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  • 71boasting — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Bragging speech Nouns 1. boasting, boast, vaunt[ing], puff, fanfaronade, bluster, gasconade, braggadocio, bravado, swagger, exultation, jactation; gloating, exultation; buncombe (See absurdity); bounce… …

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  • 72rooster — roost|er [ rustər ] noun count a male chicken. The sound a rooster makes is called crowing, and it is written or spoken as cock a doodle do. British usually cock …

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  • 73rooster —    a cock    A survival from 19th century American prudery, when any mention of a cock was taboo:     ... engine noises clinging to the trees, the rooster crowing. (Theroux, 1993) …

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  • 74Aubade — Au bade , n. [F., fr. aube the dawn, fr. L. albus white.] An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. [1913 Webster] The crowing cock . . . Sang his… …

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  • 75Babe (film) — Infobox Film | name = Babe caption = Theatrical release poster director = Chris Noonan producer = writer = Dick King Smith (book) George Miller Chris Noonan starring = James Cromwell Magda Szubanski Christine Cavanaugh Zoe Burton Miriam Margolyes …

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  • 76Akiba ben Joseph — Akiva redirects here. For other people and things with this name, see Akiva (disambiguation). Akiba ben Joseph (ca.50–ca.135 AD) (Hebrew: עקיבא) or simply Rabbi Akiva was a Judean tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of… …

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  • 77Feral Pigeon — Feral Rock Pigeon Feral Rock Pigeons feeding in a park Conservation status …

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  • 78Saraswati — This article is about the goddess in Puranic Hinduism and Buddhism. For the Vedic river or river goddess, see Sarasvati River. Saraswati Saraswati by Raja Ravi Varma Devanagari सरस्वती …

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  • 79Robert Coates (actor) — Robert Coates (1772 1848) was a British would be actor who became famous for his atrocious skills. His favourite part was Shakespeare s Romeo. Biography Robert Coates was born in Antigua in the West Indies as a son of a wealthy sugar planter. His …

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  • 80Winterreise — Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder. Oil painting, 1875, after a watercolor painting by Rieder of 1825. Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24… …

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