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branch water

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plain water, especially when mixed with liquor

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to jawbone

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to speak forcefully and persuasively; to cajole

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Whip Inflation Now (WIN)

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anti-inflation campaign introduced by Ford in 1974, meant to be grassroots

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Dunning-Kruger effect

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believing oneself to be an expert on a subject after learning just a little bit (a cognitive bias)

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entrechat

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ballet jump in which dancer crosses feet several times in midair

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Voight-Kampff test

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the test in Blade Runner to detect if humanoid is human or android

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scapegrace

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rascal, rogue

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damask

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woven and patterned silk fabric

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random walk

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mathematical object that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on some mathematical space

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paddock fence

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horse fence

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stanchion

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bar or beam acting as a barrier

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Boulwarism

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“take-it-or-leave-it” negotiating tactic

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pill (person)

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an unpleasant, unsavory, or difficult person

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Krio

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English creole spoken in Sierra Leone

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salad days

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one’s youth

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onco (etym.)

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Gr. for “mass” or “tumor”

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Lancegate

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banking scandal involving Carter’s director of Office of Budget Management in 1977

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potassium cyanide

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suicide pill that inhibits cellular respiration

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Avignon Papacy

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reign of 7 successive popes in Avignon from 1309 to 1376

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“Babylonian Captivity”

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another name for the Avignon Papacy

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Western Schism

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period from 1378 to 1417 when 2 and one point even 3 different men claimed to be Pope

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ex opere operato

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“from the work performed” (describing the efficacy of a sacrament administered by a priest; a principle refuting the heresy of Donatism)

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exigence

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(not “exigency”): rhetorical term for appeal to urgency

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wrap party

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cast party at the end of filming a movie or a TV season

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archetypal criticism
literary criticism propounded by Northrop Frye
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etymology of "meiosis"
from Greek "to make smaller"
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formica (insect)
wood ant
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formica
laminated synthetic material
29
working for scale
minimum wage, i.e. at the cheapest rate possible
30
WATS
wide area telephone service
31
Zenith number
predecessor to 800 number, usually published by businesses for customers to use at a special rate
32
Henry Classification system
fingerprint classification system that used common features of fingerprints to organize records in a way that allowed one-to-many searching
33
sodium pentathol
truth serum
34
chloroform
drug that knocks sb out
35
"Misty"
jazz standard ("Helpless as a kitten up a tree..")
36
butterfly flick
a fellatio technique
37
butterfly kiss
fluttering of an eyelash against someone else's skin or eyelash
38
check kiting
using checks from two different accounts to cover each other, as a way of either "paper hanging" or "playing the float"
39
paper hanging
check kiting with no intention to cover the 2 checks
40
playing the float
check kiting that defers covering the 2 checks until paydaya
41
to stoop to conquer
to subordinate oneself or take a lowly position in order finally to achieve one's ends
42
motorboating
face between breasts and making sound
43
Souad Massi
female Algerian singer ("Ghir Enta")
44
polydactyly/polydactylism
extra digit on hand or foot
45
dowsing
passing an instrument over surface of ground to detect what is beneath
46
_Gattaca_
1997 movie exploring the ethics of eugenics
47
oncovirus
a virus that causes cancer
48
$11.4 million
current limit in U.S. on amount you can give away as gift without paying taxes
49
Ma Rainey
early 20th century blues singer
50
Margot Fonteyn
20th c. English ballerina
51
plain water, especially when mixed with liquor
branch water
52
to speak forcefully and persuasively; to cajole
to jawbone
53
anti-inflation campaign introduced by Ford in 1974, meant to be grassroots
Whip Inflation Now (WIN)
54
believing oneself to be an expert on a subject after learning just a little bit (a cognitive bias)
Dunning-Kruger effect
55
ballet jump in which dancer crosses feet several times in midair
entrechat
56
the test in _Blade Runner_ to detect if humanoid is human or android
Voight-Kampff test
57
rascal, rogue
scapegrace
58
woven and patterned silk fabric
damask
59
mathematical object that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on some mathematical space
random walk
60
horse fence
paddock fence
61
bar or beam acting as a barrier
stanchion
62
"take-it-or-leave-it" negotiating tactic
Boulwarism
63
an unpleasant, unsavory, or difficult person
pill (person)
64
English creole spoken in Sierra Leone
Krio
65
one's youth
salad days
66
Gr. for "mass" or "tumor"
onco (etym.)
67
banking scandal involving Carter's director of Office of Budget Management in 1977
Lancegate
68
suicide pill that inhibits cellular respiration
potassium cyanide
69
reign of 7 successive popes in Avignon from 1309 to 1376
Avignon Papacy
70
another name for the Avignon Papacy
"Babylonian Captivity"
71
period from 1378 to 1417 when 2 and one point even 3 different men claimed to be Pope
Western Schism
72
"from the work performed" (describing the efficacy of a sacrament administered by a priest; a principle refuting the heresy of Donatism)
ex opere operato
73
(not "exigency"): rhetorical term for appeal to urgency
exigence
74
cast party at the end of filming a movie or a TV season
wrap party
75
literary criticism propounded by Northrop Frye
archetypal criticism
76
from Greek "to make smaller"
etymology of "meiosis"
77
wood ant
formica (insect)
78
laminated synthetic material
formica
79
minimum wage, i.e. at the cheapest rate possible
working for scale
80
wide area telephone service
WATS
81
predecessor to 800 number, usually published by businesses for customers to use at a special rate
Zenith number
82
fingerprint classification system that used common features of fingerprints to organize records in a way that allowed one-to-many searching
Henry Classification system
83
truth serum
sodium pentathol
84
drug that knocks sb out
chloroform
85
jazz standard ("Helpless as a kitten up a tree..")
"Misty"
86
a fellatio technique
butterfly flick
87
fluttering of an eyelash against someone else's skin or eyelash
butterfly kiss
88
using checks from two different accounts to cover each other, as a way of either "paper hanging" or "playing the float"
check kiting
89
check kiting with no intention to cover the 2 checks
paper hanging
90
check kiting that defers covering the 2 checks until paydaya
playing the float
91
to subordinate oneself or take a lowly position in order finally to achieve one's ends
to stoop to conquer
92
face between breasts and making sound
motorboating
93
female Algerian singer ("Ghir Enta")
Souad Massi
94
extra digit on hand or foot
polydactyly/polydactylism
95
passing an instrument over surface of ground to detect what is beneath
dowsing
96
1997 movie exploring the ethics of eugenics
_Gattaca_
97
a virus that causes cancer
oncovirus
98
current limit in U.S. on amount you can give away as gift without paying taxes
$11.4 million
99
early 20th century blues singer
Ma Rainey
100
20th c. English ballerina
Margot Fonteyn

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