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  • 61Cunning — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Cunning >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 cunning cunning craft Sgm: N 1 cunningness cunningness craftiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 subtlety subtlety artificiality Sgm: N 1 maneuvering maneuvering …

    English dictionary for students

  • 62Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes — George Molland Early in the nineteenth century John Playfair wrote for the Encyclopaedia Britannica a long article entitled ‘Dissertation; exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Mathematics and Physical Science, since the Revival of Letters …

    History of philosophy

  • 63Criticism of Tesco — Main article: Tesco This article concerns criticism of Tesco, a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom. Criticism has been directed at Tesco from various groups, both national organisations and individuals. One of the biggest criticisms it faces …

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  • 64Judaism — • Judaism designates the religious communion which survived the destruction of the Jewish nation by the Assyrians and the Babylonians Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Judaism     Judaism …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 65Severity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Severity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 severity severity Sgm: N 1 strictness strictness harshness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 rigor rigor stringency austerity Sgm: N 1 inclemency inclemency …

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  • 66deception — 1 Deception, fraud, double dealing, trickery, chicane, chicanery mean the act or practice of, or the means used by, one who deliberately deceives in order to accomplish his ends. Deception may or may not imply blameworthiness, for it may be used… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 67pettifoggery — I noun artfulness, artifice, bamboozlement, cheating, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, corruption, cozenage, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dodgery, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, foul play, fraud, fraudulence,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 68Efforts to eliminate the penny in the United States — A debate exists within the United States government, and American society at large, over whether the one cent coin, commonly known as the penny, should be eliminated as a unit of currency in the United States. Two bills introduced in the U.S.… …

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  • 69Swindler — Swin dler, n. [G. schwindler, fr. schwindlen to be dizzy, to act thoughtlessly, to cheat, fr. schwindel dizziness, fr. schwinden to vanish, to disappear, to dwindle. See {Swim} to be dizzy.] One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 70Gresham's law — is an economic principle that states: When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will… …

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