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Puns |
The use of words or phrases to exploit ambiguities and innuendoes in their meanings, usually for humorous effects. |
Puns are sometimes translatable |
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Pretense |
N. A false appearance or action intended to deceive |
Objectivism is only the pretense of a way out of the Naturalistic Fallacy |
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Smuggling |
The criminal offense of intentionally and secretively bringing an item into a country without declaring it to customs officials and paying the associated duties out taxes, or of bringing a prohibited item into a country |
'It is your duty' is a smuggling in of an imperative force not conveyed by the terms 'good' and 'evil' |
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Seldom |
Adj.adv. Not often; infrequently. Infrequent, rare. |
It is true that even in these days it is seldom that one who believes in God has no hopes which an atheist has not. |
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Vexation |
Noun. The condition of being vexed; annoyance. A source of irritation or annoyance. |
A child may feel distress at causing vexation to his father |
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Dread |
Verb. To be in terror of; fear intensely |
He will dread distressing him |
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Remorse |
N. Moral anguish arising from repentance for past misdeeds; penitence |
"Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid" |
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Cunning |
Adj. Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness N. Skill in deception |
It explains fit each of us why certain things behave so cunningly all by themselves |
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Quarrel |
Intr. Verb. To express angry disagreement with one another; argue |
Kay and I do quarrel sometimes, but when you add it all together, all of it isn't that bad. |
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Beguile |
Verb. To deceive by guile or charm. |
The serpent beguiled me! |
