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  • 51performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 52United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …

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  • 53complex — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. intricate, manifold, complicated, involved, knotty. n. tangle, knot, maze; informal, obsession, fixation; inferiority, persecution, Oedipus, etc. complex. See disorder, insanity, intellect. II… …

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  • 54elaborate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. work out, develop, devise, perfect, embellish, refine. See completion, variegation. adj. labored, studied, complicated, detailed, painstaking, finished, perfected; intricate, involved. See disorder.… …

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  • 55in´tri|cate|ness — in|tri|cate «IHN truh kiht», adjective. 1. with many twists and turns; perplexing, entangled, or complicated: »An intricate knot is very hard to tie or untie. A mystery story usually has an intricate plot. SYNONYM(S): involved, complex. 2. very… …

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  • 56in´tri|cate|ly — in|tri|cate «IHN truh kiht», adjective. 1. with many twists and turns; perplexing, entangled, or complicated: »An intricate knot is very hard to tie or untie. A mystery story usually has an intricate plot. SYNONYM(S): involved, complex. 2. very… …

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  • 57in|tri|cate — «IHN truh kiht», adjective. 1. with many twists and turns; perplexing, entangled, or complicated: »An intricate knot is very hard to tie or untie. A mystery story usually has an intricate plot. SYNONYM(S): involved, complex. 2. very hard to… …

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  • 58History of wood carving — From the remotest ages the decoration of wood has been a foremost art. The tendency of human nature has always been to ornament every article in use. The North American Indian carves his wooden fish hook or his pipe stem just as the Polynesian… …

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  • 59Cake decorating — is one of the sugar arts that uses icing and other edible decorative elements to make otherwise plain cakes more visually interesting. Alternatively, cakes can be molded and sculpted to resemble three dimensional persons, places and things. In… …

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  • 60figure skating — figure skater. 1. ice skating in which the skater traces intricate patterns on the ice. 2. a type of ice skating developed from this, emphasizing jumps, spins, and other movements that combine athletic skills and dance techniques. 3. a… …

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