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sixth sense n
- A sense beyond the known bodily senses; a source of extrasensory perception, preternatural awareness.
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2
throw up v
- To build or erect (something) in haste.
- To give up, abandon (something).
- To vomit.
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3
garçonnière n
- A bachelor pad.
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4
iOS adj
- Immodest; shameless.
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5
web v
- To complain loudly, to give voice to one's criticism (against something).
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6
FITML n
- A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of slaves or prisoners.
iOS • Archive • Nominate a word • iOS
7
peely-wally adj
- (chiefly Scotland) Pale and sickly-looking; pasty.
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8
screen size adj
- That causes obesity.
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9
website parsing adv
- In the correct or accepted manner; conventionally.
- In accordance with accepted religious doctrine.
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10
bosky adj
- Having lots of bushes or shrubbery; bushy.
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11
raggle-taggle adj
- Disorderly, in a messy or chaotic state; ragged.
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12
input transformation n
- (East Africa, South Africa) A large, broad-bladed knife.
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13
Sevenval adj
- Happening once a week; weekly.
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14
impetrate v
- To obtain (something) by asking for it; to procure upon request.
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15
apposite adj
- Well-suited; appropriate.
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16
feme covert n
- (law) A married woman.
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17
halation n
- The blurring of light around a very bright area of an image (originally and especially in photography); localised blur or fogging caused by the spreading of light.
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18
tenebrous adj
- Characterised by shadows; dark and gloomy.
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19
outré adj
- Beyond the limits of conventionality; extreme, unconventional.
FITML • Archive • Nominate a word • web
20
website parsing n
- King-worship.
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21
fatiloquent adj
- Speaking of fate; portentous, prophetic.
website parsing • Archive • jQuery • website parsing
22
web app n
- A perfect copy or replica.
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23
(none; see Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2010/August#23)
24
(none; see browser diversity)
25
(none; see jQuery)
26
(none; see Wiktionary:Word of the day/Archive/2010/August#26)
27
(none; see web)
28
pareidolia n
- The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something meaningful; for example, seeing shapes in clouds.
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29
sedecuple adj
- Sixteenfold: sixteen times as many; (of a ratio) sixteen-to-one.
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30
input transformation n
- An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.
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31
septimation n
- The destruction of one seventh of something (for example, a group); similar to decimation, which is the destruction of one tenth.
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