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  • 111pantalonnade — [ pɑ̃talɔnad ] n. f. • 1597 « danse burlesque »; de Pantalon, personnage de la comédie italienne 1 ♦ Farce burlesque assez grossière. 2 ♦ (1751) Manifestation hypocrite (de dévouement, de loyauté, de regret). ● pantalonnade nom féminin Pièce… …

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  • 112prétexte — 1. prétexte [ pretɛkst ] n. f. et adj. • 1355 ; lat. prætexta (toga) « (toge) bordée (de pourpre) », de prætexere « border » ♦ Antiq. rom. Toge blanche bordée d une bande de pourpre que portaient les jeunes patriciens et certains hauts magistrats …

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  • 113evasion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. elusion, avoidance, escape; equivocation; trick, subterfuge. See nonpayment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dodging, quibble, subterfuge, equivocation; see avoidance , deception 1 , trick 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 114maneuver — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. artifice, stratagem, tactic. See cunning, plan. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A movement, usually military] Syn. stratagem, movement, procedure; see plan 2 , tactics . 2. [A trick] Syn. trick, subterfuge,… …

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  • 115ruse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trick, stratagem, artifice, wile, subterfuge. See cunning. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. artifice, stratagem, ploy, deceit; see device 2 , trick 1 . See Synonym Study at trick . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 116stratagem — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trick, subterfuge, artifice, ploy, ruse, guile, wile. See deception, cunning. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. trick, deception, plot, scheme; see method 2 . See Synonym Study at trick . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 117Assassination — is the targeted murder of a high profile person. [ [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=assassin Assassin] (from Wordnet, Princeton University)] An added distinction between assassination and other forms of killing is that the assassin (one …

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  • 118Buffer overflow — In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomalous condition where a process attempts to store data beyond the boundaries of a fixed length buffer. The result is that the extra data overwrites adjacent… …

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  • 119The Daily Telegraph — This article is about the UK newspaper. For the Australian newspaper, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia). For other uses, see The Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph …

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  • 120Los Planetas — ( The Planets ) is a Spanish indie group from the city of Granada which started out in the second half of the 1990s and continue now through the 2000s. The group s first hit was Qué puedo hacer ( What can I do? ) from their album Super 8 ,… …

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