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  • 11gross-out session — {n.}, {slang}, {avoidable} A verbal contest between teen agers in which the object of the game is to see who can be more disgusting or vulgar than anybody else. * /When Jim got home he found his two teen age sons engaged in a gross out session;… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 12gross-out session — {n.}, {slang}, {avoidable} A verbal contest between teen agers in which the object of the game is to see who can be more disgusting or vulgar than anybody else. * /When Jim got home he found his two teen age sons engaged in a gross out session;… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 13Disputation — Dis pu*ta tion, n. [OE. desputeson, disputacion, OF. desputeison, F. disputation, fr. L. disputatio. See {Dispute}, v. i.] 1. The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 14Cyrus the Great — King of Āryāvarta[1][2], King of Persia, King of Anshan, King of Media, King of Babylon, King of Sumer and Akkad, King of the four corners of the World[ …

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  • 15Abu Abed — is a fictional character that forms the centerpiece of many jokes in Lebanon, though he is known throughout the Arab world. The Washington Post describes him as an Archie Bunker like figure who is a fumbling caricature of all the failings of the… …

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  • 16Perceval ou le Conte du Graal — Le Conte du Graal Auteur Chrétien de Troyes Genre Roman courtois Pays d origine France Date de parution XIIe siècle Chronologie …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 17sounding — sounding1 soundingly, adv. soundingness, n. /sown ding/, adj. 1. emitting or producing a sound or sounds. 2. resounding or sonorous. 3. having an imposing sound; high sounding; pompous. n. 4. a verbal contest or confrontation, as among teenage… …

    Universalium

  • 18disputation — noun a) The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument. b) A rhetorical ex …

    Wiktionary

  • 19saint’s life — (saint’s legend, hagiography)    One of the most popular literary genres in medieval Europe was the saint’s life. These were short narrative biographies of holy men and women, most often martyrs, whose stories were intended to reveal the active… …

    Encyclopedia of medieval literature

  • 20gross-out\ session — noun slang avoidable A verbal contest between teen agers in which the object of the game is to see who can be more disgusting or vulgar than anybody else. When Jim got home he found his two teen age sons engaged in a gross out session; he bawled… …

    Словарь американских идиом