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• Calories (Noun)

  
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  The post Calories (Noun) appeared first on Jokideo // Funny Pictures & Funny Jokes .
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• National Open University is it the right school for me?

  
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  Your JAMB is not so good, you have no hope of getting into university this year, or you are seriously considering using National Open University as a back up plan, but unsure whether to apply why? Because of what they say. What they say Issuance of Certificate : Some people has it that the National Open University ...
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• Benjamin

  
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  But at least theres no resentment ... BENJAMIN Noun. Mid-19th century. [The youngest son of the patriarch Jacob (Genesis 43 etc.).] The youngest (and favourite) child. As the Benjamin of my family, Ill just put it on record that being the youngest and the favourite isnt all its cracked up to be. Oh ...
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• Noun: Amsterdammertje

  
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  My first contribution to the (excellent)  noun project . Download it here . What is an  Amsterdammertje ? No related posts.
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• Benchmark

  
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  Sir Alex Ferguson The Best of the Best - but a benchmark? BENCHMARK Noun, adjective & verb. Mid-19th century. [from BENCH noun + MARK noun] A   noun 1. A surveyors mark consisting of a broad arrow with a horizontal bar through its apex, cut in rock, etc. to indicate a point whose position ...
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• Going Underground

  
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  Past an auto parts store and a Mexican restaurant that will let you take cerveza to go for a big enough tip, down a lightless and still suburban street, smokers and latecomers limboed through a half-open garage door into a house, maybe stopping to snag some vegan cake from a surprise birthday celebration in the ...
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• Ben

  
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  BEN Noun. Late 18th century. [Gaelic, Irish, beann = Old Irish benn , Welsh ban  prominence, peak, height.] A Scottish or Irish mountain peak. Chiefly in names, as Ben Nevis, Ben Bulben. Ben  is an exceptionally useful word in the arsenal of any Scrabble player, not only in a practical ...
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• Belswagger

  
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  BELSWAGGER Noun. Obsolete. Late 16th - Late 18th century. [Perhaps a contraction of belly-swagger  one who swags his belly from swag  verb.] A swaggering bully; a pimp. As well as being revealed as one of the greatest and most sophisticated drugs cheats in sporting history, Lance Armstrong has also ...
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• Belomancy

  
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  This poor humble archer, lumped into article on belomancy and all that tripe BELOMANCY Noun. Mid-17th century. [from Greek belos dart + mateia   divinition] Divination by means of arrows. Oh belomancy, belomancy, belomancy! What will we do with you? I really dont know why I like the -mancy words ...
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• Bellona

  
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  BELLONA Noun. Late 16th century. [Latin, the Roman goddess of war , from bellum  war.] A war-goddess; a spirited woman of commanding presence. One of the most polarising figures in British political history is Baroness Margaret Thatcher. Her death on the 8th April 2013 triggered both public grief and, ...
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• Belles-lettres

  
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  The Writers Desk  by The Zartorialist BELLES-LETTRES Noun plural (occasionally treated as singular). Mid-17th century. [French, literally fine letters.] Studies or writing of a purely literary character, especially essays, criticism, etc. Originally more widely, literature generally, the ...
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• Belle laide

  
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  Ugly Betty, played by the patently un-ugly America Ferrera BELLE LAIDE Noun phrase. Plural belles laides (pronounced same). Early 20th century. [French, from belle  beautiful + laide  ugly (feminine adjectives).] An attractive though ugly woman. Belle laide was just too interesting a word ...
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• Belle époque

  
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  BELLE ÉPOQUE Noun phrase. Plural belles époques . Mid 20th century. [French = fine period.] A period of settled comfort and prosperity, specifically the  period period in France from the late 19th century to the war of 1914-18. The notion of a belle époque is a distinctly pleasing and romantic ...
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• Belle

  
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  BELLE Noun. Early 17th century. [French, feminine of bel , BEAU , from Latin bella feminine of bellus  pretty.] A beautiful woman; the reigning beauty of a place etc. Its interesting that Belle, the protagonist of Disneys Beauty and the Beast , is a belle in both senses of the word. Not only ...
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• Should Words in English Contain Accent Marks?

  
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  Growing up in a bilingual home setting, I was very lucky to learn both Spanish and English from a young age. I never had to think much about what I said in either language , I just said what “made sense”. But, whenever I would speak to non-English speakers and they would ask me the why certain words or ...
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• Belgard

  
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  BELGARD Obsolete.  Noun. Late 16th - early 19th century. [Italian bel guardo ] A kind or loving look. That moment, that fleeting connection between two souls; the sudden exhilaration of being betrayed by our own eyes and the unspoken understanding, now established, that can never be taken back:  belgard ...
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• Bel Esprit

  
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  BEL ESPRIT Noun phrase. Plural beaux esprits . Middle 17th century. [French = fine mind] A brilliant or witty person. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965), wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was a veritable bel esprit.  Although most noted as a politician, Churchill was also a ...
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• Béguin

  
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  I wrote this post a lot slower because I kept looking at her BÉGUIN Noun. Plural pronounced the same. Early 20th century. [Colloquial French] An infatuation, a fancy. When I was about eight years old, I went and viewed The Umbrellas by Renoir at the National Gallery in London . Instantly, I ...
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• Been-to

  
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  A young Gandhi BEEN-TO Noun. Africa & Asia. Mid 20th century. [from BEEN + TO   preposition ] A person who has been to Britain, esp. for education. Been-to is a curious word indeed. Having never heard it before, I was eager to do a little research to find out more: how common it is, for ...
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• The Divine Verb

  
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  Photo by Peter Sch ü tte  G od is neither Father nor Mother, Neither Master nor Ruler, Neither Judge nor King nor Queen, God is not God — the noun. Not person, place or thing. G od is a verb. The verb “To God” has ALL as its subjects and objects — always. To God is to Love.
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