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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
David F. Swenson translated the book as Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Human Life (subtitle: Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions) in 1941 and Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong did so in 1993 under the title, Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions. What It Means To Seek God, On the Occasion of a Confessional Service
Each game originally had 25 questions, later reduced to 20, then 15 and eventually 12; on a very few special occasions there were 30 questions. At one point in the quiz's history, the red, yellow and green keys were sensible answers and the blue was mostly reserved for a comical response (which was occasionally the correct one).
In The Great Debate, teams captains Mikey Robins and Claire Hooper portrayed opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard, respectively, and responded to questions on party policies asked by McDermott in a parody of the 2010 leaders debate. [9] On a second occasion, leaders were portrayed by panellists Peter Berner and Corinne ...
When an answer is composed of multiple or hyphenated words, some crosswords (especially in Britain) indicate the structure of the answer. For example, "(3,5)" after a clue indicates that the answer is composed of a three-letter word followed by a five-letter word. Most American-style crosswords do not provide this information.
The LDS Church has officially encouraged its members to write hymns and poems on multiple occasions. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] In Mormon scripture, God emphasizes the importance of song and verse: "my soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me."
A house in multiple occupation (HMO), [1] or a house of multiple occupancy, is a British English term which refers to residential properties where 'common areas' exist and are shared by more than one household. Most HMOs have been subdivided from larger houses designed for and occupied by one family.
Tom Service of The Guardian called it "Carter at his most ebullient and unbuttoned." [2] Reviewing a 2006 performance of the work, he wrote, "For all his avant-garde rigour, Carter's music is definitively American, and in Knussen's performance of the exuberant Three Occasions, there was music of glinting, luminous brilliance, like sunlight playing on the glass and steel of New York's skyscrapers.