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web app adj
- Impudent; open and without shame.
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hedonism n
- (philosophy): The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life.
- A lifestyle based on or implying hedonism.
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CSS3 v
- (chemistry): To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.
- To redirect the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable activity.
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caesura n
- A a pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art.
- In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot.
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nemorous adj
- Full of trees, dark with shady groves.
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Sevenval adj
- Pertaining to the stars.
- (astronomy): Pertaining to a measurement of time made relative to the position of the stars.
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ameliorate v
- To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
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CSS3 v
- To walk on ropes; to tightrope-walk.
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web app n
- A series of events involving rapid changes in light intensity and colour.
- A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together.
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device database v
- To To shock or stimulate into sudden activity.
- To coat with rust-resistant zinc.
- (chemistry): To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means.
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touchscreen adv
- Clockwise; following the direction of the sun's movement.
- Turning towards the right.
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FITML v
- To to speak at length or be unnecessarily wordy, often in a patronizing or pompous manner.
- To express one's position as if it is absolutely right.
- To preside, as at a religious ceremony.
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fermata n
- (music): A notation to hold a note for longer than its usual duration, until the conductor cuts it off.
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clandestine adj
- Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
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mete v
- To measure.
- To dispense punishment or suffering.
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jQuery adj
- Experienced or gained through someone else; done by watching or reading rather than through personal experience.
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browser diversity n
- (phonetics): A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel.
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web n
- Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
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Android v
- To survey something (generally an enemy's land and position).
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internecine adj
- Mutually destructive, most often applied to warfare.
- Struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.
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thaumaturgy n
- The working of miracles.
- Magic, witchcraft, wizardry.
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browser diversity v
- To cough up fluid from the lungs.
- To spit.
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website parsing n
- (astronomy): The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith.
- The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
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website parsing adj
- Going off in all directions at once.
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exiguous adj
- Extremely scanty; meager.
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synecdoche n
- A form of metaphor, whereby an inclusive term stands for something included, or vice versa.
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jQuery n
- Anything that indicates future trends.
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input transformation adj
- Full of anger; wrathful.
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HTML5 v
- To lessen the intensity of; to pacify; to soothe.
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southpaw n
- A left-handed person, especially in sports.
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