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magnanimous |
generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness: high-minded; noble:
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panglossian |
characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
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hortatory |
urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging: a hortatory speech.
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Logophile |
A lover of words |
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diaphanous |
1. very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent. 2. delicately hazy.
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indefatigable
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1. incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
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inconnu
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1. a person who is unknown; stranger. 2. Also called sheefish. a game fish, Stenodus leucichthys, of fresh or brackish northern waters.
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slugabed
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1. a lazy person who stays in bed long after the usual time for arising.
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splendiferous
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1. splendid; magnificent; fine.
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gratulation
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1. a feeling of joy. 2. the expression of joy.
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nominalize
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1. to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization. 2. to convert (an underlying clause) into a noun phrase, as in changing he drinks to his drinking in I am worried about his drinking.
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penurious
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1. extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly. 2. extremely poor; destitute; indigent.
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empyreal
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1. pertaining to the sky; celestial: empyreal blue. 2. pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients.
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bibliotaph
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1. a person who caches or hoards books.
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nocturne
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1. Music. a piece appropriate to the night or evening. 2. Music. an instrumental composition of a dreamy or pensive character.
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pandiculation
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1. the act of stretching oneself.
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oniomania
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1. an uncontrollable desire to buy things.
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gormandize
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1. to eat greedily or ravenously.
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uxorious
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1. doting upon, foolishly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one's wife.
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penetralia
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1. the most private or secret things. 2. the innermost parts or recesses of a place or thing.
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