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1. -acī(e suf.

Additional spellings: aci, asie, asi
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A suffix forming numerous abstract nouns denoting quality or condition, most of them directly borrowed from French or Anglo-Norman, some formed from Latin nouns in -atia or -acia (in some cases……

2. āǧen v.

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(a) To grow old, age; (b) ppl. aged, advanced in years, old; also mature; (c) aged men, those with authority, elders. …

3. articūlēr adj.

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Of the joints. …

4. calliditē n.

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Cleverness, shrewdness. …

5. capstan n.

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Naut. A device for hauling up the anchor, etc.; capstan bar, capstan spoke, a capstan bar. …

6. cardinā̆l adj.

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Chief, principal, primary: (a) cardinal signe, one of the four zodiacal signs marking the equinoxes and the solstices; (b) cardinal sister, fig. one of the cardinal virtues; (c) cardinal vertu, one of……

7. -cī(e suf.

Additional spellings: ci, sie, si
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A suffix forming nouns, usually in words borrowed from French (such as artificie, benefice, malefice, marshalsie, minstralsie, prophecie, seneshalsie) or Latin (such as servicie), but occasionally……

8. comunicante adj.

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(a) Shared, possessed in common; (b) med. of the cause of an ailment: not local, systemic. …

9. conquestiǒunen v.

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To raise the issue (whether something is the case), question, debate. …

10. cūpiditẹ̄ n.

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Covetousness, cupidity. …

11. dēcīden v.

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To determine (sth.), decide (a question, dispute, legal case). …

12. dīuturnitẹ̄ n.

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Long continuance. …

13. dūālitẹ̄ n.

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(a) The number two; (b) twofold nature, duality. …

14. dūracīne adj. as n.

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Of peaches: hard-fleshed. …

15. ēbrīetē n.

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Inebriety, drunkenness. …

16. eccentrik adj. as n.

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Astron. A planetary orbit of which the earth is not the exact center. …

17. ēgre fū n.

Additional spellings: egre fu
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Med. Erysipelas, or similar eruption on the skin; also, a case of erysipelas. …

18. elōquācitē n.

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Talkativeness, loquacity. …

19. ǧenerō̆sitẹ̄ n.

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Excellence, nobility. …

20. gǒurd(e n.

Additional spellings: gourde
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(a) A cucumber plant (Cucumis sativus); commune gourd; also, a cucumber; (b) the colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis); wilde gourd; also, the fruit of this plant; (c) a gourd plant (Lagenaria vulgaris……

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