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1pretence — (BrE) (AmE pretense) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ elaborate ▪ It was all an elaborate pretence. ▪ flimsy, slight ▪ There is not even the slightest pretence of trying to make it realistic …
2pretence — noun 1. /prəˈtɛns / (say pruh tens) pretending or feigning; make believe: my sleepiness was all pretence. 2. /prəˈtɛns / (say pruh tens) a false show of something: a pretence of friendship. 3. /prəˈtɛns / (say pruh tens) a piece of make believe.… …
3pretence — n. (US pretense) 1 pretending, make believe. 2 a a pretext or excuse (on the slightest pretence). b a false show of intentions or motives (under the pretence of friendship; under false pretences). 3 (foll. by to) a claim, esp. a false or… …
4All in the golden afternoon... — is Lewis Carroll s prefatory peom in his book Alice s Adventures in Wonderland in which he recalls the afternoon on which he improvised the Alice in Wonderland story on a boat trip from Oxford to Godstow, for the benefit of the three Liddell… …
5pretence — pre|tence BrE pretense AmE [prıˈtens US ˈpri:tens] n [singular,U] 1.) a way of behaving which is intended to make people believe something that is not true pretence that ▪ the pretence that the old system could be made to work pretence of/at… …
6All My Sons — Infobox Play name = All My Sons image size = caption = writer = Arthur Miller characters = Joe Keller Kate Keller Chris Keller Ann Deever George Deever Frank Lubey Lydia Lubey Jim Bayliss Sue Bayliss Bert setting = The Keller s yard in late… …
7abandon — I UK [əˈbændən] / US verb [transitive] Word forms abandon : present tense I/you/we/they abandon he/she/it abandons present participle abandoning past tense abandoned past participle abandoned ** 1) a) to leave someone when you should stay with… …
8Russia — • Geography and history Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Russia Russia † Catholic E …
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10Institutions in the Southern Victory (Timeline-191) series — Timeline 191 is a fan name given to a series of Harry Turtledove alternate history novels. TL 191 includes the novel How Few Remain , and the Great War, American Empire, and Settling Accounts series. They detail events in four major eras between… …
