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  • 21To make nice of — Nice Nice (n[imac]s), a. [Compar. {Nicer} (n[imac] s[ e]r); superl. {Nicest}.] [OE., foolish, fr. OF. nice ignorant, fool, fr. L. nescius ignorant; ne not + scius knowing, scire to know. Perhaps influenced by E. nesh delicate, soft. See {No}, and …

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  • 22choosy — or choosey adjective (choosier; est) Date: 1862 fastidiously selective ; particular < choosy shoppers > …

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  • 23fastidious — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin fastidiosus, from fastidium disgust, probably from fastus arrogance (probably akin to Latin fastigium top) + taedium irksomeness more at tedium Date: 15th century 1. archaic scornful 2. a. having&#8230; …

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  • 24select — I. adjective Etymology: Latin selectus, past participle of seligere to select, from se apart (from sed, se without) + legere to gather, select more at suicide, legend Date: circa 1555 1. chosen from a number or group by fitness or preference 2. a …

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  • 25Musicology — For other uses, see Musicology (disambiguation). Musicology (Greek: μουσική mousikē = music and λογία logia ( logy) = the study of , from λόγος logos = word or reason ) is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and&#8230; …

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  • 26Etiquette — For other uses, see Etiquette (disambiguation). For Wikipedia s guidelines on etiquette, see Wikipedia:Etiquette. In High Change in Bond Street, ou la Politesse du Grande Monde (1796), James Gillray caricatured the lack of etiquette in a group of …

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  • 27Huntington, West Virginia — City of Huntington, West Virginia &#160;&#160;City&#160;&#160; Huntington s Central Business District as seen from the Robert C. Byrd Bridge at 6th Street …

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  • 28Motown Records — Motown redirects here. For the city, see Detroit, Michigan. infobox record label The classic Motown logo. parent = Universal Music Group founded = January 12th 1959 founder = Berry Gordy distributor = The Universal Motown/Universal Republic Group …

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  • 29Overprint — This article is about overprints on stamps and currency. For the use of the term in printing, see overprinting. France, 1929: Commemorative overprint for the Philatelic Exposition in Le Havre. An overprint is an additional layer of text or&#8230; …

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  • 30James Harrington (author) — James Harrington (or Harington) (3 January 1611 11 September 1677) was an English political theorist of classical republicanism, [ England s premier civic humanist and Machiavellian. He was not the first to think about English politics in these&#8230; …

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