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| ELEPHANTIASIS | | n. Skin disease causing gross enlargement of limbs etc.
- n. Skin disease causing gross enlargement of limbs etc. | |
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| ENCEPHALOGRAM | | n. = *electroencephalogram. | |
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| ENLIGHTENMENT | | n. - enlightening or being enlightened.
- (the enlightenment) 18th-c. Philosophy of reason and individualism. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | | n. - entertaining or being entertained.
- thing that entertains; performance. | |
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| ESTABLISHMENT | | n. - establishing or being established.
- a business organization or public institution. B place of business. C residence.
- a staff of an organization. B household.
- organized body permanently maintained.
- church system organized by law.
- (the establishment) social group with authority or influence and resisting change. | |
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| EXCEPTIONABLE | | adj. Open to objection. | |
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| EXCOMMUNICATE | | —v. (-ting) officially exclude (a person) from membership and esp. Sacraments of the church. —adj. Excommunicated. —n. Excommunicated person. excommunication n. [latin: related to *common] | |
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| EXHIBITIONISM | | n. - tendency towards attention-seeking behaviour.
- psychol. Compulsion to display one's genitals in public. exhibitionist n. | |
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| EXPEDITIONARY | | adj. Of or used in an expedition. | |
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| EXPRESSIONISM | | n. Style of painting, music, drama, etc., seeking to express emotion rather than the external world. expressionist n. & adj. | |
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