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  • 41bombastic — [bäm bas′tik] adj. using or characterized by high sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent bombastically adv. SYN. BOMBASTIC refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal… …

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  • 42literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 43Linguistic prescription — Linguistics …

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  • 44Nepal Bhasa — Newari redirects here. For other uses, see Newari (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Nepali language. Nepal Bhasa नेपाल भाषा Spoken in Nepal Region South As …

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  • 45Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …

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  • 46English literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …

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  • 47Plautus — For the Roman noble, see Rubellius Plautus. Plautus Born c. 254 BC Sarsina, Umbria Died 184 BC Rome …

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  • 48William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham — Infobox Prime Minister | name=The Earl of Chatham order=Prime Minister of Great Britain term start =30 July 1766 term end =14 October 1768 monarch =George III predecessor =The Marquess of Rockingham successor =The Duke of Grafton birth date… …

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  • 49A. J. P. Taylor — Alan John Percival Taylor (March 25, 1906–September 7, 1990) was a renowned English historian of the 20th century. He was perhaps the best known British historian of the century and certainly one of the most controversial. Biography Early life… …

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