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  • 71china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …

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  • 72China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …

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  • 73circumstance — /serr keuhm stans / or, esp. Brit., / steuhns/, n., v., circumstanced, circumstancing. n. 1. a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner,agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a… …

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  • 74dispensable — dispensability, dispensableness, n. /di spen seuh beuhl/, adj. 1. capable of being dispensed with or done without; not necessary or essential. 2. capable of being dispensed or administered: The money is not dispensable at present. 3. Rom. Cath.… …

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  • 75motion picture — motion picture, adj. 1. a sequence of consecutive pictures of objects photographed in motion by a specially designed camera (motion picture camera) and thrown on a screen by a projector (motion picture projector) in such rapid succession as to… …

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  • 76needless — needlessly, adv. needlessness, n. /need lis/, adj. unnecessary; not needed or wanted: a needless waste of food. [1175 1225; ME nedles. See NEED, LESS] Syn. unessential, gratuitous, pointless, uncalled for. * * * …

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  • 77unnecessary — unnecessarily /un nes euh sair euh lee, nes euh ser /, adv. unnecessariness, n. /un nes euh ser ee/, adj., n., pl. unnecessaries. adj. 1. not necessary or essential; needless; unessential. n. 2. unnecessaries, things that are not necessary or… …

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  • 78Italian literature — Introduction       the body of written works produced in the Italian language that had its beginnings in the 13th century. Until that time nearly all literary work composed in the Middle Ages was written in Latin. Moreover, it was predominantly… …

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  • 79military communication — Introduction       the transmission of information from reconnaissance and other units in contact with the enemy and the means for exercising command by the transmission of orders and instructions of commanders to their subordinates. As such, it… …

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  • 80John Adams: Inaugural Address — ▪ Primary Source       Saturday, March 4, 1797       When it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for America remained between unlimited submission to a foreign legislature and a total independence of its claims, men of… …

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