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absentmindedness collapse: preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored

pipe dream collapse: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

roman collapse: a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions; a resident of modern Rome; an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire; of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome); "Roman architecture"; "the old Roman wall"; relating to or characteristic of people of Rome; "Roman virtues"; "his Roman bearing in adversity"; "a Roman nose"; of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church"; characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions

alto collapse: the pitch range of the lowest female voice; (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments; a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef; (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group; "alto clarinet or recorder"; of or being the lowest female voice

daydream collapse: have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake; "She looked out the window, daydreaming"

contralto collapse: the lowest female singing voice; a woman singer having a contralto voice

funny collapse: experiencing odd bodily sensations; "told the doctor about the funny sensations in her chest"

wander collapse: go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

wag collapse: causing to move repeatedly from side to side; a witty amusing person who makes jokes; move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail"

trance collapse: a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep

zany collapse: a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect

soprano collapse: the pitch range of the highest female voice; the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty; a female singer; having or denoting a high range; "soprano voice"; "soprano sax"; "the boy still had a fine treble voice"; "the treble clef"

minstrel collapse: a performer in a minstrel show; celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels

song and dance collapse: theatrical performance combining singing and dancing

history collapse: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view"; all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"; a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"; the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history"

novel collapse: a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"; a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story; pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

warbler collapse: a small active songbird; a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song

canary collapse: any of several small Old World finches; a female singer; having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow

inspiration collapse: arousing to a particular emotion or action; a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"; a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem; arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity

muse collapse: the source of an artist's inspiration; "Euterpe was his muse"; in ancient Greek mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science

singer collapse: a person who sings; United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991); United States inventor of an improved chain-stitch sewing machine (1811-1875)

grotesque collapse: art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants; distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes"

comment collapse: a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal"; explain or interpret something; make or write a comment on; "he commented the paper of his colleague"

poet collapse: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

obituary collapse: a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography

vignette collapse: a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books); a photograph whose edges shade off gradually

minstrel show collapse: a variety show in which the performers are made up in blackface; a troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes

absurd collapse: a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus; inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman; incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

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