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  • 121Watts Station — Infobox nrhp | name =Watts Station nrhp type = caption = Watts Station, May 2008 location= 1686 E. 103rd St., Watts, Los Angeles, California lat degrees = 33 lat minutes = 56 lat seconds = 35 lat direction = N long degrees = 118 long minutes = 14 …

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  • 123opprobriously — See opprobrious. * * * …

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  • 124gook — gook1 /gook, goohk/, n. Informal. 1. guck. 2. makeup, esp. when thickly applied: She looks ridiculous with all that gook around her eyes. [expressive word, perh. b. GOO and MUCK; cf. GUCK] gook2 /goohk/, n. Slang (disparaging and offensive). 1. a …

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  • 125logistics — /loh jis tiks, leuh /, n. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) 1. the branch of military science and operations dealing with the procurement, supply, and maintenance of equipment, with the movement, evacuation, and hospitalization of personnel, with the …

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  • 126pumpernickel — /pum peuhr nik euhl/, n. a coarse, dark, slightly sour bread made of unbolted rye. [1750 60; < G Pumpernickel orig., an opprobrious name for anyone considered disagreeable, equiv. to pumper(n) to break wind + Nickel hypocoristic from of Nikolaus&#8230; …

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  • 127revile — revilement, n. reviler, n. revilingly, adv. /ri vuyl /, v., reviled, reviling. v.t. 1. to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively. v.i. 2. to speak abusively. [1275 1325; ME revilen < MF reviler …

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  • 128United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great&#8230; …

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