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61cold — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ceald, cald; akin to Old High German kalt cold, Latin gelu frost, gelare to freeze Date: before 12th century 1. a. having or being a temperature that is uncomfortably low for humans < it is …
62color — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English colour, from Anglo French, from Latin color; akin to Latin celare to conceal more at hell Date: 13th century 1. a. a phenomenon of light (as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual… …
63mass — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English mæsse, modification of Vulgar Latin *messa, literally, dismissal at the end of a religious service, from Late Latin missa, from Latin, feminine of missus, past participle of mittere to send Date …
64quality — I. noun (plural ties) Etymology: Middle English qualite, from Anglo French qualité, from Latin qualitat , qualitas, from qualis of what kind; akin to Latin qui who more at who Date: 14th century 1. a. peculiar and essential character ; nature …
65round — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French rund, reund, from Latin rotundus more at rotund Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) having every part of the surface or circumference equidistant from the center (2) cylindrical < a round peg > …
66shriek — I. verb Etymology: Middle English shreken, probably irregular from shriken to shriek; akin to Old Norse skrækja to shriek Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to utter a sharp shrill sound 2. a. to cry out in a high pitched voice ; screech …
67this — I. pronoun (plural these) Etymology: Middle English, pronoun & adjective, from Old English thes (masculine), this (neuter); akin to Old High German dese this, Old English thæt that Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) the person, thing, or idea… …
68Ambiguity — Sir John Tenniel s illustration of the Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male s face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being… …
69Caravaggio — For other uses, see Caravaggio (disambiguation). Caravaggio Chalk portrait of Caravaggio by Ottavio Leoni, c. 1621. Birth name Michelangelo Merisi …
70Gambler's fallacy — The Gambler s fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy (because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913)[1], and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from… …
