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  • 31wit — n 1 intelligence, brain, *mind, intellect, soul, psyche Analogous words: *reason, understanding, intuition: comprehension, apprehension (see under APPREHEND): sagaciousness or sagacity, perspicaciousness or perspicacity (see corresponding… …

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  • 32wit — [ wıt ] noun * 1. ) singular or uncount the ability to use words in a clever way to make people laugh: He is a man of great wit, sensitivity, and passion. a dry/biting/acerbic/caustic wit (=the tendency to say clever and slightly cruel things):… …

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  • 33wit — wit1 [wit] n. [ME < OE, akin to Ger witz: for IE base see WISE1] 1. Obs. the mind 2. [pl.] a) powers of thinking and reasoning; intellectual and perceptive powers b) mental faculties with respect to their state of balance, esp. in their normal …

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  • 34Wit Without Money — is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, and first published in 1639.Date and authorshipScholars have dated the play to c. 1614, based on allusions to contemporary events mdash; notably to the dragon that was reportedly… …

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  • 35wit — ► NOUN 1) (also wits) the capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence. 2) a natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour. 3) a person with this aptitude. ● be at one s wits …

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  • 36at one's wit's end — at a loss as means to solve a problem …

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  • 37wit — noun 1 clever use of words ADJECTIVE ▪ great ▪ quick, ready ▪ acerbic, barbed, biting, caustic, dry …

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  • 38Wit (play) — Infobox Play name = Wit image size = 150px caption = 1999 Faber and Faber edition writer = Margaret Edson characters = Vivian Bearing Harvey Kelekian Jason Posner Susie Monahan E.M. Ashford Mr Bearing Laboratory technicians Dr Bearing s Students… …

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  • 39wit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Cleverness Nouns 1. wit, wittiness; Atticism; salt; sense of humor, funny bone, esprit, point, fancy, whim, humor, drollery, pleasantry; comedy; jocularity, jocosity, jocoseness; levity, facetiousness;… …

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  • 40Wit (film) — Infobox Film name = Wit image size = caption = director = Mike Nichols producer = Simon Bosanquet writer = Margaret Edson (play) Emma Thompson Mike Nichols narrator = starring = music = Henryk Górecki Dmitri Shostakovich Arvo Pärt cinematography …

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