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  • 61Egyptian language — Extinct Afro Asiatic language of the Nile River valley. Its very long history comprises five periods: Old Egyptian (с 3000–с 2200 BC), best exemplified by a corpus of religious inscriptions known as the Pyramid Texts and a group of… …

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  • 62Söderblom, Nathan — ▪ Swedish archbishop born Jan. 15, 1866, Trönö, Sweden died July 12, 1931, Uppsala  Swedish Lutheran archbishop and theologian who in 1930 received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to further international understanding through church… …

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  • 63Гиндин, Сергей Иосифович — В Википедии есть статьи о других людях с такой фамилией, см. Гиндин. Сергей Иосифович Гиндин …

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  • 64drawer — [16] A drawer is literally something that is ‘drawn’ or ‘pulled’ out. The coinage was perhaps based on French tiroir ‘drawer’, which was similarly derived from the verb tirer ‘pull’. The same basic notion underlies the formation of drawers [16],… …

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  • 65thresh — O.E. þrescan, þerscan to beat, sift grain by trampling or beating, from P.Gmc. *threskanan to thresh, originally to tread, to stamp noisily (Cf. M.Du. derschen, Du. dorschen, O.H.G. dreskan, Ger. dreschen, O.N. þreskja, Goth. þriskan), from PIE… …

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  • 66trivial — early 15c., of the trivium, from M.L. trivialis, from trivium first three of the seven liberal arts, from L., lit. place where three roads meet, from tri three + via road. The basic notion is of that which may be found anywhere, commonplace,… …

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  • 67wanton — {{11}}wanton (adj.) c.1300, wan towen, resistant to control; willful, from Middle English privative prefix wan wanting, lacking (from O.E. wan wanting; see WANE (Cf. wane)) + togen, pp. of teon to train, discipline; lit. to pull, draw, from P.Gmc …

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  • 68collocation — [[t]kɒ̱ləke͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] collocations N VAR In linguistics, collocation is the way that some words occur regularly whenever another word is used. [TECHNICAL] ...the basic notion of collocation …

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  • 69calm — adj Calm, tranquil, serene, placid, peaceful, halcyonmean quiet and free from all that disturbs or excites. Calm is primarily applied to sea or weather, usually conveys an implicit contrast with its opposite, stormy, and suggests freedom, real or …

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  • 70clean — adj Clean, cleanly are often confused. Clean is applied to a person or thing that is actually free from dirt; cleanly to a person or animal whose habit or tendency is to be clean; thus, one who is cleanly, though not always able to keep clean,… …

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