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  • 11foolish — a. 1. Senseless, idiotic, silly, weak, daft, simple, irrational, insensate, shallow, brainless, witless, thick skulled, buffle headed, shallow brained. 2. Unwise, unreasonable, absurd, ridiculous, nonsensical, ill judged, preposterous, indiscreet …

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  • 12half-witted — a. Dull, stupid, stolid, doltish, foolish, soft, silly, shallow, sappy, weak headed, weak minded, feeble minded, shallow brained, blunt witted, dull witted, thick skulled …

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  • 13short-witted — a. Unintelligent, shallow, stupid, dull, stolid, foolish, doltish, simple; weak headed, weak minded, feeble minded, half witted, shallow brained, dull witted, blunt witted …

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  • 14unintellectual — a. Stupid, dull, obtuse, stolid, doltish, blockish, stockish, heavy, shallow, foolish, simple, soft, sappy, unintelligent, dull witted, blunt witted, weak minded, feeble minded, half witted, shallow brained …

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  • 15Huff — Huff, n. 1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. Left the place in a huff. W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance. [1913… …

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  • 16To take huff — Huff Huff, n. 1. A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage. Left the place in a huff. W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. A boaster; one swelled with a false opinion of his own value or importance.… …

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  • 17Wit at Several Weapons — is a seventeenth century comedy of problematic date and authorship. Authorship and DateIn its own century, the play appeared in print only in the two Beaumont and Fletcher folios of 1647 and 1679; yet modern scholarship has determined that the… …

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  • 18skipjack — 1550s, a pert shallow brained fellow, a puppy, a conceited fop [OED], from SKIP (Cf. skip) (v.) + generic name JACK (Cf. jack). Applied 1703 to tropical fishes with leaping tendencies. In reference to a kind of sailing boat used on Chesapeake Bay …

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  • 19Earth Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Geology and Geochemistry       The theme of the 33rd International Geological Congress, which was held in Norway in August 2008, was “Earth System Science: Foundation for Sustainable Development.” It was attended by nearly… …

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  • 20Imbecility — (Roget s Thesaurus) Folly. < N PARAG:Imbecility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 want of intelligence want of intelligence &c. 498 want of intellect &c. 450 Sgm: N 1 shadowness shadowness silliness foolishness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility… …

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