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quaint collapse: strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"; very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"

realism collapse: the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth; (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived

geophysics collapse: geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth

pragmatism collapse: (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

paleography collapse: the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)

nominate collapse: propose as a candidate for some honor; put forward; nominate for appointment to an office; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"

empiricism collapse: the application of empirical methods in any art or science; (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience

grammar collapse: the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics or morphology)

out of sight collapse: no longer visible; "the ship disappeared behind the horizon and passed out of sight"

preposition collapse: a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word; (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

participle collapse: a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

adverb collapse: the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses; a word that modifies something other than a noun

adjective collapse: the word class that qualifies nouns; a word that expresses an attribute of something; relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law ; "adjective law"

part of speech collapse: one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

secularism collapse: a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

certified collapse: endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements; "a certified public accountant"; holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill; "a registered pharmacist"; "a registered hospital"; having quality or payment or delivery guaranteed; "certified milk"; "certified check"; "certified mail"

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

presentation collapse: a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration"; the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward); "she gave the trophy but he made the presentation"; (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; "Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations"; the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it; "he prepared his presentation carefully in advance"; the act of presenting a proposal; formally making a person known to another or to the public

origin collapse: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"; the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero; an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events

while collapse: a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"

unquestionable collapse: not open to question; "an unquestionable (or unequivocal) loss of prestige"; incapable of being questioned; "unquestionable authority"

trot out collapse: bring out and show for inspection and admiration; "His novel trots out a rich heiress"; "always able to trot out some new excuse"

largess collapse: a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously

headline collapse: the heading or caption of a newspaper article; publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline; provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline

endow collapse: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"; give qualities or abilities to

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