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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
  2 KB (271 words) - 02:41, 13 December 2020
• 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
  5 KB (752 words) - 01:24, 13 December 2020
• 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''.
  7 KB (1,012 words) - 02:42, 13 December 2020
• Entity
  The word entitative is the adjective form of the noun entity. Something that is entitative is "considered as pur
  2 KB (313 words) - 00:16, 13 December 2020
• Realism
  ...lo-Norman ''real'' and Middle French ''reel'', ''real'' (French ''réel'') (adjective) (in [[legal]] use) that concerns [[things]] and not people (1283), [[actua
  2 KB (328 words) - 02:32, 13 December 2020
• Subconscious
  ...el of awareness and [[automatism]]. In the strict psychological sense, the adjective is defined as "operating or existing outside of [[consciousness]]".[https:/
  2 KB (305 words) - 02:04, 13 December 2020
• Profanity
  The original [[meaning]] of the adjective profane (Latin: "in front of", "outside the temple") referred to items not
  2 KB (320 words) - 02:36, 13 December 2020
• Crescendo
  Italian, from ''crescendo'', adjective, increasing, gerund of ''crescere'' to [[grow]], increase, from [[Latin]]
  2 KB (328 words) - 23:42, 12 December 2020
• Majesty
  ...sive (your, his, her, the king's, the queen's); sometimes with a modifying adjective, as (most) sacred, gracious, royal, etc.: an honorific title given to a kin
  2 KB (281 words) - 22:29, 12 December 2020
• Human
  ...h] loan from Old French humain, [[ultimate]]ly from [[Latin]] hūmānus, the adjective of homō "man". Use as a noun (with a plural humans) dates to the 16th cent
  6 KB (822 words) - 00:00, 13 December 2020
• Supernatural
  ...with [[paranormal]] or preternatural - the latter typically limited to an adjective for describing [[abilities]] which appear to exceed possible bounds. Likewi
  3 KB (366 words) - 02:36, 13 December 2020
• Law
  ...ne.com/index.php?search=law&searchmode=none Etymonline Dictionary] and the adjective ''legal'' comes from the Latin word ''lex''. [https://www.m-w.com/dictionar
  2 KB (346 words) - 01:23, 13 December 2020
• Surgery
  ...rgery. In this [[context]], the verb operate means to perform surgery. The adjective surgical means pertaining to surgery; e.g. surgical instruments or surgical
  2 KB (330 words) - 02:11, 13 December 2020
• Hysteria
  New Latin, from [[English]] hysteric, adjective, from [[Latin]] hystericus, from [[Greek]] hysterikos, from hystera [[womb]
  3 KB (361 words) - 01:17, 13 December 2020
• Mob
  ...ne who is an advocate or partisan of ochlocracy. It can also be used as an adjective (ochlocratic or ochlocratical).
  3 KB (396 words) - 02:37, 13 December 2020
• Polytheism
  It [[ultimate]]ly derives from the [[Greek]] adjective πολυθεός (from πολύς "many" and θεός "god"), in the [[mean
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