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preceptor
19 November 2025 @ 5:00 am
Definition: (noun) Teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford).
Synonyms: don.
Usage: Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor.
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effervesce
18 November 2025 @ 5:00 am
Definition: (verb) Become bubbly or frothy or foaming.
Synonyms: fizz, foam, froth, sparkle.
Usage: The champagne effervesced in the glasses.
chapiter
17 November 2025 @ 5:00 am
Definition: (noun) The upper part of a column that supports the entablature.
Synonyms: capital, cap.
Usage: Scattered throughout the ruins were ornately carved chapiters that had once supported a soaring coliseum.