short+journey

  • 111jaunt — 1. noun a) A wearisome journey. b) A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey. 2. verb a) To ramble her …

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  • 112Murder of Linda Cook — Linda Cook Linda Cook Born 6 December 1962 Died 9 December 1986 (aged 24) Cause of death Asphyxiation Body discovered …

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  • 113jaunt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. excursion, ride, escapade, lark, stroll. See travel. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. excursion, sally, trip, saunter, stroll, safari, tour, round, run, gallop, canter, expedition, circuit, peregrination, trek …

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  • 114excursion — ex|cur|sion [ıkˈskə:ʃən US ıkˈskə:rʒən] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: excursio, from excurrere to run out ] 1.) a short journey arranged so that a group of people can visit a place, especially while they are on holiday excursion to ▪… …

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  • 115excursion — noun (C) 1 a short journey arranged so that a group of people can visit a place, especially while they are on holiday: a day s excursion to the island 2 a short journey made for a particular purpose: a shopping excursion 3 excursion into sth… …

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  • 116jaunt — [[t]dʒɔnt, dʒɑnt[/t]] n. 1) a short journey, esp. one taken for pleasure 2) to make a short journey • Etymology: 1560–70; orig. uncert …

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  • 117Looe Valley Line — Infobox generic color = #efefef name = Looe Valley Line| img1 = 150238 Looe Valley.jpg| lbl1 = Location row1 = Cornwall, United Kingdom lbl2 = From row2 = Liskeard lbl3 = To row3 = Looe lbl4 = Distance row4 = convert|8.75|mi|km|0 lbl5 = Status… …

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  • 118Master and Man — For other articles, see Master and Man (disambiguation). Master and Man (Russian: Хозяин и работник) is a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1895). Plot summary In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his… …

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  • 119Bolivia — Bolivian, adj., n. /beuh liv ee euh, boh /; Sp. /baw lee vyah/, n. 1. a republic in W South America. 7,669,868; 404,388 sq. mi. (1,047,370 sq. km). Caps.: La Paz and Sucre. 2. (often l.c.) a twill fabric made of cut pile with lines either in the… …

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  • 120expedition — ex|pe|di|tion [ˌekspıˈdıʃən] n 1.) a long and carefully organized journey, especially to a dangerous or unfamiliar place, or the people that make this journey ▪ an expedition to the North Pole ▪ another Everest expedition on an expedition ▪ He… …

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