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gamut
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the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy.
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derring-do
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noun: brave and heroic deeds
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affinity
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noun: a natural attraction or feeling of kinship ("An affinity for politics")
noun: inherent resemblance between persons or things |
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corollary
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A proposition that follows with little or no proof required from one already proven.
A deduction or an inference. A natural consequence or effect; a result. |
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bilious
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▸ adjective: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress
▸ adjective: relating to or containing bile ▸ adjective: irritable as if suffering from indigestion 形容詞:に苦しんでいるか、肝臓疾患や胃苦痛 |
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folderol
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noun: nonsensical talk or writing
▸ noun: ornamental objects of no great value |
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cognate
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▸ noun: a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
▸ noun: one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another ▸ adjective: having the same ancestral language ("Cognate languages") ▸ adjective: related in nature ▸ adjective: related by blood ▸形容詞:自然 ▸形容詞の関連:血によって関連する |
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elixir
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▸ noun: a substance believed to cure all ills
▸ noun: a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste 小さな量含む配合薬の口では、不快な味マスクするために使用される |
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cul-de-sac
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(n.) A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.
(n.) Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end. (n.) a position in which an army finds itself with no way of exit but to the front. |
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divination
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noun: the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
▸ noun: successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck ▸ noun: a prediction uttered under divine inspiration ▸名詞:異常な洞察力で成功した推論、幸運 |