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Patter (n)

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A speech designed to produce a specific response for its audience.

The witty gentleman’s patter is now introduced on a cassette.

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Straggle (v)

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Move slowly so as to be some distance behind others.
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Grow untidily, be messy.

A few old men straggled along behind the group.

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Lubber (n)

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A big clumsy person.

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Privateer (n)

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A private ship permitted by its government to engage in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Dragnet (n)

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A systematic search for someone or something especially criminals.

He was able to escape the police dragnet by retreating to a mountain hideout.

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Pontoons (n)

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A flat bottom boat used to build floating bridges.

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Coffles (n)

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A line of slaves or animals chained or driven along.

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Uplands (n)

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An area on a highland or hill

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Promontory (n)

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A point of highland jutting out into the open sea.

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Automata (n)

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One or more mechanical devices made in the imitation of humans.

19th century French automata were seen at the museum.

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Serried (v)

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To crowd or press together.

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Heft (v)

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To lift or carry.

He lifted crates and hefted boxes.

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Incarnadine (n)

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Bright crimson or pinkish red colour.

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Corslets (n)

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A piece of armour covering a trunk.

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Babel (n)

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A confused noise made by numerous voices.

The babel of voices on the road.

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Commissariat (n)

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A department for supply of food and equipment in a communist setup.

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Ford (n)

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A shallow place in a river allowing one to cross across.

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Patsies (n)

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Person who is easily taken advantage of or blamed.

His mischievous simple suggested he was no patsy.

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Onomatopoeia (n)

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
E.g Sizzle, cuckoo, gurgle.

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Misbegotten (adj)

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Badly conceived or planned.

The misbegotten attacks only led to further recriminations.

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Artificer (n)

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A skilled technician in the army or generally a skilled craftsman.

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Irruption (v)

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Migrate into an area in unusually large numbers.

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Suborn (v)

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Bribe or induce someone to do something illegal.

They attempted to suborn the witnesses.

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Spectre (n)

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Ghost.

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Chaplain (n)

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A member of the clergy attached to a secular institution or a chapel

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Bridles (n)

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Headgear attached to a horse.

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Athwart (adv)

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From side to side or across.

A table was place athwart the entrance.

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Skein (n)

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Length of thread or coil loosely knotted.

Loosely knotted skein of fable that had no relevance.

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Awl (n)

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A small pointed tool for piercing holes especially into leather.

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Discrepant (n)

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Lack of compatibility or similarity.

Hugely discrepant prophets have laid claim to the same revelation.

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Encyclical (n)

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A papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.

At least one encyclical expressed reservations on the issue of Jews.

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Gelded (v)

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To castrate.

They had been gutted and gelded as a political force.

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Regnant (n)

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Having the greatest influence or dominance.

Early human history, the totalitarian principle was the regnant one.

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Tripe (n)

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Nonsense.

Islamic voice sites recycle this tripe.

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Onanism (n)

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Masturbation

The exhortations of the mufti against onanism are repeated once too often.

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Esurient (adj)

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Hungry or greedy.

The esurient student devoured the book eager to learn all he could.

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Atomism (n)

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Anything that’s is interpretable through analysis into distinct individual elementary components.

Atomism has given a better explanation of the natural world than religion

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Daimon (n)

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An oracle or guide.

Socrates believed he had a daimon whose opinion was worth having.

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Hemlock (n)

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A highly poisonous plant native to Europe and North Africa.

He was condemned to swallow the hemlock on his death bed.

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Borne (v)

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To carry or display

Water borne diseases were wide spread before the pandemic.

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Catalepsy (n)

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A medical condition resulting in loss of consciousness and rigidity of body.

Had tendencies to catalepsy.

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Entrails (n)

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A person’s internal organs or intestines.

Studying the entrails of animals is useful to understand the workings of the digestive system.

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Conjuncture (n)

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A combination of events.

I mention the conjuncture of the destruction of society and the emergence of a new order.

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Encyclical (n)

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A papal letter sent to all bishops of a Roman Catholic Church.

An encyclical was prepared but not circulated for reasons of political propriety.

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Monophysitism (n)

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Christian theology that considers one undivided nature of Christ (wholly divine or wholly human).

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Monophysitism (n)

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Christian theology that considers one undivided nature of Christ (wholly divine or wholly human).

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Summa (n)

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Summary of a subject.

Secular totalitarianism has provided us with a summa of human evil.

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Infibulation (n)

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The practise of removing female sexual organs and stitching up the vulva to prevent sexual intercourse.

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Excising (v)

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To remove surgically.

The precision with which surgeons can excise a tumour.

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Pudenda (n)

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The external genitalia.

Religious ritual has long practised the ritual of taking the knife to a child’s pudenda.

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Intrauterine (adj)

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Within the uterus.

An intrauterine device used to prevent the egg from attaching to the wall of the uterus.

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Prophylaxis (n)

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Treatment given to prevent disease.

A measure of control is sought by prophylaxis which is now relatively painless.

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Schismatic (adj)

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Breakaway or dissident.

The proliferation of schismatic religions in the recent past.

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Abject (adj)

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Present to the maximum degree (of something bad)

Abject poverty in our times is a cause of concern.

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Non sequitur (n)

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A statement (or conclusion) that does not logically follow from a previous statement.

His use of mixed metaphors and no sequiturs.

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Twinning (v)

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The process of bearing twins.

This unusual twinning of traits has been well explained.

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Parvenu (n)

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An upstart or new comer to a high socioeconomic class.

We are just another parvenu in the global north seeking to please the US.

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Elide (v)

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Omission of a sound in a word or phrase as an e.g the silent t in “first light”.

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Quixotry (n)

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The act of pursuing an idealistic, impractical, or unrealistic goal or scheme.

His quixotry to become a professional soccer player, despite his lack of training, was admirable but unrealistic.

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Deprecate (v)

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To belittle OR disapprove.

Always over-modest, he deprecated his contribution to the local charity.

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Iniquity (n)

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Wickedness or sin.

“Your iniquities will be forgiven” said the priest.

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Liminal (adj)

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Related to the initial or transitional phase.

The liminal period in a child development when it’s old enough to follow rules but Is still young to do it consistently.

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Liminal (adj)

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Related to the initial or transitional phase.

The liminal period in a child development when it’s old enough to follow rules but Is still young to do it consistently.

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Mandatary (n)

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A person or state receiving a mandate.

She became the mandatary for the constituency.

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Poppycock (n)

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Nonsense.

His excuses for being late were just poppycock.

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Flibbertigibbet (n)

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Someone who is frivolous and flighty - easily distracted.

Her reputation as a flibbertigibbet made her an unreliable friend.

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Cattywampus (adj)

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Askew or disorderly.

After the earthquake everything in the room was cattywampus.

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Assonant (n)

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Sounds similar to another.

The poem used assonant words beautifully.

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Pupilage (n)

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Study period as a pupil.

His pupilage was filled with curiosity.

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Confute (v)

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Prove to be wrong.

She confuted the rumour easily.

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Esurient (adj)

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Hungry or greedy.

The esurient student devoured the book desperate to learn more.

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Embrocation (n)

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A liquid used on the body to relieve pains from sprains and strains.

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Coronet (n)

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A small crown worn by lesser royalty.

The duke wore his coronet at the ceremony.

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Cygnet (n)

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A young swan.

The cygnet swam closely to its mom.

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Septenary (adj)

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Related to the number seven

She celebrated her septenary birthday.

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Irrefragable (adj)

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Indisputable. Impossible to deny

Her arguments proved to be irrefragable.

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Interoception (n)

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Awareness of feelings inside your body

Yoga helps to improve interoception.

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Miry (adj)

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Wet and muddy.

The path was miry after the rains.

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Venial (adj)

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A pardonable sin or easily excused.

His mistake was considered venial.

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Raillery (n)

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Teasing in a playful way.

Their raillery made the evening enjoyable.

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Sapiential (adj)

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Showing great wisdom or knowledge.

Her advise was always sapiential and respected.

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Transient (n)

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Lasting for a short time.

Her transient joy left her depressed later.

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Arcadian (adj)

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Relating to or constituting an ideal rural paradise.

The region was not quite the Arcadian idyll he had depicted.

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Orchidaceous (adj)

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Ostentatious Showy.

The actress attended the premiere wearing an orchidaceous creation by a renowned fashion designer.

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Contretemps (n)
[Kon tre tuhn]

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A minor dispute or disagreement.

She had occasional contretemps with her staff

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Blarney (n)

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Talk which aims to charm, flatter, or persuade

It took all my Irish blarney to keep us out of court.

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Lambert (n)

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A former unit of luminance, equal to the emission or reflection of one lumen per square centimetre.

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Scission (n)

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A division or split between people or parties; a schism.

This decision caused a scission within the party.

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Baronial (adj)

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Relating to a baron or barons.

A great baronial family.

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Taradiddle (n)

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A petty lie.

No sane person would make up such a taradiddle.

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Ambuscade (v)

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Ambush (someone).

French and his companions were ambuscaded by the Indians

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Dedolomitization (n)

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The process in which magnesium is removed from the mineral dolomite (calcium magnesium carbonate) leaving behind the minerals calcite (calcium carbonate) and periclase (magnesium oxide.)

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Rhubarb (n)

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The thick reddish or green leaf stalks of a cultivated plant of the dock family, which are eaten as a fruit after cooking.

A rhubarb pie

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Requital (n)

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A return or reward for service, kindness, etc.
OR A retaliation for a wrong or injury.

As requital for the Silly String attack, she put a whoopie cushion on her classmate’s chair.

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Tergiversate (v)

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Make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate.

The more she tergiversated, the greater grew the ardency of the reporters for an interview.

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Fissiparous (adj)

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Inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups.

The fissiparous tendencies innate in tribalism.

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Blasé (adj)
[Blah SE]

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Unimpressed with or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.

She was becoming quite blasé about the dangers.

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Languorous (adj)
[Lan Go rous]

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Characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially of a pleasurable kind.

Summer has a slow, languorous feel to it here.

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Stridulate (v)

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Of an insect - make a shrill sound by rubbing legs, wings or other body parts.

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Stridulate (v)

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Of an insect - make a shrill sound by rubbing legs, wings or other body parts.

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