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centigrade
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reffering to a thermometer scale of 100 degrees where water freezes at 0 and boils at 100
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centenary
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pertaining to a 100-year period
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bicentennial
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a two-hundreth anniversery
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decathlon
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an athletic contest in which each contestant takes part in ten events
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decimate
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1 to destroy a large part of
3 to kill one in every ten |
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quatrain
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a stanza or group of four lines of poetry
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quartet
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a musical composition for four voices or instruments
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quadrant
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(mathmatics)
a quarter of a circle or of its circumference |
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triumvirate
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a group of three, especially in athourity
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trisect
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to divide into three parts
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trilogy
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a group of three literary or musical works that have a related theme
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