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puerile
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Childish;immature
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orthopedics
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branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to the movement
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pedagouge
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a teacher
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pedant
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a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understand
a scholarly show-off |
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entity
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something that has a real ot independant existance
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nonentity
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a person or thing of no importance
something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
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essence
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the basic element; the identifying characteristic
a substance in concentrated from obtained from a plant or drug |
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moribund
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about to die or end
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mortify
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to shame
to discipline oneself by denial |
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postmortem
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an examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy
an analysis of something that is over |
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enthanasia
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the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing
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innate
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possesed at birth;inborn
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naive
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childlike; unsophiticated
gullible |
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nascent
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emerging; coming into existence
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renaissance
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rebirth; a renewal
a revival of humanism in fourtheenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe |
