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puerile |
childish |
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orthopedics |
branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement |
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pedagogue |
a teacher |
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pedant |
1. a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding 2. a scholarly show-off |
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entity |
something that has a real or independent existence |
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nonentity |
a person or thing of no importance |
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essence |
1. the basic element; the identifying characteristic 2. a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug 3. a perfume |
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moribund |
about to die or end |
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mortify |
1. to shame 2. to discipline oneself by denial |
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postmortum |
1. an examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy 2. (informal) an analysis of something that is over |
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euthanasia |
the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing |
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innate |
possessed at birth; inborn |
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naive |
1. childlike; unsophisticated 2. gullible |
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nascent |
emerging; coming into existence |
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renaissance |
1. a rebirth; a renewal 2. (capitalized) a revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe |
