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1. bleck<\/strong> \u2014 black fluid; soot, smut<\/p>\n

He broke up the <\/em>blecks at the back of the fireplace with a long staff of ash.<\/em><\/p>\n

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2. abulia<\/strong> \u2014 loss or severe reduction of volition, as symptom of mental disorder<\/p>\n

With the unending drumbeat of bad and worse news, how long before a citizen just gives up entirely, before a social and political <\/em>abulia removes every impulse he or she may have to do something, anything, in the face of continued setbacks and failures and perversions of political will?<\/em><\/p>\n

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3. machicolated<\/strong> \u2014 provided with openings between parapets or flooring through which stones or other defensive weapons may be hurled or dropped<\/p>\n

We were advised to be careful when walking upon the <\/em>machicolated open-work battlements, so as not to stumble into one of the defensive apertures.<\/em><\/p>\n

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4. naker<\/strong> \u2014 kettledrum<\/p>\n

Sound the trumpets and <\/em>nakers and let all be merry who enter into this happy hall.<\/em><\/p>\n

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5. dorsum<\/strong> \u2014 back of an animal; outer or convex part of organ<\/p>\n

On closer examination, a tiny tattoo was found on the posterior <\/em>dorsum of the victim’s tongue, appearing quite recently made.<\/em><\/p>\n

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6. dispart<\/strong> \u2014 to separate into parts; to cleave<\/p>\n

Slowly her sobs subsided, and eventually she looked up from her tear-dampened locks, and her lips <\/em>disparted to reveal a beautiful smile, and she said in a voice like an exhalation, “The pain has gone.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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7. n\u00e9v\u00e9<\/strong> \u2014 granular glacier snow, firn<\/p>\n

The <\/em>n\u00e9v\u00e9 of the glacier spreads all the way up to the very peak of the mountain.<\/em><\/p>\n

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8. almoner<\/strong> \u2014 distributor of alms; hospital social worker<\/p>\n

But Forleigh thought the <\/em>almoner‘s position required more, and made sure the charitable coffers were filled by continually dunning the less compassionate parishioners to do more for their fellows.<\/em><\/p>\n

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9. full<\/strong> \u2014 to clean and thicken cloth<\/p>\n

He acted as if the best way to teach these difficult lessons was to beat them into his pupils as a fuller <\/em>fulls cloth.<\/em><\/p>\n

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10. rubefacient<\/strong> \u2014 causing redness or slight irritation<\/p>\n

The hand cream contained olive oil, to which she was allergic, so that it had a contrary and <\/em>rubefacient effect, leaving her hands more cracked than ever.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1. bleck \u2014 black fluid; soot, smut He broke up the blecks at the back of the fireplace with a long staff of ash.   2. abulia \u2014 loss or severe reduction of volition, as symptom of mental disorder With the unending drumbeat of bad and worse news, how long before a citizen just gives … <\/p>\n

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