12 new words everyday
20/09/2025
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TIERCE
TIERCE
The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.
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AMATEURSHIP
AMATEURSHIP
The quality or character of an amateur.
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BANDLE
BANDLE
An Irish measure of two feet in length.
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QUILLBACK
QUILLBACK
An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, or Carpiodes,cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, andskimback.
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SEXTONESS
SEXTONESS
A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
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OVERHEAVY
OVERHEAVY
Excessively heavy.
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WHEEL OF FORTUNE
WHEEL OF FORTUNE
A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which isspun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on itscircumference point when it stops being distributed according tovarying rules.
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GUSTOSO
GUSTOSO
Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.
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POMPOSO
POMPOSO
Grand and dignified; in grand style.
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SHUTTERED
SHUTTERED
Furnished with shutters.
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PHANEROGAMIA
PHANEROGAMIA
That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdomwhich contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.
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CONJOINT
CONJOINT
United; connected; associated. "Influence conjoint." Glover.Conjoint degrees (Mus.), two notes which follow each otherimmediately in the order of the scale, as ut and re. Johnson.Conjoint tetrachords (Mus.), two tetrachords or fourths, where thesame note is the highest of one and the lowest of the other; -- alsowritten conjunct.