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61The Covent-Garden Journal — The 18 January 1752 issue of The Covent Garden Journal The Covent Garden Journal (modernised as The Covent Garden Journal) was an English literary periodical published twice a week for most of 1752. It was edited and almost entirely financed by… …
62List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L — Differences between American and British English American English …
63get — This word of many meanings has a primary one: to obtain, to come into possession of. It has numerous informal, idiomatic, or slangy meanings and appears in several hackneyed expressions. Among informal meanings of get and got (the past tense of… …
64bromide — [19] Potassium bromide is used as a sedative, and it was that which inspired the American humorist Gelett Burgess’s book Are You A Bromide? (1906), in which he metaphoricized bromide as a ‘dull conventional person’. In British English it is the… …
65bromide — bro·mide || brəʊmaɪd n. compound of bromine that was formerly used as a sedative (Chemistry); trite and uncreative remark or hackneyed notion; cliché; ordinary person; boring person (Slang) …
66bromides — bro·mide || brəʊmaɪd n. compound of bromine that was formerly used as a sedative (Chemistry); trite and uncreative remark or hackneyed notion; cliché; ordinary person; boring person (Slang) …
67platitude — plat·i·tude || plætɪtuËd / tjuËd n. superficiality, state of being commonplace, banality; trite saying, cliche, dull remark …
68platitudes — plat·i·tude || plætɪtuËd / tjuËd n. superficiality, state of being commonplace, banality; trite saying, cliche, dull remark …
69platitude — [ platɪtju:d] noun a trite, obvious, or insincere remark or statement. Derivatives platitudinize or platitudinise verb platitudinous adjective Origin C19: from Fr., from plat flat …
70affect — simulate, *assume, pretend, feign, counterfeit, sham affect 1 Affect, influence, touch, impress, strike, sway are more or less closely synonymous when they mean to produce or to have an effect upon a person or upon a thing capable of a reaction.… …
