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  • 51speech — /speech/, n. 1. the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one s thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity. 2. the act of speaking: He expresses… …

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  • 52terse — adj laconic, elliptical, short winded, brevilo quent, Rare. pauciloquent, sparing of words; concise, succinct, brief, to the point, short and sweet; compact, concentrated, close, neat, lean, compendious, packed, Inf. meaty; pithy, sententious,… …

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  • 53Ernest Shackleton — Infobox Person name = Ernest Henry Shackleton image size = 180px caption = Ernest Shackleton birth date = birth date|1874|2|15|df=yes birth place = Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland death date = dda|1922|1|5|1874|2|15|df=yes death place = South… …

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  • 54sika — /see keuh/, n. a small, reddish deer, Cervus nippon, native to eastern Asia: most populations are endangered. [1890 95; < Japn, equiv. to si (perh. akin to sisi boar, game) + ka deer] * * * ▪ mammal  small, forest dwelling deer of the family&#8230; …

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  • 55asthmatic — a. Wheezing, wheezy, short breathed, short winded …

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  • 56pursy — I. adjective (pursier; est) Etymology: Middle English pursi, pursif, from Anglo French porsif, alteration of *polsif, from Old French pousser to exert pressure, breathe heavily more at push Date: 15th century 1. short winded especially because of …

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  • 57William A. Webb — Infobox Military Person name= William A. Webb lived= placeofbirth= Virginia placeofdeath= caption=William A. Webb nickname= allegiance= United States until 1861 Confederate States of America 1861 1865 serviceyears=USN 1838 1861 CSN 1861 1865 rank …

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  • 58Horehound — is a common name applied to two related genera of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae: * Ballota * Marrubium The name is of unknown origin, but with the first part hore derived from hoary , hairy . This article deals with the white horehound …

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  • 59puffy — puffily, adv. puffiness, n. /puf ee/, adj., puffier, puffiest. 1. gusty. 2. short winded; panting. 3. inflated, distended, or swollen. 4. fat; plump. 5. conceited. 6. bomb …

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  • 60pursy — pursy1 pursily, adv. pursiness, n. /perr see/, adj., pursier, pursiest. 1. short winded, esp. from corpulence or fatness. 2. corpulent or fat. [1400 50; late ME purcy, var. of ME pursif < AF porsif, var. of OF polsif, deriv. (see IVE) of polser&#8230; …

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