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  • 41disparity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. inequality, unbalance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. inequality, difference, incongruity; see difference 2 , variation 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [dis PAIR uh tee] a gap or… …

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  • 42incongruousness — noun the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate • Syn: ↑incongruity • Ant: ↑congruousness, ↑congruity (for: ↑incongruity) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 43Bull — Bull, n. [OE. bulle, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud, knob, LL., a seal or stamp: cf. F. bulle. Cf. {Bull} a writing, {Bowl} a ball, {Boil}, v. i.] 1. A seal. See {Bulla}. [1913 Webster] 2. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic… …

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  • 44The Golden Bull — Bull Bull, n. [OE. bulle, fr. L. bulla bubble, stud, knob, LL., a seal or stamp: cf. F. bulle. Cf. {Bull} a writing, {Bowl} a ball, {Boil}, v. i.] 1. A seal. See {Bulla}. [1913 Webster] 2. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in… …

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  • 45fantastic — I. adjective also fantastical Etymology: Middle English fantastic, fantastical, from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French fantastique, from Late Latin phantasticus, from Greek phantastikos producing mental images, from phantazein to present… …

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  • 46Comedy — This article is about a genre of dramatic works. For other uses, see Comedy (disambiguation). For the popular meaning of the term comedy , see Humour. Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask detail of “Muses Sarcophagus”, the nine Muses and… …

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  • 47Carl Rogers — Infobox Scientist name = Carl Rogers birth date = birth date|1902|1|8|mf=y birth place = Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. death date = death date and age|1987|2|4|1902|1|8|mf=y death place = San Diego, California, U.S. nationality = American field =… …

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  • 48Kenning — A kenning (Old Norse kenning [cʰɛnːiŋg] , Modern Icelandic pronunciation [cʰɛnːiŋk] ) is a circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry. For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð , the regular… …

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  • 49Simile — A simile is a technique that uses words such as like or as to compare two ideas. Even though similes and metaphors are both forms of comparison, similes allow the two ideas to remain distinct in spite of their similarities, whereas metaphors seek …

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  • 50Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement redirects here. For other uses, see Day of Atonement (disambiguation). For the war, see Yom Kippur War. Yom Kippur Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb (1878) …

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