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121cheers — [chirz] interj. good health: used as a toast * * * cheers (chîrz) interj. Used as a toast or valediction. See salutation. * * * a popular US comedy television programme of the 1980s and 1990s. It involved characters in a bar in Boston and won… …
122deik- — To show, pronounce solemnly; also in derivatives referring to the directing of words or objects. Oldest form *deik̑ , becoming *deik in centum languages. Derivatives include teach, toe, addict, preach, judge, revenge, and disk. I. Variant …
123wal- — To be strong. 1. Suffixed (stative) form *wal ē . vale2, valence, valetudinarian, valiant, valid, valor, value; ambivalence, avail, convalesce …
124conceit — /keuhn seet /, n. 1. an excessively favorable opinion of one s own ability, importance, wit, etc. 2. something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea: He jotted down the conceits of his idle hours. 3. imagination; fancy. 4. a fancy; whim; …
125literature — /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.… …
126rhetoric — /ret euhr ik/, n. 1. (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast. 2. the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse, including the figures of speech. 3. the study of the effective… …
127valedictory — /val i dik teuh ree/, adj., n., pl. valedictories. adj. 1. bidding good bye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech. 2. of or pertaining to an occasion of leave taking: a valedictory ceremony. n. 3. an address or oration delivered at the… …
128Constable, John — born June 11, 1776, East Bergholt, Suffolk, Eng. died March 31, 1837, London British painter. The artist s father was a wealthy man who owned mills at Flatford and Dedham, on the Suffolk and Essex banks of the Stour, respectively. Constable began …
