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  • 111mystery — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great ▪ How the disease started is one of medicine s great mysteries. ▪ little, minor, small ▪ one of life s little mysteries …

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  • 112Kiltarlity —    KILTARLITY, a parish, in the county of Inverness, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Beauly; containing 2869 inhabitants. This place, the origin of the name of which is altogether uncertain, and which comprehends the old parish of Convinth, is… …

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  • 113mystery — n. 1) to pose a mystery (her disappearance poses a real mystery) 2) to clear up; fathom, solve, unravel a mystery 3) an unsolved mystery 4) a murder mystery 5) a mystery deepens 6) a mystery to (it was a mystery to me) 7) (misc.) shrouded,… …

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  • 114misty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. indistinct, obscure, blurry; informal, tearful, weepy. See obscurity, dejection. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. dim, foggy, hazy, murky, shrouded, obscure, enveloped in mist, enveloped in spray; see… …

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  • 115mist — mist1 [ mıst ] noun 1. ) count or uncount a mass of small drops of water in the air close to the ground: The early morning mist was clearing to reveal a glorious day. shrouded in mist (=completely hidden by mist): The whole coast became shrouded… …

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  • 116mystery — mys|ter|y1 [ mıst(ə)ri ] noun ** ▸ 1 something you cannot explain ▸ 2 being hard to explain ▸ 3 type of story/movie etc. ▸ 4 secrets about subject ▸ 5 in religion 1. ) count something that you are not able to understand, explain, or get… …

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  • 117secrecy — se|cre|cy [ sikrəsi ] noun uncount a situation in which you keep something secret, or the process of keeping something secret: Discussions were to take place in total secrecy. shrouded/cloaked/veiled in secrecy: The Iraqi contract was shrouded in …

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  • 118shroud — shroud1 [ ʃraud ] noun count 1. ) a piece of cloth that is wrapped around a dead body before it is buried 2. ) MAINLY LITERARY something that covers or hides something: A shroud of darkness hung over the city. shroud shroud 2 [ ʃraud ] verb… …

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  • 119New American Poetry, 1945-1960, The —    Donald Allen, ed. (1960)    This landmark anthology, edited by Donald M(erriam) Allen (1912–2004), introduced Beat poets and other avant garde post–World War II poets to a wide reading audience on its publication by Grove Press in 1960. It… …

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  • 120On the Road — by Jack Kerouac (1957)    Jack Kerouac’s On the Road has been called the Bible of the Beat Generation and is arguably the most important literary text to come out of that movement. In his review of the book in 1957 for the New York Times, Gilbert …

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