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  • 51Progressive euchre — Progressive Pro*gress ive, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] [1913 Webster] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to {retrograde}. [1913 Webster] 2. Improving; as, art is… …

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  • 52Progressive muscular atrophy — Progressive Pro*gress ive, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] [1913 Webster] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to {retrograde}. [1913 Webster] 2. Improving; as, art is… …

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  • 53Progressive whist — Progressive Pro*gress ive, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] [1913 Webster] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to {retrograde}. [1913 Webster] 2. Improving; as, art is… …

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  • 54Progressively — Progressive Pro*gress ive, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] [1913 Webster] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to {retrograde}. [1913 Webster] 2. Improving; as, art is… …

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  • 55Progressiveness — Progressive Pro*gress ive, a. [Cf. F. progressif.] [1913 Webster] 1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to {retrograde}. [1913 Webster] 2. Improving; as, art is… …

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  • 56authoritarian — adjective Date: 1879 1. of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority < had authoritarian parents > 2. of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people < an&#8230; …

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  • 57democratic — adjective Date: 1602 1. of, relating to, or favoring democracy 2. often capitalized of or relating to one of the two major political parties in the United States evolving in the early 19th century from the anti federalists and the Democratic&#8230; …

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  • 58odds — noun plural but singular or plural in construction Date: circa 1520 1. a. archaic inequalities b. obsolete degree of unlikeness 2. a. an amount by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another < won the election by considerable odds > b …

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  • 59Boris Yeltsin — Yeltsin redirects here. For other uses, see Yeltsin (disambiguation). Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin Борис Николаевич Ельцин 1st President of the Russian Federation In office 25 December 1991&#160;– …

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  • 60Catalonia — For other uses, see Catalonia (disambiguation) and Catalunya (disambiguation). Catalonia Catalunya (Catalan) Cataluña (Spanish) Catalonha …

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