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  2. Double entendre - Wikipedia

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    Lodgings to Let, an 1814 engraving featuring a double entendre. He: "My sweet honey, I hope you are to be let with the Lodgins!" She: "No, sir, I am to be let alone".. A double entendre [note 1] (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that ...

  3. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    engender wonder ponder selfhood identity sake, ground reason, cause weep, sob cry knowledge science lawyer attorney to flee to escape thrall serf, captive hearty cordial deem consider, judge harbour, haven port sunder: sever sunstead: solstice evennight: equinox answer reply, response follow ensue fall, harvest autumn leave permission seethe ...

  4. Engender - Wikipedia

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    Engender is an anti-sexist organisation operating in Scotland and other parts of Europe. They aim "to make Scotland a fairer, safer place where women can flourish and ...

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. Syntactic change - Wikipedia

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    The effect of phonological change can trigger morphological reanalysis, which can then engender changes in syntactic structures. Syntactic change is a phenomenon creating a shift in language patterns over time and is subject to cyclic drift . [ 1 ]

  7. Jay-Z's response to rape allegation shocked. Our reaction ...

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    Jay-Z has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Sean "Diddy" Combs in the early 2000s. For some, his statement in response to the allegations was more shocking than the lawsuit ...

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    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 synonymous .

  9. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.