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  • 51inanity — inane ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking sense or meaning; silly. DERIVATIVES inanely adverb inanity noun (pl. inanities) . ORIGIN Latin inanis empty, vain …

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  • 52inanidad — ► sustantivo femenino 1 Cualidad de lo inútil o insustancial: ■ la inanidad de la defensa favoreció a la fiscal. SINÓNIMO vacuidad 2 Cosa o expresión inane o insustancial: ■ su discurso está lleno de inanidades. SINÓNIMO futilidad * * * inanidad… …

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  • 53insipid — insipid, vapid, flat, jejune, banal, wishy washy, inane mean devoid of qualities which give spirit, character, or substance to a thing. Something insipid is without taste, or savor, or pungency; the term is applied not only to food and drink… …

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  • 54insipid — adjective Etymology: French & Late Latin; French insipide, from Late Latin insipidus, from Latin in + sapidus savory, from sapere to taste more at sage Date: 1609 1. lacking taste or savor ; tasteless < insipid food > 2. lacking in qualities that …

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  • 55Tax protester constitutional arguments — UStaxationTax protester constitutional arguments are assertions that the imposition of the federal income tax violates the United States Constitution. These kinds of tax protester arguments are distinguished from related statutory arguments and&#8230; …

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  • 56Tax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments — UStaxationTax protester Sixteenth Amendment arguments are assertions that the imposition of the federal income tax is illegal because the Sixteenth Amendment was never properly ratified, [Christopher S. Jackson, The Inane Gospel of Tax Protest:&#8230; …

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  • 57foolish — foolishly, adv. foolishness, n. /fooh lish/, adj. 1. resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech. 2. lacking forethought or caution. 3. trifling, insignificant, or paltry. [1250 1300; ME&#8230; …

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  • 58CALETAE — melius Caleti, et Velocasses populi inter Belgas numerantur Caesari, l. 2. Bell. Gall. c. 4. qui Caletos decem milia armata pollicitos esse ait, Velocasses et Veromanduos totidem. Nimirum Gallos a Belgis Matronâ et Sequanâ dividi scripserat. Cum&#8230; …

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  • 59COENOTAPHIUM — melius, Cenotaphium, Graece Κενοτάφιον, tumulus dictus est, in honorem peregre defuncti, domi exstructus. Postquam enim istiusmodi demortui anima sollenni ritu ter vocata esset, quod ἀνακαλέσαςθαι την` ψυχὴν dixêre, Manes ter voce vocare: Unde&#8230; …

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  • 60fatuous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. vain, foolish, inept; inane, silly, dumb (sl.), sappy (sl.). See folly, absurdity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. inane, silly, foolish, idiotic; see silly , stupid 1 . See Synonym Study at silly . III …

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