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- AVIDEnthusiastic; keen; eager; showing great interest in something or desire to do something.
- DESULTORYJumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.
- DUCTA pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
- EXARCHIn the Byzantine Empire, a governor of a distant province.
- FALXA short Dacian sword resembling a sickle.
- GLACISA gentle incline. A gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material. A gentle incline in front of a fortification which protects it from cannon fire and ex
- GRAVIDPregnant.
- KEPIA cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms.
- MUREXAny member of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
- OBVIATETo anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
- PERFIDIOUSOf, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
- POSSETA beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, such as wine.
- PREFIXSomething placed before another A morpheme added to the beginning of a word to modify its meaning, for example as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure, re- in reheat, etc.
- RAPTSnatched, taken away; abducted.
- VAGUSEllipsis of vagus nerve.
- VERIFYTo substantiate or prove the truth of something.
- VERITYTruth, fact or reality, especially an enduring religious or ethical truth; veracity.
- VOULGEA medieval poleaxe bearing resemblance to a glaive or a Lochaber ax, although the blade portion is somewhat more elongated.