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  • 91total — Synonyms and related words: absolute, account, accumulative, across the board, add, add up, add up to, addend, admitting no exception, aggregate, aggregate to, all, all comprehending, all comprehensive, all covering, all embracing, all… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 92perfume — [16] The fume of perfume is the same word as English fumes, but whereas fumes has gone downhill semantically, perfume has remained in the realms of pleasant odours. It comes from French parfum, a derivative of the verb parfumer. This was borrowed …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 93leaven — I. n. 1. Yeast, ferment, barm, fermenting substance. 2. Pervading influence. II. v. a. 1. Produce or excite fermentation in, ferment, raise, lighten. 2. Imbue, pervade, permeate, tinge, color, inspire, elevate, lift. 3. Imbue, infect, vitiate,… …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 94bright — adj 1 Bright, brilliant, radiant, luminous, lustrous, effulgent, refulgent, beaming, lambent, lucent, incandescent are comparable when they mean actually or seemingly shining or glowing with light. Bright implies an opposition to dim or dull; it… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 95perfume — [16] The fume of perfume is the same word as English fumes, but whereas fumes has gone downhill semantically, perfume has remained in the realms of pleasant odours. It comes from French parfum, a derivative of the verb parfumer. This was borrowed …

    Word origins

  • 96spirit — [spir′it] n. [ME < OFr espirit < L spiritus, breath, courage, vigor, the soul, life, in LL(Ec), spirit < spirare, to blow, breathe < IE base * (s)peis , to blow > (prob.) Norw fisa, to puff, blow, OSlav piskati, to pipe, whistle] 1 …

    English World dictionary

  • 97atmosphere — n. 1 a the envelope of gases surrounding the earth, any other planet, or any substance. b the air in any particular place, esp. if unpleasant. 2 a the pervading tone or mood of a place or situation, esp. with reference to the feelings or emotions …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 98SHTETL — (pl. shtetlakh; Russ. mestechko; Pol. miasteczko; Heb. צֲיָרָה), Yiddish diminutive for shtot meaning town or city, to imply a relatively small community; in Eastern Europe a unique socio cultural communal pattern. The real criteria for the size… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 99THEOLOGY — Introduction Defined by Richard Hooker, the Renaissance theologian, as the science of things divine, theology (from the Greek word theos, God, and logos, word, doctrine ) is a sustained, rational discourse on god , His nature, His relationship to …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism