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humanist collapse: a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts; an advocate of the principles of humanism; pertaining to or concerned with the humanities; "humanistic studies"; "a humane education"; of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason and scientific method and often rejecting religion; "the humanist belief in continuous emergent evolution"- Wendell Thomas

muckraker collapse: one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)

poem collapse: a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

pistil collapse: the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma

schoolman collapse: a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism

scholastic collapse: a Scholastic philosopher or theologian; of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"; of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"

press agent collapse: someone employed to arrange publicity (for a firm or a public figure)

background collapse: (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear; a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; "he is a lawyer with a sports background"; information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem; "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"; the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"; relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation; "when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background"; extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"; understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"

educated collapse: possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge); having or based on relevant experience; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate"

directness collapse: trueness of course toward a goal; "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim"

coherence collapse: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts; the state of cohering or sticking together

scrip collapse: a certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency

austerity collapse: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

wording collapse: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton

nickname collapse: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"; a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

candor collapse: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech

trendy collapse: in accord with the latest fad; "trendy ideas"; "trendy clothes"; "voguish terminology"

classicist collapse: an artistic person who adheres to classicism; a student of ancient Greek and Latin

naturalness collapse: the likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music"; the quality of being natural or based on natural principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner"

vernacular collapse: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

theme collapse: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme"; (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"; provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"

transcription collapse: a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording); something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation; (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA

scholiast collapse: a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

fiction collapse: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

pen collapse: female swan; a writing implement with a point from which ink flows; an enclosure for confining livestock

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