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perdition Before the rise of Christianity this persecuting attitude was unknown to the ancient world except among the Jews. If you read, for example, ...
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aggrandize After all, such individuals aggrandize themselves by pushing hard on young people who don't understand how they are being taken advantage of. ...
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larceny Dubious Denials. Cornered by the press, the scandal-scarred politician finally deigns to answer the charges against him. Listen to his language...
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moratorium Elizabeth Duncan had been gassed in California in 1962, before the moratorium on executions. moratorium = a legally authorized postponement before...
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ancillary Moreover, Aladdin has earned “$1 billion from box-offices income, video sales and such ancillary baubles as Princess Jasmine dresses and Genie...
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inimical Meanwhile, male parental investment also makes the man's naturally polygynous bent inimical to his wife's reproductive interests. His quest for a new...
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paragon So here is problem No. 1 with the pair-bond thesis: women are not by nature paragons of fidelity. Wanderlust is an innate part of their minds, ready to...
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scabrous Jim had material for more scabrous satire. “World's Only Living Toon” (1994-08-08) By Richard Corliss. Time Mag. (Source↗ 2008-08) scabrous =...
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sunder Runaways. They are the refugees from a million private wars being waged across America — a ragtag army of the abused and the ignored drifting...
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splatter Diana↗'s image as the innocent wronged woman in a bad marriage was tarnished. Now it has been splattered. ? splatter = covered patchily; often used...
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humdrum The quickening pace and mounting numbers have reduced what often used to be, a spectacle into an almost humdrum event. Today few people in town other...
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piebald Then the scorpion changed to a vulture and the serpent became an eagle, which set upon the vulture and hunted him for an hour's time, till he became a...
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Sep 16, 2008
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churlish Potential tantrum defused. Gilbert went quietly to his demise thereafter, although he did drop-kick his racket into the net after the final point and...
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Sep 17, 2008
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excoriate And indeed The Blue Kite↗ is by far the most excoriating depiction in Chinese film of Mao's ravages. But at its heart it is about domestic dreams,...
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mope ... maunder and mope ... maunder = To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. Alternative rockers...
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disjuncture When France's stiff antismoking laws took effect in late 1992, people girded for some of the nastiest civil unrest since the storming of the...
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ho-hum Industry says ho-hum to Netscape suit “Industry says ho-hum to Netscape suit” (2002-01-22) By Rachel Konrad. CNET News. (Source↗ 2008-09) On AOL...
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gross-out Crowds went wild for the gross-out humor and wacky romance in this riotous comedy. review of movie Something about mary↗ (1998) riotous =...
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Sep 23, 2008
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drop-dead It's relatively simple to understand although a tad clumsy at times... None of them are drop-dead simple. Programer Jon Frisby, on unix version...
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double-cross Left for dead after a heist double-cross, bad, bad man Mel Gibson returns for revenge in this gritty-yet-glossy remake of John Boorman's...
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strung-out Sam has to contend with managing the bosses' skim going out the back door, cheats at the tables, the law breathing down his neck, and strung-out...
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in-kind ... About 60 % of all poor households receive in-kind transfers ... in-kind = Given in goods, commodities, or services rather than money: cash and...
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Oct 4, 2008
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stage-struck In her girlhood and before her marriage with Tom Willard, Elizabeth had borne a somewhat shaky reputation in Winesburg. For years she had been...
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Oct 7, 2008
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fuddy-duddies [synthetic language as an lingua franca] have the disadvantage that they are associated with fuddy-duddies possibly a book on Esperanto↗. ...
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Oct 8, 2008
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run-ins Mitnick's run-ins with the law began as a teenager ... ? On computer hacker Kevin Mitnick↗. run-in = a angry dispute. have-nots City grocery stores...
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Oct 10, 2008
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hanger-on Attempting to portray Shipp as a mendacious hanger-on and frustrated actor with a drinking problem, attorney Carl Douglas accused the witness of ...
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ad-lib When he was showing how a NeXT workstation could be used to query a database that ran on another company's server, the NeXT machine crashed. Jobs...
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mock-up so the champion of Framemaker sat down and said that he would work on a mock-up. ? mock-up = full-scale working model of something built for study...
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washed-up As the manacled prisoner came face-to-face with justice for the first time, he strove to uphold the swaggering image he had so carefully cultivated...
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last-ditch A last-ditch effort gets food to orbiting cosmonauts, saving their mission from a disastrous early end. Title summary for news article: “Close...
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