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serigraphy

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a print made by the silkscreen process

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sedulous

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persevering

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sesterce

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a silver coin of ancient Rome

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Shakti

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wife of a diety

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siccative

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drying

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sinfonietta

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a small orchestra, a short symphony

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slattern

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a slut, an untidy girl

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soave

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a dry, white wine from Verona, Italy

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sobriquet

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a nickname

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sortilege

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sorcery, magic

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sthenia

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strength

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strafe

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to reprimand viciously; to attack by airplanes via gunfire

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stridulate

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to produce a shrill, grating sound by rubbing together certain parts of the body

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strontium

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a bivalent metallic element

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subito

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suddenly

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sudatorium

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a hot-air bath to induce sweat

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sycophant

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a self-seeking flatterer

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tamarind

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the pod of a large, tropical tree containing seeds enclosed in a juicy acid pulp that is used in beverages and food

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tarradiddle, taradiddle

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a small lie

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Tecumseh

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American Indian chief of the Shawnee tribe

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tenebrific

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producing darkness

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tetramerous

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consisting of or divided into four parts

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thaumaturge

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a magician

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thrasonical

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boastful

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thyrsus

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a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes twined with ivy and vine branches

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titivate

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to make one smart or spruce up

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tocsin

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a bell used to sound an alarm

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traducianism

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the doctrine that the human soul is propagated along with the body

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transcendentalism

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philosophy based upon the doctrine that the principles of reality are to be discovered by the study of the processes of thought, or a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical

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transhumance

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the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them

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