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CAPUT, CAPITIS "Head" capitalist n. hint; money |
1. a person who has invested personal wealth in business 2. a very wealthy person |
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capitulation n. hint; giving up |
surrender; ending resistance. |
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decapitate v.
caput/capitis "head" |
to cut off the head of; to be head |
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precipice n. hint; heights/danger |
1. a very steep or vertical face of a cliff or rock 2. the edge of a dangerous situation |
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precipitate v. hint; the earthquake precipitated boulders into the canyon or rosa parks precipitated civil rights by asserting the right of blacks to sit in the front |
1. to throw down from a great height 2. to make happen suddenly or quickley |
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recapitulation n. hint; your recapitulation of the movie's plot, convinces me i should see it |
1. the restatement of a main idea 2. a summary or concise review |
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CEREBRUM "Brain" cerebral adj. hint; smart// inside your head |
1. pertaining to the brain
2. intellectual |
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cerebration n. hint: 💭 |
the action of thinking; thought. |
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FACIES "face, form, shape" deface v. hint; make ugly |
to mar or spoil the appearance or surface of something |
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efface v.
hint; time has not effaced |
to wipe out; to obliterate. Also, to make less clear, as if rubbing out. 2. to make oneself inconspicuous;
not clearly visible or attracting attention; not conspicuous. |
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facade n
hint; front of everything |
1. a face of a building 2. the face or front of anything, especially an artificial or false front |
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facet n |
1. one of the many sides of a cut stone or jewel
2. any of the individual units (ommatidia) that make up the compound eye of an insect or crustacean. |
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FRONS, FRONTIS "front, forehead, face" affront v. hint; being mean but insulting |
1. to insult intentionally; to offend or embarrassed 2. n. an insult or offensive act |
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confront v. hint; calling out thot t's |
1. to stand or come directly in front of 2. to face with defiance or hostility |
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effrontery n. hint; they had the effrontery to push head of me in line and buy the last tickets |
flippant or insulting boldness; audacity. |
