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Sunday, February 20th, 2011 | Author: markross
noun [nep-uh-tiz-uhm] 1. Favouritism shown to relatives or close friends by those with power or influence. Dictionary.com
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Wednesday, January 05th, 2011 | Author: markross
adjective [plen-uh-puh-TEN-shee-air-ee] 1. Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, “plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers.” noun: 1. A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or diplomatic agent with full power to negotiate a treaty or to transact other business. Dictionary.com
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Wednesday, January 05th, 2011 | Author: markross
noun [pal-in-JEN-uh-sis] 1. Rebirth; regeneration. 2. Baptism in the Christian faith. 3. The doctrine of transmigration of souls. Dictionary.com
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Wednesday, January 05th, 2011 | Author: markross
noun [ZEE-nith] 1. A highest point or state; culmination. Dictionary.com
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Thursday, November 04th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [trep-uh-DAY-shuhn] 1.[Archaic] An involuntary trembling; quaking; quivering. 2. A state of dread or alarm; nervous agitation; apprehension; fright. Dictionary.com
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [ev-uh-NES-ens] 1. A gradual dissappearance. Dictionary.com
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [in-DEM-ni-tee] 1. Protection or security against damage or loss. 2. Compensation for damage or loss sustained. 3. Something paid by way of such compensation. 4. Legal exemption from penalties attaching to unconstitutional or illegal actions, granted to public officers and other persons. Dictionary.com
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Monday, June 14th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [ver-NAK-yuh-ler] 1. The plain variety of language in everyday use. 2. The language or vocabulary peculiar to a class or profession. 3. The native speech or language of a place. 4. Any medium or mode of expression that reflects popular taste or indigenous styles. adjective 1. (of language) Native or indigenous. 2. Using the native language of a place. 3. Using plain, everyday language. Dictionary.com
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Monday, June 14th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [mon-er-kee] 1. A state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy. 2. Supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person. monarch (noun) [mon-ahrk] 1. A hereditary sovereign, as a king, queen, or emperor. 2. A sole and absolute ruler of a state or nation. Dictionary.com
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Monday, June 14th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [kwin-tes-uhns] 1. The pure and concentrated essence of a substance. 2. The most perfect embodiment of something. Quintessential (adjective) [kwĭn'tə-sěn'shəl] 1. Of, relating to, or having the nature of a quintessence; being the most typical. Dictionary.com
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Wednesday, June 09th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [pi-NUHM-bruh] 1. An area in which something exists to an uncertain degree. Dictionary.com
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [am-bi-gyoo-i-tee] 1. Doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner. 2. An unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities; the ambiguities of modern poetry. Dictionary.com
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Monday, May 24th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. Devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country; national loyalty. Dictionary.com
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. The principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others (opposed to egoism). Dictionary.com
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. The habit of valuing everything only in reference to one’s personal interest; selfishness (opposed to altruism). 2. Egotism or conceit. 3. Ethics. the view that morality ultimately rests on self-interest. Dictionary.com
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. The act of federating or uniting in a league. 2. The formation of a political unity, with a central government, by a number of separate states, each of which retains control of its own internal affairs. 3. A league or confederacy. 4. A federated body formed by a number of nations, states, societies, unions, etc., each retaining control of its own internal affairs. Dictionary.com
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Sunday, April 18th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. The act of confederating. 2. The state of being confederated. 3. A league or alliance. 4. A group of confederates, esp. of states more or less permanently united for common purposes. 5. The Confederation, the union of the 13 original U.S. states under the Articles of Confederation 1781–89. Dictionary.com
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Friday, March 12th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. An economic doctrine that flourished in Europe from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Mercantilists held that a nation’s wealth consisted primarily in the amount of gold and silver in its treasury. Accordingly, mercantilist governments imposed extensive restrictions on their economies to ensure a surplus of exports over imports. In the eighteenth century, mercantilism was challenged by the doctrine of laissez-faire. (See also Adam Smith.) Dictionary.com
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Monday, March 08th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. A social theory advocating the liberty, rights, or independent action of the individual. 2. The principle or habit of or belief in independent thought or action. 3. The pursuit of individual rather than common or collective interests; egoism. 4. Individual character; individuality. 5. Philosophy. a. The doctrine or belief that all actions are determined by, or at least take place for, the benefit of the individual, not of society as a whole. Dictionary.com
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Monday, March 08th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun 1. The principles or system of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government. 2. The political principle of centralized social and economic control, esp. of all means of production. Dictionary.com
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [doo-plis-i-tee] 1. Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech; also, an instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing. 2. The quality or state of being twofold or double. Dictionary.com
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Tuesday, February 09th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [ap-ruh-bey-shuhn] 1. The act of approving; formal or official approval. 2. Praise; commendation. Dictionary.com
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Friday, February 05th, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [vi-sis-i-tood] 1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange. 2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation. 3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another). Dictionary.com
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Monday, February 01st, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [ap-uh-ley-shuhn] 1. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. 2. The act of naming. Dictonary.com
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Monday, February 01st, 2010 | Author: markross
noun [mak-ruh-koz-uhm] 1. The great world or universe; the universe considered as a whole (opposed to microcosm). 2. The total or entire complex structure of something: the macrocosm of war. 3. A representation of a smaller unit or entity by a larger one, presumably of a similar structure. Dictonary.com
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