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01/24/2025

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/afikomen

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01/22/2025

weskit- https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/weskit

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01/21/2025

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01/20/2025

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whistle%20past%20the%20graveyard

to act or talk as if one is relaxed and not afraid when one is actually afraid or nervous… See the full definition

01/20/2025

sclerotic bureaucracy

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01/19/2025

I must have gotten behind on my trends in New York -

Nag champa is a natural fragrance of Indian origin. It is made from a combination of sandalwood and either champak[1][2] or frangipani.[3] When frangipani is used, the fragrance is usually referred to simply as champa.[4]

01/19/2025

demilune

01/18/2025

how to remember a new word? A coulis is a sauce made from puréed fruits and vegetables. ... The term comes from Old French coleïs, meaning flowing or running.

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01/18/2025

fold - how many definitions can you think of? what does "the fold" mean?

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01/17/2025

Suny Stony Brooke

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01/16/2025

found my misplaced list - stridulating, pectinateal, riddle (course sieve), intelligible, sensibly larger, sedulous, coquetting, childrenae, fulvous, head (point of discussion), clypeus, thrice, lamellicorn, rostrum, gray-ochreous, ocellus, imago state, evince

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01/15/2025

https://grammarist.com/idiom/pie-in-the-sky/

Dive into the meaning and usage of the phrase pie in the sky, understand its origin, and enrich your English vocabulary.

01/13/2025

I had forgotten what EFL stands for - English as a Foreign Language ( ESL and EAL more common here - English as a Second Language and English as Another Language)

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01/13/2025

it is "ninth" not nineth ... why? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ninth #:~:text=Etymology,reinserted%20by%20analogy%20with%20nine. ... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nine #:~:text=From%20Middle%20English%20nyne%2C%20nine,h%E2%82%81n%C3%A9wn%CC%A5%20(%E2%80%9Cnine%E2%80%9D).

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01/12/2025

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/651542/dark-and-stormy-night-worst-sentence-history-literature

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01/12/2025

Biosphere 2 is a glass-and-steel ziggurat-shaped structure in the Sonoran Desert that's home to a variety of ecosystems:

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01/12/2025

tritagonist -
the person who is third in importance, after the protagonist and deuteragonist, in an ancient Greek drama.

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01/10/2025

whether the moon is the Moon depends on which style guide you are following. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/moon-vs-moon-a-study-in-arrant-pedantry-152666843/ #:~:text=To%20quote%20the%20black%20book,but%20lowercases%20sun%20and%20moon.

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