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used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles † overlap; "The roof ti...

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appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason); "ad hominem arguments"

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

wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment"

cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man" † act with artful deceit

play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers r...

a group of cats

tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tu...

take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract" † make imperfect; "nothing ma...

covered with fine whitish hairs or down † ancient; "hoary jokes" † showing characteristics of age,...

amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"; "these g...

mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple"

a salt or ester of fulminic acid † cause to explode violently and with loud noise † come on sudden...

utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street"

concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in wh...

to an insuperable degree; "these various courses all seemed insuperably difficult to the student"

marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous ...

a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digi...