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  • 121hash — hash1 /hash/, n. 1. a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy. 2. a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of …

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  • 122mess — /mes/, n. 1. a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess. 2. a person or thing that is dirty, untidy, or disordered. 3. a state of embarrassing confusion: My affairs are in a mess. 4. an unpleasant or difficult situation: She …

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  • 123Herbert Hoover: The New Deal and European Collectivism — ▪ Primary Source              The address by ex President Hoover, from which the following selection is taken, was delivered to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on June 10, 1936. Although Hoover was still the dominant figure in the …

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  • 124confuse — I (bewilder) verb abash, addle, astonish, baffle, befog, befuddle, bemuddle, confound, confundere, daze, discompose, disconcert, distract, embarrass, flurry, fluster, fog, jumble, mislead, mix up, muddle, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, permiscere,… …

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  • 125Heraclitus — 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 …

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  • 126botch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. bungle, blunder, butcher; mar, spoil; mismanage. See unskillfulness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. bungle, spoil, mar, ruin, wreck, mutilate, fumble, distort, blunder, mishandle, do clumsily, muddle, make a …

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  • 127confound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. confuse, bewilder, perplex, nonplus, dumbfound, dismay, mix up, puzzle; rout, overcome, overthrow. See surprise, success. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To mix] Syn. jumble, commingle, blend, mix up; see… …

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  • 128obfuscate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. darken, obscure; bewilder. See darkness, unintelligibility. Ant., clarify, enlighten. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. obscure, muddle, confuse; see muddle 1 , confuse . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus)… …

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