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  • 71baptize — also baptise verb (baptized; also baptised; baptizing; also baptising) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French baptiser, from Late Latin baptizare, from Greek baptizein to dip, baptize, from baptein to dip, dye; akin to Old Norse kvefja to… …

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  • 72calorie — also calory noun (plural ries) Etymology: French calorie, from Latin calor heat, from calēre to be warm more at lee Date: 1866 1. a. the amount of heat required at a pressure of one atmosphere to raise the temperature of one gram of water one… …

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  • 73embed — also imbed verb (embedded; also imbedded; embedding; also imbedding) Date: circa 1794 transitive verb 1. a. to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix < fossils embedded in stone > b. to make something an integral part of …

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  • 74enology — also oenology noun Etymology: Greek oinos wine + English logy more at wine Date: 1814 a science that deals with wine and wine making • enological also oenological adjective • enologist also oenologist noun …

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  • 75euthanize — also euthanatize transitive verb ( nized; also tized; nizing; also tizing) Etymology: Greek euthanatos Date: 1873 to subject to euthanasia …

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  • 76exorcise — also exorcize transitive verb ( cised; also cized; cising; also cizing) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French exorciscer, from Late Latin exorcizare, from Greek exorkizein, from ex + horkizein to bind by oath, adjure, from horkos oath Date …

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  • 77extrovert — also extravert noun Etymology: modification of German extravertiert, from Latin extra + vertere Date: 1918 one whose personality is characterized by extroversion; broadly a gregarious and unreserved person • extrovert also extravert adjective •&#8230; …

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  • 78flak — also flack noun (plural flak; also flack) Etymology: German, from Fliegerabwehrkanonen, from Flieger flyer + Abwehr defense + Kanonen cannons Date: 1938 1. antiaircraft guns 2. the bursting shells fired from flak 3. ( …

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  • 79ginkgo — also gingko noun (plural ginkgoes or ginkgos; also gingkos or gingkoes) Etymology: New Latin Ginkgo, from Japanese ginkyō Date: 1773 a gymnospermous dioecious tree (Ginkgo biloba) of eastern China that is widely grown as an ornamental or shade&#8230; …

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  • 80homeothermic — also homoiothermic adjective Date: 1870 warm blooded 1 • homeotherm also homoiotherm noun • homeothermy also homoiothermy noun …

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