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Aphorism
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(n) a statement expressing a lesson or principle
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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).
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Metonymy
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(n) referring to the whole as a part
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We were arrested by the police. (refering to the part [a policeman] as the whole [the police])
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Acquisitive
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(adj) Fond of acquiring, or eager, to get wealth, power, knowledge, etc., rapacious, greedy, desirious, eager (Asquisitiveness [n], Acquisitive [adj], acquisitively [adj] )
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our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
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Rapacious
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(adj) inordinately greedy; predatory; ectortionate
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a rapacious disposition, rapacious wolves
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Ramify
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(v) to divide or spread out into branches or parts resembling branches. Extend;fork;branch off
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'The bus system ramified so widely that it became possible to travel to Athens in a single day from a very large proportion of the villages of Greece....'
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Substantiate
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(v) to establish by evidence. to make firm or solid, corroborate, back up, validate, affirm (Substantiation [n])
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substantiate an accusation
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Histrionic
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(adj) deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech
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histrionic gestures
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Maelstrom
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(n) a restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs
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the maelstom of early morning traffic
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Summarily
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(adv)
1) in a prompt or direct manner; immediately; straightaway 2) without notice; precipitately |
2)to be dismissed summarily from one's job
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Temporize
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(v) to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting
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Colonial officials . . . ordered to enforce unpopular enactments, tended to temporize, to find excuses for evasion
The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote |
