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Mal-=male-= something very bad
malign
adjective
· 1.
evil in nature or effect; malevolent:
she had a strong and malign influence
Synonym
: harmful, evil, bad, baleful, hostile, inimical, destructive, malignant, injurious, malefic,
maleficent
· 2.
(of a disease) malignant.
v. verb
· 1.
speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner:
don't you dare malign her in my presence
malicious
adjective
· 1.
characterized by malice; intending or intended to do harm:
he was found guilty of malicious damage
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Bene- = something very good
ex:benefit
noun
· 1.
an advantage or profit gained from something:
enjoy the benefits of being a memberthe
changes are of benefit to commerce
· 2. a
payment made by the state or an insurance scheme to someone entitled to
receive it:
part-time jobs supplemented by
means-tested benefitsfamilies on benefit
· 3.
an event such as a concert or game, intended to raise money for a particular
player or charity.
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Dia- = again, through , between , across , by ,
of
Ex:dialogue
noun
1. a
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or film
2. a
discussion between two or more people or groups, especially one directed
towards exploration of a particular subject or resolution of a problem:
the
USA would enter into a direct dialogue with
Vietnaminterfaith dialogue
verb
1.
take part in a conversation or discussion to resolve a problem:
he stated that he wasn't going
to dialogue with the guerrillas
2.
provide (a film or play) with a dialogue.
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chunk
noun
· 1. a
thick, solid piece of something:
huge chunks of masonry littered the
street
· 2.
an amount or part of something:
fuel takes a
large chunk of their small income
v. verb
· 1.
divide (something) into chunks:
chunk four pounds of pears
· 2.
(in psychology or linguistic analysis) group together (connected items or
words) so that they can be stored or processed as single concepts.
chunky
adjective
· 1.
bulky and thick:
a chunky bracelet
· 2.
(of a person) short and sturdy.
a squat, chunky man whose face was
stitched by tiny red veins
Synonym
: stocky, sturdy, thickset,
sturdily built, heavily built, well built, burly, bulky, brawny, solid, bull-necked
· 3.
(of food) containing chunks or thick pieces of something:
a chunky soup
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Medium
noun
· 1.
an agency or means of doing something:
using the latest technology as
a medium for job creation their primitive valuables acted as
a medium of exchange
· 2. a
means by which something is communicated or expressed:
here the Welsh language is the medium of
instruction
· 3.
the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the
senses or a force acts on objects at a distance:
radio
communication needs no physical medium between the two stations
4.
the substance in which an organism lives or is cultured:
grow bacteria in a nutrient-rich medium
· 5. a
particular form of storage for digitized information, such as magnetic tape
or discs:
moving or copying backed-up data through a
hierarchy of different mediums
· 6. a
liquid (e.g., oil or water) with which pigments are mixed to make paint.
· 7.
the material or form used by an artist, composer, or writer:
oil paint is the most popular medium for
glazing
· 8. a
person claiming to be in contact with the spirits of the dead and to
communicate between the dead and the living.
· 9.
the middle quality or state between two extremes; a reasonable balance:
you have to strike a happy medium between
looking like royalty and looking like a housewife
Media
noun
·
1. an intermediate layer, especially in the wall of
a blood vessel.
·
2. a voiced unaspirated stop; (in Greek) a voiced
stop.
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Dissertation
noun
·
1. a long essay on a particular subject,
especially one written for a university degree or diploma.
a dissertation on the novels of the
Brontë sisters
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Think
of me
The Phantom of the
Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd
Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with
additions from Richard Stilgoe.
Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe also wrote the musical's book together.[1] Based
on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux,
its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé,
who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius.
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The
age of adaline
The Age of Adaline is a 2015 American romance fantasy film about a woman who stops aging after an accident at the age
of 29. It was directed by Lee Toland Krieger and written by J. Mills
Goodloe and Salvador Paskowitz. The film stars Blake Lively, Michiel Huisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, Harrison
Ford, and Ellen Burstyn. The film was cinematically released
on April 24, 2015 by Lionsgate.
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Peter
pan neverland
Peter
Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M.
Barrie. A free
spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the
mystical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys, interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and occasionally
ordinary children from the world outside Neverland. In addition to two
distinct works by Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of
media and merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works. These
include a 1953 animated film, a 2003 dramatic/live-action film, a TV series
and many other works
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Neverland
Michael Jackson
Neverland
Valley Ranch (renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch) is a developed property in Santa Barbara County, California, located at 5225 Figueroa
Mountain Road, Los Olivos, California 93441, first opened in August 1994. It is most famous for
being the home of the late entertainer Michael
Jackson. Jackson named the property after Neverland, the fantasy island in the story of Peter Pan, a boy who never grows up. Michael's
first encounter with the ranch came when he visited Paul
McCartney, who was staying there during their filming of the "Say Say Say" video. According to La Toya
Jackson,
Michael expressed interest to her in someday owning the property at that
time.
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Daisy
Miller
Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the
beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.
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Henry
James
Henry James, was
an American-born
British writer. He
is regarded as one of the key figures of
19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's
point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been
compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point
of view, interior
monologue and unreliable
narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction.
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Socrates
apology treason
Socrates was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy. He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical
writers,
especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Plato's dialogues are among the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from
antiquity, though it is unclear the degree to which Socrates himself is
"hidden behind his 'best disciple', Plato".
The Apology of Socrates, by Plato, is the Socratic dialogue
that presents the speech of legal self-defence, which Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption, in 399 BC.
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Xenophobia
in south Africa apartheid
Prior to 1994, immigrants
from elsewhere faced discrimination and even violence in South Africa. After democratisation in 1994, contrary to expectations, the incidence of
xenophobia increased. Between
2000 and March 2008, at least 67 people died in what were identified as
xenophobic attacks. In May 2008, a series of attacks left 62 people dead;
although 21 of those killed were South African citizens. The attacks were
apparently motivated by xenophobia. In
2015, another nationwide spike in xenophobic attacks against immigrants in
general prompted a number of foreign governments to begin repatriating their
citizens.]
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1066
William the conqueror
William
, usually known as William the Conqueror and
sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. A descendant
of Rollo, he was Duke of
Normandy (as Duke William II) from 1035 onward.
After a long struggle to establish his power, by 1060 his hold on Normandy was secure, and he launched the Norman conquest of England six years later. The rest of his life was marked by
struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands and by difficulties with his
eldest son.
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King
Alfred
Alfred successfully defended his kingdom
against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the
dominant ruler in England. He
is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet "the Great", the other being the Scandinavian Cnut the Great. He was also the first King
of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". Details of Alfred's life are
described in a work by the 10th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.
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King
Arthur
King
Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories
and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries AD. The details of Arthur's
story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is
debated and disputed by modern historians. The
sparse historical background of Arthur is gleaned from various sources,
including the Annales Cambriae, the Historia Brittonum,
and the writings of Gildas.
Arthur's name also occurs in early poetic sources such as Y Gododdin.
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Whirlpool
The Whirlpool Corporation is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of home appliances, headquartered in Benton Charter Township, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Fortune 500 company has annual revenue of approximately
$21 billion, 100,000 employees, and more than 70 manufacturing and technology
research centers around the world. The company markets Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Amana, Gladiator GarageWorks, Inglis, Estate, Brastemp, Bauknecht, Indesit, and Consul. Whirlpool Corporation is the world's
largest home appliance maker.
In the U.S., Whirlpool has eight
manufacturing facilities: Amana, Iowa; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Cleveland,
Tennessee; Ohio: Clyde, Findlay, Greenville, Marion (and Ottawa, Ohio).
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Frigdiaire
Frigidaire is the American consumer and commercial home
appliances brand subsidiary of European parent company Electrolux. Frigidaire was founded
as the Guardian Frigerator Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed the first
self-contained refrigerator in 1916. In 1918, William C. Durant, a founder of General Motors, personally invested in the company
and in 1919, it adopted the name Frigidaire. The brand was so well known in the
refrigeration field in the early-to-mid-1900s that many Americans called any
refrigerator (of whatever brand) a Frigidaire. The name Frigidaire or
its antecedent Frigerator may be the origin of the widely used English word fridge, although more likely simply an abbreviation of
refrigerator which is a word known to have been used as early as 1611.
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