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  • 91LETTERS AND LETTER WRITERS — The letter holds an honored place in Jewish history and literature and includes diplomatic correspondence, state papers, and letters as vehicles of religious or secular literature and as a means of polemics in communal and spiritual matters,… …

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  • 92Allusiveness — Al*lu sive*ness, n. The quality of being allusive. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 93Allusory — Al*lu so*ry, a. Allusive. [R.] Warburton. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 94Tropic month — Tropical Trop ic*al, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?. See {Tropic}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat;… …

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  • 95Tropic year — Tropical Trop ic*al, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?. See {Tropic}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat;… …

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  • 96Tropical — Trop ic*al, a. [Cf. L. tropicus of turning, Gr. ?. See {Tropic}, n.] 1. Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical… …

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  • 97allusion — noun Etymology: Late Latin allusion , allusio, from Latin alludere Date: 1548 1. an implied or indirect reference especially in literature; also the use of such references 2. the act of alluding to or hinting at something • allusive …

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  • 98Ammianus Marcellinus — (English /ˌæmi eɪnəs ˌmɑ(r)sɛl aɪnəs/) (325/330–after 391) was a fourth century Roman historian. He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity (the last was written by Procopius). His work chronicled in Latin the… …

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  • 99Deconstruction — For the approach to post modern architecture, see Deconstructivism; for other uses, see Deconstruction (disambiguation). Deconstruction is a term introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1967 book Of Grammatology. Although he… …

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  • 100Derek Walcott — Walcott at an honorary dinner in Amsterdam, 20 May 2008 Born 23 January 1930 (1930 01 23) (age 81) Castries, Saint Lucia …

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