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The term logogriph is also used for the puzzle type in which a pair of anagrams must be deduced from synonyms [1] (e.g. YELLOW FISH would lead to the answer AMBER BREAM). The following example of a logogriph created by Lord Macaulay refers to the word COD: Cut off my head, how singular I act! Cut off my tail, and plural I appear.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
comare: literally "godmother" in Southern Italian slang, usually pronounced "goomah" or "goomar" in American English: a Mafia mistress. confirm: to be made; see made guy. connected guy: an associate consigliere: the family adviser, who is always consulted before decisions are made. Cosa Nostra (Our thing): mob term for the family or Mafia
Emasculated Skoptsy male (left) and Skoptsy female with breasts cut off (right) Emasculation was one form of genital mutilation practiced by the Skoptsy, a Russian Christian sect. For males, the other form of mutilation available was castration. Females could remove their nipples, breasts, labia majora, labia minora or clitoris. [36]
Big Hero 6 (2014): When Hiro manages to knock off the supervillain's mask at a teleportation research on an island, he thought that the villain was Krei, but its true identity was revealed to be Professor Callaghan instead, who faked his death by revealing that he escaped from the burning building by using Hiro's microbots to shield himself ...
The candidate was greeted by booing from the crowd outside his polling place in New York City on Tuesday when he arrived to vote, and now we may know why.
Galvarino. Galvarino (died c. November 30, 1557) was a famous Mapuche warrior during majority of the early part of the Arauco War.He fought and was taken prisoner along with one hundred and fifty other Mapuche, in the Battle of Lagunillas against governor García Hurtado de Mendoza.
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