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  • 1smooth — Synonyms and related words: Ciceronian, Demosthenian, Demosthenic, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Mickey Mouse, Tullian, accordant, acomous, acute, adipose, adulatory, agreeable, aid, align, alike, all jaw, allay, ameliorate, appease, arch,… …

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  • 2smooth — adj 1. glassy, glossy, polished, varnished, burnished; sleek, silky, satiny, velvet, fine; delicate, filmy, gossamery, attentuated; greasy, buttery, slippery, slick, icy, oily. 2. even, level, plane, horizontal, flush; flat, unrough, unruffled,… …

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  • 3shave — v. a. 1. Cut off (close to the surface). 2. Make smooth or bare (as by cutting off hair closely), to pare close. 3. Slice, cut in thin slices. 4. Strip, fleece, pillage, shear, oppress (by extortion). 5. Graze, skim, touch lightly (in passing… …

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  • 4rub — 1. v. & n. v. (rubbed, rubbing) 1 tr. move one s hand or another object with firm pressure over the surface of. 2 tr. (usu. foll. by against, in, on, over) apply (one s hand etc.) in this way. 3 tr. clean or polish or make dry or bare by rubbing …

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  • 5Glabreate — Gla bre*ate, Glabriate Gla bri*ate, v. t. [See {Glabrate}.] To make smooth, plain, or bare. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 6Glabriate — Glabreate Gla bre*ate, Glabriate Gla bri*ate, v. t. [See {Glabrate}.] To make smooth, plain, or bare. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 7performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 8literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 9Southeast Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The classical literatures of Southeast Asia can be divided into three major regions: the Sanskrit region of… …

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  • 10Western architecture — Introduction       history of Western architecture from prehistoric Mediterranean cultures to the present.       The history of Western architecture is marked by a series of new solutions to structural problems. During the period from the… …

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