conscientious

29 09 2008

Adjectives
1. (adj.) conscientious, painstaking, scrupulous;
  - characterized by extreme care and great effort;
  - “conscientious application to the work at hand”; “painstaking research”; “scrupulous attention to details”;

2. (adj.) conscientious;
  - guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong;
  - “a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice”;

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entrench

29 09 2008

Verbs
1. (verb) entrench, intrench;
  - fix firmly or securely;

2. (verb) encroach, entrench, impinge, trench;
  - impinge or infringe upon;
  - “This impinges on my rights as an individual”; “This matter entrenches on other domains”;

3. (verb) dig in, entrench;
  - occupy a trench or secured area;
  - “The troops dug in for the night”;

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portentous

29 09 2008

Adjectives
1. (adj.) portentous, prodigious;
  - of momentous or ominous significance;
  - “such a portentous…monster raised all my curiosity”; “a prodigious vision”;

2. (adj.) fateful, foreboding, portentous;
  - ominously prophetic;

3. (adj.) grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous;
  - puffed up with vanity;
  - “a grandiloquent and boastful manner”; “overblown oratory”; “a pompous speech”; “pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey”;

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neo-Latin

29 09 2008

Nouns
1. (n.) neo-latin, new latin;
  - Latin since the Renaissance; used for scientific nomenclature;

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orthodox

29 09 2008

Adjectives
1. (adj.) jewish-orthodox, orthodox;
  - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism;
  - “Orthodox Judaism”;

2. (adj.) orthodox;
  - adhering to what is commonly accepted;
  - “an orthodox view of the world”;

3. (adj.) eastern orthodox, greek orthodox, orthodox, russian orthodox;
  - of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church;

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