A thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it (leaving them with no option but to accept it)

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Apiary

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A collection of beehives

A place where bees are kept

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Presbyopia

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Farsightedness caused by loss of elasticity in the lens of the eye (occurring typically in middle and old age)

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Isostatic

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Characterized by or involving the equilibrium that exists between parts of the earth’s crust

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Fugleman

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A soldier who’s selected to act as a guide

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Edify

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To instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually

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AMD

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  1. age related macular degeneration

2. Advanced Micro Devices

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Core

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Individual processor within a CPU

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RAM

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Random access memory

i.e., the main memory in a computer that manages OS

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SSD

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Solid State Drive/ Disk

A storage device containing non-volatile file memory

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UMTS

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Universal Mobile Telephone System

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GSM

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Global System for Mobile

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Puerperal

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Referring to the period of six weeks after childbirth when the mother’s body returns to its original non-pregnant condition

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Sempiternal

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Perennial

Everlasting

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Depositary

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Someone to whom something is lodged in trust

32
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Opuscule

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A small or minor literary or musical work

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Terraqueous

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Of or consisting of land and water

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Irenic

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Aimed towards peace

35
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Ichthyology

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A branch of zoology based on fishes

36
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Terpsichorean

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Of or related to dancing

37
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Consort

A

Partner

38
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Tardigrade

A

A water bear

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Matronymic

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A name derived from a female ancestor

40
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Grifter

A

A small-scale swindler

41
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WHMCS

A

Web Host Manager Complete Solution

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LTPO

A

Low Temperature Polycrystalline Oxid

OLED Backplane Tech developed by Apple

43
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LiDAR

A

Light Detection and Ranging

A detection system that uses light from a laser

44
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Patronymic

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A name derived from a paternal ancestor

45
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Duende

A

A quality of passion and inspiration

46
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Littérateur

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A person who’s interested in and knowledgeable about literature

47
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Aberration

A

Anomaly

Deviation

Abnormality

Irregularity

48
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B roll

A

Supplemental or alternative footage

Secondary footage

49
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A roll

A

Main footage that might be shot on any type of film or video project

50
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LTPS

A

Low temperature polycrystalline silicon

i.e., a transistor type used in the flat panel display industry

51
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IGZO

A

Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide

Semiconducting material

52
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TFT

A

Thin film transistor

A technology used to make flat colour display screens (especially for portable computers)

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Backplane

A

A board to which the main circuit boards may be connected

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Voltaire

A

A French playwright, writer, and poet

A leading figure of the Enlightenment

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Diode

A

A semiconductor device with two terminals

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Photodiode

A

A semiconductor diode

57
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Prospicience

A

Foresight

58
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SKU

A

Stock Keeping Unit

59
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Object (programming)

A

An abstract data type

Also known as a class

60
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Statement

A

A command that a programmer gives to a computer

61
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Method (programming)

A

A block of code that performs a specific task (especially in object oriented programming)

E.g.,

Declaring a Java Method

The syntax to declare a method is:

returnType methodName() {
  // method body
}
62
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Dictionary

A

An unordered collection that stores multiple values of the same type

E.g.,

var dictionary: [String: Int]

63
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Initialize

A

To declare (esp. a dictionary statement)

var dict1: Dictionary = [:]
var dict2 = Dictionary()
var dict3: [String:Double] = [:]
var dict4 = [String:Double]()
64
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Instruction (programming)

A

List of directions for a computer

65
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Instance

A

A concrete occurrence of any object in OOP

66
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Lira

A

Turkish unit of currency

67
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Horticulture

A

Gardening

68
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Disquisition

A

Essay

69
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Optional (programming)

A

A type similar to “nil”

70
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Optional chaining (programming)

A

A process for querying and calling properties, methods, etc.

71
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Optional chaining (programming)

A

A process for querying and calling properties, methods, and subscripts that might be currently called “nil”

72
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Enumeration

A

The process of listing all elements of a set

73
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Diegesis

A

A story or plot, typically in a film

74
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Copse

A

Thicket

75
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Craic

A

Enjoyable social activity

76
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Ratiocinate

A

To reason

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