NowIsForever

NowIsForever (NowIsForever)

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"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter." -- Mark Twain


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cromulent

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agrestic

(of behavior) rustic and uncouth; "the agrestic behavior of a country boy" † characteristic of the fields...

eluvium

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apothem

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nonce

the present occasion; "for the nonce"

agelast

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anathema

a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication † a detested person; "he is an anathema to me"

ovoviviparous

producing living young from eggs that hatch within the body

sine qua non

a prerequisite

lacuna

an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome † a blank gap or missing part

aphesis

the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'

syncope

(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') † a spontaneous los...

obnubilate

make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intention...

IIABDFI

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cairn

small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland † a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a...

disingenuous

not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, ...

tergiversate

abandon one's beliefs or allegiances † be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withho...

eschatology

the branch of theology that is concerned with such final things as death and Last Judgment; Heaven and Hell; the...

enneaphilia

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proprioception

the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts