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#101 2008-12-09 16:51:40
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#123. What does the word sacrosanct mean?
#124. What does the adjective 'ingenious' mean?
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#102 2008-12-10 16:50:16
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#125. What does the word 'mercenary' mean?
#126. What does the word 'intermittent' mean?
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#103 2008-12-11 01:04:38
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#127. Who is a 'marauder'?
#128. What is anthropomorphism ?
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#104 2008-12-11 16:48:09
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#129. What is anabolism?
#130. What does the word 'grotesque' mean?
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#105 2008-12-12 02:00:28
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#131. What is 'sublimation' in chemistry?
#132. What does the word 'lugubriousness' mean?
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#106 2008-12-12 03:55:25
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"There is not a difference between an in-law and an outlaw, except maybe that an outlaw is wanted" 
Nisi Quam Primum, Nequequam
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#107 2008-12-12 17:25:20
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Answers to #86 and #112:-
Both correct, well done, JohnnyReinB!
#133. What does 'deliquescence' mean in Chemistry?
#134. What is a 'sinew'?
#135. What does Transcendental mean?
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#108 2008-12-13 17:30:38
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#136. What does 'Epaulette' mean?
#137. What does the word 'Sycophancy' mean?
#138. What does the word 'echelon' and from which language did the word originate?
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#109 2008-12-14 17:02:25
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#139. What is vinculum in Mathematics?
#140. What does the noun 'swallow' mean?
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#110 2008-12-15 02:25:52
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#141. Who or what is a Gourmet? From which language did the word originate?
#142. What does 'eponymous' mean?
#143. What does the word 'ubiquitous' mean?
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#111 2008-12-15 17:27:55
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#144. What is 'reverberation'?
#145. What is 'idiosyncrasy'?
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#112 2008-12-16 00:55:29
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#146. What is 'allegory'?
#147. What is 'Anachronism'?
#148. Who is the author of 'Robinson Crusoe'?
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#113 2008-12-17 01:23:08
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#149. What does the word 'moratorium' mean?
#150. What does the word 'obdurate' mean?
#151. What does the word 'Rudimentary' mean?
#152. William Sydney Porter was a very popular short-story writer. What was his pseudonym?
#153. Who said 'Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it'?
#154. Who said "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"?
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#114 2008-12-17 16:19:14
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#155. What does the word 'surfeit' mean?
#156. What is 'Fortitude'?
#157. What does 'stolid' mean?
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#115 2008-12-18 02:29:41
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#158. What does the word 'Resilience' mean?
#159. What does the word 'impending' mean?
#160. What is the meaning of the phrase 'Hobson's choice'?
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#116 2008-12-19 01:53:42
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Give the antonyms of
#161. Superficial
#162. Detrimental
#163. Pertinent
#164. Corollary
#165. Vicinity
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#117 2008-12-19 17:48:16
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Give the meanings of
#166. Acme
#167. Glutton
#168. Anarchy
#169. Snarl
#170. Embroil
Give the Antonyms of
#171. Eternal
#172. Durable
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#118 2008-12-20 01:58:55
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Give the meanings of
#173. rejuvenate
#174. reformatory
#175. convivial
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#119 2008-12-21 00:45:15
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#176. What does duress mean?
#177. What does 'efficacious' mean?
#178. What does haughty mean?
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
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#120 2008-12-21 00:47:53
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Five the antonyms of
#179. Steadfast
#180. Precocious
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#121 2008-12-22 02:51:16
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#181. What does 'cadaver' mean?
#182. What does 'dreary' mean?
#183. Who said 'A friend is one before whom I may think aloud'.
#184. What is the antonym of 'windward'?
#185. What are 'stalagmite' and 'stalactite'?
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#122 2008-12-22 16:46:56
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#186. what does the Latin phrase 'de mortuis nil nisi bonum' mean?
#187. What does the Latin phrase 'Reductio ad absurdum' mean?
#188. What does the latin phrase 'Vox populi, vox Dei' mean?
#189. What is 'Rigor mortis' (Latin)?
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#123 2008-12-24 03:23:12
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#190. What does 'inclement' mean?
#191. What does 'ultra vires' mean?
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#124 2008-12-24 20:59:19
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#192. What is a 'kaleidoscope'?
#193. What is 'chromatography'?
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#125 2008-12-25 01:16:40
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#194. What does 'avant garde' mean?
#195. What does 'protege' mean?
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