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| n. The surroundings within which something begins or develops. |
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| n. A society controlled by women. |
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| v. To register as a student at a college or university. |
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n. 1. The male head of a family or tribe.
2. An Old Testament ancestor.
3. A founding father or wise man. |
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n. 1. Support; encouragement.
2. Business clientele; customers. |
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v. 1. To go to regularly.
2. To treat someone as an inferior. |
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| n. Name derived from a paternal ancestor. |
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| adj. Pertaining to brothers; brotherly. |
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v. 1. To be friendly with.
2. To socialize with an enemy population. |
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| adj. Having to do with the family. |
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| adj. Dominated by one's wife. |
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| n. Marriage to two mates. |
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| n. Marriage to a single mate. |
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| n. Branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement. |
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n. 1. A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding.
2. A scholarly show-off. |
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| n. Something that has a real or independent existence. |
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n. 1. A person or thing of no importance.
2. Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination. |
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n. 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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| adj. About to die or end. |
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v. 1. To shame.
2. To discipline oneself by denial. |
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n. 1. An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy.
2. (informal) An analysis of something that is over. |
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| n. The act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing. |
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| adj. Possessed at birth; inborn. |
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adj. 1. Childlike; unsophisticated.
2. Gullible. |
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| adj. Emerging; coming into existence. |
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n. 1. A rebirth; a renewal.
2. (capitalized) A revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe. |
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