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charlatan
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a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
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quacksalver
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kwak-sal-ver
a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; charlatan ; a quack doctor |
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melliferous
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yielding or producing honey.
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snafu
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1. a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount.
adjective: 1. Rare. in disorder; out of control; chaotic: a snafu scheme that simply won't work. verb: 1. Rare. to throw into disorder; muddle: |
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aeolian
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ee-oh-lee-uhn
1. (usually lowercase) of or caused by the wind; wind-blown. 2. pertaining to Aeolus, or to the winds in general |
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logomachy
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loh-gom-uh-kee
1. a dispute about or concerning words. 2. an argument or debate marked by the reckless or incorrect use of words; meaningless battle of words. 3. a game played with cards, each bearing one letter, with which words are formed |
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spang
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directly ; exactly
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quibble
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1. to equivocate. (to avoid committing yourself in what your'e saying...to not answer something directly, with the intent to deceive)
noun: 1. an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue. 2. the general use of such arguments. 3. petty or carping criticism; a minor objection |
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carp
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to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil: to carp at minor errors.
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cavil
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verb (used without object)
1. to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually followed by at or about ): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say. verb (used with object) 2. to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: to cavil each item of a proposed agenda. noun 3. a trivial and annoying objection. 4. the raising of such objections. |
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equivocate
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to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge
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