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sublimate v

(physics): To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state. To redirect the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable activity

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caesura n

A a pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art. In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot

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humble v

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to humiliate. To make meek or lowly in mind; to make submissive

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cloister n

A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion

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zeugma n

The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one or in different ways

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procrustean adj

Producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means; marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances

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