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  • 71season — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. period, time, spell, interval. v. t. harden, acclimate, habituate, inure, accustom; prepare, age, cure, ripen, dry out; imbue; spice, flavor. See habit, pungency, chronometry. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn.… …

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  • 72foreseeable — fore|see|a|ble [fo:ˈsi:əbəl US fo:r ] adj 1.) for/in the foreseeable future for as long as it is possible to know what is likely to happen ▪ The situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. 2.) in the foreseeable future fairly soon …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 73distant — dis|tant [ dıstənt ] adjective ** 1. ) usually before noun far away from the place where you are: I could faintly hear the distant rumble of traffic. Her eyes scanned the distant hills. The castle was four miles distant. a ) far away in time: The …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 74chalk — [OE] Latin calx meant broadly ‘lime, limestone’ (it probably came from Greek khálix ‘pebble’). This was borrowed in early times into the Germanic languages, and in most of them it retains this meaning (German kalk, for instance, means… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 75furlough — 1620s, vorloffe, from Du. verlof, lit. permission, from M.Du. ver completely, for + laf, lof permission, which is related to the second element in BELIEVE (Cf. believe) and to LEAVE (Cf. leave) (n.). The gh spelling developed by 1770s and… …

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  • 76foreseeable — [[t]fɔː(r)si͟ːəb(ə)l[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If a future event is foreseeable, you know that it will happen or that it can happen, because it is a natural or obvious consequence of something else that you know. It seems to me that this crime was… …

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  • 77revise — [[t]rɪva͟ɪz[/t]] revises, revising, revised 1) VERB If you revise the way you think about something, you adjust your thoughts, usually in order to make them better or more suited to how things are. [V n] With time he fairly soon came to revise… …

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  • 78foreseeable — adjective 1 in the foreseeable future fairly soon: There is a possibility of severe water shortages in the foreseeable future. 2 for the foreseeable future continuing in the future for as long as you can imagine: Their dependence on oil exports… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 79distant */*/ — UK [ˈdɪstənt] / US adjective 1) a) [usually before noun] far away from the place where you are Her eyes scanned the distant hills. I could faintly hear the distant rumble of traffic. The castle was four miles distant. b) far away in time The… …

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  • 80Hofmannsthal, Hugo von — (1874–1929)    The son of a bank director, Hofmannsthal was an awesome literary prodigy. His early, and already accomplished, verse appeared under the pseudonym of Loris because publishing the writing of minors was illegal. Though he studied at… …

    Historical dictionary of Austria