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To be bemused is to be perplexed or bewildered; however, it is commonly used incorrectly in place of amused. bisect and dissect. Bisect means "to cut into two"; dissect means "to cut apart", both literally and figuratively. Disect is an archaic word meaning "to separate by cutting", but has not been in common use since the 17th century.
In Genesis Rabbah 2:2, the amoraim Abbahu and Shimon ben Pazi give analogies in which tohu wabohu means "bewildered and astonished" (mentally formless and void), referring to the Earth's confusion after, having been created simultaneously with the Heavens in Genesis 1:1, it now immediately plays an inferior role.
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
There’s no shame in asking for Wordle assistance now and again. Before diving into the hints and solutions for the Thursday, Feb. 6 puzzle, though, let’s go over the basics of Wordle.
Health experts recommend reducing a person's intake of ultra-processed foods. A registered dietitian and the CEO of Nourish Science share some helpful ways to spot these foods where you shop.
Octomom Natalie Suleman is ready to bring her story to the screen. The 49-year-old single mom of 14 — who made history as the first person to give birth to surviving octuplets in 2009 — is the ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
different or interesting, exceptional; synonym for cool (short for "radical") [43] [56] [57] railroad tramway (obsolete) (v.) to coerce to convict with undue haste or with insufficient evidence the general term for the system of mass transit using trains running on rails: see usage of the terms railroad and railway (v.) to work on the railroad