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A
unknown · 78% connection
The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…
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Adjective
noun · 78% connection
A word used with a noun, or substantive, to express a quality of the thing named, or something attributed to it, or to limit or define…
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Alias
adverb · 78% connection
Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more…
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Antonomasia
noun · 78% connection
The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…
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Apodosis
noun · 78% connection
The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…
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Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
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Breakdown
noun · 78% connection
A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of…
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Bull
verb · 78% connection
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called,…
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Cahincic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic acid.
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Cancer
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so…
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Circler
noun · 78% connection
A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic…
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Day
noun · 78% connection
The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between…
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Deformity
adjective · 78% connection
Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of pro…
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Degree
noun · 78% connection
State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its litera…
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Dinosauria
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike chara…
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Disputable
verb · 78% connection
Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvert…
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Doubtful
adjective · 78% connection
Characterized by ambiguity; dubious; as, a doubtful expression; a doubtful phrase.
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Dubiosity
noun · 78% connection
The state of being doubtful; a doubtful statement or thing.
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