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1ob´vi|ous|ness — ob|vi|ous «OB vee uhs», adjective. 1. easily seen or understood; clear to the eye or mind; not to be doubted; plain: »It is obvious that two and two make four. It is obvious that a blind man ought not to drive an automobile. The frail child was… …
2ob´vi|ous|ly — ob|vi|ous «OB vee uhs», adjective. 1. easily seen or understood; clear to the eye or mind; not to be doubted; plain: »It is obvious that two and two make four. It is obvious that a blind man ought not to drive an automobile. The frail child was… …
3ob|vi|ous — «OB vee uhs», adjective. 1. easily seen or understood; clear to the eye or mind; not to be doubted; plain: »It is obvious that two and two make four. It is obvious that a blind man ought not to drive an automobile. The frail child was in obvious… …
4comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …
5Heraclitus — Catherine Osborne No philosopher before Socrates can have had such a profound influence on so many generations of subsequent thinkers as Heraclitus. Nor can any thinker, probably in the whole history of philosophy, have inspired such a wide range …
6Richard Mitchell — Dr. Richard Mitchell (April 26, 1929 ndash; December 27, 2002) was a professor, first of English and later of classics, [Sources are unclear on this subject. See the section Life for details.] at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey.… …
7language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …
8satire — /sat uyeur/, n. 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. 3 …
9Irony — Ironic redirects here. For the song, see Ironic (song). For other uses, see irony (disambiguation). A Stop sign ironically defaced with a beseechment not to deface stop signs Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation… …
10Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet …
