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a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
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an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
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(used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently
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(comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
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wise or advantageous and hence advisable
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being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
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less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
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an exemption that displaces the privilege against self-incrimination; neither compelled testimony or any fruits of it can be used against the witness who therefore can no longer fear self-incrimination
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having a single cell (and thus not divided into cells)
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of something totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue
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excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
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having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped
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being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium
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containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism
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(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
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depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
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00999079-v:
write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
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01063490-a:
not attending school and therefore free to work
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(used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner
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place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
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dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
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having a head of straight hair cut very short (hence bristly)
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the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest
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not moving and therefore easy to attack
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Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
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too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation
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sell securities or commodities or foreign currency that is not actually owned by the seller, who hopes to cover (buy back) the sold items at a lower price and thus to earn a profit
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damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless
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conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief
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not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society
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02535896-v:
make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
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having recently calved and therefore able to give milk
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denoting or relating to cells or tissues from individuals belonging to the same species but genetically dissimilar (and hence immunologically incompatible)
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a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure
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respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration
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a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs
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an antidepressant drug that acts by blocking the reuptake of norepinephrine and serotonin and thus making more of those substances available to act on receptors in the brain
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tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived
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resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)
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chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue
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a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin)
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a blood test to detect syphilis; a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema; a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection
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(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
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an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding
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a natural accumulation of bitumens at the surface of the earth; often acts as a trap for animals whose bones are thus preserved
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an imaginary creature that controls a small hole in a partition that divides a chamber filled with gas into two parts and allows fast molecules to move in one direction and slow molecules to move in the other direction through the hole; this would result in one part of the container becoming warmer and the other cooler, thus decreasing entropy and violating the second law of thermodynamics
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someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth
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Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
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United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958)
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any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf
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a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule)
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an evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves; contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name
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in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants
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a parasitic plant that contains some chlorophyll and therefore is capable of photosynthesis
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an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low cost
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a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties
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loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance
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a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys; catalyzes the formation of angiotensin and thus affects blood pressure
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any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response
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