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• hinterland : The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast. The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port. A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater. (figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone. (figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill understood.

  2015-10-04

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  Wiktionary word of the day, October 5, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1RpPhZd from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1FOariu via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• hoyden : (archaic) A rude, uncultured or rowdy girl or woman.

  2015-10-03

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  Wiktionary word of the day, October 4, 2015 – http://bit.ly/1iUWp3T from Tumblr http://bit.ly/1M8mSSX via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• pleonasm : (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

  2015-09-27

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 28, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1JxxiJK from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1KO3zOH via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• stile : A set of steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass. A vertical component of a panel or frame, such as that of a door or window. […]

  2015-09-26

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 27, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1FqSnLa from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1iCejrR via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• dichotomy : A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division. […] (astronomy) A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures. […] (biology) A fork (bifurcation) in a stem or vein.

  2015-09-24

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 25, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1L9vAWt from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1R4773H via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• alas : A type of depression which occurs in Yakutia, formed by the subsidence of permafrost.

  2015-09-23

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 24, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1WjDZIP from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1G3Gdm5 via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• gizzardless : Without a gizzard; without guts or innards. (figuratively) Lacking courage, cowardly.

  2015-09-20

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 21, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1JjuBeQ from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1KZOVJB via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• upper-crust : (idiomatic, informal) Posh, upper-class; pertaining to the upper crust. The sixth and final season of the British drama series Downton Abbey will begin airing on this date in the UK in 2015.

  2015-09-19

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 20, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1QPM58V from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1NL6Bck via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• coctile : Made by baking, or exposure to heat. […] Built of baked bricks.

  2015-09-18

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 19, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1KlOzcF from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1KWDQsB via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• disinformation : The dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately confuse or mislead.

  2015-09-17

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 18, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1W66fyu from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1KpwEPb via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• pound a beat : (idiomatic) To walk a regular route.

  2015-09-16

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 17, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1UVZ4WY from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1MrWfxA via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• bogatyr : (historical) A medieval Russian heroic warrior, akin to the Western European knight-errant.

  2015-09-15

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 16, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1FebeZq from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1FLx5Cn via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• Croydon facelift : (British slang, derogatory) A hairstyle, supposedly favoured by lower-class women, in which the hair is pulled tightly back from the face and fastened behind the head, thus pulling the features up and back and (unintentionally) giving an effect similar to a facelift.

  2015-09-14

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 15, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1MnKuIJ from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Nsz0SL via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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• entrench : (archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench. (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in. (figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc. To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.

  2015-09-13

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  Wiktionary word of the day, September 14, 2015 – http://ift.tt/1Lbh8vC from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1KMlYk9 via Peace Love Beauty Wisdom Balance Imagination Truth Consciousness

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