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• Superficial
  '''Superficial''' is an adjective generally [[meaning]] "regarding the surface", often [[metaphorically]]. Bo
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• Celestial
  Adjective - '''celestial''' (not comparable)
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• Proteus
  ...ne who is capable of capturing him. From this feature of Proteus comes the adjective protean, with the general meaning of "[[versatile]]", "mutable", "capable ...m Proteus' [[transforming]] [[nature]], and multifarious aspects comes our adjective "protean". A "protean [[career]]" would [[embrace]] many human concerns. Fo
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• Condemn
  ...overtones. From it in [[English]] came "condemn"; "damnified" (an obsolete adjective [[meaning]] "damaged"); "damage" (via French from Latin damnaticum). It beg
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• Classic
  ...ething of lasting worth or with a timeless [[quality]]. The word can be an adjective (a classic car) or a noun (a classic of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engl
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• Abyss
  ...from Late Latin ''abyssus'', from [[Greek]] ''ἄβυσσο'', from ''abyssos'', adjective, bottomless, from a- + ''byssos'' depth; perhaps akin to [[Greek]] ''bathys
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• Vaccine
  ...variolae'' ''vaccinae'' cowpox), from ''Latin'', feminine of ''vaccinus'', adjective, of or from cows, from ''vacca'' cow; akin to [[Sanskrit]] ''vaśa'' cow
  2 KB (262 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
• Grotesque
  ...ENGLISH_PERIOD modern English], grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or bizarre, and
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• Internship
  as an adjective in the sense ‘internal’: from French ''interne'' (adjective), ''interner'' (verb), from [[Latin]] ''internus'' ‘inward, internal.’
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• Atrophy
  ...art are referred to as trophic [noun] in medical practice ('trophic" is an adjective that can be paired with various nouns). ''Trophic'' [[describes]] the troph
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• Loyalty
  *Adjective. French. loyal, Old French. loial, leial, semi-popular ad. L. lgl-em
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• Waste
  ...] waste, wast; in sense 1, from Anglo-French wast, from wast, gast, guast, adjective, desolate, waste, from [[Latin]] vastus; in other senses, from Middle Engli
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• Corpora
  ...agging, in which information about each word's part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of tags. Another example is indic
  3 KB (383 words) - 19:45, 29 April 2008
• Perversion
  ...form as "perv" and used as a verb meaning "to act like a pervert", and the adjective "pervy" also occurs. All are often, but not exclusively, used non-seriously
  2 KB (259 words) - 01:50, 13 December 2020
• Morale
  ...r senses, [[modification]] of French ''moral'' ''morale'', from ''moral'', adjective
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• Cavalier
  :''adjective''
  2 KB (291 words) - 23:45, 12 December 2020
• Twelve
  ...alled a ''Duodecad''. The ordinal adjective is ''duodenary'', twelfth. The adjective referring to a [[group]] consisting of twelve [[things]] is ''duodecuple''.
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• Entity
  The word entitative is the adjective form of the noun entity. Something that is entitative is "considered as pur
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• Realism
  ...lo-Norman ''real'' and Middle French ''reel'', ''real'' (French ''réel'') (adjective) (in [[legal]] use) that concerns [[things]] and not people (1283), [[actua
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• Subconscious
  ...el of awareness and [[automatism]]. In the strict psychological sense, the adjective is defined as "operating or existing outside of [[consciousness]]".[https:/
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