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Chrysanthemum
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Any of several composite plants of the genus Chrysanthemum, as C. leucanthemum, the oxeye daisy, having white ray flowers with a yellow center.
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Triglyph
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A structural member of a Doric frieze, separating two consecutive metopes, and consisting typically of a rectangular block with two vertical grooves or glyphs, and two chamfers or half grooves at the sides, together counting as a third glyph, and leaving three flat vertical bands on the face of the block.
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Dyspeptic
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Gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable
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Pachyderm
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1. Any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
2. A person who is not sensitive to criticism, ridicule, etc.; a thick-skinned person. |
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Ethnocentric
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The belief in the inherent superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture.
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Iconolatry
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The worship or adoration of icons.
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Pepsin
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An enzyme, produced in the stomach, that in the presence of hydrochloric acid splits proteins into proteoses and peptones.
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Theologian
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A person versed in theology, esp. Christian theology; divine.
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Helianthus
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Any composite plant of the genus Helianthus, comprising the sunflowers.
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Iconoclast
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1. A breaker or destroyer of images, esp. those set up for religious veneration.
2. A person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition. |
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Ergophobia
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Fear of work.
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Anachronism
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Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.
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Theophany
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A manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
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Psychogenic
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Having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process.
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Petroglyph
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A drawing or carving on rock, made by a member of a prehistoric people.
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Theology
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The field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
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Iconography
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Symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
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Biopsy
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The removal for diagnostic study of a piece of tissue from a living body.
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Taxidermy
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The art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuffing and mounting them in lifelike form.
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Monotheistic
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The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
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Dermatologist
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A specialist in dermatology, esp. a doctor who specializes in the treatment of diseases of the skin.
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Eupeptic
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Good digestion (opposed to dyspepsia).
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