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April 4, 2022

Nebbish

a weak-willed or feckless person.

October 30, 2023

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Traditionally, a figure of speech in which a word or phrase conveys a meaning other than its literal sense; in modern use, anything that recurs.

July 9, 2022

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= to remove (from a work of art) parts considered to be offensive.

May 30, 2023

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1. likeable; 2. having an affinity; 3. tending to get along with others; 4. closely associated.

April 22, 2013

resemble, evoke, or be reminiscent of.

February 25, 2022

= frenetically upset or violent.

June 16, 2023

1. piece by piece; 2. little by little; 3. something done piecemeal.

June 7, 2023

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= (1) a strength; (2) played loudly.

July 26, 2022

a rhetorical device in which two contradictory terms are used together for emphasis or poetic effect or to arrive at a unique meaning.

May 26, 2022

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opposed by fate.