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  • 51impervious — adjective Etymology: Latin impervius, from in + pervius pervious Date: 1640 1. a. not allowing entrance or passage ; impenetrable < a coat impervious to rain > b. not capable of being damaged or harmed < a carpet impervious to rough treatment > …

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  • 52silk screen — noun Date: 1930 a stencil process in which coloring matter is forced onto the material to be printed through the meshes of a silk or organdy screen so prepared as to have pervious printing areas and impervious nonprinting areas; also a print made …

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  • 53subbase — noun Date: 1826 underlying support placed below what is normally construed as a base: as a. the lowest member horizontally of an architectural base or of a baseboard or pedestal b. pervious fill (as crushed stone) placed under a roadbed …

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  • 54perviousness — noun see pervious …

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  • 55Energy-efficient landscaping — is a type of landscaping designed for the purpose of conserving energy. There is a distinction between the embedded energy of materials and constructing the landscape, and the energy consumed by the maintenance and operations of a&#8230; …

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  • 56Back-formation — In etymology, back formation refers to the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new word ) by removing actual or supposed affixes. The resulting neologism is called a back formation , a term coined by James Murray [&#8230; …

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  • 57George Dewey — Infobox Military Person name= George Dewey born= birth date|1838|12|26 died= death date and age|1917|1|16|1838|12|26 placeofbirth=Montpelier, Vermont placeofdeath=Washington, D.C. caption= nickname= allegiance=flagicon|USA United States of&#8230; …

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  • 58Heinkel He 111 — infobox Aircraft name = He 111 type = Medium bomber manufacturer =Heinkel Flugzeugwerke caption = designer = Siegfried and Walter Günter first flight = 24 February avyear|1935 introduced = 1936 retired = 1945 primary user = Luftwaffe produced =&#8230; …

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  • 59River Mole, Surrey — The River Mole is a river in southern England, which rises in West Sussex near Gatwick Airport and flows north west through Surrey for 80 km (50 miles) to the River Thames near Hampton Court Palace. The river gives its name to the Surrey district …

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  • 60New World vulture — New World vultures Turkey Vulture Scientific classification …

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