n.
- One who admires China, its people, or its culture
n.
- Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding
n. pl. ad·ver·sar·ies
- An opponent; an enemy.
- Adversary The Devil; Satan. Often used with the.
n.
- The main character in a drama or other literary work
n.
- One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions
- One who destroys sacred religious images
n.
- A condition of pain, suffering, or distress
- A cause of pain, suffering, or distress
n.
- A direct vote in which the entire electorate is invited to accept or refuse a proposal
- A vote in which a population exercises the right of national self-determination.
adj.
- Marked by or given to doubt; questioning: a skeptical attitude; skeptical of political promises.
- Relating to or characteristic of skeptics or skepticism.
adj.
- Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.
- Lustful; bawdy.
n.
- A ruler with absolute power.
- A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant.
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- A Byzantine emperor or prince.
- An Eastern Orthodox bishop or patriarch.
n.
- Philosophy
- A doctrine contending that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought.
- The application of this doctrine in logic, epistemology, and ethics.
- The system of Auguste Comte designed to supersede theology and metaphysics and depending on a hierarchy of the sciences, beginning with mathematics and culminating in sociology.
- Any of several doctrines or viewpoints, often similar to Comte's, that stress attention to actual practice over consideration of what is ideal: "Positivism became the 'scientific' base for authoritarian politics, especially in Mexico and Brazil" (Raymond Carr).
- The state or quality of being positive.
n.
- Someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession
adj
- (General Sporting Terms) of or relating to the Olympic Games
- of or relating to ancient Olympia
n. pl. mi·as·mas or mi·as·ma·ta
- A noxious atmosphere or influence: "The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere . . . like a coiling miasma" (Louis Auchincloss).
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- A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.
- A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.
n pl -mata [-m?t?], -mas
- an unwholesome or foreboding atmosphere
- pollution in the atmosphere, esp noxious vapours from decomposing organic matter
n. (used with a sing. verb)
- The branch of medicine that deals with the care of infants and children and the treatment of their diseases.
- j (usually prenominal)
- Also direful disastrous; fearful
- desperate; urgent a dire need
- foreboding disaster; ominous a dire warning
adj.
- Marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance. See Synonyms at unruly.
- A recalcitrant person.
n.
- Intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement; enlightenment
n.
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- The right or privilege of voting; franchise.
- The exercise of such a right.
- A vote cast in deciding a disputed question or in electing a person to office.
- A short intercessory prayer.
adj. n.
- An agent for purging the bowels, especially a laxative.
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