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91poor — I. a. 1. Indigent, needy, necessitous, pinched, straitened. 2. Penniless, moneyless, impecunious, destitute, distressed, poverty stricken, seedy, reduced, short of money, out of money, without a penny, out of pocket, out of cash, out at the… …
92tame — I. a. 1. Domesticated, domestic, mild, gentle, docile, reclaimed. 2. Subdued, crushed, submissive, meek. 3. Spiritless, dull, flat, feeble, lean, vapid, insipid, jejune, barren, languid, prosing, prosy, prosaic, uninteresting, poor, tedious. II.… …
93prose — /proʊz / (say prohz) noun 1. the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse. 2. matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression, quality, discourse, etc. 3. Liturgy → sequence… …
94prose — [prōz] n. [ME < MFr < L prosa, for prorsa (oratio), direct (speech) < prorsus, forward, straight on < proversus, pp. of provertere, to turn forward: see PRO 2 & VERSE] 1. the ordinary form of written or spoken language, without rhyme… …
95prose — n. & v. n. 1 the ordinary form of the written or spoken language (opp. POETRY, VERSE) (Milton s prose works). 2 a passage of prose, esp. for translation into a foreign language. 3 a tedious speech or conversation. 4 a plain matter of fact quality …
96prosingly — adverb see prosing II …
