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21Radish — taxobox name = Radish image caption = Red radish regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots unranked ordo = Rosids ordo = Brassicales familia = Brassicaceae genus = Raphanus species = R. sativus binomial =… …
22Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) — Infobox Symphony symphonynumber=5 name=A Soviet Artist s Response to Justified Criticism opusnumber=47 composer=Dmitri Shostakovich yearcomposed=1937 playingtime=49:40 movements=4 key=D minor Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 5 in D… …
23brevity — /brev i tee/, n. 1. shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life. 2. the quality of expressing much in few words; terseness: Brevity is the soul of wit. [1500 10; < AF brevite, OF brievete. See BRIEF, ITY] Syn. 2.… …
24conciseness — /keuhn suys nis/, n. the quality of being concise. [1650 60; CONCISE + NESS] Syn. terseness, pithiness. See brevity. * * * …
25literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
26pithy — pithily, adv. pithiness, n. /pith ee/, adj., pithier, pithiest. 1. brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation. 2. of, like, or abounding in pith. [1300 50; ME; see… …
27verbosity — /veuhr bos i tee/, n. the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity. [1535 45; < LL verbositas. See VERBOSE, ITY] Syn. prolixity, redundancy, turgidity. Ant. terseness,… …
28Jewett, (Theodora) Sarah Orne — born Sept. 3, 1849, South Berwick, Maine, U.S. died June 24, 1909, South Berwick U.S. writer. Concerned to capture the folkways of a vanishing culture, she wrote realistic sketches of aging Maine natives, whose manners, idioms, and pithiness she… …
29Muldoon, Paul — ▪ 2004 The U.S. based poet from Northern Ireland Paul Muldoon whose wit and confidence effervesced on the page, leaving readers at once amused and unsettled won several awards and notices in 2003. His 2002 collection, Moy Sand and Gravel,… …
30brevity — Synonyms and related words: brachylogy, briefness, brusqueness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, concision, crispness, curtness, dumbness, economy, economy of words, instantaneousness, laconicalness, laconicism, laconism, littleness,… …
