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Written words |
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EPITAPH |
The last words about a life are written in stone |
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ANYONE |
One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody.
[Commonly written as two words.] |
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PARAMOURS |
By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; --
sometimes written as two words. |
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INVITATION |
A document written or printed, or spoken words,
/onveying the message by which one is invited. |
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ORAL |
Uttered by the mouth, or in words; spoken, not written;
verbal; as, oral traditions; oral testimony; oral law. |
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ABBREVIATE |
To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce
by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. |
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LINE |
A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a
row of words extending across a page or column. |
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WORD |
Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of
characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page. |
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WRITE |
To form characters, letters, or figures, as
representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by
written signs. |
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TRANSCRIPT |
That which has been transcribed; a writing or
composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written
copy. |
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APOLOGETICAL |
Defending by words or arguments; said or written in
defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic
essay. |
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VERBAL |
Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly
in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal
contract; verbal testimony. |
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ITALICIZE |
To print in Italic characters; to underline
written letters or words with a single line; as, to Italicize a word;
Italicizes too much. |
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-HOOD |
A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character,
totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes
it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head. |
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DESCRIBE |
To represent by words written or spoken; to give an
account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the
geographer describes countries and cities. |
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ADDRESS |
To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether
spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition,
etc., to speak to; to accost. |
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PRAYER |
... supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication
addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat
one's pray... |
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DECIPHER |
To find out, so as to be able to make known the
meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly
obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold. |
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INSCRIPTION |
That which is inscribed; something written or
engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid
substance for preservation o... |
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SLANDER |
Formerly, defamation generally, whether oral or written;
in modern usage, defamation by words spoken; utterance of false,
malicious, and defama... |
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STYLE |
Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or
written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought
as exhibits the ... |
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RECITE |
To repeat, as something already prepared, written down,
committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed
document, or fro... |
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EN- |
...ish words,
chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written
indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is ... |
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GYVE |
... compound sound like that of
tsh, as in charm (written also tch as in catch), with the latter, the
sound of f, as in phase, phantom. In some wor... |